Bob Dylan Sucks And Is Not All That Influential

Bob Dylan Sucks And Is Not All That Influential.

There are dozens of musicians more influential upon other musicians, and more "hit making" than Dylan ever was, some of them even from his era.

Discuss.

So let me get this straight:

You show blatant bias against Bob Dylan because you either don't like his music or you don't like him as a person (there can be no other reason why), and then go on to compare him to other artists who have, according to you, have had more success than him.
You've also done all of that without backing up your statement with sources.

It's also important to note that just because someone has had more success than someone else, it doesn't automatically mean that the person who had less success "sucks". Which brings me back to the point about bias.

Your move.

Re: Bob Dylan Sucks And Is Not All That Influential

Is the topic for discussion.

Why is this a topic for discussion? Because many people feel the need to tell the world that he was the most influential artist. Google it.

And start debating the topic, not attacking people who might disagree with you.

Typical argument of a Dylan fan wannabe music connoisseur.

well it's all subjective isn't it. It's not worth arguing about really. Just as you get those people nowadays saying Muse are the best rock band of our generation. Well that's just an opinion, don't be so fanboy about your favourite musician, music is subjective remember?

Although I disagree with the OP, are any of you actually going to provide an argument or just keep firing off insults that make you no better then him/her?

Yes, good points but you could also try to quantify it, There are artists who say xyz was an influence, or where xyz was an influence because you can hear it, whatever they might say. Then you can talk about the general influence of Dylan, style, melody, arrangement, even visual and "performance" impact. There's gotta be some music students who can talk about that in quantitative and scientific terms and not just "DYLAN HAD SOUL MAN **** YOU !!!", and who can also talk about "soul" as well. You could say that Les Paul had a greater impact on the course of modern popular music (thats pop music - and includes rock and all of its other sub genres) than Dylan did, but let's compare Dylan to artists, not tech game changers per se.

I especially love how you nuanced your intricate argument with one of the most catchy and yet simplistic and utterly musically immature rock/pop songs of the last 50 years.

I don't know how many hits Dylan wrote or performed, but I could guess looking at the list of top 10 Dylan songs (written or performed by him) that he displayed less talent over his whole career (thus far) than Donald Fagen could in a single LP record.

Example.

That said, if you are a person with this level of cognitive ability, I sure hope you don't become a fan of the music that I would listen to. Keep going to those Dylan concerts and venues, stay right there...