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"Desolation Row, the extreme stylization of the talking-blues, structured by Dylan sort of like Dante's Inferno: The overcrowded alley of desolation houses a tragicomic humanity that mirrors centuries of history, past and present, glorious and servile, real and imaginary, from Cain to Cinderella, from the Hunchback of Notre Dame to the Phantom of the Opera, from Einstein to Eliot, from Romeo to Casanova; apocryphal gospel, disquieting revelation of the true facade of human civilization, heretic bestiary of twisted myths, Desolation Row is the metaphysical kingdom where the inhabitants are forced to forever repeat their myth in an extremely degraded form (Einstein, once a famous fiddler is now a peddler). The social protest has culminated in a resentment toward the entire civilization, devoid of history. The structure of the rock poem moves forward dramatically and sardonically to replace the folk ballad, while words and music find a suggestive equilibrium. Musically, the piece employs the structure of an Indian mantra, which revives continually when it seems to have ended."
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>We're allowed to post Scaruffi here now because the Nobel Prize committee said it was OK
Fuck me
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>Scaruffi will win the Nobel Prize in your lifetime
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>>8613671
"The colorful, emphatic, engaging sonic jubilations of I Want You, Absolutely Sweet Marie, Just Like A Woman, One Of Us Must Know, are masterpieces of a more "courteous" genre, cadenced melodies bristling with troubled emotions, T. S. Eliot-like portraits of psychological symbolic female characters that produce a sumptuous wave of emotions as soon as they are caressed by the words of the poet."
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THEY SELLIN POSTCARDS OF THE HANGIN
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"Deeper in the metaphysical labyrinth of Bob Dylan are two long and visionary masterpieces, Visions Of Johanna, with its majestic stately walk, and Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands, a long, solemn, moving hymn to beauty. It is Sad Eyed Lady, a stunning lullaby for lovers, that breaks free from the abysmal constraints of the mind, that visits luminous mirages in supernatural valleys, that winds along tinkling eddies to form impalpable puffs of eternity. It is the last stage of a symbolism that binds universal meditations on life and love to the surroundings of a spectral paradise. These are love songs; the free, wild and unrestrained love of the other songs on Blonde On Blonde contrasts with the abstract love of these two allegorical poems, modern Dantesque visions that affirm a supernatural entity through the arcane vision of the female being."
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>LUSTY NEGRO ATTITUDES
What did he mean by this
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"The intense bitterness of Dylan's parables hid a perpetual, indefatigable and maniacal autobiography. A mythical aura surrounded Dylan's life. His popularity was immense, not only on college campuses, not only in the United States. The measure of his popularity should not be measured by the ten million records he sold (nothing compared to the Beatles or the Beach Boys) but by the 150 covers of his songs by others, a record never again repeated."
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>>8613695
>150 covers of his songs by others
That doesn't seem like a lot either
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>>8613727
well we're not talking soundcloud uploads here but legitimate chart hits over the decades, both in english and translated into other languages. i don't think even lennon-mccartney can rival him in that field
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>>8613744
Yesterday alone has at least 2,200 cover versions
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>>8613750
that's against Scaruffi's agenda tho
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