Bob Dylan (USA) vs Ed Sheeran (UK)

Bob Dylan you FUCKING IDIOT

It's a close race, but I'd say Bob. Ed would be what he is now without his influence.

Ed, it's not even a contest

>>71754167
Dylan, Sheeran is fucking garbage.

How can you ever compare someone as fucking monumental as Dylan to anybody?

Is this discussion still going on? Bob is long forgotten, Ed is where it's at

>>71754167
Ed

All Dylans songs sound the same

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Is this a new meme?

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Inasmuch r/music circlejerks Bob Dylan, /mu/ has to acknowledge Ed's lyrics. Look at the two verses below and guess which one is Bob and which one is Ed. He's pretty much on par with Bob [spoiler] if not above him [spoiler].

>>71754167
I'll take Bob Dylan over that extremely manufactured high fructose corn syrup that Ed Sheeran's publicists call music.

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>>71754336
nice cherry-picking there, friendo

Of war and peace the truth just twists
Its curfew gull it glides
Upon four-legged forest clouds
The cowboy angel rides
With his candle lit into the sun
Though its glow is waxed in black
All except when 'neath the trees of Eden.

The lamppost stands with folded arms
Its iron claws attached
To curbs 'neath holes where babies wail
Though it shadows metal badge
All and all can only fall
With a crashing but meaningless blow
No sound ever comes from the Gates of Eden.

The savage soldiers sticks his head in sand
And then complains
Unto the shoeless hunter who's gone deaf
But still remains
Upon the beach where hound dogs bay
At ships with tattooed sails
Heading for the Gates of Eden.

With a time-rusted compass blade
Aladdin and his lamp
Sits with Utopian hermit monks
Side saddle on the Golden Calf
And on their promises of paradise
You will not hear a laugh
All except inside the Gates of Eden.

Relationships of ownership
They whisper in the wings
To those condemned to act accordingly
And wait for succeeding kings
And I will try to harmonize with songs
The lonesome sparrow sings
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden.

>>71754336
>guess which one is Bob and which one is Ed
>wikipedia

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>>71754415
The motorcycle black Madonna
Two-wheeled gypsy queen
And her silver-studded phantom cause
The gray flannel dwarf to scream
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey
Who pick up on his bread crumb sins
And there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

The kingdoms of Experience
In the precious winds they rot
While paupers change possessions
Each one wishing for what the other has got
And the princess and the prince
Discuss what's real and what is not
It doesn't matter inside the Gates of Eden.

The foreign sun, it squints upon
A bed that is never mine
As friends and other strangers
From their fates try to resign
Leaving men wholly totally free
To do anything they wish to do but die
And there are no trials inside the Gates of Eden.

At dawn my lover comes to me
And tells me of her dreams
With no attempts to shovel the glimpse
Into the ditch of what each one means
At times I think there are no words
But these to tell what's true
And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

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>>71754415
I think that Bob's safe space is in abstractionism and surrealism. While Ed is better adapated to the social realities of his UK society. You see the lyrics below (about social realism). I don't anything Bob has written can rival the REAL pain that Ed just easily writes lays in words.

For comparison, Bob Dylan is like Kanye (experimental and abstract) while Ed is like JCole (social realist). There's nothing wrong with thinking that they're on par with one another (because they are), because they're not rivals but companions in the pantheon of lyricists.

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>>71754476
>There's nothing wrong with thinking that they're on par with one another
Dylan's had a pretty consistent output for long periods of time but Ed wrote one song about whores and got praised for it, how has /mu/ become this contrarian to think that Ed is on the same level of Bob Dylan

>>71754682
We can only hope that this is a bait thread.

>>71754682
Excuse me but Ed has been more CONSISTENTLY good than Bob. Ed's worst songs (like Eraser) are almost on par with some of Bob's best (like Visions of Joanna);while Bob's worst songs (Wiggle Wiggle, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (your know it is in your heart), If Dogs Run Free, Lay Lady Lay, Ugliest Girl in the World, etc.) are shit and hardly comparable to Ed's worst songs.
Ed's good songs outnumber all of Bob's good songs.

>>71754763
>No Mr. Tambourine Man, Like a Rolling Stone, Don't Think Twice It's All Right, or Idiot Wind
This new wave of contrarian nu-males really makes me upset

>>71754336
the text on the left is laughable you fucking idiot did you not read?
>Bullshit that fake guys feed to ya
>wikipedia
and the whole meaning of it is gay and self-absorbing

>>71754818
>Bob Dylan
>has never been gay and self-absorbing
bruh
>>71754811
nice cherry picking friend. how's moderating r/music been?

are we really debating this?

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i don't know what's worse. a dylan fan using nu-male as an insult or a guy who's putting this much effort into trolling.

>>71754763
>rainy day women
>literally one of the best album openers of all time
>worst songs
lost all credibility

>>71754938
>DUDE
>WEED
>LMAO

>>71754938
I love Bob Dylan but Rainy Day Women is just terrible. Y.O.L.O. (by Drake) for Baby Boomers.

>>71754763
1/10 way too obvious

>>71754167
bait meme post

saged

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#baited

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Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan".


>when dylan calls you a faggot