Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize

[Gwylan]

It's been talked about for some time but he's finally won

Right out of the blue that one

 

[Lonesome bandit]

Thoroughly deserved., brilliant choice.

 

[studio150]

Literature??

What next JK Rowling inducted into Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?

 

[Diego Napier]

Excellent news.

A worthy corollary to an inspirational artist in the vanguard of the folk/pop/rock protest movement who's poetry and music as much informed as caught the zeitgeist of the times.

 

[Gwylan]

Literature??

Well, it's not going to be chemistry or physics

It's a strange award though - about 40 years after his best work - but, at least it's someone I've heard of

 

[Perfidious Albion]

Very well deserved. Not a sop to popular opinion by the committee, but a worthy recognition of a true poet and artist. If one were to take a book of his lyrics (words) - it would be heavy book as well ! - the words are true poetry ... IMHO of course.
Although his best known work is from earlier decades the recent twenty-first century work is brilliant too.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

What a joke

 

[Don Quixote]

An inspired choice. One of the greatest poets of the last century and should be studied more. I suspect he will be from now on.


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[Surrey_Albion]

About bloody time!

 

[Icy Gull]

Literature??

What next JK Rowling inducted into Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?

What's her new album like? Must be good if we are talking Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. I think her books are the most over rated twaddle btw, well the one I tried to read was anyway.

Maybe you are suggesting that Robert Zimmerman's lyrics are also twaddle and you are a big JKR fan??

 

[studio150]

What's her new album like? Must be good if we are talking Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. I think her books are the most over rated twaddle btw, well the one I tried to read was anyway.

Maybe you are suggesting that Robert Zimmerman's lyrics are also twaddle and you are a big JKR fan??

I have never read a JK Rowling book, but don't believe that songwriting should be under the umbrella of literature.

 

[Icy Gull]

I have never read a JK Rowling book, but don't believe that songwriting should be under the umbrella of literature.

Except many of Dylan's lyrics could be considered to be poetry?

I much prefer them to most of the poems I've read but I accept that I am no academic.

 

[Don Quixote]

I have never read a JK Rowling book, but don't believe that songwriting should be under the umbrella of literature.

The Iliad is a song, so is the Odyssey. Are these works not literature?


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[Cosmic Joker]

He deserves it just for Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat:

"Well, you must tell me, baby
How your head feels under somethin' like that
Under your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.

Well, you look so pretty in it
Honey, can I jump on it sometime ?
Yes, I just wanna see
If it's really that expensive kind
You know it balances on your head
Just like a mattress balances
On a bottle of wine
Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat."

This post may be slightly tongue in cheek

 

[The Orange Seagull]

Strange choice but I suppose The Times They Are A Changin'

 

[bardo]

And next year Eminem?

 

[Insel affe]

It's been talked about for some time but he's finally won

Right out of the blue that one

Won ?

how do you win ? is it a points system ? Do they revue your past deeds and then think mmmm how old is this person, just how much time do they have left or do people just all write names on a piece of paper and then pop them in a "kiss me quick" hat and pick out the winner ?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Won ?

how do you win ? is it a points system ? Do they revue your past deeds and then think mmmm how old is this person, just how much time do they have left or do people just all write names on a piece of paper and then pop them in a "kiss me quick" hat and pick out the winner ?

I've thought for some time that the Nobel Prize mob needed to do something to balance the crazy decision to give the Literature prize to Winston Churchill. This is a step in the right direction.

 

[Insel affe]

I've thought for some time that the Nobel Prize mob needed to do something to balance the crazy decision to give the Literature prize to Winston Churchill. This is a step in the right direction.

I am not questioning the fact he won it, just how they come to their conclusion ?

 

[Pevenseagull]

He's probably deserved it for 50 years (Blonde on Blonde, only 25 years old at the time).

That said, 'Tarantula' is a load of bollocks.