Elvis Costello MP3's
DC
Arnold Gallagher
"Costello is one of the most innovative, influential, and best songwriters
since Bob Dylan."
ONE of the best SINCE Bob Dylan? He may not have been as influential as
Dylan, and innovation is arguable, but he is clearly a better songwriter
than Dylan. Why do we always have to pretend that the legends are
untouchable? Do we really think that in the past 80 years, with the
advances in health, nutrition, training, etc., that no one has been as good
a baseball player as Babe Ruth? And is it blasphemy to admit that there
have been better songwriters than Bob Dylan?
And incidentally, I interpreted this to mean "since the Bob Dylan of the
1960s." Since Dylan is still writing, it would surely be faint praise to
call him one of the best "since Bob Dylan" if you include, say, his 2006
album.
DC <nob...@pseudo.borked.net> wrote in
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> Amazon: http://xrl.us/ElvisCostello
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Sal Video
"Arnold Gallagher" <arnoldg...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The review on this Amazon.com page says in part:
>
> "Costello is one of the most innovative, influential, and best songwriters
> since Bob Dylan."
>
> ONE of the best SINCE Bob Dylan? He may not have been as influential as
> Dylan, and innovation is arguable, but he is clearly a better songwriter
> than Dylan. Why do we always have to pretend that the legends are
> untouchable? Do we really think that in the past 80 years, with the
> advances in health, nutrition, training, etc., that no one has been as
> good
> a baseball player as Babe Ruth? And is it blasphemy to admit that there
> have been better songwriters than Bob Dylan?
It doesn't say he's not better. It says he's one of the best since Dylan.
And it's all subjective. Which period of Dylan? Which period of Costello?
I'm a huge Elvis fan but I don't think he's written a song as great as Like
a Rolling Stone or Positively 4th Street.
lazu...@webtv.net
half dozen guys-Costello, Dylan, Lennon, McCartney, Young, Townshend &
Davies that I can't imagine anyone will ever top & probably not
equal..I'd put brian Wilson and Lou Reed's best stuff with the above,
but they have a lot more mediocrity in their catalog.
lazu...@webtv.net
better than Dylan, or the Beatles, in my view...actually, the beatles
and Stones are better than Dylan, but there were a lot more of them!
Seems than Dylan and Springsteen-no matter that they keep writing almost
the same song over and over, from almost the same point of view..still
get fantastic reviews.McCartney's recent Fireman project was a lot more
imaginative, contemporary, and interesting than Dylan's last two, though
about half of each was brilliant, the rest was standard blues with too
long of songs & too much verbiage to me. Time Out of mind though was an
incredible masterpiece, but the critics couldn't tell the difference
between something as potent & heartfelt as that, and a lot of his clever
play acting on Love And Theft and this last one.