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Title: a fraud
Review: If you can't sing and have a horrible whine of a singing voice to begin with, can't write an interesting melody to save your life, and have nothing to say lyrically, but you want to be a hippie icon and a successful rock star, what do you do? You write a bunch of drivel that makes no sense, talk your way through songs and cultivate the image of a "poet". Lots of people will fall for it, just like they fell for Dylan's contemporary Andy Warhol. I've studied popular songwriting for practically my whole life and I therefore have listened to all the major Dylan recordings; only a very few are anything but drivel. This record is "essential" only to his know-nothing fans; if you want to learn to sing or write songs go listen to the big-band era stuff. This guy represents deterioration, not revolution.
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