LaRS v SIO

[naughty boy]

Let's hear your defences of Dylan then, pricks.

[sloopjohnc]

OMG OMG Like Taylor is just the GREATEST OMG really !!! I mean who is the old guy ???? he needs to stick to riding motorcycles or whatevs he does

He wasn't so good at that. Maybe another hobby. Origami, perhaps.

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Let's hear your defences of Dylan then, pricks.

Fuck off.

[naughty boy]

That difficult, eh?

[Davey the Fat Boy]

Can I just link to Dave Marsh?

[The Red Heifer]

I voted Dylan because old music is better than new music, that's how this thing works isn't it?

Honestly though both of these songs are great, even if Taylor sort of ruins hers with The Naff Bit™, but honestly the reaction here to anything new and/or popular and/or down with the kids is the reason I don't post any threads. I mean what's the point? Kudos to Coan though for stirring the pot!

[Davey the Fat Boy]

It’s not even a particularly good stir of the pot.

It isn’t just that “Rolling Stone” is old that makes this silly. It is that it is among the (beware...critic-speak ahead) landmark records of all time.

If you just want to test the old vs. new dichotomy...put it up against something from the same time frame without all of the cultural significance.

Maybe something like Len Barry’s “1-2-3” would be a fair fight.

[naughty boy]

It’s not even a particularly good stir of the pot.

It isn’t just that “Rolling Stone” is old that makes this silly. It is that it is among the (beware...critic-speak ahead) landmark records of all time.

It just sort of sits there today, doesn't it?

and it's WAAAAAAYYYYYY too long

[toomanyhatz]

Oooh, GET WITH THE PROGRAM, GRANDPA! IT'S A NEW DAY! PULL YOUR HEADS OUT OF THE PATCHOULI GARDEN!

Oooh. Oooh. OOOOOHHH!!!

Haterz gonna hate.

[naughty boy]

NEVER MIND HOW WORN OUT IT SOUNDS IN 2018 - JUST FUCKIN RESPECT IT, ALRIGHT?!?

[toomanyhatz]

It just sort of sits there today, doesn't it?

and it's WAAAAAAYYYYYY too long

But it's got THAT SICK BEAT!!!

Ooooh.

[Darkness_Fish]

I'm contractually obliged to disagree with every single bit of tedious canon-worship and "ooooh it's 60s, it has to be good, and culturally more relevant than ever, maaahn - and I can name the second bongo player to prove it" on here. But even as good a song as Shake it Off is, it's not in the same league.

That John Barnes rap bit. What was she thinking?

[toomanyhatz]

She was thinking her minions would lap it up. And she was right.

Nobody has to exalt anything. But the Dylan's better played, better sung, better produced, and better written. And the hatz's simply do not do sick beats.

[Ranking Ted]

That John Barnes rap bit.

It’s actually closer to Steve McMahon. Or MC Brian Moore.


Christ, that was worse than I remembered it to be. And I remembered it as a stinker.

[toomanyhatz]

Anyone remember BRIGADE RATIONALE?? It's only funny till someone gets hurt.

[naughty boy]

But the Dylan's better played, better sung, better produced, and better written.

Oh no no no

[Ranking Ted]

Is it a cop out to say I’ve listened to SIO considerably more often than LARS this last three or four years - I agree it’s a gold plated pop banger - but I’m not ready to confer it superior status over an objectively great work of art? It may feel fusty and ossified today but I remember getting jazzed on it all over again when No Direction Home came out. That’s what great music can do, you’ve heard it all yada yada and then something - new context, long fallow period, whatever - can bring it back to technicolour life.

[toomanyhatz]

Where's the instrumental performance in SiO that a machine couldn't have done? You want joy, I want grit.

[The Red Heifer]

Of course "Like A Rolling Stone" is a better song, but fuck, how many times can we skate around in a circle before we fall through the ice?

[Darkness_Fish]

Where's the instrumental performance in SiO that a machine couldn't have done? You want joy, I want grit.

I want more fucking machines.