“With X, you didn’t know if you were listening to mariachi or opera. He kept you on your toes. With him, it was all about fat and blood. He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop. After ‘X’ he was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal . . . His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, ‘Man, I don’t believe it’. – Bob Dylan
So who’s he talking about?
Bump ———>
Is it the man, myth legend that is Shakin’ Stevens?
The (IMO mildly overrated) Johnny Cash was the first namethat, “Ray in Ghostbusters” style, popped into my head.
First thought was Roy Orbison as was my second.
Your first thought was correct, as was your second.
I confess that, much as I love and admire the Big O, his voice has never made me want to drive my car off a cliff.
Not even if you drove all night?
I was thinking the Big O myself. Still am.
Ah, but are you thinking fat and blood?
I recall something about the time of the Travellin’ Wilburys.
Jason Donovan?
Not Jason DONOVAN.
It’s Cliff Richard isn’t it?
No.
Eminem?
I was listening to Lose Yourself and thinking it’s as poetic as anything Dylan has done but makes more sense and feels more ‘lived’. Perhaps, Eminem should get a Nobel Prize.
That’s impressive, particularly for those of us who have vomited mum’s spaghetti down our jumper, but I don’t think it could really be described as singing from an Olympian mountaintop, could it?
That Bob really has a way with words. No wonder he landed a Nobel Prize.
Fat, blood, operatic, driving a car over a cliff…. I don’t believe I’m right but my thoughts certainly turn to Paradise by the dashboard light and the Bat out of Hell Hitmaker, Mr Loaf.
Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash – can’t listen to any of these Giants for more than five minutes. Other opinions available
As indeed they are. My order would be Orbison, Cash, Nelson, with Willie limping some way behind. I admire him for still being alive though.
Dollar?
Silver Dollar?
That’s your game, is it?