Bob Dylan finally makes sense....

He sounds no different than most other people who disparage the generation after theirs. And he sure isn't digging too deep if he says that no good music has been made in the past 20 years. Because there are literally thousands of recordings released during that time which are outstanding in terms of both composition and production.

Dylan said:
"I don’t know anybody who’s made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really."
AND
“Even these songs probably sounded 10 times better in the studio when we recorded ’em. CDs are small. There’s no stature to it.”

Irrespective of his talents as a musician/songwriter, he sounds no less embittered than any other 65 year old decrying the advent of the computer as the end of inter-personal communication. It couldn't be that he simply doesn't hear as well as he did 20 years ago? He's 65, c'mon! It happens to all of us, genius and dunce alike.

The fact is there are labels who have put out entire catalogs of well-constructed, well-recorded music...and no one has to go on an audiophilogical dig to find them.

One things for sure not every word uttered by Dylan should be seen as a statement from on high.

Good point.

How quickly I forget that I'm having internal dialogue with a journalist, and not directly their source. Wasn't the point of the article to evoke this sort of reaction? If so, I for one was roped in.

"Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night..."

...there hasn't been anything great that has come out in a long time. For the most part, modern music sounds like a bunch of noise to me.

Dad, is that you?