I don't know how you can make fun of sonic youth and bob dylan and then post that shit. He's like a cornier 70's-80's version of dylan with a voice that's twice as annoying. I agree with your suggestion that sgt. pepper broaden his musical tastes a little bit, however. At least those last two were made after the '60s, which is a good sign.
not making fun of sonic youth man. i like pretty much every thing thurston moore does. i can't stand the cheese of dylan (he's a cock and basically stole folk songs and copyrighted them... his voice is a nasal whine. not a voice dawwwg, at least jello biafra pulls it off), id rather listen to fucking rod stewart. haha. what's the big obsession with the 60's as well? its an overstated and overrated era that produced some decent music and culture (minus the faggotry of hippies/woodstock bullshit), but at the same time there was a lot of schlock and yawn-worthy shit going down . yet everyone gets a boner over it. MOVE ON...
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I think you're kind of misrepresenting the nature of folk music at the time in an attempt to besmirch Dylan's name (not that I have much of a problem with that, you're free to think what you like.) during the "folk revival" of the early 60s traditionalism was still a big part of the music, which meant a lot of people taking old standards performed by white artists like woody guthrie etc. or black country blues type dudes and reinterpreting them, just as previous folk musicians had done pretty much since the form had been invented. That's a pretty big part of folk music and its function as an oral cultural tradition. Of course, you can lament the fact that the original creators of certain songs lost out monetarily when the music started to become more popular and widely distributed to white/more affluent folks, but the same goes double for blues and rock and roll.
Anyway, was there a lot of schlock and derivative, boring music produced in the 60s? Yes, there will always be shitty people producing shitty music. But there was also a lot of really great and completely unprecedented shit being done, and I think that, overall, the decade was more culturally significant than any since, in large part due to the "faggotry" of the hippies.
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