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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ha ha ha ha same exact thing here
im a non-native english speaker so he does very little for me
i understand his genius is his poetry or whatever but i'm like -- eh
i like his music much better when someone covers it -- like the rolling stones or cat power or nina simone or hendrix
except for mr tambourine man which is shit in all versions. oh and blowin in the fucking wind which is a catholic church song in spanish (i swear-- i fucking hate it--fucking singing priests ruined it for me)
great songwriter-- let someone else sing
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Hendrix All Along is still better than Dylan´s! But I listened the original version some while ago (it was long time when I had heard it before, didn´t like it all) and I have to say it also hit me. I think the whole John Wesley Harding is one of his greatest albums and also the Basement Tapes from the same time (I have always loved the Band, so maybe that´s one reason). I really love the Byrds Mr. Tambourine Man, but I have to admit the original version is better (it hits me too when I heard it long time ago last year, when I bought Bringing it all).
Here´s one horrible Finnish version from Blowin in the wind (I think I´ve heard even more horrible, but maybe as a reason it wasn´t in YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX9jJVwxzbE
This is a great version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAvr2oL1q4
Actually it is totally different song with also different Finnish lyrics, only the song title is same in Finnish, but they made an english version of it where are Dylan´s lyrics.