Post #4094181
2026-07-25 17:19 UTC
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Too many musicians for everyone to know them all. Even the famous ones. We used to play à game that was filling in the blank of
______ is the Bob Dylan of _________.
Tom Waits is the Bob Dylan of LA.
Townes Van Zandt is the Bob Dylan of Country Westen.
Caetano Veloso is the Bob Dylan of Brasíl.
So, “Leonard Cohen is the Bob Dylan of Canada” works.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca 2026-07-25 18:22
@icastico@c.im @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Some years ago I read a musicology paper that began with recounting the tiny handful of 17th-to-19th composers still known and speculating on who from now would be remembered. They supposed that 'similars' get progressively grouped until all are under one celebrity, and by that rule concluded the 23rd century would only remember Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin 😅