I like Mercury Rev plenty, but this is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
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Get to “Opus 40” and you will get an analysis of the feminine figure with objectivity and grace unknown to anything in Dylan’s work. Past Deserters’ Songs though is The Secret Migration. This album was a lyrical masterpiece. Check out the first song on the album “Secret for a Song”, and you will hear a haunting sound about the deep forest and world unknown to people without imagination beyond “social commentary”, like Dylan.
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Considering Dylan had moved beyond social commentary by the time of Blonde On Blonde, which is predominantly about the feminine mystique( as is quite a lot of his post-motorcycle crash work), that is genuinely ludricous.
Funniest of all, none of those bands include the handful of people who have a body of lyrics that compare (IMO Nick Cave,Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello)
AND he gets Neil Tennant( who does have a fantastic body of work) and Martin Fry mixed up.
Epic Fail is Epic.