Who is more of an icon
 

Bob Dylan OR john lennon.

**** thats actually a really tough question. I was going to answer Lennon but then I thought for a second and its like, its Dylan.

Lennon. Because I cant stand Dylan.

Great reasoning on picking who's more of an icon.

This is really tough, like Crow said, the instant choice is Lennon, but when you think about it, Dylan basically was Lennon just a decade or two before him. I'd guess that if you were to poll the entire population, then Lennon would get more votes, just because it's Lennon and he seemed more public and more direct about what he was saying, and he died for what he said as well.

Obviously Lennon because he was killed.

How was Dylan a decade or two before Lennon? DAVE!

Over here Lennon is much more of an icon, Dylan was just some guy who grumbled along to a guitar.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

In defense of my seemingly personal pick with my first post, these are exactly my thoughts on Dylan.

I honestly have no clue at the moment as to what I was thinking last night, The Beatles started almost the same year as Dylan.

I'm a dumbass, forgive me.

By Stephen Colbert logic, Lennon sells more T-shirts, so the market has spoken

I think the nod has got to go to Lennon here. He's commonly held as much more of a revolutionary and visionary.

And of course an early, "before his time", death lends itself very well to icon status. He was never able to get around to doing anything to tarnish his image, like making a CD for Victoria's Secret, Bob!

Exactly.

Vladimir Lenin gets my vote.

Dylan Fo' Sho!!!

He was huge in the 80's

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agreed

Lennon - because listening to Dylan for any extended period makes you suicidal...

Yeah id have 2 go Lennon. Its a close call though.

ignorance ftw.

Dylan wins the goggle fight, I give him the nod because of his social impact; Lennon was big because of the Beatles and didn't start making deeply thoughtful music with the band around 1966. His solo career was that of a renegade, but many of his fans at the time we're simply longing for the Beatles, he did little to mobilize thought, in fact his death sort of elevated his social impact status. Dylan's music was always driven by it's ability to relate to a generation without a voice. To me Dylan is THEE Folk Music Icon (right or wrong) for American culture. He is the first person you associate with the music Woodstock and the 1960's in general.

Also in The Who's "The Seeker" the title character in his quest for knowledge and music first asks Bobby Dylan then the Beatles...so take that "For What it's Worth" (a song inspired by Bob Dylan by the way)

Also he claims to have made a deal with "the devil", pure Icon shit!

"I am the Walrus"

"I am the Walrus"

"Shut the fuck up Donny"

God I love that movie.

We should start a The Big Lebowski fan club.

We should just go bowling.

qft. I wanna be Jesus.

and fight french nihilists.

Phone's ringin' Dude

You may have already seen this but it's great

YouTube - The Big Lebowski - F_cking Short Version

That more or less sums up the amazing movie that is, The Big Lebowski.

that was marvelous.

Dylan.