POPTIMIST/SUKRAT book-larnin shout-out

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

which 33/13s are good to fry read? if poss say why

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[koganbot]

Could have subtitled the book Rescuing Dylan From The Shitheads, making the argument that Dylan was the Ashlee Simpson of his day (which isn't really true, but it's a good place to start [I've also compared Eminem and Jay-Z to Ashlee, but the only one people remember is Dylan - what's that about?]).

[koganbot]

By the way, the best track on the new John Waite album is his cover of "Highway 61 Revisited" (way better than his and Alison Krauss's tepid attempt at revisiting "Missing You," though the latter's on the country charts even as I type); it's a full scale Chess blues reimagining of the song, as grimey and forceful and funny as a Muddy Waters track, but of course w/ Dylan's collage-and-paste comic lyrics, sung by Waite with no attempt to sound the least bit Chicago but instead using the same '80s high-pitched hair-rockpop delivery he'd used back in his '80s high-pitched hair-rockpop days. So it's impassioned and ingratiating while having that grinding blues underneath.

[koganbot]

Meant to say "collage-and-paste comic terror words." Should be more careful when I collage and paste my posts.