Bob Dylan's record sales

huck · **Joined:** Wed July 16th, 2008, 12:56 GMT **Posts:** 370

Bennyboy wrote:

You can't base the next 100 years on what happened in the last, or any other 100 years in the past. if tomorrow is a long time, a century can be eternity.

You will see. Things will shift beyond your comprehension.

Actually, he won't see and neither will you. The influence an artist has is not determined by sales alone. In Dylan's case it is more pertinent that there have been over 30000 covers of his songs by other artists. Most of what tops the singles charts today will be forgotten in a flash. Stephen Foster never performed live he simply wrote songs in a variety of musical styles, he died over 100 years ago with a few cents in his pocket, yet people still perform his songs because they still resonate with human experience.

Song structures are elemental, the blues and folk music will survive and they will play a huge part in our understanding of the past. For music to change drastically the human experience would have to alter. The 10 Commandments still define the wrongs we do to one another. It is safe to assume that the songs that get written and the music that is played and listened to will vary in the way we receive it, but will still portray the same emotions.

Still Go Barefoot · **Joined:** Fri July 15th, 2011, 03:23 GMT **Posts:** 10380

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as noted at:
http://www.netplaces.com/songwriting/hi ... ient-music.

Perhaps the earliest known polyphonic music (music with different notes being played at the same time) is recorded on a set of clay tablets found in Syria and believed to be almost 3,500 years old. The tablets contain lyrics and music for a song, including accompaniment, vocal melody and harmony, and even tuning instructions for the harp. Until the discovery of these tablets, most historians believed that all music composed before about A.D. 400 was monophonic (having only one melodic line with no harmony or counterpoint).

Jimmy1982 · **Joined:** Tue March 10th, 2009, 21:50 GMT **Posts:** 33

panther wrote:

Belle End wrote:

When a 60's superstar is outsold to the tune of 30m by an 80's UK electronic band with a string of barely memorable hits, I find that pretty eye-opening, and it therefore means something.

This is all in your purely subjective opinion. A ton of musicians, music-critics, and fans (including me) disagree with your assessment of Depeche Mode as the musical equivalent of a fast-food meal at Taco Time. Indeed, several musicians, music-critics, and fans (including me) consider Depeche Mode one of the most essential of all post-punk bands, featuring one of the three or four most talented songwriters of the period (Martin Gore).

I am not convinced that your eyes being opened means anything at all. According to your musical judgement, I would suggest having your ears opened.

Depeche Mode are monumentally shite but nowhere near as bad as some of the artists that make the top selling singles of all time. The general public embarrass me. I shouldn't care of course but I think i hate them.

http://www.philbrodieband.com/muso_solo ... ingles.htm

supermabel1 · **Joined:** Wed May 13th, 2009, 02:17 GMT **Posts:** 5042

Umm ... thee, me - and them over there - we are the general public, Jimmy lad.

Jimmy1982 · **Joined:** Tue March 10th, 2009, 21:50 GMT **Posts:** 33

supermabel1 wrote:

Umm ... thee, me - and them over there - we are the general public, Jimmy lad.

don't say things like that

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