I think Dylan simply became an icon to impressionable ears during a time when there were 'things to be said'...and he did manage to say some of them..."It's Allright, Ma" "Hattie Carrol", and a couple others are quite memorable, but boy!...the REST!!...unless the song IS a classic, his singing style is tedious and grating...trouble is, some people persist on getting the medium so tied to the message that they become emotionally committed to anything Dylan chooses to do...

(it happened with Picasso in art, and Picasso became so cynical that he produced some real crap in his later years, because he was convinced that the general public wouldn't know the difference...not sure Dylan was that 'sensitive')

(now I'll cower in the corner with mudjack and bonedaddy and JR and dodge the incoming missles)