The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78505   Message #1412589
Posted By: Bill D
16-Feb-05 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: What is a good song and why?
Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
The real test of songs like Dylan's is whether they survive and are sung long after those who were hit in the face with them at an impressionable age & time are long dead.

I would judge several of them as very intense and meaningful...and even important, but I am not prepared to grant them 'great' status because of the tunes. Time will tell, I guess....and it all just a game of pushing one's personal notion of 'great'.