Wednesday, April 11, 2012

What Is The Most Poetic Song Ever Written?

What Is The Most Poetic Song Ever Written?

Hat tip to George Kelley.

5 comments:

George said...

I vote for Bob Dylan's songs.

Anonymous said...

When I saw the article title, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Subterranean Homesick Blues" by Bob Dylan.

"Johhny's in the basement mixin' up the medicine, ..."

Evan Lewis said...

Why wasn't "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" on that list? Scandalous.

Cap'n Bob said...

"Suzanne," Leonard Cohen
"Like a Rolling Stone," Bob Dylan
"Jean," Oliver
"Stairway to Heaven," Led Zepplin
and perhaps something from Rod McKuen, even though I'm not a big fan of his.

Brent McKee said...

I'll basically agree with Cap'n Bob and note that it shouldn't be any surprise that Leonard Cohen's songs are poetic, since Cohen has spent most of his life identifying himself primarily as a poet and secondarily as a singer-songwriter (and tertiarily as a novelist, though others would probably place that in fourth place behind lady's man).