From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
   On 2024-10-09 19:27:46 +0000, cruciverbalist said:   
      
   > On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:02:02 +0000, nyarlathotep1@hotmail.com (Norbert)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> I like:   
   >>   
   >> Poe.  I've loved his stories & poems since I was a kid.  Apparently he   
   >> was also an astute critical essayist.   
   >>   
   >> Beardsley.  A talented artist.  He was gay, and there are more nude   
   >> males than I care to look at, but plenty of women, too.  In any event,   
   >> he had a unique and impressive style.   
   >>   
   >> Terry Southern.  I liked his short stories as a kid.   
   >>   
   >> James Joyce.  " "   
   >>   
   >> Marilyn Monroe.  A beauty who was tragically used and discarded by the   
   >> sociopathic Kennedies.   
   >>   
   >> I read Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception as a youth. Today I'm   
   >> indifferent to it.  What's less well known is he was the grandson of   
   >> Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley.   
   >>   
   >> I dislike:   
   >>   
   >> Aleister Crowley -- a mentally ill dope fiend.   
   >>   
   >> Dylan -- a musical emperor with no clothes.   
   >   
   > I appreciate your attempts to keep this group alive and I usually   
   > agree with most of what you post. But in this case I think you're   
   > being just a tad too harsh. I really enjoyed Dylan's output from 1963   
   > through 1975 and think his style (music, lyrics, arrangements,   
   > persona, etc) really fit the zeitgeist. I can still listen to that   
   > stuff now with the same enjoyment I listened to it then. However,   
   > after '75 he lost me. I don't know if he changed or I changed, but he   
   > lost me. YMMV.   
   >   
   > Jack   
      
   I've never been into the individual albums but I think his Greatest   
   Hits Vol. 1 and 2 are must-haves, they separate the wheat from the   
   chaff.   
      
   I also own Vol. 3 and enjoy it. I think there's even a Vol. 4 out and   
   I'd probably like it too if I owned it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)