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13 Memes About Bob Dylan To Give You Shelter From The Storm
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is and has been many things over his lengthy career. An icon of the 1960s counterculture, a well-beloved poet, a pioneer of rock and roll, a born-again Christian, and a meme. Throughout his long and storied career, Dylan has both interpreted classics of the American songbook and made up his own. He's the kind of artist that you hear without ever meaning to hear him, and whether it was inspiring the hippies or confusing the entire world by releasing way too many Sinatra cover albums, Dylan has always baffled and bemused.
Dylan's surreal tilt in his lyrics, as well as his love for pastiche and borrowing from other artists and traditions, call to mind contemporary trends in meme culture. In some sense, Dylan was making sound memes long before anybody made sight memes. Here are 13 memes commemorating the Nobel Prize-winning artist, to unite the Zoomers and the Boomers.
4 Moods
Conquers My Mind
(Source: Reddit)
It not that Johanna is better than Louise. Louise is alright, she's just near. In a spiritual and artistic sense, Johanna is where Bob Dylan wants to be.
Do You, Mr. Jones?
(Source: Reddit)
I'm waiting for this track to be on the next Bootleg Series. It's been in the vaults for a while now, and Bob really has got to release it soon.
Doge Dylan Had To Happen Eventually
(Source: Reddit)
It was fated to happen. It was going to happen. Everybody and everything gets Doge'd eventually.
The Important Things
(Source: Reddit)
Blood On The Tracks remains the best break-up album of all time. Although, of course, it's actually about a book of Chekhov stories as Dylan claims in his memoir. Yeah right.
Can This Really Be The End?
(Source: Reddit)
He had a bit too much Texas medicine, but it was really railroad gin. You could say that Bob Dylan's surreal lyrics from this phase really were a precursor to surreal memes.
