Aug 15 2023 63 mins 2
Quick survey, yes or no questions, real quick, no skin off your back:
Are you a frequent listener of podcasts? Yes.
Do you frequently listen to podcasts that have music as their subject? Yes.
Do some of your most preferred music podcasts fall loosely under the category of "classic rock"? I guess, but don't you find those genre signifiers outmoded and narrow in scope, especially as they pertain to certain artists who might happen to have decades-long, groundbreaking, and chameleonic careers?
....... As a listener of classic rock podcasts, do you take a virulently entrenched stance as to who's better, David Bowie or Bob Dylan? HELL YES.
As a listener of classic rock podcasts with a virulently entrenched stance as to who's better, David Bowie or Bob Dylan, would you be willing to engage in any sort of physical altercation with a member of the opposite preferred artist's camp, no matter how frighteningly it might escalate? Why, I would fight someone right now given the opportunity.
When listening to this highly specific, but growing in popularity, niche of podcasting, do you want, hope, and in fact crave for the content of said podcasts to, for the most part, be about discussing and analyzing music that could be considered, at a minimum, "good", and hopefully "great to transcendent"? Yes, that would be a reasonable expectation.
Then you've come to the wrong place, on this Top 10 Worst Songs of Their Entire Careers-themed episode of Bowie vs. Dylan.
