Dylan: 'radio makes hideous sounds'
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The times they have a-changed, and veteran folk star Bob Dylan is not
moving with them, revealing that he thinks the radio "makes hideous sounds"
these days.
Bob, who turned 60 recently, said he hates most modern music and fights
with his teenage daughter about her musical tastes.
"The radio makes hideous sounds," the 1960s pop culture icon told Time
magazine.
As he releases his 43rd album to date, Love and Theft, Dylan said he
approved of Eminem, despite not listening to his music.
"I almost feel like if anything is controversial, the guy's gotta be doing
something right."
But the praise ended there, with Dylan commenting that pop magpie Beck
needs more focus, "You just can't be that good at everything you touch."
In 1986, Dylan had a child with one of his back-up singers, Carolyn Dennis,
and they later married.
He says he cannot discuss music with his daughter. "I get in fights with
her if I talk about music."
Bob is one of the icons of the 1960s and 70s hippy era, when his songs of
protest tapped into an American tradition of folk music that took a vicious
antiestablishment view.
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