A Question...

Who has worse taste in music, Bob Dylan or the guy from the Flaming Lips? Ann Althouse inadvertantly raises this question in two separate posts.

First she links to this:

"Legendary rocker BOB DYLAN has thrilled R+B singer ALICIA KEYS by name-checking her on his highly-anticipated new album. Dylan, 65, references Keys, 26, on the title track of his latest disc MODERN TIMES. The album is his first in five years and is released in August (06). Dylan sings: 'I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't help from crying / When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line / I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be / I been looking for her even clean through Tennessee'."

Alicia Keys, eh? Jeez, Bob, even Joan Baez was better.

Then: not to be outdone, the guy from the Flaming Lips demonstrates his questionable musical preferences not by ill-considered endorsement but via unwarranted dismissal - of Bob Dylan!

"[The guy from the Flaming Lips] on Bob Dylan:
'What can an eighteen-year-old possibly care about a wrinkled-up old man with a pencil-thin mustache hunched over a keyboard?' he asks incredulously. 'I mean, have you seen Dylan lately? You can't recognize a single song he plays anymore. It's like you order a pizza and Dylan brings you a pile of dog food, and you're like, "What's this? I ordered pizza." And Dylan says, "This is my version of a pizza."'"

I guess "Love and Theft" wasn't exactly Highway 61, but at least it wasn't "She Don't Use Jelly". Flaming Lips guy loses! Er, wins!