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Dylan turns 80 years old today. I’m not so much shocked at his age in some ways, he has always seemed old; this is a guy who sang “Fixin’ to Die” on his first album, recorded when he was just 20 but at my own, and at the fact that he has been there all this time, and that I keep going back to try to figure out just a little bit more about the puzzle he has created for six decades. Bob Dylan transformed the very possibilities of pop music. He introduced a sense of literary ambition to an adolescent form, forever changing what a song could aspire to achieve and what a singing voice might sound like. He has pursued a lifelong quest to explore American music folk, blues, country, rock, gospel, pop standards, and yes, even Christmas songs. ....
Jesse Frohman An amazing thing about listening to hip-hop in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the sense of infinite possibility. It seemed like every week, some new record came out that sounded like nothing you had ever heard before, and opened up some whole new territory you’d never even considered. The technology, the subject matter, and the audience were all shifting at warp speed; N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising all radically changed the direction of music, and they all came out within less than a year of each other. ....
Throughout his career, Prince surrounded himself with other musicians that he supported, mentored, and studied. Early on, he was writing so much music that he recruited or assembled other acts to play his songs The Time, Sheila E., Vanity 6. The “Minneapolis scene” of the ‘80s, his engineer Susan Rogers once said, was really “one guy who created his own competition in order to be a scene.” But after his superstardom was secured, Prince continued to reach out to young musicians and bring them into his orbit, and on the fifth anniversary of his death those artists are still absorbing and carrying on his lessons. ....