1998 - Awards Show - Grammy Awards - Album of The Year - Bob Dylan

[vedderfan94]

Absolute fucking genius. Those three words sum up Bob Dylan's career for me.

[nikkiejanee1972]

thank god we still have our living legend....i love watching him talk...he's so bad ass

love him

love him

love him

love him

[SmashBrosFan19]

Bill Dylan?? WTF Nigger...

[crap1707]

DAMN!!!!!!!!SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH ALL THAT!!!!!!USHER MADE A FUCKING MISTAKE WE ALL DO!!!!!!!!!!!

[Evertnr11]

He is the best musician in the world!

God bless you for put this stuff out!

[BeatleUniversity]

Who is that stunning brunette behind Bob on the left who is smiling at him at 2:45?

[TheWop4life]

idk he was probably nervous as hell..but bill dylan? c'mon!

[TheCindi2006]

Who is Bob Dylan .... maybe you are the dumb ass! Even BabyFace and Paula Cole are common knowledge... dumb-ass

[TheCindi2006]

Who is Bob Dylan .... maybe you are the dumb ass!

[juan18x]

Bob Dylan is one of the best artist of all time, but I think Radiohead should have won

[tmarkiewicz09]

BILL dylan? oh my god Usher, nice one,

[emitremmus]

Not only did Usher screw up Dylan's first name, he failed to mention that Daniel Lanois produced the album. The clown should have been "usher"ed out of the building on the spot.

[gplay1890]

I love Dylan, but you gotta admit, Radiohead deserved the award for Album of the year

[highway61grant]

Fuck you Usher. You're just disapearing act in music.

[Maquiladora95]

Celine Dion looks affronted. She's obviously not used to being in the presence of genuine musicians.

[Maquiladora95]

You've gotta love Sheryl Crow.

[soulmusic247]

Stupid Usher of all the things you can't get right in your life musically, at least get Bob's name right. Its not asking for much!!!!

[muclesmarinara]

Usher is a dumb fuck who has never sang a song with good lyrics. All usher does is pretend to be tough and dance to shit music while pretending to be Michael Jackson. Also,thank you usher for not dressing up for the grammy awards.

[MuchoKiller]

Is that Patti at 2:26?  And who is "Bill Dylan?"

[myabiba]

Don't understand what Buddy Holly has to do with Time out of Mind Album. Could someone let me know.

[jmaioran]

@myabiba Buddy Holly's plane crash was 2 or 3 days after that meeting Bob was talking about. Apparently it affected him in a profound way. I think Bob drew on that experience as some kind of calling, he's referenced it before, of course can't speak for him. Time out of Mind is a lot of confronting death, maybe thats how it relates.

[ilovekelly75]

I like Usher, but he did mess up here. You can see on his face that he knows it too.

[lonkylaine]

Daniel Lanois forever !

[Evileddiex123]

FLAMING PIE!

[iamsolikeawesome]

BILL DYLAN?? WTF!

[BuckLA84]

BILL DYLAN???!!! REALLY???!!! Usher you dumb fuck!

[cawcaw89]

Bob Dylan was probably like "who the fuck is this guy touching me?" (in reference to Usher) haha.

[sam91004]

Fucking Usher! Not less than a kareokee singer!

[neeckee20]

Bill Dylan???!?!?!?

ugh Usher

[BlandBoy]

nigel goodrich. looo1, this Usher dude is the worst eve.r

[1daitetomohisa]

WTFF bill dylan??

[bz4kh]

"...and he LOOKED at me..." How cool is that??

[Evileddiex123]

@bz4kh Dude bob is SOOO Lucky to have been looked at by Buddy Holly 2 nights before Buddy Died HOLY shit that's scary!

[NoelleNabob]

Where is Bob going "Blee be blee be beeee"?

[GReYSTOKE2012]

whose the black gal behind mr.zimmerman...i likes her. oh, and ladykillerr1...take a headache pill.

[babel1967]

at 2:25 Patti Smith cheers for Bobby. It just doesn't get any god damn cooler than that!!

[Vertigo2903]

Celine Dion looks mad

[ladykillerr1]

1. Who the fuck is babyface, and Paula Cole?

2. Bill Dylan? Dumb ass Usher, what little respect I had for Usher just went through the window. I'm sure I know more about the roots of his music ( Jazz ) than he does.

3. There are maybe 100 artist all time that surpass the music industry itself. I think Dylan and Radiohead are in that group.

[mapscannotcontainme]

@ladykillerr1

I'm sorry? Did you just put Dylan in the same sentence as that other band? Radhiohead? Oh my god! People have been killed for worse reasons. And you say you know more about something to do with music. Good God, Magnum!

And talk all the shit you want about Babyface and Usher, but leave Paula Cole alone. She and Jewel and Linda Perry and Sheryl Crow and Natalie Imbruglia were some of the best female rock/alt/folk singers of the 1990s.

[alwayswinit4real]

@mapscannotcontainme I have to concur with you. Bob Dylan is on a whole other planet than Radiohead. The plateau that Dylan rests on is the one reserved for the likes of The Beatles, and Elvis. Icons who have genuinely changed culture forever. Radiohead are great, but they don't come close.

[Camboza11]

@alwayswinit4real i'm pretty sure mr. hendrix has a reservation as well

[aijunk2]

@alwayswinit4real

I know this comment is old, but yes they do. Radiohead have made consistent albums, unlike Dylan. Radiohead, like Dylan, have revolutionized the genre of music they specialize in, Alternative and Folk. Radiohead is so good, they are a close second, if not better, than the Beatles. Please, before you go commenting, I suggest you actually listen to radioead and see the influence they have achieved the last two decades. Dylan and Radiohead are on the SAME level.

[Machnaigh]

@aijunk2 No. Whatever vantage point you perch at that has allowed you to think these things is faulty. Radiohead came along too late to ever approach the likes of the Beatles and Bob Dylan. They get credit for reaching, but they don't deserve similar credit.

[aijunk2]

@Machnaigh

"They came too late". The 60's wasn't the best, you know. They're many decades full of gems and bullshit. Radiohead deserves the same credit. They have proven consecutive albums to show how prestige they really are. Within a decade, every poll and ever critic will cite radiohead as the top ten great artists, they are already making top 20, top 30. The only other obstacle radiohead has is the test of time, and so far they are doing GREAT.

[dionusos2]

@Machnaigh Radiohead, the Beatles, and Bob Dylan can't be compared. But that's beside the point. The best album is supposed to win--not who has the most seniority. Bob Dylan is the most overrated musician ever. His singing sucks, his tuns are mediocre. Radiohead has produced music he could only dream of making. The Grammys snubbed Radiohead because they thought the show would get more fanfare by handing the award to the so-called legend.

[alwayswinit4real]

@dionusos2 Dylan is the most respected lyricist in the history of music... What more needs to be said?

For the record, I'm not talking about this album. OK Computer was plainly the best album of that bunch, and I agree that they were robbed. I'm talking about overall impact. Dylan's music in the 60's and 70's is on a different level to anything Radiohead have ever done IMO.

[dionusos2]

@alwayswinit4real I repeat, a cultural paradigm shift would have happened with or without Dylan. It's why the beatniks are so well regarded, because of their influence on culture. Yet we wouldn't say their writing was better than that of the Lost Generation merely because the latter didn't have the same cultural/social impact. I think Dylan is the most overrated rock musican of that era, IMO. The Doors were revolutionary, and not merely because they bucked the counter-culture fashions.

[alwayswinit4real]

@dionusos2 Well personally, I would say that the Lost Generation have had a far larger cultural/social impact than the Beat Generation.

The likes of Fitzgerald and Hemingway trump Kerouac and Ginsberg all day long IMO. But we're splitting hairs.

If you don't like Dylan, what can I say? People like what they like. The fact that you prefer The Doors and The Beatles to Dylan perhaps suggests that you respect artists who are more "musically-revolutionary".

[alwayswinit4real]

@dionusos2 By "musically-revolutionary", I'm simply referring to their respective use of instrumentals.

Dylan was a pure lyricist. His musical arrangements were average, and his voice has always been an "acquired taste". But his lyrics make his music what it is.

[dionusos2]

@alwayswinit4real Point taken. Thanks for your cordial manner of debating. It's virtually absent from Youtube.

[alwayswinit4real]

@dionusos2 No problem. It's always nice to be meet someone civil on Youtube.

[dmann87zz14]

@alwayswinit4real This debate made me happy because it wasn't a bunch of un-educated 3 year old's yelling at each other. Bob Dylan is in my opinion the best lyricist of all time, and his folk music goes with his style perfectly. Was he revolutionary? Well he had a profound impact on the beatles, and on a side note introduced them to drugs (imagine if they has never taken drugs) but that is besides the point. Bob Dylan is a legend, and so are Radiohead.

[dmann87zz14]

@alwayswinit4real It bothers me that Radiohead still doesn't get the respect from the general public that they deserve, but that is their style; they are low key. Radiohead is my favorite band, and in my opinion they were without a doubt robbed here, but like Thom, I could give less of a shit about the grammy's. 20 years form now Radiohead will be remembered as being so far ahead of their time it isn't even funny, and will end up in most experts top 10's if they know music.

[alwayswinit4real]

@aijunk2 It comes down to personal preference when we talk about who is "better". It can't be weighed or judged. But, in terms of who has had the bigger impact--or has been more important to their respective genres--the outcome is evident.

You would have to have an extreme bias to claim that Radiohead have had a social/cultural impact comparable to that of Elvis, Dylan or The Beatles.

[dionusos2]

@alwayswinit4real yes, elvis, dylan and the beatles (the best of those three) had social/cultural impacts that outweigh radiohead's. But that's only because there were social movements already in motion when they hit the scene. Radiohead appeared during the apathetic slacker generation. But we don't go by seniority nor by impact. We go by the quality of music. Radiohead was robbed. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to get off Dylan's nuts because they're ready to fall off

[ilovekelly75]

@ladykillerr1 I liked some of what you said, but I just want to say Paula Cole is actually very talented, and I don't know why you didn't include Paul McCartney as someone who surpasses the industry.

[MrPernell27]

@ladykillerr1 Babyface is one of the biggest producers in music, also ownes a record company and at this time was a really big resording star. As for paula cole- no clue. And yes fuck Usher. his 15 minutes should have been up years ago.

[mojopintv]

i was 18 in high school when ok computer came out i would get high and lay on the hood of my car and listen to it in awe. i bought time out of mind last year and it's perfect for the 29 year old me. it was a good year for music i guess. who should of won. who cares we all won in the end.

[WillyLee23]

Bill Dylan is the man!!!

[linkbekka]

Buddy Holly and Bobby Dylan. Two of my heros. And great to see Bob smiling and havin` a good time...

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[milkmannen]

Got to love mr Bob Dylan :-)

[SmashBrosFan19]

Bill Dylan? Wtf nigger...

[ilovekelly75]

@SmashBrosFan19 Okay, mistaking a music legend's name isn't good, but it does not warrant that by any means. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[drmoonrat]

Dylan seems rather lively.

[xjhonex]

OK Computer had to win

[InsanelyINsane]

I love Bob Dylan, but OK Computer should have won.

[Gazza63]

@InsanelyINsane cock

[GenesisKnights]

Awesome. One of his very greatest, meaningful albums.