Dylan was labelled the voice of a generation. Still considered the go to guy for 60s youth movement stuff. And beyond a singer he was a poet and an instigator. Listen to "The Times They Are A'Changing" and you'll get he wasn't simply the voice of the generation, but in many was was the motivation he could never back away from that political image. Oberst is much in the same he's a folk-singer, a poet , and extremely political. He may be "indie" but he's also unbelievably sucessful he may not get so much radio play but it can also be blamed for his very vocal criticism and boycott of Clear Channel. He's led the way for a lot of questioning in the same way Dylan did. And a lot of his work has those political tones maybe blatant like in "When the President Talks to God" or maybe similar to that aforementioned Dylan song in "At the Bottom of Everything." I think he's one to watch, and what he's saying I think speaks a lot for us at least its another voice challenging our generation's image of superficiality, vapid-ness, etc proliferated by all those celebutantes that seem to sometimes speak for us.
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