I dont know.
Axl was a more flamboyant frontman, but he could manage it because he didnt have to focus on playing guitar like Kurt did.
As a lyricist, I think they're about even and I enjoy both their styles equally. Cobain for his subtlety and weirdness, and Axl for the straight-forward emotional stuff...
As a singer, Axl is obviously more technically gifted but I prefer Cobain's singing by far. It just seems to have more substance to me...
And as songwriters? Again it's tough. Cobain was better with melodies, imo, but Axl had some amazing stuff. The thing is, most of it was co-written by Slash or other members of GNR, whereas Cobain mostly wrote all of Nirvana's classics by himself.

Finished my Dylan musical journey today by listening to Blood On The Tracks. It is just so fucking awesome. Question. I know I should know this but why is it called Blood On the Tracks?

It's dedicated to his great uncle, Elias Zimmerman, who was run over by a train in 1927.

I'm planning to get the bootleg volume six this weekend. Super excited, haven't gotten much new Dylan lately.

Speechless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9hMtVWN ... re=related

Damn...

I was quite underwhelmed by that actually...

Random thought that is actually a not-so-subtle bump:

Has anyone ever developed a favorite out of World Gone Wrong and Good as I Been to You? I have been listened to these records relatively frequently since 2006 or so and I still would have to say that I like them both about the same. 8/10 albums.

The indisputable 50 best Dylan songs in equally indisputable order:

1 Tears of Rage
2 Don't Think Twice It's All Right
3 I Don't Believe You
4 Like a Rolling Stone
5 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
Dear Landlord
Apple Suckling Tree
Positively 4th Street
10 Tangled Up in Blue
Blind Willie McTell
Just Like a Woman
Masters of War
Absolutely Sweet Marie
15 Million Dollar Bash
All Along the Watchtower
You're a Big Girl Now
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry
Idiot Wind
20 Ballad of a Thin Man
Visions of Johanna
Goin' to Acapulco
Precious Angel
Day of the Locusts
25 If Not for You
New Morning
Dirge
I Want You
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
30 High Water (for Charley Patton)
If You See Her Say Hello
Please Mrs. Henry
Pledging My Time
I Threw it All Away
35 The Man in Me
Nothing Was Delivered
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Hurricane
Forever Young
40 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
Not Dark Yet
45 It Ain't Me Babe
Po' Boy
Lay Lady Lay
Love Sick
On the Road Again
50 Mississippi

Any list without Watchtower and Its Alright Ma in the top ten fails in my opinion.

he said indisputable dude..

anyway, watchtower is rendered a bit hapless by hendrix's rendition, as cliched as it is to say.

I think Bob's is better.

Dylan's is defiantly better. I would also have to say his Mr. Tambourine Man is > than The Byrds.

Amen on the Tambourine Man. Only Dylan's version really resonates with me

Byrds version is great but nothing can impart the same air of mystique thats around Dylan's version.