...Bob Dylan (of course). For rhyming "imagination" with "tax-deductible charity organizations" in "Ballad Of A Thin Man". It's one of those songwriting tricks that amazes me no matter how many times I hear it. In the midst of a song full of blasé scorn and and off-handed dismissal, it breaks meter and draws attention without changing the monotone delivery. (And as a quick aside, it's a great use of the middle-eight by a songwriter not known for bridges.) Even when someone else covers the song*, it's inevitably the moment that jolts me out of laid-back listening mode and makes me sit up and notice... Pretty good for something so seemingly nonchalant in a song full of lumberjacks and sideshow workers.
*See versions by The Grassroots, the Grateful Dead, and in particular Steven Malkmus on the "I'm Not There" soundtrack.
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