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Of course, I bought the deluxe edition.that just means he has my ear (and my wallet). On this album he's giving about 25%. Dylan himself said never to give the public your full 100% effort.
"Time out of Mind" was a mood, songs were generally good.same with "Love and Theft". He can do much better. I'm a HUGE Dylan fan and really just don't get this and all the hype.
He can even sing much better.he just doesn't choose to. Honestly it just isn't that great. On Modern Times it just seems that there are re-worked blues songs.
Bob Dylan KNOWS what he's doing.he has songcraft ability.
Forget his new album, get the upcoming Limp Bizkit album instead. Great. Kurt Cobain died early yet this man is still ticking. Bob Dylan is one of the worst artists of all time. It's going to kick major azz. And where is he on MTV. His voice sounds like an old man's, his lyrics make about as much sense as a meth trip, and he cannot shred or do guitar solos. This guy really needs to kick the bucket.Oh, and I hear that he's making a new album.
This is another example of his versatility and sustaining power in the field of music. We've come to expect nothing but "outstanding" from Bob Dylan and he continues to deliver above our expectations.
Master Bob is going to say his piece and that's that. Dylan stacks the crumbling of the American economy and the fading of national promise alongside personal relationship difficulties in a very poignant way.Our artist does similar in "The Levee's Going to Break," marrying an obvious Hurricane Katrina news reference to individual and national recklessness.Religious and cultural references - "Darkness on the face of the deep" from the Book of Genesis appears in "Spirit on the Water" and "In the Still of the Night" from the Platters and the annals of classic R&B/rock gets into "When The Deal Goes Down" - bump up against us and are quickly gone, true to the pace and experience of modern life.
The artist is merely reflecting what King Solomon said centuries before about the human condition - there's nothing new under the sun. Dylan scatters them discreetly, avoiding being "a man who thinks in slogans," as George Orwell once put it.Dylan sounds briefly like one of Orwell's smiling totalitarians in "Someday Baby" when he sings "I keep recycling the same old thoughts." Then we realize that conformists don't think this deeply.
Contemporary music's great romantic realist tells us it may be "Modern Times" but the battle remains the same - The human heart in conflict with itself (as William Faulkner called it).Longtime fans will be glad to know Dylan's story-telling abilities and rebelliousness haven't dimmed a bit. 2" is a classic - no other way to describe it.
Every one of the 10 songs is way longer than 3:05, yet another instance of Dylan giving corporate radio the back of his hand.
And - he whispers to the suits and others in "Ain't Talkin'" - "Some day you'll be glad to have me around.""Workingman's Blues No.
Over the past year, I have listened to this album many times and can still listen to it. I've not been a fan of Dylan's albums as I could never get past his voice. Love the title track - but it sort of makes me a bit sad and nostalgic when I listen to it as I'm sure I can hear John Lee being channeled. It's obviously not his best work, but it's damn fine - and listenable, and that makes it one very special Dylan album for me. Love his music, his lyrics etc, but that voice just grated so much that one listening a year would be enough. Now at last, on this album he has found a quality that works for me.
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