Another Side Of Bob Dylan Music Cd

Bob Dylan - Another Side Of Bob Dylan

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Another Side of Bob Dylan      Artist : Bob Dylan      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2004-06-01      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (24 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Another Side Of Bob Dylan      He Still Has So Much More To Say      Rating:      Yes folks, this is indeed a pivotal work by perhaps the greatest songwriter of the post war "baby-boomer" generation. Here is where the cute folky Bobby Dylan, who sang of cannon balls firing and hard rain's fallin' came to extol the virtues of being "oh so much older then" and being "younger than that now". Just listen to the older more world weary 23 year old Bob Dylan singing about La Dolce Vita and a "Motocycle Nightmare" tale. "No No No It Ain't Me Babe"....But who exactly is this troubador spinning yarns about a "Spanish Harlem Incidents" and gazing upon the "Chimes of Freedom" flashing. Dylan was merely reaching his stride when he recorded "Another Side of Bob Dylan". Sure Highway 61, Blonde On Blonde and Blood On The Tracks would further reveal the depths of his unfathomable songwriting talents. Yes commercially and some will argue artisically Dylan was still asending toward his zenith, but I will always hold dear the exquisite sound of Ramona's "magnetic movements" and that Gypsy Gal with "pearly eyes" and the "flashing diamond teeth"....."The night is pitch black. Come and make my pale face....You know the rest. Bob Dylan has been analyzed six ways from next Tuesday. And yes this has never been cited as one of his greatest works. But after forty years I still find so much within this album that astounds. If heaven forbid Bob Dylan had perished in that awful motorcycle accident and had never lived to record New Morning. Blood On The Tracks and Oh Mercy, Another Side Of Bob Dylan might be regarded as his greatest achievement. Obviously we can all rejoice in his post "Another Side Of" acomplishments. But never the less this is a powerful statement by a young artist, who even today still seems to have so much more to say.     Customer Reviews for Another Side Of Bob Dylan Cd      Dylan At The Crossroads      Rating:      In reviewing Bob Dylan's 1965 classic album Bringing All Back Home (you know, the one where he went electric) I noted that it seemed hard to believe now that both as to the performer as well as to what was being attempted that anyone would take umbrage at a performer using an electric guitar to tell a folk story (or any story for that matter). I further pointed out that it is not necessary to go into all the details of what or what did not happen with Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 to know that one should be glad, glad as hell, that Bob Dylan continued to listen to his own drummer and carry on a career based on electronic music. Others have, endlessly, gone on about Bob Dylan's role as the voice of his generation (and mine), his lyrics and what they do or do not mean and his place in the rock or folk pantheons, or both. Here we are going back to the early days when there was no dispute that he had earned a place in the folk pantheon. The only real difference between the early stuff and the later electric stuff though is- the electricity. Dylan's extraordinary sense of words, language and word play has been a constant throughout his career. If much later (in the 1990's) he gets a bit repetitious and a little gimmicky in order to stay "relevant" that is only much later after he had done more than his share to add to the language of music. Here the selections reflect more on Dylan's `talking blues' period and his tendency to work the topical side of the folk genre although mixed in are the songs that will inevitably form the basis of classic Dylan- It Ain't Me Babe and My Back Pages. As I have pointed out elsewhere no early Dylan is complete with a song of lost love, longing or perfidy. As an adjunct the question of who has lost love or been perfidious is open to question. Certainly It Ain't Me, Babe calls that premise into play. To Ramona steps the other way as Mr. Dylan is hurt- what a great line at the end- "someday maybe, someday baby you'll come and be crying to me"- haven't we all thought that when we have been thwarted in love. To round thing out a very nice Chimes of Freedom expresses his lingering commitment to reflect the political winds of the times. As does I Shall Be Free.