Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
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Free Music Review: Classic Dylan!
Hit: 5 Stars
The first time I heard "Everybody must get stoned," from "Rainy Day Women # 12 & # 35," I was at Lardano's Pizzeria in Peoria, Illinois, while attending Bradley University, having a pizza (what else?). And I thought it was a weird and nutty song. Later, as I aged, I came to see it as a great Bob Dylan song ("I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now"). Just so, the album on which this song was located, "Blonde on Blonde." Then, I saw it as a rather strange album. Now? A classic! Part of a great run of Dylan albums, reflecting dramatic changes in his art, among which were "The Times They Are A-Changin'," "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and "Highway 61 Revisited" (perhaps one of the five best rock and roll albums ever made??). And then comes "Blonde on Blonde."
Some of the songs--"Rainy Day Women # 12 & # 35," "Pledging My Times," "Visions of Johanna," "One of Us Must Know," "I Want You," "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again," "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat," "Just Like a Woman," "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine," "Temporary like Achilles," "Absolutely Sweet Marie," "4th Time Around," "Obviously 5 Believers," and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." Wow! What a lineup! These songs really cover a lot of territory and vary greatly.
Of course, there is the jangly, effervescent "Rainy Day Women. . . ." Boy, did this grow on me. One lesson: They stone you all the time! "Visions of Johanna" is an elegiac song, poignant, very different from "Rainy Day Women. . . ." "One of Us Must Know" and "I Want You" are very personal songs, filled with emotion. One of my personal favorites from this work, "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" is a wicked pleasure! It is sung with a smile (at least that's my sense) and is most witty. Listen to this and enjoy!
"Just like a Woman" is another sensitively sung and poignant tune. "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine" is a song that many couples must resonate to, as things go sour. The album closes out with the wonderful "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."
This is a great work of rock and roll. Dylan's best? I don't think so. But pretty doggone good indeed!
Free Music Review: Blonde On Blonde
Hit: 5 Stars
Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde *****
Now through his career Bob Dylan has made at least 7 of the greatest albums of all time. Four of those albums are easily in the top forty of all time. Those four being Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, and Blood On The Tracks. Now all four are amazing but it is rarely disputed that Highway 61 Revisited is his best but for my money the only other that even comes close to 61 is Blonde On Blonde. BIABH was great, revolutionary infact, and Blood On The Tracks may be the saddest break up album of all time, but Blonde is better. The lyrical imagry is absolutly out of this world. Both socialy concious and political on tracks like 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' and just with out words to discribe on tracks like 'Visions Of Johanna.' The musicianship is without flaw as well. Thats not to say there is not flaws because Dylan and his bands are known for that, but the flaws are what make the album more honest and genuine.
Originaly released as a double album but ment to be a single album until the night before it's due date Dylan postponed because he had numerous other songs he had just written. 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' and the incredible subtly sexest yet not quite, 'Just Like A Women' which was sort of ment to be a love song, both went on to become decent hits for Dylan. Other songs like 'Visions' 'Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again' Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat' 'Temporary Like Achilles' and 'Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands' have all gone on to be Dylan classics and concidered some of his very, very best songs even though they were not hit singles. Henry Rollins has even been qouted as saying that 'Visions' is his all time favorite song. That is saying something! 'Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat' may just be the greatest song ever on the subject of class. Untouchable. And 'Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again' is easily the best song here. His all time second best only behind 'Ballad Of A Thin Man.' With lyrics that evoke memories of the beat authors like Kerouack and Burroughs. Amazingly simple guitar playing is complamented by the subtle use of an organ. '...Mobile...' must be heard to appreciate.
It's criminal not to own Blonde On Blonde. A collection of music without Blonde On Blonde...? Well thats no collection at all.
Free Music Review: He scores yet again!
Hit: 5 Stars
After upping the ante for rockers everywhere with the brilliant Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan created this even more ambitious masterpiece. Released in 1966, Blonde On Blonde is a collection of songs that stretch across the entire pop-musical milieu of the mid 60s, encompassing folk, pop, rock, country, and blues, with lyrics that foreshadow both Sergeant Pepper and Jackson Browne, and a sense of humor and attitude that is entirely unique. It's a gorgeously conceived artistic statement from a genius at the top of his game, a masterpiece in every sense of the word. The songs make that pretty damn clear: The aching "Visions Of Johanna" is one of this world's most perfect love songs, full of dynamic midnight introspection and haunting imagery. "I Want You" is similarly emotional, but the latter is quietly exuberant where the former is atmospheric. "Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat" is a hilarious tale of infidelity, and "Pledging My TIme" is a slinking blues number, and "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" is an epic surrealist free-for-all, a la "Tombstone Blues." There's also the scathing ballad "Just Like A Woman," and the vicious bounce of "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)." But recommending specific songs would be like praising fish in a place that would make them be incredibly easy to praise (like a really exclusive aquarium or something). The whole thing is brilliant. If you don't have it, get your head in the game and buy a copy.Free Music Review: jewels and binoculars
Hit: 5 Stars
From this considerable distance, 'masterpiece' begins to seem an unexaggerated assessment of Dylan's 1966 double-album, now conveniently remastered and available on CD.
More than a whiff of the child genius is to be discerned in the brilliantly erratic lyrics of these tracks. One wonders how much winking was going on in the shadows as listeners sought profound mysteries in lines that are simply gorgeous for their semi-random articulateness. At this early stage, Dylan played as much, perhaps, with words as with ideas.
The result is no less enduring, for he turns out to be a fantastically creative wordsmith. This is particularly true of his ballads (say, 'Visions of Johanna'). There is enough coherence that the listener feels himself drawn along by the thread of a story line. Yet, ever the self-conscious artist, Dylan ornaments that thread with the exquisite cotton of ever-layering allusion. You're not sure what he's talking about, but you feel that things will come clear in another line or two. Then another. And another ...
The poet can also be gorgeously gripping with an opening. Again, 'Visions of Johanna':
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handfull of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really nothing to turn of
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
Who's going to hang up *now*?
Dylan also shows his creative cards with a love song like 'I Want You'. It sounds like the kind of thing you might sing to your lover after you have both become really, really crazy. Odder still, that doesn't seem like such a bad aspiration.
This is classic Dylan, perhaps a culpable understatement. Dylan fans far more knowledgeable than this one surface BLONDE ON BLONDE as arguably the man's greatest album. Whether it's still too early to make that call, this reviewer certainly attests to the album's greatness.
Things were coming apart at the seams in 1966. The young Bob Dylan was often and usually by default considered to be a troubadour of the New Disorder. From this distance, it looks as though he may simply been having an awful lot of fun.
Free Music Review: a Dylan classic? maybe
Hit: 4 Stars
I realize Blonde on Blonde is one of Bob Dylan's most popular and greatest albums, but there's a few songs that prevent me from giving it a really high rating. Don't get me wrong- the majority of the album is fantastic, but it's not flawless. "One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)" is one of those average songs I can't get into. Of course everyone likes the lyrics because they're good, but the melody doesn't do a whole lot for me. Dylan was never about melodies anyway, was he? Well, you could argue he has plenty of good vocal melodies anyway. In fact, the rest of the album has great lyrics AND melodies. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is BRILLIANT both lyrically and musically. I don't think the song goes on for too long either. I also don't understand everyone's sudden obsession disliking "Rainy Day Women" either. It reminds me of the Kinks! Still, "I Want You" is my personal favorite. GREAT song.