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Free Music Review: Great album, so-so remaster
Hit: 3 Stars
The reissues of Bob Dylan and The Times They Are A-Changin' are excellent releases on their own merits. Still, I can't help but feel like both of these releases fall short of the phenomenal 2003 remasters of much of the Dylan catalog. Those discs were Hybrid-SACDs, packaged in cardboard cases that replicated the original album jackets and artwork. By contrast, these 2005 remasters are regular old CDs, and packaged in standard, generic jewel cases. Curiously, the 2003 series was issued on the Sony/Legacy label, while the 2005 titles are released by Columbia. This may account for the difference.
Of course, the music is as great as it always was, and the remasters are much better than the old CDs. Still, it's troubling to see Sony taking a step back from the care that they had previously given to the Dylan catalog. Here's hoping Sony gives the future remasters of albums like The Basement Tapes and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid the consideration they are due.
Free Music Review: Great Music, Bad Company
Hit: 1 Stars
Dylan is great, Sony is not . . . DO NOT BUY THIS CD if you intend to play it on your computer. It's one more example of global corporate hurbis gone amok. I love Dylan, love this album (his first). But Sony's Columbia Records division decided in their "blind wisdom" to illegally embed code in some of their digital recordings so that they could not be duplicated.
I bought this CD to upload into iTunes to play on my iPod, but Sony's illegal code prevented my computer (PowerBook 12" laptop) from even recognizing the disc. These days, I listen to music almost exclusively via iTunes or my iPod. So this CD is useless to me.
Amazon's customer service has been good. They replaced my first copy of this CD (in case it was just a lemon) within a couple of days, but the replacement CD fared no better.
I understand that Sony (under pressure, and sensitivity to bad PR) have stopped embedding the hidden code. But they have not recalled all their corrupted CDs. Amazon should work with Sony/Columbia to identify which CDs have the illegal code, and remove them from sale-or, at the very least, in the product description identify which CDs have the Sony code.
Free Music Review: every song is good
Hit: 5 Stars
For me it is really rare to find an album where I like every song. This is one of those few. In my opinion this is an extremely close second place to the Frewheelin' album for Bob Dylan's very best. If you like Dylan's older acoustic/folksy songs then you will not be disappointed in this.Free Music Review: Roots Firmly Planted in the Blues
Hit: 5 Stars
I think Bob Dylan had just turned twenty when he recorded this album. I heard some of his Witmark demos and the tape he did in that Minnesota hotel room, but good as those recordings were, they can't light a candle to his first release on Colombia Records. With the exception of the haunting "Song for Woody," a ballad dedicated to Woody Guthrie and "Baby Let Me Follow you Down," all of the other songs are covers. But that doesn't mean they're not any good, on the contrary, Dylan's version of "House of the Rising Sun" is perhaps the best I've ever heard. This records shows us that Dylan had his roots firmly planted in the blues.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
Free Music Review: The First is One of the Best
Hit: 5 Stars
Is it just me or does Bob Dylan look like Shirley McLaine on the cover of this record. He does, you know he does, but he sure as heck doesn't sound like Shirley McLaine. He doesn't sound like anybody that had gone before. His body was twenty or twenty-one, but his voice was a hundred years old on this, his first album, an album of mostly covers. But he takes those old blues and folk songs and breathes new life into them even as he changes them and makes them his own.
He takes the female lead in "House of the Rising Sun" and he chills your soul with it. Later the Animals would have a hit with this song, but Dylan was there first. Likewise, Led Zeppelin would later record "In My Time of Dying," and though I'm sure they decided to do that song because Robert or Jimmy heard it on this album. They sure changed it, but that's another review.
"Song to Woody," Dylan's tribute to Woody Guthrie was penned by Dylan and is one of the standouts on the album as far as I'm concerned, but then there are so many standouts on this disc. "Baby Let Me Follow You Down," for example. A bluesy folk song here, but a stunning rocker when he did it on the '66 tour with the band and again during the Band's movie "The Last Waltz."
I could go on praising this record forever. You should go out and get it if you don't already own it.
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