Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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Free Music Review: I love Dylan like a fat kid loves cake
Hit: 5 Stars
I may only be a stupid 14-year-old but still I think that 'Highway 61 Revis..' is the best record in the history of music. As soon as i heard the first notes of 'Like A Rolling Stone' I knew that I'd entered a new poetical, passionate, inspirational world..a world that basically no one I knew personally had entered.. and a world that maybe I shouldnt be in. Perhaps thats one of the reasons I love Dylan so much; cos all of my friends are killing themselves with enthusiasm over some Greenday/Panic!At The Disco/My Chemical Romance album and I just stand there and think: ''You stupid, stupid children. You dont know the meaning of the word music. You haven't danced around your room in your underwear to 'From a buick 6' you haven't felt the passion drip off Dylan's beautifully disorted voice in 'Ballad of a Thin Man' (or read all of F.Scott Fitzgerald's books, just to see what the fuss is about)and you certainly havent memorised and thought about the lyrics in 'Tombstone Blues' Basically you havent lived'
BUY 'HIGHWAY 61 REVIS..' NOW!!! I really can't talk about it enough, it has every feeling and emotion and sound and beat and lyric you could ever wish for in an album. I probably listen to bits of it every day, and it never gets boring or old or tired, in fact, it probably gets better, because Dylan was such an abnormally good poet that all his songs cut deep and leave a mark..
A bit too deep if you ask me, I had trouble sleeping the night I first heard 'Desolation Row'
Free Music Review: Easily one of the greatest milestones of the rock era
Hit: 5 Stars
Hyperbole rules in customer reviews, but I honestly believe that this is the greatest album ever released. It almost certainly influenced the history of rock and roll more than any other single album made, even more than SGT PEPPER. Why? The greatest influence on the Beatles after their initial fame was listening to Bob Dylan. The influence of the single "Like a Rolling Stone" alone was staggering. (It was released as a single months before the album.) Upon listening to Dylan and this album/song, Sam Cooke wrote a masterpiece in trying to imitate him ("A Change is Gonna Come"), as did Otis Redding ("Sitting on the Dock of the Bay"). Both Lennon and McCartney abandoned the pop love songs that had been the staple of the Beatles success through 1965 to write the more complex lyrics found on REVOLVER and RUBBER SOUL. Virtually every rock songwriter on both sides of the Atlantic had to rethink everything that they were doing with their music. His previous albums had found a wide audience, but primarily in the folk scene. This was true even of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME. Primarily because of the success of "Like a Rolling Stone" as a single, this was the first Dylan album that was primarily a rock album rather than folk.
There are so many remarkable aspects to this album. The lyrics are so incredible as to seem beyond the capacity of someone as young and uneducated as Dylan, full of deep cultural resonances and references while maintaining a poetic perfection. Every fan can name his or her own favorites: mine are "Like a Rolling Stone," the title song, "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," and "Desolation Row." The success of the album made his earlier albums equally essential for rock performers, instantly providing rock with a verbal palette that dramatically extended the simple love song to almost any subject.
One thing that sets this album from so many Dylan albums that followed is the excellence of the session musicians. As great as Dylan is, on many of his albums he employs musicians that simply aren't among the best. Take the guitar work alone. Although Robbie Robertson would provide superb work on BLONDE ON BLONDE, no Dylan album after HIGHWAY 61 would feature such stellar solo work as what Michael Bloomfield would provide on this one. The filler lines he provides at the end of the various lines in "Tombstone Blues" is just one example. But as fine as Bloomfield is, he is matched by the astonishing playing by country guitarist Charlie McCoy on "Desolation Row," who achieves the near impossible by playing eleven minutes of acoustic guitar in counterpoint to Dylan's strumming, and manages to make it compelling throughout.
Above all else, HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED created the potential for rock to be difficult and challenging. Before Dylan, no one listening to rock had to use more than just a tiny fraction of their brain. After this album, rock became intelligent, or at least had that potential. Take "Desolation Row." Apart from Chuck Berry telling Beethoven to roll over, rock contained in its first decade virtually no cultural references to speak of. But in that song alone Dylan sings of Cinderella, Bette Davis, Romeo, Cain and Abel, the hunchback of Notre Dame, the Good Samaritan, Ophelia, Noah, Einstein, the Phantom of the Opera, Casanova, Nero, Neptune, the Titanic, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. Rock had never been so literate before and has only rarely been this intelligent since. Somehow in an eleven-minute song Dylan managed to sum up huge hunks of modern culture. In conjunction with the other songs on the album, in particular "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Highway 61 Revisited," Dylan seemed to sum up all the alienation that the youth of the sixties was feeling in regard to the consumerism that had exploded in the fifties.
It is hardly conceivable that any serious fan of music in general or rock in particular isn't already familiar with every second of this album, but if not, you must get it. On its own merits, it is one of the supreme cultural achievements of the century, and its massive influence on every single songwriter who grew up in its wake only makes knowing it all that more essential.
Free Music Review: 61
Hit: 4 Stars
the opener was once again the best song on the album.it was the first bob dylan song i ever heard................"like a rolling stone".its incredible!ive been a big time dylan fan ever since. a lot of the songs sound really a lot like the others.but theres a good love song.it seems bob always throws in one good love song just to keep on keepin on.this album actualy has 2!and the later part of the album is more drug induced i think.with songs like "highway 61 revisited " and "just like tom thimb blues".its good but hes done better.Free Music Review: Gone are the Protest Songs on this Rockin' Rocker
Hit: 5 Stars
It must have been hard for the Dylan faithful to make the switch from folk to rock. He didn't make it as easy as Steve Jobs apparently has done with the switch to the new Intel processor in his new Macs. However he set the world on fire with "Like a Rolling Stone." Al Kooper's keyboards are nothing short of haunting. I've heard Dylan do this song on countless live tapes and in person a few times, but never have I heard him approach the power he does on this record with this song. "Like a Rolling Stone" is followed by "Tombstone Blues" more shear rock and roll music and this time it's piled on top of beautiful poetry. Next up comes my favorite song on the record, "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry" more raw power. And the record goes on in that vein, ending with the long and very wonderful "Desolation Row." Just wonderful. Wait, I already said that. Well now I'm saying it again. Free Music Review: The Whole Album is a Rocker Extrodinaire
Hit: 5 Stars
I just love the lead guitar work on "Desolation Row." That lead guitar punches up Dylan's voice and those surreal lyrics to make this song like no other. I shudder for the whole eleven minutes every time my husband plays this song and he plays it a lot. You can never get tired of this. Mr. Dylan really raised the bar with this one. "Like a Rolling Stone" is a rocker extrodinaire and it goes on for six minutes, which was a big deal when it came out, because most hit records never when over something like three minutes, ten seconds. Dylan really broke the mold with "Stone", opened up the scene for others to record long songs. This is a super CD. One you just have to own.