Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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Free Music Review: meaningful greatness
Hit: 5 Stars
there's good reason why dylan is heralded so much,because he damn well deserves it.this,arguably his best is perfect in every way.sure he doesn't have the greatest voice but somehow it works.but who can deny the prowess of this mans words and music? this album is so important and quite possibly the greatest album of all-time because of it's extreme level of influence that continues to this day.we need more important work like this,especially in this day and age where mediocrity seems to be king.i wish i had experienced the time period of this albums release when it seemed that materialism wasn't so important.this should be required listening for everyone that they should make it a law,maybe than the world would be a better place.Free Music Review: Rock Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisted not only made Dylan's complete change from folk to rock, but it is probably his best all around album. A classic when first released, it still is a classic today. Dylan's songwriting some of the greatest songs ever written. Lke a Rolling Stone was Dylan's first big hit and it still has its gold even today. The production is really good and is brought out on this remastered edition. Favorites include Like a Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, From a Buick 6, Ballad of a Thin Man, Highway 61 Revisited, and Desolation Row. Highly Highly Recommended. Free Music Review: Listen up, Abraham!
Hit: 5 Stars
I started listening to Bob Dylan when I was eighteen years old and lived in Calcutta, India. This was before the 'glory' days of corporate globalization and the global brands hadn't painted the nation with its broad strokes of corporate colour. No MTV, just a state controlled basic TV for under 30 hours a week in all meant that we listened to good music and read good books. We realized early that good music, like good literature had no political boundaries, yet so much of it was pure politics.
Arindam Mitra, an old friend of mine, now settled in Mumbai, gave me the vinyl LP and swear to god, I probably listened to it a 100 times in a short span of time. It wasn't my first Dylan album, but it was one that would have an indelible mark on a young mind.
Music, as you know, in its best form, can change your life.
I wonder if there's one performer these days who even comes close to having the ability to make a record of this stature. The words are like burning coal, the music like rolling thunder and hits you like a jet plane.
I do not recommend that you go and buy this album unless you are exploring what real music is all about. On the other hand, if you do decide to listen to Highway 61 for the first time, it may well change your life.
If you do possess this album, go and listen to it again. Mr. Dylan may tell you something completely different this time.
Free Music Review: bogged down
Hit: 5 Stars
i have listened to this record over 1000 times in the last 18 or so years, i have found it to be a pleasing recording. there are times when i would listen and not pay attention and then there are times when i am blown away by an organ, bass or piano. recently, i discovered that the drums at the end of rolling stone, might be the greatest i have heard. i have consulted with a number of drummers, and they never realized, most of them were into heavy metal, they have since bought the album. this is a masterwork, plain, like a blade of grass, dylan, great, in almost every instance, is transcendent on this collection. if you don't even listen to music, you should buy this album, it will knock you into tommorrow. good day.Free Music Review: The sun's not yellow - it's chicken
Hit: 5 Stars
"The sun's not yellow - it's chicken."
It's a line from Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues" that stuck with me as I was listening to Highway 61 Revisited on the way to work this morning.
The line was spoken by a military leader, a "Commander-in-Chief" after berating one of his generals for weakness when the general expressed disgust at having to carry out an order to torture a captive. "Tell me great hero, but please make it brief/Is there a hole for me to get sick in?" he asks.
The Commander-in-Chief's reply is mixed in with the narrator's voice: "Death to all those who would whimper and cry/And dropping a bar bell, he points to the sky/Saying, the sun's not yellow, it's chicken."
It's more than a fantastic play on words. This whole section of the song has so many contemporary parallels, not the least of which is that last line, where, after the leader dismisses ethical concerns, and motions with a pointless show of strength (the bar bell), he issues the ultimate, useless gesture, calling the sun chicken.
The swagger and hubris involved in that challenge are both revealing and utterly unbelievable.
This is the power of Bob Dylan, and of this record in particular. His words cut deeper and more true than any straightforward newspaper editorial, protest or political accusation.