Bob Dylan - Modern Times
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Free Music Review: SLEEP IS A TEMPORARY DEATH.....
Hit: 5 Stars
A lot of people are looking for something to complain about in Dylans newest release MODERN TIMES. Blah! Blah to them, not Dylan. What do you expect from a man who is 65, and has narrowly escaped deaths passages more than a few times. I personally can't help but love every song, maybe because I always seem to be in awe of this guy, I don't know. I have no complaints at all. Not one. I bought the disc yesterday on my lunch break, and have just finished my third listen. I couldn't have asked for more. It's been five years since LOVE AND THEFT, and in that time the previous record has grown to become my absolute favorite Dylan overall. I don't really even know why that is. It's like the man who has written some of times greatest prose, is goofin' all over everything these days, and croakin' it out like a haggered old weasel. The scholars and novelists may not care to much for the new stuff, but it lights me up like a Christmas tree at the holidays. I can easily say the same for this newest addition to the Dylan cannon. Every time you think that Bob Dylan is dead, it turns out he was only taking a power nap. Mo'Fo's got at least 44 more albums to put out, and all you critics should realize that your either with him or your not. I personally have been on board whole heartidly since L&T, and MODERN TIMES just makes me want to keep the steam rolling! Rock On you crazy old [...]!Free Music Review: wow
Hit: 5 Stars
I was playing this in a public area and somebody who was obviously a bit schizophrenic came up to talk to me. He told me that Jesus had come down to him and told him that Bob Dylan was the greatest song writer of all time. He told me some other stuff too but... well unless you believe that the third bootleg album is the key to stopping all wars, ending all hate and destroying catholicism -- don't ask -- you probably don't really need to know exactly what he said.
The thing is you really don't have to be crazy to enjoy this album. When I first bought it, I thought to myself, ok this isn't bad, but it isn't great. But the more I listen to it, the more I enjoy it; and it keeps getting better and better. Right now it is my second favorite Dylan album (right after Blood on the Tracks). Dylan's voice is very raspy but it is clear (certainly clearer -- and mellower -- than, say, Tom Waits.) The lyrics while not as poignant, surreal and metaphorical as his early work, are in a way more settled, mature and reflective.
Frankly, I can't testify to the Truth regarding my transient buddy's statement that Dylan is the Greatest Songwriter Ever. But then I don't have a Jesus coming down to speak to me all personal-like; so he may very well be. What I can say it that I enjoy this album and perhaps that is all that is really necessary.
Free Music Review: Modern Times
Hit: 5 Stars
Bob Dylan-Modern Times *****
Despite what the title of the album may sugest, Modern Times is not Bob Dylan taking a stab at the new trends in music, and a more modern sound. Could you imagine Bob Dylan going electronica, no I don't mean like when he plugged in his guitar for Bringing It All Back Home, like what if Dylan tried to record his version of Radioheads Kid A. Wouldn't that be something? Modern Times is really the equivalent of the master Ray Charles' Modern Sounds In Country... It is basically a twist (slightly) on the blues with a small country twang. Which is really when you think about it nothing new for Dylan because he had been doing variations of this for years.
Songs like the albums lead single, the rumbling 'Thunder On The Mountain' are token Dylan. 'Spirit On The Water' recalls some of his best spiritual recordings, like that of Slow Train Coming for example. 'The Levee's Gonna Break' could bring a tear to the eye of the burrliest of man, while 'Nettie Moore' is Dylans best song since the early 1970's, and maybe of his entire career.
Modern Times is no joke. This album is (to quote a favotire cliche) all killer and no filler. In the trilogy that is Dylans last three albums of this, "Love And Theft," and the brilliant Time Out Of Mind. Man it's a great album!
Free Music Review: Some of the Best Dylan Ever
Hit: 5 Stars
I've never been a Dylan fan. But the last three CDs have really blown me away. What he is doing is melding the whole core of American folk music into a series of songs that together, I would say, work extremely well. And of course, he has the lyrics that transcend time and culture. You get tragedy hit with comedy, and in the same line. He is singing at the height of his power, too.
This is a great CD. Oh, and for the record, there is no lounge music here. Lounge music is strictly soft jazz, derived from the 50s. There are some parlor songs, as there were on Love and Theft, but that's a completely different genre from lounge, though one could make the argument that some people adapted parlor into lounge....but it's pretty distant and really a weak argument. Here, Dylan's referencing Stephen Foster, not Esquibel. And parlor goes back to Northern Europe, via Apalachia, mixed with African music, via Louisiana Creole. No more lounge references are permitted!
At any rate, the band is crack. I love those guys. Never seen them, but the playing is a miracle. Not one note out of place. Nothing not needed. I've recommended this to people who don't like Dylan, they think. Made some converts. Might make some more. Never know. We're just watching the river flow.
Free Music Review: Astonishing - One of Dylan's 5 best
Hit: 5 Stars
Modern Times leapfrogs directly over 2001's delightful but minor "Love and Theft" to join Time Out of Mind as one of Dylan's 5 best albums. (The other three are: Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks and take your pick.) The mood here is looser and more subdued than on the more aggressive, musically tighter "L&T" and yet every Modern Times track has its place and contributes to a powerful whole. What's more, the songs themselves are far more unified and coherent than anything on the previous album and Dylan's singing is far richer and more expressive.
Standout cuts include the epic love song Spirit on the Water, the poetic country waltz When the Deal Goes Down, the gorgeous pop ballad Workingman's Blues #2 (which perversely is not a blues at all), the ethereally beautiful Nettie Moore (one of the most unusual cuts in the Dylan canon) and the dark and ominous album closer Ain't Talkin'; this last song begins with the lines "As I walked out tonight in the mystic garden, the wounded flowers were dangling from the vine" and proceeds to paint an overwhelmingly devastating portrait of a metaphorical stroll through a world abandoned by God.
The fact that Dylan has created this masterpiece 45 years into his career as a professional musician is astonishing and a cause for celebration.