mc_squared Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Dylan's new album wins rave reviews Dylan's new album wins rave reviews Rave reviews: Bob Dylan. Click enlarge for bigger picture Bob Dylan's new album "Modern Times" was released today to rave reviews that showed the 65-year-old legend has plenty to say about the changing times since his last record came out on September 11, 2001. But in typical fashion, the gravel-voiced star of the 1960s known for mumbling his words says it in elusive fashion. National Public Radio critic Tom Moon said that much had happened since Dylan's last studio album "Love and Theft," released on the day of the September 11 attacks in Washington and New York, but the new album showed Dylan wrestling with tough issues "in a sly fox sort of roundabout way." "Those expecting an inventory of catastrophe will be disappointed," Moon said. "Dylan just glances at current events and that's all it takes for him to conjure up the dread of the age. His songs catch the curious blend of unwavering faith and formless fear that distinguishes the present moment." Critic Steve Jones wrote in USA Today praised the album by saying: "It takes about 30 seconds to figure out you're in the presence of greatness." He said the album "contains some of Dylan's most direct love lyrics, vindictive vendettas, meditations on mortality, pointed political commentary, dry wit, apocalyptic imagery and head-scratching flights of fancy - sometimes in the same song." Jon Pareles in The New York Times said that even in a song titled "The Levee's Gonna Break," Dylan merely hints at the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans last year. "The particulars of the present mean less and less to the songwriter who radically and irrevocably changed popular music in the 1960s," Pareles wrote of the album, produced by Dylan himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost and mostly recorded live in the studio. Pat Gilbert wrote in Entertainment Weekly that the new album was billed as a final installment of the trilogy started with "Time out of Mind" in 1997 and "Love and Theft" in 2001 - "two superlative records" after a patchy period in the 1990s. The 10 tracks on the album range from love songs such as "Spirit in the Water," featuring the lyrics "You think I'm over the hill/ You think I'm past my prime," to "Workingman's Blues #2," a critique of the U.S. economy that Gilbert said could have been written by Bruce Springsteen. The album ends with a haunting ballad of death, regrets and revenge, nearly nine minutes long and titled "Ain't Talkin'," in which he is "walking through the cities of the plague." While several critics picked up allusions to events such as the Sept. 11 attacks, there is nothing obvious of that nature. Rolling Stone magazine's Jonathan Lethem wrote that the record was littered "with glinting references to world events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, though anyone seeking a moral, to paraphrase Mark Twain, should be shot." Dylan told Lethem in an interview: "I'd make this record no matter what was going on in the world. "I wrote these songs in not a meditative state at all but more like in a trance-like, hypnotic state." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Dylan's album at top of US chart Bob Dylan has topped the US album charts for the first time in 30 years with his latest release, Modern Times. Dylan, 65, is now the oldest living person to go straight into the chart at number one. Already hailed by the critics, the album sold 192,000 copies in its first week, according to music tracking service Nielsen Soundscan. Modern Times is Dylan's first US number one album since Desire in 1976, which topped the chart for five weeks. It has also gone to number one in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland, according to Columbia. Well-received "We couldn't be more thrilled that fans have responded to it so enthusiastically by putting Bob at number one, which is where he belongs," said Steve Barnett, the chairman of Dylan's Columbia Records label. The album made its debut at number three in the UK album chart - Kasabian went straight in at number one, while Snow Patrol slipped from top spot to number two. Modern Times, Dylan's first studio album in almost five years, has been hailed as a "masterwork", "enchanting" and "full of prophecy" by impressed US critics. Rolling Stone described the release as Dylan's "third straight masterwork". The publication awarded five stars to the album, saying it was "evenly divided between blues ready-mades, old-timey two-steps and stately marches full of prophecy". Critics at USA Today and music industry weekly Billboard also heaped praise on Dylan's latest effort. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5322574.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 ^ :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 This evening there will be something about the "Bob Dylan riddle" on german TV....with parts of concerts.....people who know him and stuff.......maybe it's something for you Nik....I think you also get 3sat in Switzerland...hehe... it's at 7:20 pm on 3sat;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 This evening there will be something about the "Bob Dylan riddle" on german TV....with parts of concerts.....people who know him and stuff.......maybe it's something for you Nik....I think you also get 3sat in Switzerland...hehe... it's at 7:20 pm on 3sat;) :o thank you Jules, i love you :kiss: gonna check it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 hhee....no problem Nik....;) Here is a link to their website..with information about the show......I don't know how much german you understand...but however....hehe..:wink: http://www.3sat.de/ oooh...i thought it leads directly to the Bob Dylan part... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellyml3 Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Check out the new Bob Dylan record, "Modern Times" at http://www.bobdylan.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowy eyes Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 I'm liking it a lot. My dad bought it but he is strange because he hasn't never listened to the old stuff but I am :D kinda funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmahansForColdplay Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Im liking 'modern times' but not a whole lot..I really like it tho because he still had it in him to put out another album, and that is very inspiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Where's the Bob Dylan love on this forum? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 I don't know.....definitely not in myself... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 well, that's very sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Possibly yes.....I was never really interested in his music.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 you should he has probably the best discography ever. i mean ever. he released over 40 albums, many of them were crap compared to his brilliance, but at least 7-8 are 5/5 in my book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 yeah maybe i should....I mean this is one of the musicians I only know the classics by and that's it... wow....about 40 albums...that's a lot....I admire such a creativity...hehe... what can you recommend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 well, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin', Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited (!!), Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Blood on the Tracks (!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind...................... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 The answer' date=' my friend, is blowing in the wind...................... :rolleyes:[/quote'] yeah, very funny. though, instead of your meaningless jokes you should probably contribute something, once at least? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitta Rensolo Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 ah thanks Nik....I'll stick to them...;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 yeah' date=' very funny. though, instead of your meaningless jokes you should probably contribute something, once at least?[/quote'] That was one!!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondes Martenot Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 kind of... anyway, i'm just really disappointed that hell a lot of bands get replies in their own threads every day and classics like Dylan get rarely mentions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedofroses Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 i only have about 5 bob dylan songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisa Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 hey, I got mad love for Bob Dylan! lol But seriously, Mr. Tambourine Man is magical. Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands, With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, Let me forget about today until tomorrow. To me, those lyrics are really epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertigo caz Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I love Bob Dylan....seriously one of the best song writers that will ever grace this planet, everyone should give his music a go...all the 'popular' singer/songwriters of today, most of them you can sure they have drawn inspiration from Mr. Dylan at one point in their careers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxie1p Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 well, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin', Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited (!!), Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Blood on the Tracks (!!) Blood on the Tracks has got to be one of my top 10 albums .....EVER!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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