Music CD - Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

	Music CD: Highway 61 Revisited Artist: Bob Dylan List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $5.61 Your Save: $ 6.37 ( 53% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Like A Rolling Stone 2. Tombstone Blues 3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 4. From A Buick 6 5. Ballad Of A Thin Man 6. Queen Jane Approximately 7. Highway 61 Revisited 8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 9. Desolation Row
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0827969239926 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 2004-06-01 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Desolation Row Comment: From the opening track "Like A Rolling Stone" to the unbelievably deep closer "Desolation Row", Bob Dylan has crafted what has come to be known as one of his greatest albums, and one of the greatest folk rock albums of all time. Deceptively complex lyrics, full of subtle meaning and imagery will take you down that lonely highway. The first album Dylan did with a full band, the music is engrossing. Dylan's talky vocals are the understating means by which all this is brought to the listener's ear. I find it hard to describe this album, it takes a few spins to really appreciate the depth of it all. Anyways, the highlights on this album for me were "Like A Rolling Stone", "Highway 61 Revisited", and "Desolation Row" but the rest of the tracks are outstanding in their own ways. If you're curious about Dylan, I think this could be considered a great place to start. Just be ready to have your view of the world slightly changed by the time you're done. Customer Rating: Summary: Good Comment: It is that kind o cd which values the price based in a single song Customer Rating: Summary: It feels kinda like an elaborate sham Comment: How does it feel to have some cavedwelling sourpuss whining at you like Fran Drescher in a third-rate sitcom? I don't like it, no sir. Judas here swaggers like he don't know the humble souls what picked him up and carried him on their shoulders to this stage. Mysticism out of burlap and sterno. This poet who's too hip to be called a poet, let's refer to him as a wiry amoeba, brims with chauvinism, as well as the elitist view that anyone who is not climbing the ladder of success only has themselves to blame -- couldn't be anything more going on (why is oil listed on the stock exchange again?). Dylweed throws out meaningless riddles like, "the commander-in-chief answers him while chasing a fly" and "the sun's not yellow, it's chicken," and then tosses in an angry retort to people who wonder what's his deal. He's like a Forrest Gump starvation artist who convinces some Hindus to join his hunger strike and then, 60 days in, says, "I'm done starving, you're on your own," and splits, no one the wiser to what the protest had been all about. Cue party whistles. Well, you sold your Packard to get this far, so now you're out here on this vacant stretch of road, sandwiched between an abandoned gin mill and a cemetery, wondering how this Edgar Allan Poe of ragtime revisionism swindled you with his self-righteous ramblings. Customer Rating: Summary: Greatest Rock Album Of All Time Comment: It's not an exaggeration to say that this is the greatest rock album of all time, written and performed by the greatest musician and songwriter of all time. Every song on this album is brilliantly written, and has probably influenced every significant musician since it came out. If you love rock & roll, this album is a must have. I've probably listened to this album 500 times in my life, and I never get sick of it. Truly brilliant, you won't be disappointed. Customer Rating: Summary: Rock and Roll Straight from the Blues Highway Comment: They say Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil out on Highway 61. Bessie Smith died on that Highway. Martin Luther King died close by. A lotta blues were sung, are still sung, along that highway that goes from New Orleans to Canada, that highway that goes straight though Bob Dylan's hometown. This record might as well have been recorded along the Blues Highway, because if you could take Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Nina Simon and John Lennon just before he died, fuse them all together in a very young man back in 1965, you'd come close to the Bob Dylan who recorded "Highway 61 Revisited," undoubtedly one of the best records of all time. If there was anybody on the planet who owned a radio who hadn't yet heard of Bob Dylan, this record fixed that. Not only was the album's lead off song, "Like a Rolling Stone," Dylan's first number one hit single, it was over six minutes long. That must have been a shocker for a record business that was used to hit songs coming in under three minutes. "Rolling Stone" is followed by the sublime "Tombstone Blues," then the album cruises right into "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry," which is just simply electrifying. The album really rocks out with "Ballad of a Thin Man and the signature song, "Highway 61 Revisited." But Mr. Dylan saved the piece de resistance for last and that is the hauntingly beautiful, eleven minute, twenty-seven second long "Desolation Row." Everybody in the world should own this record. Ken Douglas, author of Dead Ringer, Desperation Moon & Running Scared. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of "Like a Rolling Stone" through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, "Desolation Row," his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game. Jimi Hendrix made note of Mr. Z's technically suspect pitch and decided that he too was a singer. And the backing, though ragged, is precisely right. Is this the essential Dylan album? It's certainly one of them. --Steven Stolder