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Music CD - Bob Dylan: Modern Times
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Music CD: Modern Times
Artist: Bob Dylan
List Price: $18.97
Our Price: $4.91
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Manufacturer: Sony
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1. Thunder On The Mountain
2. Spirit On The Water
3. Rollin' and Tumblin'
4. When The Deal Goes Down
5. Someday Baby
6. Workingman's Blues #2
7. Beyond The Horizon
8. Nettie Moore
9. The Levee's Gonna Break
10. Ain't Talkin'
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768760628
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2006-08-29
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Modern Times
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Another Stunner
Comment: As a longtime Dylan fan, I always think he won't be able outdo himself, and then watch as he does just that. With this terrific album, Bob proves once again that he's one of our greatest poets, musicians and songwriters.
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Summary: Audacious music, audacious me
Comment: I am being audacious to review music by the great Bob Dylan. Be that as it may, "Modern Times" is one of my all-time favorite CDs and I have something to say. Thoughts gel when they are written.
I fell in love with Bob Dylan's music in college in the 60's, at the beginning, dragging his albums home for my mother to hear. Ug, she didn't like him, but "The Times they were a changin'" in so many ways, almost as if Dylan heralded them. I was there, went with the flow on "Highway 61."
So many years have passed. He's been down so many roads, as have I. He is again heralding new times, modern times. He is searching for Alicia Keyes, I am searching for Gerard Butler. It's "Thunder on the Mountain" and he is still traveling. The music is great. He is still following his King and his religious vows. Awesome. I'm following the same ones.
"Spirit on the Water" voices the fact that we can always fall in love no matter our age. This song brings tears every time I hear it. The vagaries of aging is worrisome --in the mirror, on the road, in the body. "You think I'm over the hill, you think I'm past my prime. Let me see what you got, we can have a wonderful time." There goes that harmonica and steel guitar playing the closing refrain, just like a couple romping together. Or could be the song is about the vagaries of fame? Dylan, still with his finger on the pulse of his "Age."
"When the deal goes down"--Here is the road of life and there the time of death. We all struggle to love and forgive. Where will you be on your road of life "when the deal goes down"? Are you ready?
"Someday Baby" is pure blues. "Workingman's Blues #2" spotlights his sometimes melodious voice in another bluesy song, this time celebrating work and love.
"Beyond the Horizon" is a lovely ballad about life "beyond the horizon." "Ain't Talkin'" adds the melancholy of a cello solo (another reviewer says viola). He says prayer has the power to heal, love your neighbor, do good to others. Aint talking, just walking, heart burning, still yearning. You get no mercy once you've lost. And he ends the song "in the last outback at the world's end." Cello is back for its last solo. What Dylan says to me-- and I have walked a similar road (minus fame and money),-- that if you live your faith, the end of the world is not to be feared.
I am not only audacious, I am bodacious in extending these ideas about Dylan's music. Anyone who reads this is walking a path with Dylan and me, exploring this new direction beyond the horizon in these modern times. I "aint' talkin" no more.
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Summary: Bob Dylan and still going
Comment: I bought this for husband who is a real Bob Dylan fan. He is totally enjoying this newest edition by Bob Dylan. For all Dylan fans, this is most enjoyable!!
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Summary: Best since...Desire/
Comment: I loved Dylan, and thought that for the first fifteen years or so he was up there with the Stones and the Beatles. Then, between the parkinsons and whatever else, he got too hard to understand. I bought the 30 anniversary live album and was sorely disappointed. My friend burned this for me, and I liked it so much I had to buy it. (It was the first time I ever got an album that I didn't pay for, and basically think that it's unethical). Surprisingly, it led to my buying the Alicia Keys album. (My grandfather lived in hells kitchen, too. If that makes no sense, you haven't heard the first track.)
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Editorial Reviews:
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At a time when the majority of those his age are drifting into retirement, 65-year-old Bob Dylan has put the capper on a three-record run that ranks with the best in his storied, 44-album career. Like Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft before it, Modern Times is a rootsy, blues-soaked pool of the purest form of Americana--skipping the progressive bells or whistles for an understated backing by his touring band. Dylan's voice, which cracks, rasps and moans from the pop singer's pulpit, hasn't been this rich and emotive since 1976's Desire. And while his lyrics prolong his steadfast allusions to a higher power and his own immortality, they are not without the Dylan mirth, as when he sings of tracking pop queen Alicia Keys from Hell's Kitchen to Tennessee in "Thunder on the Mountain," the album's opener, which teams with "Someday Baby" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (for which Dylan misguidedly claims writing credit) as the record's most fiery numbers. Still, it's the Dylan that tells of a slave-loving owner ("Nettie Moore"), brings New Orleans to the front burner ("The Levee's Gonna Break") and plays the part of an eloquent lounge singer ("Spirit on the Water," "When the Deal Goes Down" and "Beyond the Horizon") that makes Modern Times sound just like old times. --Scott Holter Dylan Classics and Collections 
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan | 
The Times They Are A-Changin' | 
Bringing It All Back Home | 
Highway 61 Revisited | 
Blonde on Blonde | 
Blood on the Tracks | 
No Direction Home: The Soundtrack | 
Biograph (Box Set) | 
Bootleg Series 1-3: Rare 1961-1991 (Box Set) |
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