Modern Times - Bob Dylan
After a long drive across the state and back I kept coming back to this, and now I can't stop listening. This is my favorite new Dylan album of the last ten years. Bob is so present on this album, if you know what I mean. I also think his phrasing and singing are exceptionally beautiful on this album. The songs of Love and Theft and TOOM are great too, but there's something about the warmth, performance, and arrangements of MT that is just striking a chord with me.
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Otis Westinghouse
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You have to reg. for this so I'll quote in full -
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/opinion/17vega.html
The New York Times
September 17, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
The Ballad of Henry Timrod
By SUZANNE VEGA
I AM passionate about Bob Dylan. As a songwriter, I find there is nothing like singing “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).â€
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/opinion/17vega.html
The New York Times
September 17, 2006
Op-Ed Contributor
The Ballad of Henry Timrod
By SUZANNE VEGA
I AM passionate about Bob Dylan. As a songwriter, I find there is nothing like singing “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).â€
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charliestumpy
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DYLAN
I like all Dylan output including especially maybe his last 2 proper commercial albums and although having/having had too many CD players despite their 'convenience' also prefer vinyl.
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Dylan resumed touring last night in Vancouver. Although the end of the last leg of his tour happened while Modern Times was already out, only now is he adding new songs to his setlist. Surprisingly though, he only did two tracks from MT last night: "When The Deal Goes Down" and "Workingman's Blues #2"
Vancouver, British Columbia
Pacific Coliseum
October 11, 2006
1. Cat's In The Well
2. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. When The Deal Goes Down
5. Watching The River Flow
6. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
7. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. Workingman's Blues #2
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Simple Twist Of Fate
12. Desolation Row
13. Summer Days
(encore)
14. Like A Rolling Stone
15. All Along The Watchtower
Vancouver, British Columbia
Pacific Coliseum
October 11, 2006
1. Cat's In The Well
2. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. When The Deal Goes Down
5. Watching The River Flow
6. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
7. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
8. Tangled Up In Blue
9. Workingman's Blues #2
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Simple Twist Of Fate
12. Desolation Row
13. Summer Days
(encore)
14. Like A Rolling Stone
15. All Along The Watchtower
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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Otis Westinghouse
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Otis Westinghouse
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Mark E Smith on Bob Dylan in the current issue of Uncut:
"I think he rocked in the mid-'60s and that was about it. I just find his lyrics extremely annoying. It's like 'the moon in June', it's a rhyming dictionary. It means nothing to me. I'm allergic to it.
"How would I compare my writing style to his? Hopefully not at all. I used to like a lot of New York prose, and Dylan adapted it into a phoney working-class thing that I don't think is really him. I liked Ginsberg, Burroughs, Delmore Schwartz. They were taking a lot more chances. I think the fact that so many buskers like playing Dylan's songs says his songs are a bit cheap. He did eight-minute songs, which was new at the time. But I remember when 'Hurricane' came out you'd go round people's houses and they'd play the whole fucking thing. lt's about 20 minutes long. I'd rather listen to avant-garde German music for that long, or Beethoven.
"I also had the unpleasant experience of playing just before him, at Glastonbury. There were 15,000 Dylan fans there and about 500 Fall fans. I was so depressed, I walked off and fell asleep the minute he started playing. Vic Reeves came up and said 'Come on, Mark, you're missing Dylan.' I told him to go away. I don't think he's spoken to me since.
"For John Cooper Clarke's generation, Dylan was all about, 'And they shouted traitor to him in Manchester...' But for me, those older rock stars were the enemy. And that music still has too much influence. Even new members of The Fall play Bob Dylan on their fucking iPod. I find it so depressing. And now he's No 1 in America again. That says a lot, doesn't it? We play with a lot of American groups at festivals, and you can see his influence. They go down one channel. It's all about women, and it's all about politics. And it goes nowhere. But these groups are so grateful to play with him. It's because he gives off a very serious, humourless New York sort of mentality. You have to be like that in America, if you want to be taken as a serious lyricist. But I can't stand that sort of reverence. In my group, they keep fucking staring at me. And I'm always, 'Look front..,' I don't like to see that sort of attitude in a musician."
Can't say I agree with too much of this, but it's classic MES, and entirely hilarious!
"I think he rocked in the mid-'60s and that was about it. I just find his lyrics extremely annoying. It's like 'the moon in June', it's a rhyming dictionary. It means nothing to me. I'm allergic to it.
"How would I compare my writing style to his? Hopefully not at all. I used to like a lot of New York prose, and Dylan adapted it into a phoney working-class thing that I don't think is really him. I liked Ginsberg, Burroughs, Delmore Schwartz. They were taking a lot more chances. I think the fact that so many buskers like playing Dylan's songs says his songs are a bit cheap. He did eight-minute songs, which was new at the time. But I remember when 'Hurricane' came out you'd go round people's houses and they'd play the whole fucking thing. lt's about 20 minutes long. I'd rather listen to avant-garde German music for that long, or Beethoven.
"I also had the unpleasant experience of playing just before him, at Glastonbury. There were 15,000 Dylan fans there and about 500 Fall fans. I was so depressed, I walked off and fell asleep the minute he started playing. Vic Reeves came up and said 'Come on, Mark, you're missing Dylan.' I told him to go away. I don't think he's spoken to me since.
"For John Cooper Clarke's generation, Dylan was all about, 'And they shouted traitor to him in Manchester...' But for me, those older rock stars were the enemy. And that music still has too much influence. Even new members of The Fall play Bob Dylan on their fucking iPod. I find it so depressing. And now he's No 1 in America again. That says a lot, doesn't it? We play with a lot of American groups at festivals, and you can see his influence. They go down one channel. It's all about women, and it's all about politics. And it goes nowhere. But these groups are so grateful to play with him. It's because he gives off a very serious, humourless New York sort of mentality. You have to be like that in America, if you want to be taken as a serious lyricist. But I can't stand that sort of reverence. In my group, they keep fucking staring at me. And I'm always, 'Look front..,' I don't like to see that sort of attitude in a musician."
Can't say I agree with too much of this, but it's classic MES, and entirely hilarious!
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