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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
August 29, 2006
Studio:
Sony
Number Of Discs:
1
Average Customer Rating:
based on 313 reviews
Description:
First new album in 5 years featuring 10 new songs
Track Listing:
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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Blues you can useDec 20, 2008 Contemporary music's great romantic realist tells us it may be "Modern Times" but the battle remains the same - The human heart in conflict with itself (as William Faulkner called it).
Longtime fans will be glad to know Dylan's story-telling abilities and rebelliousness haven't dimmed a bit. Every one of the 10 songs is way longer than 3:05, yet another instance of Dylan giving corporate radio the back of his hand. Master Bob is going to say his piece and that's that. And - he whispers to the suits and others in "Ain't Talkin'" - "Some day you'll be glad to have me around."
"Workingman's Blues No. 2" is a classic - no other way to describe it. Dylan stacks the crumbling of the American economy and the fading of national promise alongside personal relationship difficulties in a very poignant way.
Our artist does similar in "The Levee's Going to Break," marrying an obvious Hurricane Katrina news reference to individual and national recklessness.
Religious and cultural references - "Darkness on the face of the deep" from the Book of Genesis appears in "Spirit on the Water" and "In the Still of the Night" from the Platters and the annals of classic R&B/rock gets into "When The Deal Goes Down" - bump up against us and are quickly gone, true to the pace and experience of modern life. Dylan scatters them discreetly, avoiding being "a man who thinks in slogans," as George Orwell once put it.
Dylan sounds briefly like one of Orwell's smiling totalitarians in "Someday Baby" when he sings "I keep recycling the same old thoughts." Then we realize that conformists don't think this deeply. The artist is merely reflecting what King Solomon said centuries before about the human condition - there's nothing new under the sun.
At last - Dylan I can listen to!Dec 17, 2008 I've not been a fan of Dylan's albums as I could never get past his voice! Love his music, his lyrics etc, but that voice just grated so much that one listening a year would be enough. Now at last, on this album he has found a quality that works for me. Over the past year, I have listened to this album many times and can still listen to it. It's obviously not his best work, but it's damn fine - and listenable, and that makes it one very special Dylan album for me.
Love the title track - but it sort of makes me a bit sad and nostalgic when I listen to it as I'm sure I can hear John Lee being channeled.
But I attended a gazillion live performances in 2007 (and a few more in 2008)- from Pittsburgh to Hershey, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Rhode Island, Cleveland & Columbus, the Chicago Theatre, Detroit, Interlochen- and the recent, post-2001 material was excellent live, leaving its studio counterparts sounding relatively muddy and muted.
So I would suggest that one try to secure via the Web some of these live recordings of Dave ... ah, I mean Bob, Dylan ("Dylan Wonk Dave" and Bob being so much alike I can't "hardly" tell 'em apart, ahahahahahahaha).
ROSEMARIE'S REVIEW OF MODERN TIMESNov 25, 2008 Really enjoyed this CD of Bob Dylan's.No wonder it is considered his best. If you want to try Bob's music, try this one and you will be happy you did.
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Amazed, amazingNov 20, 2008 I don't think I listened to Dylan since college ("young Dylan") and picked Modern Times up just for fun ("old Dylan"). At first the changes in his voice shocked me - Tom Waites meets Leon Redbone.
But the tunes were so engaging and the band so good that the voice seemed to fit perfectly after a couple of listens. Wonderful songs from an accomplished writer.
90% of my music is classical so it's a pleasant surprise that I like this disk as much as I do. Wish all 'legends' could be this entertaining.
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