Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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Artist: Bob DylanEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Tombstone Blues
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
- From a Buick 6
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Desolation Row
Music reviews of Highway 61 Revisited
Music Review: Wow, What a Dissapointment
Rating: 1 Stars
I've never really paid any attention to Dylan, growing up his image never appealed to me. The whole enigmatic literary genius shtick grates on my nerves ever since I tried digesting Joyce. Joyce kind of soured me on the whole enterprise as his work seems to me to be an incredibly complex and intricate set of codes and references that takes a giant brain and a lot of time to decode. But the whole enterprise, while executed with genius, has no point. Joyce has nothing to say about how to live better or be a better person or change the world for the better. If he did he wouldn't have been such an aye hole. So saying that Dylan is some kind of literary genius leaves me cold, but I thought I had better check him out anyway.
His words have a sense of fun, but they also have a sense of anger and condescension. There is also the inscrutability and dabbling in encoding things to obscure them. Are the word structures beautiful? Not to my ears, the sounds of the words are mostly ordinary and sometimes are down right ugly. Is Dylan saying anything coherent? I don't see it. It's just the same old literary game of code building and obfuscating word play. Okay, we get it, you've read lots and your facile with the English language; do you have anything else to say? So, for me and it is only my opinion, Dylan's lyrics are 2 stars out of 5.
What about the music? With the exception of the occasional improvised blues moment from Bloomfield, this record sounds like a demo from a high school band with a singer who cannot sing. Dylan is too close to the mic, and we get the regular occurrence of the 'puh' sound from too much air hitting the mic. Was there even a producer overseeing this album? Amateur. The band is not well practised. They aren't just loose, their discordant. Mistakes are plentiful, and nobody seems to care. Like I said, this sounds like a high school garage band not a bunch of highly paid professionals. Again, where was the producer? The melodies are simple and weak, and Dylan's delivery doesn't change. All of the vocal portions sound the same in terms of melody and delivery; there is nothing to distinguish the vocals of one song from another. The guy flat out cannot sing or carry a tune. The music gets a 1.5 out 5.
So I went to the trouble to track down a dcc edition of the legendary Highway 61 as I wanted my first listen to be under the best circumstances, and I'm very disappointed. On the upside, like all dcc disks, it was mastered perfectly and is highly sought after. And the one star rating comes from the fact that this record is soooo over hyped.
Description of Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited is a landmark -- recorded in 1965, during the same tumultuous summer that had seen him plugging in his electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, Highway 61 Revisited is Bob Dylan diving head-first into the rock and roll maelstrom, backed by the studio prowess of Al Kooper, Michael Bloomfield and others on such devastating classics as the epochal "Like A Rolling Stone." This Sundazed edition is an exact reproduction of the rare original 1965 mono album, featuring the original sleeve-notes and photos, and all-analog mastering from the absolute original source tapes.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
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