Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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Artist: Bob DylanEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-06-01
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
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Music Review: Revisited for the first time.
Rating: 5 Stars
Only recently, more than four decades after its debut have I discovered this amazing album by Bob Dylan. The only song familiar to me is "Like a Rolling Stone", which I remember from the radio when I was a kid. It must sound incredible to longtime Dylan fans that someone who appreciates this music could have remained unaware of it for so long, but such things happen. And truthfully, at my age, it's importance in my life is going to be limited. But I have to say I was blown away by the originality, intelligence, and latent ideas contained in the lyrics of these songs. I think they are definitely poetry, many of them dream-images with symbolism to be pondered. There is something jarring rather than soothing about this poetry, but rather than being jarred into irritation, I felt as though I was being jarred into a more comprehensive and perceptive state of mind. The music which Dylan devised to go with these unique lyrics seems to serve the same purpose of prompting, not too gently, a state of mind receptive to some sort of unconscious communication. These are the impressions I experienced when I first listened to this album. Besides "Like a Rolling Stone", my other favorites were "Desolation Row", with its incredible cryptic lyrics which never seemed to end(but which I didn't want to end), and "Ballad of a Thin Man", a strange, strange little song which seemed to invade my psyche and take up residence. All this interest in Dylan was prompted by a more or less random curiosity which led me to watch the documentary, "No Direction Home". I'm not sure how I feel about Dylan as a person. Some web research I've done leads me to believe some of these songs were inspired by the desire to exact vengeance on those who have offended him. One of my favorites on this album, "Ballad of a Thin Man", is said to be a put-down of a newspaper interviewer who irritated Dylan with foolish questions. If so,I find that a little disappointing. But how I feel about such matters as that is not really pertinent to the quality of the songs and music, however they were inspired, except maybe as a caution against going overboard with reading meaning into them. Whether he was inspired by visionary insights or more mundane causes, he was very adroit at adapting these inspirations into imagery that leaves a strong mental impression on the listener. Dylan refused to let his fans force him into a niche, and quite rightly so, in my opinion. If, as has been said, he has constantly invented himself, then this album was one of his outstanding inventions.
Description of Highway 61 Revisited
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 StolderAlbum-Oriented Rock (AOR) CDs
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