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Changing Of The Guards |
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| 02 |
New Pony |
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| 03 |
No Time To Think |
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| 04 |
Baby, Stop Crying |
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| 05 |
Is Your Love In Vain? |
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Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) |
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True Love Tends To Forget |
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We Better Talk This Over |
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Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) |
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Beneath all that bombastic Vegas-style production (saxophones! backup chicks!), there are some spectacular and expansive songs here — Dylan reeling off verse after verse of half-mystical, half-earthbound visions of travel and transcendence like "Changing of the Guards." There's also a curiously nasty, dominant streak of sexuality, especially on the seething blues "New Pony."
One of his best songs, Jerry Garcia did it well too, and one of his most political after confessional albums on Blood On The Tracks and Desire.
New Pony is one of my favorite's....Bob can pull off a lot of different genre's (with the help of great backing musicians)...Vocal phrasing is what makes it Bobs
Changing of The Guards gets a better treatment by Patti Smith on her "Twelve", and Senor has become a staple on tour.
This album benefited greatly from the 1999 remastering. It is like hearing D with a full-Elvis big band including a horn and singers. He was singing GREAT in the seventies, and the impassioned effort on this album is no exception. I could do with the background singers being a little further down in the mix, but I'm not Don De Vito, or Bob.
BE SURE TO BUY THE 2003 REMASTERED VERSIONS - NOT CLEARLY LABELED This is the best Dylan album most casual fans don't know much about. Great songs with terrific band and supporting vocalists. Dylan is clearly having fun on this and the whole album flows well.
This one fell into the void the first time. It wasn't the folk-rock of Blood on the Tracks or Desire (or earlier), tipping his hand to the gospel-influenced (if not flat out gospel) sound just around the corner. (Bombast? Don't be ridiculous. Just good ol' R&B.) Subtract anything resembling airplay or hits. Yet, another bunch of sonic and stylistic changes and a couple of decades down the road, it's easier to recognize this as part of long, varied career that is still revealing itself nearly 50 years on, with songs Bob is still playing today, as fresh as ever. Don't let cranky Wolk or unexpected sounds put you off a tight, sharp record that's as worthy as any of 'em for many years of happy listening. PS. Another sign that Sony are crass idiots: there's no excuse for going this long without even a basic remaster. Pathetic. PPS. Don't let THAT put you off getting this either.
this is a great album; and it's not just the nostalgia talking. I am still smarting from emusic's new grasping policies, but this is very fine and those that did not wear this out last century may discovery it here.
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