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."
This would be a great record if it could be reproduced. Get rid of the ridiculous choruses and some of the extraneous noise and this would be considered a classic.
Street legal has some really great bluesy grooves, the song "new pony" is a real stand out. I'm not sure why this album isn't mentioned often as one of his best, to me its pretty obviously so.
Oh yay Sony is here and my dl are reduced to pay for it and i get this. ALBUM UNAVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD We're sorry. This album is unavailable for download in your country (New Zealand) at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may causes. Yes it does cause me an inconvenience my extra dl.
"Singer/songwriter" has gradually come to be applied to nearly everyone who both writes and performs songs, especially if they happen to play guitar and are billed under their own names rather than as members of a band. But it used to have a particular meaning, in some cases, that was a little more specific: a singer who performed self-written songs that were meant for other people to sing, too. That's a tradition that's not nearly… more »
Half a century into his career, Bob Dylan's amassed a gigantic catalogue of original material. He's released a string of greatest-hits albums, and his touring repertoire is well over 100 songs. But he's also got some remarkable songs that have been overshadowed by their companions - songs that, in anyone else's career, would be high points. In honor of Dylan's 70th birthday, we invite you to listen to these overlooked gems in isolation, away from the… more »
Bob Dylan didn't get to be the greatest living songwriter by repeating himself. He's reinvented his style and technique with nearly every record he's made in the course of his half-century career; he's been the political spitfire of The Times They Are A-Changin', the mysterious joker of The Basement Tapes, the domestic ruminator of New Morning, the indignant holy roller of Slow Train Coming, the aging Romeo of Time Out of Mind. The only constants… more »
