Dylan Records Surprise 'Modern Times' Follow-Up

All About Jazz ^ | 3/7/09 | staff

[mysterio]

I love Dylan. He’s a national treasure.

[pissant]

And as enigmatic today as he was in 1963

[Revolting cat!]

No, that’s a Bob Dylan impersonator.

[mysterio]

[Lancey Howard]

Okay, NOW you’re posting. Dylan is awesome. I had that psychedelic poster from his greatest hits album on my bedroom wall for years when I was a kid (late ‘60s). ‘Nashville Skyline’ was my favorite until his ultimate masterpiece, ‘Blood on the Tracks’ came out.

[pissant]

[pissant]

Now wait a cotton picking minute. Any Bob fan surely has to recognize Van is indeed the man, not georgejohnpaulandringo.

[Revolting cat!]

Tomorrow's headline today:

New Platter by Bobby Vee's Ex-Keyboard Player!

[Secret Agent Man]

Guess Bob’s piggybank is running low from Obama’s spreading the wealth scheme. Gotta crank a few more crappy songs out, eh Bob?

[scott says]

Amazingly, it appears that it is impossible for Dylan to put out a bad album

You obviously,or thankfully(!) missed this one-
Knocked Out Loaded
It is by far the worst album Bob ever put out,some of the songs are almost OK, but it is really bad. The only stand out is Brownsville Girl, the rest is pretty much unlistenable--and I am a huge Bob fan! ;)
Down In The Groove is pretty bad too---Silvio and Shenandoah are the only good songs on this one.....
The rest of his albums at minimum have some redeeming value ,at best are outright masterpiece's... These two blow chunks! Dylan really blew in the late 80's--I'm sure he would admit that this was the low point in his otherwise stellar career.

[SamAdams76]

Those are indeed two great songs. One can only imagine what else he has in the vaults that may or may not appear in future “bootleg” releases.

[Mr. Mojo]

"Brownsville Girl" is one of the best songs Dylan ever recorded, and "Under Your Spell" is pretty good too. But yep, the remainder of Knocked out Loaded is practically unlistenable.

[pissant]

Bob hasn’t had too many crappy songs lately. BTW, I’d be willing to bet he is far from an Obama fan.

[pissant]

Brownsville Girl is one of my very favorite quircky Bob songs. But Someday maybe off Knock Out Loaded is also quite good. I’d toss out Empire Burlesque and Under a red Sky as my two least favorite Dylan albums.

[scott says]

Brownsville Girl is one of his best, no doubt. The rest....blech! Some are OK....we all have our personal tastes.
Its a funny thing about Bob, and really says a lot when its actually really hard to pick out his bad albums. BTW, I like Empire Burlesque and Under The Red Sky though far from my favorites.
It would be REALLY hard to pick my favorite TEN albums by Bob--how many artists can you say that about?
Looking forward to the new one...boy, do I need it ;)

[RosieCotton]

Ooh...it shall be mine....

[pissant]

Yes, it would be hard for me to pick a favorite Bob Album. It would probably come down to about a choice of 10 or so. Same with Van the Man.

[Mr. Mojo]

Let's see, my 10 favorite Dylan studio albums (in no particular order): Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisted, The Basement Tapes, Time Out of Mind, Oh Mercy, Blood on the Tracks, New Morning, Freewheelin', Bringing it all Back Home, Infidels....

Yep, that wasn't easy. ...and depending on my mood I could easily move 2 or 3 of those down from the top 10 to the top 15.

[scott says]

Bob,Van,NRBQ,Sinatra—my favorite artists, all I would have to “narrow” down my “favorite” album to ten choices, LOL.
The sign of a truly great artists—a long, varied sustainable career, in my opinion of course ;)

[Mr. Blonde]

Kind of hard to point to anything on his last three albums that is “crappy”.

On this subject though I have kind of wondered how much money Bob has. Judging by all the time he spends on the road he doesn’t really have much time to spend what he has. And it isn’t like you can go too long without hearing something he wrote. Three of his songs were in Watchmen. Which is really interesting, because you had a Bob original, Jimi’s definitive All Along the Watchtower and My Chemical Romance’s doing violence to Desolation Row. Such a terrible version.