But the swagger doesn’t stop after cut #1. The listener is led down a path of complete rock songs that challenge the establishment (“Ballad of a Thin Man”) and rain down with surrealistic imagery (“Highway 61 Revisited”). Outside of the more well-known songs there are those “filler” songs that just won’t quit such as “From A Buick 6” and “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”. Some argue that Dylan saved the best for last in this album’s sequencing. He leaves the listener with an apocalyptic epic called “Desolation Row.” One can only wonder as they listen over and over again to a song that tells of a world filled with characters like Cinderella, Robin Hood and Ezra Pound. We put this album as #2 because we don’t think it offers quite the breadth of “likeability” for the Dylan neophyte that Bringing It All Back Home does. But, many have argued this is Dylan’s greatest masterpiece.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
How to Listen to Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
What can you say about an album that starts off with what Rolling Stone magazine deemed the “Greatest Rock Song of All Time”….it’s none other than ”Like a Rolling Stone.” From the first strum of his electric guitar this song permeates the soul with all that is Dylan—enough said.
But the swagger doesn’t stop after cut #1. The listener is led down a path of complete rock songs that challenge the establishment (“Ballad of a Thin Man”) and rain down with surrealistic imagery (“Highway 61 Revisited”). Outside of the more well-known songs there are those “filler” songs that just won’t quit such as “From A Buick 6” and “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”. Some argue that Dylan saved the best for last in this album’s sequencing. He leaves the listener with an apocalyptic epic called “Desolation Row.” One can only wonder as they listen over and over again to a song that tells of a world filled with characters like Cinderella, Robin Hood and Ezra Pound. We put this album as #2 because we don’t think it offers quite the breadth of “likeability” for the Dylan neophyte that Bringing It All Back Home does. But, many have argued this is Dylan’s greatest masterpiece.
But the swagger doesn’t stop after cut #1. The listener is led down a path of complete rock songs that challenge the establishment (“Ballad of a Thin Man”) and rain down with surrealistic imagery (“Highway 61 Revisited”). Outside of the more well-known songs there are those “filler” songs that just won’t quit such as “From A Buick 6” and “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry”. Some argue that Dylan saved the best for last in this album’s sequencing. He leaves the listener with an apocalyptic epic called “Desolation Row.” One can only wonder as they listen over and over again to a song that tells of a world filled with characters like Cinderella, Robin Hood and Ezra Pound. We put this album as #2 because we don’t think it offers quite the breadth of “likeability” for the Dylan neophyte that Bringing It All Back Home does. But, many have argued this is Dylan’s greatest masterpiece.
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