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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 th… More >>
#1 by Kelsey on February 4, 2010 - 7:03 pm
Yawn! Why is this album in such high regard? It’s crap. It’s just a commercial computer manufactured pile of flaming poo. The guy can’t even play guitar! He only knows how to play two chords. I think it’s about time someone showed this hack to write music- Fred Durst, perhaps?
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Automated Message on February 4, 2010 - 7:16 pm
How does it feel to have some cavedwelling sourpuss whining at you like Fran Drescher in a third-rate sitcom? I don’t like it, no sir. Judas here swaggers like he don’t know the humble souls what picked him up and carried him on their shoulders to this stage. Mysticism out of burlap and sterno. This poet who’s too hip to be called a poet, let’s refer to him as a wiry amoeba, brims with chauvinism, as well as the elitist view that anyone who is not climbing the ladder of success only has themselves to blame — couldn’t be anything more going on (why is oil listed on the stock exchange again?).
Dylweed throws out meaningless riddles like, “the commander-in-chief answers him while chasing a fly” and “the sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken,” and then tosses in an angry retort to people who wonder what’s his deal. He’s like a Forrest Gump starvation artist who convinces some Hindus to join his hunger strike and then, 60 days in, says, “I’m done starving, you’re on your own,” and splits, no one the wiser to what the protest had been all about. Cue party whistles.
Well, you sold your Packard to get this far, so now you’re out here on this vacant stretch of road, sandwiched between an abandoned gin mill and a cemetery, wondering how this Edgar Allan Poe of ragtime revisionism swindled you with his self-righteous ramblings.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Kirk Alex on February 4, 2010 - 7:27 pm
Album way over-rated by the worshippers. This guy breaks wind and the sycophants can’t wait to praise it to the sky.
Want to buy a great album by this singer/songwriter? Get THE ESSENTIAL BOB DYLAN. Want to read something truly terrific by him? Get CHRONICLES, Volume One.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Jaime Cerqueira De Souza on February 4, 2010 - 8:37 pm
It is that kind o cd which values the price based in a single song
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by abe on February 4, 2010 - 11:15 pm
the opener was once again the best song on the album.it was the first bob dylan song i ever heard…………….”like a rolling stone”.its incredible!ive been a big time dylan fan ever since. a lot of the songs sound really a lot like the others.but theres a good love song.it seems bob always throws in one good love song just to keep on keepin on.this album actualy has 2!and the later part of the album is more drug induced i think.with songs like “highway 61 revisited ” and “just like tom thimb blues”.its good but hes done better.
Rating: 4 / 5