 "Blood on the tracks...on your mind too." | 2009-08-20 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3CM7OBDOOEJAX |
A breakthrough - Dylan's country period is over for ever (I mean, he would return to the country style occasionally, but it would never remain high on the list of his priorities). The sound he's adopted here is unlike anything he'd done previously, either. If you really need some analogies, then I'd say it's closer to the sound on his early acoustic albums than anything else, in that there is little or no electric guitar on most of the tracks. On the other hand, keyboards, drums and bass guitar are featured prominently, and that's what makes the difference - Bob wouldn't switch on to complete acoustic folk again until the Nineties. So this album is also extremely quiet, extremely sad and thoughtful, with great un-psycho, but still complicated lyrics and tons o' good songs.
Love you Bob. |
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| "One of Dylan's best works" | 2009-08-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A351XAB5OJG57O |
| I've been a Dylan fan since the early 60's. He has contributed greatly to the American music and cultural milieu. I own this album on vinyl (and now digitally) and it exemplifies his poetic artistry. The album features a number of loves songs and intense emotions. Perhaps one of his best works. A MUST for Dylan fans and anyone else who appreciates clever lyrics and life's "simple twists of fate". |
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| "Very very good, but just a smurf hair overrated" | 2009-06-24 |
| - Reviewed By irapovey |
| This is always trotted out as the best Dylan album, and it is, in fact, very very good. But better than Highway 61, or just different? Better than Desire, or just different? Each one is so unique- I don't see how they can be compared really. But yes, really really good. More laid back, contemplative dylan. Not so much feaked out imagery as the earlier stuff, not so much scary medicine show Xianity as the later stuff. Totally masterful and brilliant- sensitive, angry, bitter. |
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| "Songwriting at its very best." | 2009-05-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A4U1GY4JRA5KM |
If you were to only own one Bob Dylan album, it should be this one. In fact, if you were to own only one album at all, it should be this one.
From "Tangled up in Blue" to "You're gonna make me lonesome," this covers the range from joyful to sad to whimsy while being all of these things at once, and so much more. --Katie Brokaw |
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 "Laid back, "chill out" music. 75+/100" | 2009-05-06 |
| - Reviewed By dfle3 |
Recently I've had the misfortune to buy cheap Bob Dylan cds only to go to a different store about a week later and see that there is a remastered version of the album (usually double the price of the older cd I'd bought). This seems to have happened again. I probably don't have the remastered version of "Blood on the tracks", but seeing as the older version is discontinued, I might as well post my review for the current edition.
I've taken to buying Dylan albums recently as I wanted to properly hear songs that I was unaware of, but sounded interesting on documentaries on the man (great songs like "Masters of war" or "Pawn in their game"). Then I started a poll on the top 3 Bob Dylan cds, which made me want to have a reasonable sample to choose from, to give my top 3. At the moment, I've given 1st place to "The freewheelin' Bob Dylan". 2nd place is held by "The times they are a changin'". Both of those albums are reviewed at this site by me. Initially, I gave my 3rd pick to "Blonde on blonde". Currently, I'm giving that spot to "Blood on the track". Reasons? Well, I'm not a huge fan of Dylan and folk...sure, I like some of it. Even consider some songs to be masterpieces (like "Masters of war" and "The times they are a changin'"). So, it's not a simple matter of tallying up all the great and good songs on albums and ranking them, like I can do for pop/rock records. My method has to change. With that in mind, I vote "Freewheelin'" as a great, up-beat, accoustic folk album. "The times they are a changin'" is a terrific album for more down-beat, accoustic folk. "Blood on the tracks" is my third pick because it offers up something different, again...mellow, gentle songs.
My picks as the best songs from this album:
Tangled up in blue: features delicate sounding accoustic guitars. Has a harmonica outro. Dylan's lyrics are rambling in this song, but not to any great detriment. Compared to his earliest albums, you get a very good stereo sound-stage on this song.
Meet me in the morning: steel string guitar features in this song. In fact, the guitar has an interesting sound to it in this song. An electric guitar also features, giving the song a country feel to it. The lyrical style takes a bluesy form to it. Song has bass and drums.
If you see her say hello: features delicate sounding steel string accoustic guitars, as well as a weird sounding string instrument (not sure what kind...perhaps of Russian or Greek origin?). Song also features an organ. Nice and mellow feel to this song. My cd seems to have a glitch around the 2:47 mark...a nice melodic progression seems to skip a few steps. Not sure if that is a problem with my cd or the master tape.
Shelter from the storm: more delicate, accoustic, steel string guitar. Bass features too. Did find the lyrics work better in this song than Dylan's more rambling songs. He returns to the title often, like a chorus.
Buckets of rain: although this song has delicate, accoustic guitar, steel string guitar, the strings seem high tensile, giving the guitar an interesting sound in this song. This song does seem to have some distortion in it, which I'm guessing is unintentional.
This album does have, for the most part, a uniformity of sound (delicate, accoustic guitar), which makes it mellow and easy-listening. The lyrics tend to the "slice of life" range, and focus on themes such as relationships.
Lyrically, the songs are more narrative in style. This can veer to being more a shaggy dog story than a narrative, as for songs like "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts". Whereas the other songs on this album don't really go for verse,chorus,verse structure of modern pop, they can wash over you pleasantly nonetheless. However, songs like "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" and "Idiot wind" are more demanding to listen to. For that reason, I'd say that those two songs are really out of step with the rest of the album. In fact, I'd call them 'expendable'. Both of these songs are epic ("Idiot wind" runs at 7:45 and "Lily..." runs at just under 9 minutes). They give the album its longish running time (at just over 50 minutes). Two shorter songs to replace them, in keeping with the tone of the rest of the album would have been preferable. However, if you like Dylan's more demanding to listen to songs (especially the pinnacle of that oevre, in "Hurricane"), you may get more out of those two songs than I did.
The attraction of this album is that it offers up something different from Dylan-apart from his upbeat, or downbeat albums. It's gentle and relaxing...accoustic guitars, delicate drumming, organ (Hammond?). |
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| "Does Bob Like Grilled Cheese Sandwiches?" | 2009-04-11 |
| - Reviewed By parks_dad |
| One of Bob's finest. I prepped a turkey several hours before my dad's 60th birthday bonanza while this album played. The end results? Moist and delicious. More moist than Britney Spears' gratuitous va jay jay flashes. |
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