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For me "My Back Pages" is the best song on this record, because it so captures the way I felt when I was growing up. I knew so much more than my mother, really I did. But you know how it goes, as you get older, you realize just how much you didn't know and I didn't know a lot and Bob Dylan really nails this. "It Ain't Me, Babe" is probably the most famous song on this album, but there are others just as good, like "To Ramona" and "Ballad in Plain D" for instance. And, of course, I have to mention the ultimate protest song, the ultimate political song, "Chimes of Freedom." If that song doesn't make you want to rages against the establishment and try to make a difference, nothing ever will.
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"Another Side" is one of my favorite Dylan albums. I must confess, I really, really like his early stuff. I love the anger in his voice back then. Yes the stuff that comes later is very good, especially "Blood on the Tracks" which kind of reminds me of "Another Side" in a lot of ways, but this record, the last acoustic record Dylan will do for a very long time, is something very special. "Chimes of Freedom" is my favorite all time Dylan song and like "The Times They Are A-Changing," it still has meaning today. It Ain't Me Babe" is sort of like a love song in reverse and you can't help but love it. When Dylan was young, he was angry and it shows in his music and it's good. No, it's great!
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The album in which Dylan declared his separation from protest songs and the political movement that had supported him, especially in the song "My Back Pages."
In this, his fourth album, he goes away from what he called the "finger-pointing songs." Despite his clear separation from the folk movement's musical ideas, the musical form is the same with acoustic guitar and harmonica.
The songs also reflects his tangled relationship with women, including Suze Rotolo. In a great song like "It Ain't Me Babe" he separates from a woman just like in other songs he separates from a political movement.
This isn't often considered a great Dylan album, but it's an important stage in his musical development.
--Lawrence J. Epstein, author of Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
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Stripped down folk like this thrives for one reason- talent. The talent to inject a weary charisma and weighty swagger in what would be bland, generic songwriting for so many other artists. ASOBD instead plays out as one of the master craftsman's most approachable, endearingly early efforts.
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I didn't have a lot of bread, back in the 60s, and I don't have much now either. But this was my first Dylan album, and I bought it in 1965. It quickly became my favorite album by anyone at the time. I still have the LP and now a CD, and I'll never be without it. The man is and always was AMAZING!
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