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Dylan goes from dead-serious to hylarious on this album, but manages to make a great album that is worth buying. To me the highlights are the comical "I shall be free" and "Motor Psycho Nightmare" and the serious "Ballad in plain D" and "It ain't me babe". Ballad in plaine D is a very long, yet very emotional song of which Dylan later said that he wished he had never recorded it because it's too personal and painful. Great album from a great singer-songwriter.
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I love this album, as I do all of Dylan's albums from this era. It's not as poweful as the albums that came before it and not as consistantly mesmorizing as the albums shortly after it, but still remains a masterpiece in my eyes. I enjoy every song on this album, they just don't fit as well together as songs on some of his other albums do. Still worth five stars though.
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but great nonetheless. "Chimes of Midnight" has to be the most underrated Dylan song. "I Don't Believe You", "It Ain't Me Babe" and "My Back Pages" are also outstanding.
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Mayber this one will need to grow on me. Coming off of the terrific, if somber, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" it lacks coherency. It was recorded in one night, and I think it shows. It opens with a great tune, with a catchy rhyme scheme--Dylan assured & in control. This is when Dylan first really stretched and cajoled language to do his bidding, to attempt to describe the visions he saw that were to lead him far (but not so far at all....) from the folk world he originally inhabited. It comes off as mixed--the experiment was still in effect, and I think not until "Mr Tambourine Man" and then the "Highway 61" album that he finally got it right. "Chimes of Freedom" could use some editing, and "Motorpsycho Nitemare" is fun (I dig the rhyming of Rita with "La Dolce Vita"!) but no match for "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" later on. "I Shall Be Free" is along the lines of "Freewheelin," and it makes me laugh. "My Back Pages" captures something real when he sings, "Oh, but I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now." (Check out the Ramones' version of this!!)The real gems include "I Don't Believe You"--electrified magnificently later & captured on the "Royal Albert Hall" Concert--and the classic "It Ain't Me Babe." A kiss-off to a lover, or to the so-called fans who were demanding he become a spokesman for a social cause? Hm. A good one for established Dylan fans, but not one for newcomers. Very interesting to see him stretching and reaching....
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The acoustical scene-setter for the electric craziness to come. Rarely does an artist seem to be enjoying himself more (listen for the giggling on All I Really Want to Do and the humor of I Shall be Free #10 and Motorpsycho Nightmare). The lyrics have moved beyond the protest of The Times They are a-Changin and have started to explore the personal (and perhaps bizarre)stream of consciousness perfected in the three albums to follow (Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 and Blonde on Blonde). Chimes of Freedom lays the groundwork of Mr. Tambourine Man. But to me, the most under-appreciated gem here is clearly Spanish Harlem Incident. Great guitar work. Terrific lyrics. A homerun.
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