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Some people like to criticise Dylan for leaving part of the story untold. For instance, a customer wrote of "Ballad in Plain D," "What happened to break up the relationship anyway? Dunno. . ." I geuss some people like everything to be spelled out for them in uncomplicated words. I guess they have no imagination. Don't they get it? That's Dylan's genious. He let's the audience connect to the song.
"Another Side" is a rocky album. But it's warm and honest. Songs of pain and songs of down right funnyness fill the album. So yes it's true, the album isn't smooth. If it was there would have to be 10 stars.
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Another Side Of Bob Dylan reminds me of how tender and potent popular music can be when presented in its most simple form. Dylan's gritty voice, acoustic guitar, harmonica and piano, and a two-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. Production costs must have been about $1,000. Many post sixty-four music marketers boast about how expensive such and such an album costs. A hundred-thousand dollars, a million dollars? Often, a full rock band playing a dozen instruments, a chorus of a hundred singers, an orchestra, state-of-the-art multi-track electronics that would make Ground Control in Houston jealous, and post-production trickery doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is Bob Dylan: Another Side is spartan. Popular music stripped to its core, but brilliant and gilt-edged. Granted, Dylan's voice is grisly and unadorned; however, his work is skillful and discerning. Another Side contains no hits, at least none performed by Dylan. The material is commanding. No less than five of the eleven compositions are coved by artists such as the Byrds, Sonny and Cher, and Flo and Eddie: consumers fell in love with their polished covers, and all became popular hits.
There's another point that I'd like to mention concerning Dylan: he doesn't underestimate the audience. Instead of the standard ten three-minute songs for an LP vinyl album, Dylan's eleven compositions weigh in at fifty-one minutes. Attention Deficit Disorder hasn't been invented yet, and Dylan believes that the audience is capable of digesting songs more than three minutes long.
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Maybe some say it can't stand up to Freewheelin' but I believe it can. "My Back Pages" and "I Shall Be Free No.10" are probably my favorites but I think I love them all. His first non- political album.
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This album is Dylan before he went electric. It sounds great, as Dylan always does. All I really Want To Do, Chimes of Freedom, and It Ain't Me Babe are all classics. My favorite song on the album is My Back Pages, which is one of his best songs. Buy this album.
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A very sloppy album.....but that helps give it warmth, charm and realness. "Another Side of Bob Dylan" is a departure from Bob's earlier, more politically and socially motivated albums to one dealing more with the politics of love.
From the opening, humorous number, "All I Really Want To Do", straight through to the final cut, "It Ain't Me Babe", this is a wonderous journey through Bob's creative, personal soul.
Some of the other songs on the album are classics including "My Back Pages", "She Acts Like We Never Have Met", "Spanish Harlem Incident", "To Ramona", and "Chimes of Freedom".
I belive this album was recorded in just a night or two so the performances are not perfect but it all seems to come together and work, setting a certain mood that is bound to intrigue.
Maybe not for first time Dylan listeners but a must have for any true Dylan fan.
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