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Topic: New Dylan album - mp3 link Return to archive
23rd August 2006 08:38 PM
Gazza For those of you, who cant wait until next week for "Modern Times", you can download it here as an mp3 in a few minutes

http://torrentreactor.net/view.php?id=563903

Gazza's picks are "Thunder On the Mountain", "Workingman's Blues #2" and "Aint Talkin'"
[Edited by Gazza]
23rd August 2006 09:07 PM
RollingstonesUSA Downloading it now, can't wait to hear it! Thanks for the link!
23rd August 2006 09:12 PM
RollingstonesUSA Gazza, where is this footage from....thanks

23rd August 2006 09:14 PM
Gazza "Hard Rain" TV special, broadcast autumn 1976

Filmed in concert, Fort Collins, Colorado 23 May 1976

Maggies Farm, Shelter from the Storm, One Too many Mornings and Idiot Wind from the live album of the same name come from this show, as does Youre a Big Girl Now, which wasnt included on the broadcast
23rd August 2006 09:35 PM
Mel Belli Thanks much for the "Modern Times" link. I'm playing along with it on the gee-tar between computer keystrokes. Good so far!
23rd August 2006 09:46 PM
pdog This is my first torrent Mp3 DL. I will be buying this album, so I feel okay about it...
23rd August 2006 10:07 PM
Soldatti Downloading, comments later.
23rd August 2006 11:40 PM
RollingstonesUSA I'm at a loss of words....
24th August 2006 01:26 AM
RollingstonesUSA Reading Setlist:

1. Cat's in the Well
2. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Watching the River Flow
6. High Water (For Charley Patton)
7. Not Dark Yet
8. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Make You Feel My Love
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Lenny Bruce
12. Summer Days
"ENCORE"
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. Rainy Day Women ..12 & 35
24th August 2006 10:22 AM
Nasty Habits The ones that are grabbing me right now are Spirit on the Water and Deal Goes Down - old Ink Spots songs turned into a Rorschach Blot.
24th August 2006 10:31 AM
PartyDoll MEG
quote:
pdog wrote:
This is my first torrent Mp3 DL. I will be buying this album, so I feel okay about it...


Am I sick?.... I downloaded last nite before I put my sleep deprived body to bed. Now I have to go buy some CDR's so I can burn it. I am buying both CD and iTunes version so I feel "pure"
24th August 2006 12:20 PM
justinkurian Voice richer, words powerful in 'Modern Times'

By George Varga
UNION-TRIBUNE POP MUSIC CRITIC
August 24, 2006

'Modern Times” is an ideal name for Bob Dylan's often-enchanting new album, even if it does share the same title as 1975 and 1981 releases by Al Stewart and Jefferson Starship and – more pertinently – Charlie Chaplin's socially conscious 1936 film classic.

Remember, this timeless troubadour sounded wise and world-weary well beyond his 22 years when his epic second album, “The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan,” came out in 1963. It included such still-visceral classics as “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall” and “Masters of War” (which has been covered by Pearl Jam). At the age of 65, Dylan has retained his youthful passion for music, the more rootsy the better, while embracing and slyly mocking his elder-statesman status.

The blues-drenched “Modern Times,” his first studio outing in five years, is being billed as the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Dylan's career-revitalizing “Time Out of Mind” album in 1997 and continued with the equally stirring “Love and Theft” in 2001. While not as bold or assured as either of its predecessors, “Modern Times” is one of his most humorous and sobering works to date.

A moment after claiming that he's been studying the art of love and predicting it will fit me like a glove during the album-opening “Thunder on the Mountain,” Dylan sings to a rollicking, rock-a-boogie beat: I want some real good woman to do just what I say. Such sentiments are neither artful nor likely to bring the song's protagonist much success, which makes the seemingly straight-faced vocal delivery all the more engaging.

Elsewhere on the album, he delivers such bons mots as: This woman is so crazy, I swear I ain't gonna touch another one for years; and: I got the pork chops, she's got the pie. Better still is: Well, I don't want to brag, but I'm gonna ring your neck / When all else fails I'll make it a matter of self-respect.

The 10-song album is also laced with repeated references to God and sometimes ominous allusions to judgment day. But it's hardly a belated sequel to 1979's “Slow Train Coming,” 1980's “Saved” and 1981's “Shot of Love,” the three albums Dylan recorded during his much publicized “born-again Christian” period.

Witness the understated but emotionally charged “Ain't Talkin',” a standout number that is the album's longest cut at nearly nine minutes. On it, a hushed Dylan sings about trying times and eroding faith: They say prayer has the power to help / So pray from the mother / In the human heart an evil spirit can dwell / I'm trying to love my neighbor and do good unto others / But oh, mother, things ain't going well.


He later takes aim at the evils of the ruling class: They will crush you with wealth and power; then he laments: I practice a faith that's long been abandoned / Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road.
The gently swinging “Spirit on the Water” and the waltz-inflected “When the Deal Goes Down” evoke the Tin Pan Alley pop of Bing Crosby. “Beyond the Horizon” juxtaposes its Hawaiian lilt with references to Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1920 play of the same name and the Crosby-starring 1945 film, “The Bells of St. Mary,” while the superb “Workingman's Blues #2” harkens to the era just before the dawn of rock 'n' roll (and sounds all the fresher for it).

To his credit, Dylan's singing has rarely been richer, more cleanly articulated or as impressive in its elasticity and command of nuance. Few male singers since Frank Sinatra have used their increasingly weathered voices so well to give their songs added gravitas.

That's the good news. The bad news is that Dylan claims the composing credit for several songs that predate him, most conspicuously the blues classic “Rollin' and Tumblin',” whose title, melody, chorus and opening verse he co-opts.

Of course, the history of blues and folk was based on updating and reshaping weathered old songs, even after the introduction of recordings transformed both idioms from strictly oral traditions.

When questioned how Dylan could take credit for a song first recorded in the late 1920s, Dylan's publicist responded that “Rollin' and Tumblin'” is in the public domain. While this may be true, for Dylan to not give just due here is spurious. This lapse prevents “Modern Times” from earning the four-star rating it otherwise so richly deserves.
24th August 2006 12:21 PM
justinkurian Let's have a whoppin' good time
(Filed: 24/08/2006)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/08/24/bmbob24.xml

Bob Dylan's new album promises a reliably unpredictable blend of dark thoughts and wry optimism, says Neil McCormick

'You think I'm over the hill, you think I'm past my prime," 65-year-old Bob Dylan wryly notes in a verse from Spirit on the Water on his 31st studio album Modern Times, released next Monday. This might be considered a fairly accurate appraisal of Dylan's status as a pop star, if that is what he ever was.

"Let me see what you got," he adds, throwing down the challenge to his potential critics, before concluding, with the sprightly air of a sexagenarian on Viagra: "We can have a whoppin' good time."

Is this what we want from Bob Dylan? A whoppin' good time? Somehow it seems unlikely. Dylan is a veritable godhead of modern popular culture, and what his admirers want are insights, revelations, the incredible moments when a song strikes straight to the heart or takes us out of ourselves with the sheer audacity of its unbridled imagination. Dylan has been responsible for both in his work but rarely for anything as straightforward as a whoppin' good time.

Rock culture has given us many compelling characters and voices, but Dylan stands outside and above it all. He is the acknowledged greatest exponent of the singer-songwriter form not because he has the loveliest voice (David Bowie once compared it to "sand and glue"), or the greatest way with melody (Dylan favours simple, repetitive chord patterns and borrows liberally from generic song forms), or the most original sonic approach (he has little patience for gimmickry or experimentation).

Instead, it is because he took popular song from the inside, reaching back into its past (of deep folk tradition) and firing it off into the future (opening up vistas of language, philosophy and emotion), and in the process investing it with an unsuspected depth and gravity. He opened up the possibility that something as simple as a song could be a complete vehicle for individual artistic expression.

Despite aberrations and periods of decline, a late flourish of substantial albums (incorporating Time Out of Mind in 1997 and Love and Theft in 2001) has enriched and deepened our appreciation of his entire oeuvre, a body of work over five decades without comparison in his own field.

The public's appetite to hear what Dylan has to offer may be at its highest point since the '70s, and not just because such perilous times as these demand the response of our greatest artists.

The publication of Dylan's dazzling memoir Chronicles Volume One in 2004, and Martin Scorsese's absorbing documentary of his origins, No Direction Home in 2005, served to remind us of the singularity of his genius. Rapturously received live shows, compilations of previously unreleased material, and a veritable glut of books lent him the profile of a contemporary superstar with the gravitas of an elder statesman.

Yet the actual release of a brand new Dylan album is always a cause for some trepidation. You are never quite sure if you are going to get a dense masterpiece in the vein of Blood on the Tracks or a sloppy cast-off such as Knocked Out Loaded. Dylan's admirable instinct to follow his own muse where it leads has a perverse and, at times, even curmudgeonly aspect. He is unafraid to disappoint even his most ardent admirers.

Yet what is particularly exciting about Dylan's new album is the sense that he is completely engaged. It is as if his memoir and the attendant celebrations of his back catalogue have focused him as much as they have focused his audience.

In particular, his Theme Time Radio Hour show (for XM satellite radio in the US), in which he links favourite tracks with a strong emphasis on the music of his youth, would appear to have invigorated him, and perhaps even inspired new respect for his own musical oeuvre.

There have been reports that this legendarily impatient recording artist subjected himself to take after take while making the new album, redoing his vocals until he was completely satisfied, while the 10 new tracks are overflowing with verses, the lyric sheets handed to critics running to 33 pages of A4.

He seems to be poised and ready with things to say, even if his promise to show us a whoppin' good time may actually be an example of gallows humour on an album that closes with images of "the world's end", where the eternal troubadour practises "a faith that's long been abandoned" and sombrely notes that there "ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road".

Modern Times promises the spectacle of a great artist fully absorbed with his work and the wider world, in love with humanity and disgusted by it, fearful for the future but strong enough to face it.

Ever since his temporary retirement in Woodstock in the late '60s, the music industry has been searching for "the new Bob Dylan". But what if it turns out the new Dylan is really the old Bob Dylan after all?
24th August 2006 12:48 PM
wisertime I hope to buy the album tomorrow, here in Europe you can find albums at the end of the week when release date is on monday.
24th August 2006 05:54 PM
Gazza some nice stuff on this googlevideo site

http://video.google.com/dylan.html
24th August 2006 07:28 PM
MrPleasant I'm not listening to anything till I buy the fucker. I'm mean as that.
24th August 2006 09:22 PM
Lazy Bones that's a-mixin' em, Bob!

Not Dark Yet...without a doubt, a Dylan top 5 of mine. And Lenny Bruce...last played in NY over a year ago.

quote:
RollingstonesUSA wrote:
Reading Setlist:

1. Cat's in the Well
2. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. Lay, Lady, Lay
5. Watching the River Flow
6. High Water (For Charley Patton)
7. Not Dark Yet
8. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Make You Feel My Love
10. Highway 61 Revisited
11. Lenny Bruce
12. Summer Days
"ENCORE"
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. Rainy Day Women ..12 & 35

24th August 2006 09:24 PM
Lazy Bones
quote:
Gazza wrote:
some nice stuff on this googlevideo site

http://video.google.com/dylan.html



Indeed. I miss Bob on guitar!
24th August 2006 09:40 PM
Soldatti This album is awesome, I'm still in the first listen.
24th August 2006 10:09 PM
PartyDoll MEG Love the album....Workingman Blues#2, Spirit on the Water, Ain't talkin', Thunder on the Mountain my favs right now...but like it all!!!!
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