I also do NOT have a copy of that gorgeous Rolling Stone magazine yet...couldn't find it in Lafayette anywhere. We do not have a book store. The King Soopers (Kroger) and Walgreens do not carry the magazine. :-(
I will get one in the mail through my subscription though, so I am covered...
....
but....
me oh,
my oh....
...I am jonesin'!!!!
xxoo,
MM
4th September 2006 10:39 AM
Gazza
quote:Martha wrote:
I got Muled' at Red Rocks (Gregg and Warren did a wonderful acoustic set way worth the price of admission) so I've missed the last 2 pages.....
So what's Bob doin'....... right now?
:-)
"he aint dead/he's just asleep"
Either that or he's having brunch.
4th September 2006 10:45 AM
Martha
quote:Lazy Bones wrote:
Listening to this show now...
Excellent renditions of Not Dark Yet and Visions Of Johanna - two of my favourite Dylan songs. NDY (last played in Reading on the 23rd) is even slower and darker. And Visions, one of the better versions in the last few years. The vocal arrangement and emphasis is very close to the studio version.
Get this one!
Sounds yummy. I'll have to get it from you....I still can't download. We didn't get a new computer....(not happenin'), so I am still existing in the dark ages.
4th September 2006 10:50 AM
Martha
quote:Gazza wrote:
"he aint dead/he's just asleep"
Either that or he's having brunch.
LOL I just got MT just last night and that made my 4th full listen (the other 3x's were played over XM40's Deep Tracks) and I am officially in complete and total love......more than I was before. Oh lordy. :-)
That man creates the sounds of sheer BEAUTY.
He floors me.
And I am now, counting today, 5 days away from seeing him.
Hey, did Stonesy report on his show?
Stonesy you got my one of my faves...Forever Young. :-)
Nice set overall too!
xxoo,
MM
4th September 2006 11:19 AM
glencar
Is that Rolling Stone on sale in the US? I saw a different cover of someone who I was quite uninterested in...
4th September 2006 11:23 AM
Martha
quote:glencar wrote:
Is that Rolling Stone on sale in the US? I saw a different cover of someone who I was quite uninterested in...
I've only seen Gazza's copy and it's driving me MAD since I cannot locate it anywhere!?! You don't have it either glencar?????
xxoo,
Martha
PS (Did jb give up and go away then?)
4th September 2006 11:44 AM
Martha
Where are you getting the MT's lyrics? Besides listening to him sing the songs I mean....I can't find them at bobdylan.com
4th September 2006 12:15 PM
Nasty Habits
Hi Martha! At the moment I am transcribing them off the platter and out of my head.
4th September 2006 01:04 PM
Martha
quote:Nasty Habits wrote:
Hi Martha! At the moment I am transcribing them off the platter and out of my head.
:-)
And....I LOVE you for doing that.
MT is smashing....I can't get enuff of dat der stuff!
1. Cat's In The Well
2. Lay, Lady, Lay
3. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
4. Just Like A Woman
5. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
6. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
7. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
8. Things Have Changed
9. To Ramona
10. Tangled Up In Blue
11. Forever Young
12. Highway 61 Revisited
(encore)
13. Like A Rolling Stone
14. All Along The Watchtower
4th September 2006 01:33 PM
Gazza
quote:Martha wrote:
Where are you getting the MT's lyrics? Besides listening to him sing the songs I mean....I can't find them at bobdylan.com
I've only seen Gazza's copy and it's driving me MAD since I cannot locate it anywhere!?! You don't have it either glencar?????
xxoo,
Martha
PS (Did jb give up and go away then?)
Patience Martha!! You will get your copy. Few pages back I posted online exerpts from article in RS. To paraphrase Bob, in the article he says not to compare his new work with his previous works. It should be compared to other contemporary artists of the time. So why does everyone insist on doing this? I, for one, am enjoying this album and the brilliance of the man who produced it!!
4th September 2006 06:17 PM
Martha
quote:PartyDoll MEG wrote:
Patience Martha!! You will get your copy. Few pages back I posted online exerpts from article in RS. To paraphrase Bob, in the article he says not to compare his new work with his previous works. It should be compared to other contemporary artists of the time. So why does everyone insist on doing this? I, for one, am enjoying this album and the brilliance of the man who produced it!!
Patience? What's that? LOL Do you have it already sister?!?
Now that I have MT I can't stop listening to it. It's gorgeous....."beyond the horizon the sky is so blue"...:-)
My tickies go on pre-sale #2 tomorrow....
and I'm packing for the trip to Sioux City and Fargo right now. :-)
quote:Nasty Habits wrote:
Hi Martha! At the moment I am transcribing them off the platter and out of my head.
The sufferin' is unending
Every nook and cranny has its tears
I'm not playing, I'm not pretending
I'm not nursin' any superfluous fears
4th September 2006 07:50 PM
Martha
Bob Dylan's Make-Out Album
The romantic—and spectacular—Modern Times.
By Jody Rosen
Updated Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006, at 7:37 AM ET
Modern Times by Bob DylanIf Bob Dylan's 31 studio albums have taught us anything, it's not to take his words at face value. The title of album No. 32, Modern Times, is a typically mischievous Dylanism. For one thing, it's a joke. Since the early '90s, Dylan has been in revolt against musical modernity, forsaking contemporary production values, singing traditional folk ballads, and steeping his own songs in old-timey sounds. In an interview in the latest Rolling Stone, Dylan calls digital recordings "worthless" and "atrocious." ("I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years," he says.) Of course, the album title also alludes to Charlie Chaplin's classic 1936 film. And there is something Chaplinesque about the impish Dylan of 2006, with his funny mustache and old hat. The tragicomic hero who trudges through Dylan's recent songs is a lot like the Little Tramp—a spiritual hobo, battered by cruel fate and heartless women, wandering, as he sings on the new album, down a "long and lonesome road."
Dylan nearly died from a heart infection in 1997 and became a senior citizen this past May. Recently, he's been busy with legacy management, publishing his autobiography and collaborating with Martin Scorsese on a worshipful documentary. But the real achievement of the last decade is his magnificently rejuvenated career as barnstorming live performer and recording artist. On Time Out of Mind (1997) and Love and Theft (2001), Dylan reconnected to his songwriting muse. Among other things, these albums showed that Dylan's famous conversion to rock 'n' roll—when he "went electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival—was a big fake-out. Whether shouting above the supercharged rock on his classic mid-'60s albums or singing these raggedy blues-soaked tunes in his time-ravaged voice, he's always been a folkie, or more precisely, a folklorist. Hardscrabble blues, 19th-century parlor ballads, gospel testimonies, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley tunes, and other songs as old as the hills, and as immovable—Dylan's music has carried these echoes from the start, but never with such a sense of mission as in his recent work. If there is an extra hint of fatigue in his rasp these days, it may be because he's weary from bearing that heavy load. It's not easy being America's living, breathing musical unconscious.
Modern Times is a better album than Time Out of Mind and even than the majestic Love and Theft, which by my lights makes it Dylan's finest since Blood on the Tracks (1975). As usual, it's verbose. Dylan pours out verse after verse—aphorisms and parables, jokes and laments, valentines and metaphysical musings—over loose-limbed vamps from his excellent touring band. In the opening boogie blues, "Play MediaThunder on the Mountain," Dylan sings about God, the apocalypse, vengeance, war, and more earthy matters: "I got the pork chops, she got the pie/ She ain't no angel and neither am I." The songs are full of such jarring segues, moving in a line or two from grand spiritual yearnings to yearning for Alicia Keys. It's a great songwriting technique, and it's also a worldview—the idea, consecrated in the blues and, for that matter, in 40 years' worth of Bob Dylan songs, that the sacred and the fleshly exist on the same plane.
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Not all the words and music here are Dylan's. He lifts lines from Memphis Minnie, Merle Haggard, and his favorite source, the biblical Yahwist; "Play MediaRollin' and Tumblin' " is a rewrite of a Muddy Waters number. But Dylan surrounds these borrowings with his own brilliant and uncanny poetry: "I'm walking with a toothache in my heel"; "Gonna raise me an army of some tough sons-a-bitches/ Gonna recruit my army at the orphanages"; "I wanna be with you in paradise, and it seems so unfair/ I can't go back to paradise no more/ I killed a man back there." "Play MediaWorkingman's Blues 2" starts out as awkward social realism, with Dylan singing about "the buying power of the proletariat." But then come the bursts of lyricism: "In the dark I hear the nightbird's call/ I can feel a lover's breath/ I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall/ Sleep is like a temporary death."
Those who haven't kept track of Dylan in recent years may be startled to hear his voice. On the ballads, he sounds Play Mediaexceptionally sweet and plush, his famous nasal croak giving way to a kind of nasal croon. I don't use the term lightly: Dylan's fondness for the dulcet, lightly swinging ballads of Bing Crosby and other '30s crooners surfaced on Love and Theft and is further explored here. Back in the '60s it was Dylan more than anyone else whose brash, visionary music swept away genteel old-guard pop. It's fun to hear him revive the music of his parents' generation in songs like "When the Deal Goes Down" and "Play MediaBeyond the Horizon," whose lilting Hawaiian guitar and lyrical references to The Bells of St. Mary's make the Crosby connection explicit.
That song is one of the most starry-eyed Dylan has ever sung, a gently tumbling soft-shoe that takes a celestial view of romance: "Beyond the horizon/ In springtime or fall/ Love waits forever/ For one and for all." The lines vaguely recall Philip Larkin's famous "what will survive of us is love," and for all the blues-drenched premonitions of doom and rambling bad-ass tales on Modern Times, I suspect that love is the thing that will survive of it. Dylan has for so long been spoken of as the "voice of his generation" and (more absurdly) as a "protest singer" that it's easy to lose sight of the fact that—from "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," "I Want You," and "Lay Lady Lay" to the wrenching lovelorn plaints on Blood on the Tracks and Desire (1976) to Love and Theft's rapturous "Moonlight"—love has been his great subject. Of course, Dylan can be brutally anti-romantic: In "Rollin' and Tumblin' " he barks, "Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains," a doozy of a misogynistic dis, even by Snoop Dogg standards. Still, you won't hear a sweeter moment this year than the one in "Workingman's Blues 2," when Dylan coos, "Come sit down on my knee/ You are dearer to me than myself." Modern Times will amply reward the solitary Dylanologist, poring over its runes for clues to the eternal mystery of Bob and the universe. But this is an album best experienced with a loved one; I hate to break it to Justin Timberlake, but a wheezy old man has recorded the best make-out songs of 2006. Put Modern Times in the CD player, pull your sweetheart close, and—as a young man advised a lifetime or so ago—shut the light, shut the shade.
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*Jody Rosen is Slate's music critic. He lives in New York City. He can be reached at [email protected].
4th September 2006 08:19 PM
Nellcote
More fuel for the fire....
The bluesman cometh
Elegant and spare, Dylan's new CD feels like old times
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff | August 25, 2006
There's neither humor nor irony in the blur of traffic and big-city lights on the cover of Bob Dylan's 44th album, ``Modern Times." This understated collection of blues, antiqued ballads, and back-porch jazz is very much about the contemporary world: specifically, how little it has to offer this artist. The 10 songs are everything modern life is not: languorous, spare, and muted, rooted in tradition, and willing to embrace the gloomiest vagaries of faith, philosophy, and love.
``The world of research has gone berserk/ Too much paperwork/ Albert's in the graveyard, Frank is raising hell/ I'm beginning to believe what the scriptures tell," Dylan sings in a startlingly tender growl on ``Nettie Moore." The tune is a measured and meandering composite of a 19th-century folk song, quotes from W.C. Handy and Robert Johnson , and Dylan's own meditations on desire, demagoguery, fate, and time. It's a good thing he's given himself seven minutes to lay out his copious thoughts, although in the end Dylan comes up empty-handed. His words are as plain-spoken, elegant, and probing as they've ever been, but Dylan achieves nothing so mundane, or useful, as clarity.
Certainty is a young man's game, and at 65 rock's poet laureate seems ready -- relieved, almost -- to come to terms with the cosmic abyss. In that light, the album's nonchalant production (Dylan, using the pseudonym Jack Frost, was at the helm for these sessions, which have a late-night, first-take feel) and puttering vibe (fumbles and stumbles were left in the final mix) feel just right. Both the sound and the spirit befit a man who's ``just walkin'/ through the world mysterious and vague."
Still, some may find the project a modest finale to a comeback trilogy that began with 1997's dense, bitter ``Time Out of Mind" and 2001's swaggering ``Love and Theft." ``Modern Times," in stores Tuesday, indeed lacks the fire and force of Dylan's last two studio albums. A gently rollicking rewrite of the traditional ``Rollin' and Tumblin ' " is the most pointed track on the disc, and it's the exception in a collection that's unerringly, deliberately placid.
More characteristic are a languid waltz (``When the Deal Goes Down"), a ragged, stately hymn (``Workingman's Blues #2 " ), and a pair of dreamy ditties (``Spirit on the Water," ``Beyond the Horizon") that Dylan delivers in a veritable croon. It's a cracked, croaking croon, but beautiful all the same. Dylan's lovelorn troubadour has a dark double in the spiteful protagonist of the disc's handful of blues: ``Someday Baby," ``Thunder on the Mountain," ``The Levee's Gonna Break," and ``Rollin' and Tumblin ' ." On the last Dylan confesses, with an audible sneer, that ``some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains."
But life goes on, and there's one aspect of modern life worthy of Dylan's affection: Alicia Keys earns a lengthy and frankly bizarre shout-out in ``Thunder on the Mountain," an aberration he dispenses 40 seconds into the album. An hour later Dylan closes the collection -- and it's most haunted song -- with a quatrain that lassoes the lovely, unsettling mix of hope and resignation that defines ``Modern Times": ``Ain't talkin', just walkin'/ Up the road around the bend/ Heart burning, still yearnin'/ In the last outback, at the world's end."
OK.. Let's keep it Rollin' and Tumblin'!!! From Undercover:
Bob Dylan Debuts at Number One
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by Tim Cashmere
September 4 2006
Bob Dylan has debuted at #1 on the Australian charts this week with his newie, ‘Modern Times’.
‘Modern Times’, his first album in five years, knocked Australian country star Kasey Chambers off the top spot after she debuted there last week with her album ‘Carnival’.
While the top ten albums chart is looking fairly adult contemporary with Kasey Chambers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chris Isaak, The Ten Tenors, Eskimo Joe and James Blunt all making an appearance, the singles chart is entirely filled with R&B and pop music, lead by Sandi Thom’s ‘I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)’.
Other album debuts this week include:
#8 - The Ten Tenors – Here’s to the Heroes
#12 - Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
#26 – Madeline Peyroux – Half the Perfect World
#32 – Hatebreed – Supremacy
#33 – Jessica Simpson – A Public Affair
#37 – Alexisonfire – Crisis
#45 – John Williamson – The Platinum Collection
Also, because it is simply amazing, Meatloaf’s 1977 masterpiece Bat Out Of Hell has re-emerged in the Australian top 50, last week appearing at #42 and this week dropping to #43. It has been in the ARIA charts for 101 weeks.
4th September 2006 09:56 PM
glencar
#1 in Australia? Who cares! What about USA? I just pressed "Buy It!" on amazon.com.
4th September 2006 10:22 PM
Lazy Bones
quote:Martha wrote:
Sounds yummy. I'll have to get it from you....I still can't download. We didn't get a new computer....(not happenin'), so I am still existing in the dark ages.
you got it!
5th September 2006 07:04 AM
Nasty Habits
So I'm trying to avoid the lyric sites because I really don't want to get the words outside of listening. I always feel like it's cheating.
But is it '"yon" crystal fountain' that he gets cold-cocked by in Ain't Talkin'?
I sure hope it's "yon crystal fountain".
That cracks me up.
5th September 2006 09:28 AM
PartyDoll MEG
quote:Nasty Habits wrote:
So I'm trying to avoid the lyric sites because I really don't want to get the words outside of listening. I always feel like it's cheating.
But is it '"yon" crystal fountain' that he gets cold-cocked by in Ain't Talkin'?
I sure hope it's "yon crystal fountain".
That cracks me up.
"Yon cool crystal fountain" You are right, Nasty!!
5th September 2006 09:38 AM
PartyDoll MEG
5th September 2006 09:51 AM
Nellcote
Imus played cuts from Modern Times all morning today.
He called it a great lp
5th September 2006 10:24 AM
Martha
I saw and heard half (it was muted) of Bob's (way cool) commercial last night. Anyone taping that? I can't tape anymore (gave vcr away)....and I can't burn dvd's...I'm shit outta luck.
Lazy! Who luvs ya' baby?!
Thanks!
xxoo,
MM
Need coffee.....
5th September 2006 10:29 AM
justinkurian
I'm glad I didn't purchase Modern Times through iTunes for the presale code that started last week. I used the one on bobdylan.com just now and scored third row seats on Dylan's side.
5th September 2006 10:30 AM
Lazy Bones
Did you get yer tix, Martha?
Sorry...times zones. I'll catch up in a few hours...
[Edited by Lazy Bones]
5th September 2006 10:43 AM
Martha
quote:justinkurian wrote:
I'm glad I didn't purchase Modern Times through iTunes for the presale code that started last week. I used the one on bobdylan.com just now and scored third row seats on Dylan's side.
Congrats!
That's really sweet!
Our show (Fillmore) is GA only...no reservations.
No LB my tickets aren't on sale yet...another hour 20 minutes to go. :-) Fingers crossed!
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