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Far be it for the imaginative contrarian to retrace Dylan's steps, and sure enough--despite an omnipresent harmonica--Ferry does just the opposite.
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There's a tasteful shimmer over all the tracks.
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Purists may cry sacrilege, but the Roxy Music singer vastly improves Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues and All Along the Watchtower by imbuing their edgy agitation with his classicist pop sensibility.
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No matter how careful and careworn Bry's immaculate vocal takes are, the band chug along with their muted guitar chords and thudding drums as if it were a mere run-through.
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UncutFerry's systematic methodology reveals the flaws as well as the qualities of the chosen material. [Apr 2007, p.105]
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This is a surprisingly enjoyable outing as these things go.
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MojoHe sometimes gets it right: the rare restraint of Positively 4th Street and Gates Of Eden hints at the fine album this might have been had Ferry and co given us more Dylan and less esque. [Apr 2007, p.108]
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Q MagazineAbove all else, [it] once again underlines Dylan's singularly magnificent gifts as a songwriter. [Apr 2007, p.121]
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Dylanesque is a winner, succeeding both for its incongruity and its sympathy.
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FilterThis is hardly some bog standard run-through of Dylan classics. [#25, p.102]
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Dylanesque dresses up Dylan classics for a night on the town with Avalon-style atmosphere.
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You'd think such an ardent Dylanite would choose less obvious cuts. Alas, the usual suspects appear.
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SpinFerry embraces these Dylan classics... with undiluted sincerity, gently remodeling the barbed lyrics into graceful modern art. [Jul 2007, p.96]
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BillboardMore hit than miss. [30 Jun 2007]
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Entertainment WeeklyNothing here is as potent as his 1973 cover of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," but he really hears familiar songs in new ways. [29 Jun 2007, p.136]
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He sounds surprisingly disengaged here.
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Ferry manages to breathe new life into [the songs] while maintaining their integrity and original purpose.
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Dylanesque is the rare album of Dylan covers that envisions the songs in unfamiliar musical settings, and it does so without sacrificing the soul of the lyrics.
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Dylanesque is a mess. Nearly every album has a few bright spots, but this is a lazy collection of covers that offers no insight into the catalog of one of the twentieth century's foremost songwriters.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Negative: 3 out of 13
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ToddW.Aug 1, 2007
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billpJul 19, 2007
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PerineauR.Jul 15, 2007