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- Summary: Dylan's first studio release since his 2001 hit 'Love And Theft' is his 44th album overall.
- Record Label: Sony
- Genre(s): Rock
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Thunder On The Mountain | |
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Thunder on the mountain, and there's fires on the moon A ruckus in the alley and the sun will be here soon Today's the day, gonna grab my trombone... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 29
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Mixed: 1 out of 29
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Negative: 0 out of 29
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Now, more than at any time since his first few folk albums, he sounds like a traditionalist. He's walking down that same road that Sonny and Cisco and Leadbelly walked down.
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Perversion packed with allusions -- forgotten titles, purloined and paraphrased sources, pilfered public records and archives. This is what steeps the songs in American history instead of planting them in psycho wards, clinics, and retirement homes.
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UncutLove And Theft was quite unlike any other pop album--apart, that is, from Modern Times, its direct and audacious sequel. [Sep 2006, p.72]
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The biggest disappointment here is that Modern Times is probably Dylan's least-surprising release in decades-- it's the logical continuation of its predecessor, created with the same band he's been touring with for years, fed from familiar influences, and sprinkled with all the droll, anachronistic bits now long-expected.
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If Time Out of Mind is the weathered, death-obsessed uncle who drinks too much and broods over things unchangeable and distant, and Love and Theft is the rakish cad gleefully dancing on the edge of the apocalypse, then Times is Theft’s clean-shaven, less-interesting brother, with a bit of schooling under his belt and a professional spit-and-polish finish.
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Some of the songs are two minutes too long and the album is sometimes so breezy it nearly dissolves, but Dylan’s lyrics are in top form and his band is impeccable.
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Whereas Chaplin's sharply drawn social comment is rightly considered a modern classic, Dylan's Modern Times -- sung in a strangely affected croak you'd expect to hear from Leon Redbone's grandfather -- comes off like a feeble anachronism in which our man cynically attempts to pass off public-domain blues and folk tunes as his own by changing a few words.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 129 out of 162
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Mixed: 16 out of 162
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Negative: 17 out of 162
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Nov 10, 2015This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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BobTSep 4, 2006This a brilliant album and it exemplifies why Dylan is in a class by himself.
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KentEOct 5, 2006
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MattD.Aug 28, 2006
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Jan 29, 2014
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AKishAug 28, 2006let's be realistic folks.
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jackLSep 7, 2006im bringing down the ratings
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