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Universal acclaim- based on 71 Ratings
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Positive: 63 out of 71
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Mixed: 5 out of 71
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Sep 7, 2010certainly not as great an effort as Dylan's amazing comeback trilogy... however Together Through Life is a very fun album and is sure to please Bobby's many many fans.
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FabioLJun 7, 2009All I can say is this is mediocre. This album has two good songs and the others are forgettable... but worse! NOT THAT GOOD!! Not just by Bob Dylan standards... but by any really. I'm seeing him in concert in two months and I PRAY he excludes this entire disc from his song line-up. Doubt that will happen though.
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ingoqApr 30, 2009A really amazing album. great tunes, interesting lyrics, not as simple as it seems at first listening. better than modern times (at least for me). it's good that dylan doesn't repeat what he did before. again dylan surprised me.
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krMay 1, 2009Gets even better after repeat listens. A mark of a truly great record.
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JimMApr 28, 2009
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JPCApr 29, 2009Better than MODERN TIMES. Close to TOOM and LOVE AND THEFT.
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RandallJApr 30, 2009
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DavidHApr 30, 2009
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BenJMay 2, 2009It's a lovely little album. Mellow, cool, well played - great vibe. Slots in well with his recent records nicely. I really enjoy it.
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MarkSMay 2, 2009The beatnik bard delivers another magnum opus.
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BradBMay 2, 2009I'm enjoying it so far...initially more than my first few listens to Modern Times. I'm not sure if it will have staying power, but for now, it's new Dylan. That's all that matters.
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NeiloMMay 4, 2009This one just stays rolling around in your head. 9 of the 10 songs are great. As good as anything Bob's recently done. I love the accordion mingled throughout the album. This is a "state of mind" album, a lot like "Modern Times", but a very different in production. A little short lyrically, but I really don't mind...I'm lost in the tunes.
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AndrejSMay 7, 2009Music on the album Together through life is very appropriate for the Zeitgeist, for the strange times we are living in. I love the relaxed and mellow groove of the music and both ironic and stingingly observant lyrics. I have even come to terms with Dylan's voice: what the hack, I always loved Tom Waits as well. Great album!
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LeeO.Jul 20, 2009This sounds like what the Band wished they sounded like 40 years ago, and Dylan doesn't sound like a spoiled pissed off 20 something but an old guy who still knows how to rock. I think this is one of his very best.
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ArthurM.Aug 4, 2009
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DanMApr 28, 2009Not quite as good as his last three releases, but a great addition to his amazing catalog.
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JeffJApr 28, 2009A group of songs about the pitfalls of life and love. It's straightforward and elegant. Dylan continues to preserve his legend.
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SLApr 29, 2009Another very good record by the master.
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ThomasDApr 29, 2009
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kevinjApr 29, 2009I've been listening to this since yesterday, and it gets better and better. Some really great singing from Dylan - straight from the heart. About half of the tracks are standouts, and the rest are strong also. There may even be a couple of future Dylan classics here. Highly recommended.
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ThomasFApr 30, 2009Bob Dylan really hits the mood of Americana with this release.
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MIKEHMay 1, 2009Tremendous sounding album.
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tonygMay 14, 2009The new album is thrillingly alive, comical, sullen, heart breaking, and just straight up rocking all at the same time. This is one of Dylan's very best and comes very close to being as good as Modern Times, Love and Theft, and Time Out Of Mind. A few more songs like its all good and forgetful heart would have made it a true classic.
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FrankDMay 19, 2009Another superb CD by Dylan. With Dylan, you need to listen to a CD at least 5 times before forming an opinion. His voice is ravaged, but it has always been somewhat ravaged. Some classic songs on this CD--I Feel A Change Coming On, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, and It's All Good. The band is great. A strong effort.
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EoinOMay 20, 2009Dylan is has sold has been living off his reputation and brainwashed fans for years now. How anyone can listen to this elevator music and rate it is beyond me. You people are no different from the commercial sheep who love whatever is at No1. Bob Dylan could release a techno/house album and you guys would buy it, and love it. Try to take a step back and listen to how poor his music has become.
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SeanRMay 2, 2009This album has all the elements that critics have lavished praise on from Dylan's last two albums. Suddenly, these same elements are "stale" or "nostalgic." They may be, but if they are, they have been for the last few decades and didn't become so between the release of Modern Times and Together Through LIfe.
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VincentSMay 29, 2009This album catches you from the start and brings you floating through a dream like view of life and the world we live in today. Both musically and lyrically it is full of interesting twists and variations. Like the 3 albums that preceded this, Together Through Life stands as a minor masterpiece, independent of Dylan's legacy.
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JoeCApr 28, 2009It's a fine album. Music is pure and straightforward rock and roll. The accordian on many tune is nice. The album has a good sense of humor. For the most part Dylan sticks to the blues form. The guitar tones are stellar and should please any guitar geek. Vocal delivery is spirited. There are even a few nice leads.
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TTApr 28, 2009In a world of plastic soul this release from Dylan is a welcomed tresure. The album gives the feeling of listening to the band live, and that is a good thing. Dylan fits these songs amazing well, nothing seems forced but all natural and right. May the pen continue to write and the music continue to flow from the master golden radio.
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sameerVApr 29, 2009I dig the album. the songs arent as memorable as the ones on modern times or time out of mind but they're still damn good. i don't understand a lot of the reviews. the albums works great as a whole. songwriting's great. probably the best album I've heard this year so far.
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SteveSMay 12, 2009Great fun, unique in its own right but of a piece with his last three albums. A 68 year-old man may have just released the best rock album of 2009... unless, of course, he puts out another one.
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guidoaMay 25, 2009Like someone just said before: it´s very sad (for the newcomers) that an old man put out the best rock album of 2009. he never sings so bluesy. the album sounds like tom waits meets johnny cash at dylan´s kitchen.
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JoeW.Jun 19, 2009Nothing special from Dylan, the album doesn't have the same charm that his last 3 great albums had. Some good tunes though, especially Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and the accordion is an interesting touch (though overused).
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Awards & Rankings
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Ever since he figured out how to write tough-buzzard songs, on his 1997 comeback Time Out of Mind, he’s been knocking them out of the park. This one leans hard on ready-made blues in the citified-country-ways style of Chess Records.
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There is a grim magnetism coursing through these 10 new songs--and most of it is in Dylan's vividly battered singing.
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Having long since traded abstraction for irascibility and wistfulness, Dylan still offers flashes of black humor (“Hell is my wife’s hometown”) over the ten songs, but the fatalism that’s marked much of his recent work is in short supply.