Another Side of Bob Dylan [HYBRID SACD - DSD] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Bob Dylan

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2003)
• Original Release Date: September 16, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000C8AVZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,002 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. All I Really Want to Do

2. Black Crow Blues

3. Spanish Harlem Incident

4. Chimes of Freedom

5. I Shall Be Free, No. 10

6. To Ramona

7. Motorpsycho Nitemare

8. My Back Pages

9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

10. Ballad in Plain D

11. It Ain't Me Babe

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This set captures a still-growing Dylan on the edge, just before he makes the jump to rock & roll, continuing to expand the notion of folk music with openhearted, unprecedented compositions and performances like "All I Really Want to Do," "Chimes of Freedom," "My Back Pages," and "It Ain't Me Babe." If Dylan's previous album The Times They Are A-Changin' was a bit too literal and focused on current events, Another Side indulges Dylan's more mythic and expansive side, making more rumor for the humor that would explode when Dylan formed a band. It's just Dylan, guitar, and harmonica here, but Another Side is a rock & roll album without that band. --Jimmy Guterman

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The climb to creative freedom, February 16, 2004

By	B. W. Fairbanks "Brian W. Fairbanks" (Lakewood, OH United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After making his name as the author of "finger pointin' songs" critical of society and its injustices, Bob Dylan expanded his musical palate on his fourth album, and was roundly criticized for betraying the various political and social movements for which he was an unofficial spokesman.

Regarded by many as a sell-out, "Another Side of Bob Dylan" took thirty-five years to reach the half-million sales mark needed for gold certification. Listening to it now, one gets the impression that Dylan wasn't turning a blind eye to the troubles of the world, but fighting for his own artistic survival.

"Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree," he writes, "I want ev'rybody to be free."

With this album, Dylan claims his freedom by traveling wherever his inspiration takes him. If he doesn't tackle traditionally political matters as obviously as he did on "Freewheelin'" and "The Times They Are A Changing," he addresses them more obliquely in the epic "Chimes of Freedom." But the supposed "love song," the classic "It Ain't Me, Babe," could very well be the most political statement Dylan makes here. In lyrics as scathing as they are remorseful, he rejects the heroic, self-sacrificing role required of lovers in most popular songs, but also seems to be rejecting any role, including that of political activist, that he did not choose himself.

The album's masterpiece, "My Back Pages," hints at the more intensely personal and individualistic direction his music would soon take. Less admirable but certainly noteworthy is "Ballad in Plain D." More of a poison pen letter than a song, this is Dylan at his most vicious and personal. A vengeful song whose targets are only too obvious to anyone who's read a Dylan bio, it's not surprising that he later expressed regret at having written it.

"Another Side of Bob Dylan" is a transitional album of sorts that offers a preview of the three masterworks ("Bringing It All Back Home," "Highway 61 Revisited," and "Blonde on Blonde") that would soon follow. If it doesn't reach the same artistic heights, it's an important step on the climb to that creative peak.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Much Older Then, September 11, 2006

By	Katya Lapierre (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For me "My Back Pages" is the best song on this record, because it so captures the way I felt when I was growing up. I knew so much more than my mother, really I did. But you know how it goes, as you get older, you realize just how much you didn't know and I didn't know a lot and Bob Dylan really nails this. "It Ain't Me, Babe" is probably the most famous song on this album, but there are others just as good, like "To Ramona" and "Ballad in Plain D" for instance. And, of course, I have to mention the ultimate protest song, the ultimate political song, "Chimes of Freedom." If that song doesn't make you want to rages against the establishment and try to make a difference, nothing ever will.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flashing for the Warrior Whose Strength is Not to Fight, September 4, 2006

By	Shane Shogren (Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For me this record is all about "The Chimes of Freedom." Yes there are several other good songs on this record that marks a change for Bob Dylan from his so called "Protest Period" to a darker, deeper, more poetic kind of music. Poetry, Dylan had become a poet and to all of those who think there are hidden meaning in his words I have to say, "No, I don't think so." I think Dylan put it all out there, said what he meant and meant what he said. No hidden meanings, no secrets implied, but who needs 'em. "Chimes of Freedom" says enough, says if for a generation, for generations.

"Tolling for the Rebel, tolling for the rake, tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and the forsaked." What words, what power from this twenty-three-year-old singer who was already tired of leading a movement. Still, try as he might, he was the one the youth of his time looked up to, listened to, wanted to follow, but Dylan wasn't leading. Just imagine what this world might be like today if he had been. Maybe some of those misdemeanor outlaws who wound up in the White House might have been sidelined where they belonged. Ah, well, we'll never know.

Still, this is one fine record. "To Ramona" is one of the best songs ever written, the poetry so divine in this dark song. "It grieves my heart love, to see ya trying to be a part of a world that just don't exist." It's like he's singing about me, way before I was born, because I sure want to be a part of that world that doesn't exist. Ah, I was so much older than, older yesterday even. It's so sad sometimes, because like Dylan says, they "hype you and type you in making you feel that you gotta be just like them." I know I'm not making much sense, but get this record. Don't be like them, just do what you think you should do.