Correction: "Masked And Anonymous" was released in 2003, NOT 2008 (I have no idea why I said 2008!).
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@artv_limbico63012 күн бұрын
Thank you. This channel is like opening christmas presents.
@CalicoSilver2 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@TheHSIHP Жыл бұрын
In my top 3 favorite Dylan albums
@TomCwimpRock4 жыл бұрын
26:02 - “Hell Hounds On My Trail” is the name of that Robert Johnson song.. Yes this was a great period for Dylan fans - I loved “Chronicles”, “No Direction Home”, and this album at the time very much...I appreciate your insight, especially from the biblical angle - I like all of the songs on “Modern Times”, but Ain’t Talkin’” just takes it to another level for me, it’s just spellbinding.. great review, as always
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Wow, can't believe I said "hellbound" instead of "hell hounds".....but then again I actually said "Masked and Anonymous" came out in 2008 when my mind was thinking 2003.....I'm getting old and feeble-brained, Thomas. I agree 100% on "Ain't Talkin'"....in fact, I my initial plan was to open the review by reading the entire lyrics to that song, because I think that song says it all, by which the other songs on the album could be interpreted. The only reason I didn't do so is because the video was already going to be over a half-hour anyway! So much to say about any given Dylan album. Thanks, Thomas. Jeff
@glennmaher30984 жыл бұрын
Great review Jeff, love this album too, Fav are thunder on the mountain, when the deal goes down and especially ain't talking, looking forward to the review of tempest, plus thanks for opening my thoughts on the biblical side of things, always seen it through his music but not as clear as you explained it.
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Glenn! I agree with your favorite songs here - they are marvelous. Thanks again - I appreciate your comments! Jeff
@slumdogjay4 жыл бұрын
Another great review. Was looking forward to this one. Love the album. He played a few songs from it in 2007 when I seen him. Thunder, Spirit, Deal, Levee, Ain’t Talkin’. Yes I have also picked up on the Biblical references through most of his albums too. Even way back in the early days. Really enjoying these, Jeff. Thanks. 🙂
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Hi Jay - the longer I spend thinking about this album, the more I realize how magnificent it is. Dylan's lyrics are like living documents that yield new ideas and imaginations every time you hear them. I mean, what other lyricists do that? Not many, I'd say. Thanks again for your comments! Jeff
@risboturbide93963 ай бұрын
Great review! 🍻 "Modern Times" will always be my favorite Dylan album; "John Wesley Harding" is close. Cheers!
@CalicoSilver3 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@canalcosmos23904 жыл бұрын
Great album. When The Deal Goes Down is the only song that made me cry. So beautiful song. And Workingman Blues, Thunder on the Mountain and Ain´t Talkin are two of my favorites Dylan songs. It was released in the month and year that I was born (not that means anything, I just like that). Thank you for your deep insights.
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Great album to be released on your actual birth month!
@kurt8matthew4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Review!! Thank You Jeff!
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Kurt!
@mickey835511 ай бұрын
You quoted a line from Workingman`s Blues that he borrowed from a poet from years ago? I`d like to mention another stanza in the same song. "Come sit down on my knee. You are dearer to me than me myself as you yourself can see." I think that`s a line from Ovid? A French poet? I may be mistaken. I may have it a little crossed with another poet or interpretation of someone who was exiled in Rome for an unknown reason?
@CalicoSilver11 ай бұрын
I can’t recall the line from anything else I have read….at least based on my memory. But then again, I don’t even think I have read any Ovid, come to think of it…. Thanks for your comment as always, Ralph.
@knotwilg359629 күн бұрын
You were right in your prediction. None of the "late Dylan" albums please me. "Modern times" is more laid back than Love & Theft and is preparing us for the crooner period that's about to come, with the swing jazz infusion, which is bordering on the easy listening. On one hand Dylan is singing in a less monotonous fashion than on Love & Theft, but by now he's singing like the old man he probably is (only 2 years older than I am now). His voice is breaking up and vibrating like old voices do. Every artist is entitled to one 12-bar-blues. Dylan has exhausted that right way too many times already. Whenever I hear that cliché coming up, I stop listening. I can't help it. It's killing my songwriter soul and hurting my admiration for the best songwriter of all times. One song on Modern Times I liked: Nettie Moore. That puts it already ahead of L&T which had zero to offer. I'm trying Jeff, I really am. But I think I'm going to call it quits and return to the bootleg series, or revisit other material that opened up to me in my journey through his catalog. There's so much good to find in his repertoire, on the slightly less than marvelous albums Planet Waves, Infidels, Street Legal or New Morning, that there's no point in further getting estranged from Dylan by torturing myself with his post 80s output. See you there!
@CalicoSilver29 күн бұрын
I agree, Dieter. I was just thinking the other day about how almost every music artist that I have enjoyed for decades has, at some point, switched to some degree of “auto pilot”. It seems to be a rather natural course of events for some reason. And as for the crooner albums, I don’t even have (or want) them at all. Not interested.
@StarlightWorkshop0z Жыл бұрын
I adore this album
@CalicoSilver Жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@gbtalking4 жыл бұрын
Great album. It does sit in the shadow of Love and Theft a little, but thats more a testament to Love ad Theft's greatness I think. When the Deal Goes Down is a stunning song, and thanks for the reference to Where The Blue of The Night, which I instantly researched on spotify and came across another hero of mine, Loudon Wainwright, singing a version of it. Modern Times, although not with the same levels of youthful fire, is an album from the pulpit of Dylan. Im Ok with the biblical references, just as Im OK with the references to old blues and folk. In fact, that insight is really great in these appreciative reviews. Many thanks again!!
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Oh yes, Loudon Wainwright! I love that guy also, Paul. Marvelously expressive performer, full of heart. I like a lot of his son's music also. Thanks for the kind comment, Paul. Yes, Modern Times is from the "pulpit of Dylan", indeed! Haha, I love that phrase - it is perfect for albums like this. Jeff
@dianalipton31764 жыл бұрын
Hi Jeff! I just watched this review -- my son Jonah sent it to me -- and learned so much. Thank you! I have a question. In 2013, my colleague Paul M Joyce and I published a book on how the book of Lamentations has been 'used' in other sacred texts, music, art, literature, popular culture etc. Our one regret about the volume was that we couldn't find a single clear allusion to the book of Lamentations in Bob Dylan's canon. My guess is that if anyone knows if there is one, it will be you ... Greetings from Jerusalem, Diana Lipton
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Hello Diana. What a marvelously interesting question! I absolutely love the book of Lamentations. I do not immediately recall any direct references to that book per se in Dylan's songs.....or the destruction of, or exile from, Jerusalem specifically.....but they could very well be there, however. So many of his lyrics are full of related themes of decay of faith and wandering off the path, and the resulting manipulation/deception/oppression/destruction and exile from one's once-beautiful home. So in many ways he has indeed indirectly referenced the thematic material in Lamentations but I am not aware off the top of my head of any direct references to the book. He has incorporated (in very poetically creative and imaginative ways) the many fascinating themes, people, stories, etc., of The Bible into many of his lyrics (far more than most listeners are aware). It is one of my favorite things to do: glean the Biblical references therein and how those references relate, either directly or indirectly, to the other thematic aspects of the lyrics. I can almost guarantee that Lamentations has influenced his song ideas....in fact, I would be shocked if this were not true. I really wish I could respond right now and say, "yes Diana, here is a place where Dylan specifically refers to Lamentations", but I can't at this time. However, I will give this a lot of thought and if I think of something I will surely let you know. Thanks so much for your question. Jeff
@dianalipton31764 жыл бұрын
@@CalicoSilver Thank you so much for this great reply! I agree with you. Bob Dylan and the book of Lamentations seem like a natural pair. They have so many themes and emotions in common. If you ever find a direct reference, I would love to know. In the meantime, I'm sure I am not alone in thinking that it would be wonderful to see you do a session dedicated to BD and the Bible ... All best, Diana
@hulud994 жыл бұрын
I remember this coming out. Here in Holland, the pop media were hailing it as the greatest Dylan record since Blood On The Tracks. That ticked me off. How about Slow Train Coming, Oh Mercy, Time Out Of Mind, World Gone Wrong, and especially, in my opinion, "Love & Theft"? I guess nobody was paying attention, because they weren't told to.
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
So true. I never like it when people continue to pretend that Dylan floundered about with nothing to say or offer creatively from 1975 to 1997. You NAILED it when you suggested that these people were either not paying attention, perhaps because they weren't told to. Right on the mark.
@thetrevorosborne3 жыл бұрын
great review as usual .I really appreciate the work that you put in many thanks .Modern Times I must admit is not one of my favourites. I was a bit disapointed by his lack of acknowledgment after knowingly using older melodies on some of the songs.I know right from the beginning the creative process is always been built on whats gone before .Bob has never been a stranger to that !hes always been a bit of a magpie always and created something new from older sources.eg "the folk tradition".(I Would argue however back then that many songs like Blowin In The Wind, 'Girl From The North Country Hard Rain and many others that the original source.has been adapted by Bob to the point where they dont really sound the same as the original ).Here he doing something different especially on the bing crosby type tunes where he simply taken the older melody wholesale and used it. it wouldnt have hurt to acknowledge the source s of the original melody.I think he does a diservice to other composers by not doing so.Anyway dont mean to go on and respect thatother people might take a different view on it Cheers!
@CalicoSilver3 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%, Trevor, and I too have been a bit disappointed in the total lack of credit given to other musicians and composers in some cases when it comes to songs credited as being solely by Dylan. Yes, his own creative output vastly DWARFS anything he may have "loved" enough to commit "theft" over (haha), but still......I actually wrote a particular couple of songs in my youth that I was very proud of at the time, and when I played them for other people, they said "that song sounds like so-and-so's song", so I immediately re-assessed the songs and in both cases, the similarities were not THAT noticeable, but still, I never played those few songs in public ever again. So, I am very sensitive to the concept of fair-credit when it is clear that a song has been "borrowed", whether intentionally or not. But that is just my opinion, and it seems you and I agree on this.
@laceyshaymaloney26184 жыл бұрын
Nettie moore great on headphones
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
So true, Lacey! Even though I vastly prefer listening to my good stereo system without headphones, I probably do 75% of my music listening with headphones (at the request of my family, haha, as well as during my daily bike rides). So I know exactly what you mean about Nettie Moore - I've heard that song on headphones many times over the past years. Marvelous. Thanks for your comment. Jeff
@jamesgriffithsmusic4 жыл бұрын
Have you upgraded your camera Jeff? You're looking very fresh and sparkling!
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, my webcam/computer collaboration (haha) was ended.....so I finally decided to procure a smart phone (yes, you read that correctly....I was a perfectly happy flip-phone user until last week). I hate smart phones, but finally sold my soul.....but at least I now have a "camera" that I can use any time anywhere without having the constant issues I dealt with for almost two years.
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
By the way, James......now TWENTY albums linked to each other??!! I am too timid to even dare watch that video....my goodness what an achievement! (but seriously, I'll watch it.....once I've had a few beers first.....damn, you certainly do keep raising the bars for everyone, James....)
@jamesgriffithsmusic4 жыл бұрын
@@CalicoSilver I like to keep you all on your toes!
@varlamplatonov60993 жыл бұрын
Someday Baby is a shame not using the Tell Tale Sign version, it's just way better.
@CalicoSilver3 жыл бұрын
I think I might agree with you there, Varlam. ;-)
@maggiebryan23553 жыл бұрын
Great alboum
@CalicoSilver3 жыл бұрын
Indeed it is! Thanks.
@Jonnie-Falafel4 жыл бұрын
I love Workingmans Blues #2 and Nettie Moore but overall Modern Times was a disappointment after the tour de force of "Love & Theft". Way too much of the same texture on Modern Times as it learns heavily on 12 bar boogie stodge. Thankfully things pick up again with Tempest and I look forward to hearing your commentary on that.
@CalicoSilver4 жыл бұрын
I agree, Jonathan. Modern Times seemed dynamically flat to me also. In fact, my lack of positive response to it at the time resulted in my not buying Together Through Life until a few years after it came out. But I still loved seeing Dylan live at the time. And these days I do very much enjoy Modern Times.....even though it can't hold a candle to Love and Theft, I agree! And yes, Tempest is great!