Another Side Of (Rm): Bob Dylan: Amazon.ca: Music

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

10. Ballad In Plain D

11. It Ain't Me Babe

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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

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Out-of-print in the US.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Transitional album, Dec 10 2009

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Gary Fuhrman "gnox" (Manitoulin Island) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Side of Bob Dylan (Remastered) (Audio CD)

All right, the title of my review is a bit silly -- all of Dylan's albums are transitional in one way or another, or at least all those i've heard, which is a couple dozen or so. I've only given it four stars because i like the next two better (Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61). But it certainly was a pleasure to hear again (with impeccably remastered sound) all those songs that i hadn't heard since the 60s -- Black Crow Blues, Spanish Harlem Incident, I Shall Be Free No. 10, To Ramona, I Don't Believe You, Ballad in Plain D, even Motorpsycho Nightmare, which is a bit on the silly side -- the others have an intensity rarely heard these days. And of course the other four, which are classics. It's just Bob and his guitar (or piano on Black Crow Blues) and his sometimes self-consciously poetic lyrics, which spill over into several pages of liner notes (well worth reading they are too). A rediscovered and reflective pleasure for me, maybe a new one for those who haven't heard much of pre-electric Dylan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A True Must Have Indeed, Jun 3 2004

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mikethemeanmole (watching china town) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Another Side Of (Rm) (5.1) (Audio CD)

this is, possibly, dylan's most underrated album.

"all i really want to do" is a beautiful song that tells the listener that this album will be different from the previous two, classics. dylan's play with rhyme is new to him and very fun (5/5).
"black crow blues" is a piano driven song. a piano driven song? yes, a piano driven song. it is well executed (5/5).
"spanish harlem incident" is one of my favorite dylan songs (5/5).
"chimes of freedom" is a timeless masterpiece (5/5).
"i shall be free--no. 10" is absolutely hilarious, funniest song ever made (5/5).
"to ramona" is another one of my favorites from dylan (5/5).
"motorpsycho nitemare" is a funny song, but it is my least favorite song on this album (4/5).
"my back pages" is one of dylan's, beyond music, masterpieces, and it's definitely the best song on the album (5/5).
"i don't believe you" is one part funny one part beautiful (5/5).
"ballad in plain d" is a brilliantly written story of a relationship infected by outsiders (5/5).
"it ain't me babe" is an undisputed classic (5/5).

again, this is probably dylan's most underrated album.
dylan obviously thought that this album didn't deserve the crit. it got, just look, closely, at the cover of BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Moving out of pure folk and protest, April 16 2004

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Scott Fendley (Zionsville, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Another Side Of (Rm) (5.1) (Audio CD)

The sound was still pure folk, but the songs were becoming more personal and less political. A transitional album that set the tone for his electric phase. Nevertheless, it's an amazing record.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece? Perhaps Not.
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Published on July 13 2004 by Hugh Tarpaulin

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