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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
From this distance it's hard to imagine the shock this must have caused when it first came out. Dylan's first four albums (all big sellers) had been entirely acoustic; just Bob on vocals, guitar and harmonica. This opens with the pounding, very plugged-in 'rap' Subterranean Homesick Blues and all at once with this ultimate crossover song, intelligent rock, artistic rock was born. The opening scene of Dylan's documentary the same year (Don't Look Back) also used this song to make it the first song to have what we would now call a video. Dylan's lyrics here are perfect, half-way between the impassioned beliefs of his folk protests and the beautiful nonsense of much of Blonde on Blonde.
Love Minus Zero/ No Limit is still for me the perfect love song, and I challenge you not to be moved as the album slips out of the bluesy-rock boisterousness to the more thoughtful atmosphere of pared-down voice and guitar. It is this second half that really makes the album. It's as if Dylan has just been entertaining you for half-an-hour, sits down and says "Now. Let me show you what I can do." There can be few songs in his canon more bitter than It's Alright Ma, and few more tender than It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, both made from the simplest of ingredients.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By J. Smith
Format:Audio CD
Few musicians in popular music have reached the creative zenith that Bob Dylan did in the mid-sixties. His musical imagination at that point was astonishing.
Even the most cursory listen today to "Bringing it all back home" is delightful. The wordplay and comic juxtapositions on the likes of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" demand to be analyzed, but in someways, examining it further misses the
surreal point.
His distinctive vocal style- simultaneously sad, joyous and anguished is something few artists have been capable of capturing. "It's Alright Ma" is perhaps the greatest of all his lyrical masterpieces, a pointed attack at our technically modern, yet spiritually undeveloped society, that needs nothing more than his guitar and harminica to accompany it. This is the first of the two albums he made in 1965 ("Highway 61 Revisited", the other)and ideally both should be listened to back to back to appreciate them in their full glory.
Even the most cursory listen today to "Bringing it all back home" is delightful. The wordplay and comic juxtapositions on the likes of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" demand to be analyzed, but in someways, examining it further misses the
surreal point.
His distinctive vocal style- simultaneously sad, joyous and anguished is something few artists have been capable of capturing. "It's Alright Ma" is perhaps the greatest of all his lyrical masterpieces, a pointed attack at our technically modern, yet spiritually undeveloped society, that needs nothing more than his guitar and harminica to accompany it. This is the first of the two albums he made in 1965 ("Highway 61 Revisited", the other)and ideally both should be listened to back to back to appreciate them in their full glory.
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By 575yytrhrht
Format:Audio CD
After owning this record and much of Dylan's other material from 62' - 76/7' for a few years now, Bringing It All Back Home is not only the Dylan album that appears most frequently in my record player, it is a CD which has become one of my most precious possessions. Blood On The Tracks, The Freewheelin', Blonde On Blonde and Highway 61 all take their place as the backbone of my collection, but i belive Dylan never topped his 1965 Bringing It All Back Home.
The Album was undoubtably a slap in the face to early Dylan loyalists - shocked to discover their idol employing an electric guitar, some thrashing drums (well almost), and a few energetic baselines. Furthermore, this record marks the birth of Dylan's abstract lyrics ('the lampost stands with folded arms') especially as it progresses.
It may also gain historical status for an album containing a fantastic progression. The composition, in rudimentary terms of the positioning of each number is quite remarkable. From the mumbling chaos of Subterranean Homesick Blues and the simplistic, untimely melody of Magie's Farm to the outstanding, warm, mind bendingly origional songs/lyrics of the likes of Gates of Eden, It's alright Ma & Baby Blue closing the record, it's a mind-boggeling beautiful creation, which is surely why ive felt so compelled to pen my first short review.
Finally the comedy of a couple of middle album tracks should probably have a mention. As most people know, Dylan can tell a powerful story in his song, but unlike much of his early (or later) protest tunes these are more comic, surreal and encapsulating. Once any of these tracks start up and conversation i hold with friends dies a quick detah and i'm forced to direct all my attention to the story and the poet. Great stuff.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
I've been thinking about it for some time, this IS the one, the finest Dylan album. After countless years of listening this set of songs touches every nerve in my body. So even the acoustic tracks are electric, if you see what I mean. What can you say about those songs, even the titles leap off the page - sub homesick blues, Mr Tambourine Man, Love Minus Zero/No Limit. Sublime, truly sublime, don't deny yourself this album.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A. Willard
Format:Audio CD
It took me quite some time to get `into' Dylan. From my early teens I was buying as many albums as I could afford but it wasn't till after I'd passed twenty that I broke my duck with him (`Blood On The Tracks'). I wasn't sure about his voice (`of sand and glue' as Bowie memorably described it), and that bloody harmonica got on my nerves. Even then I didn't rush out and add to my collection (Neil Young remained my main `dirty hippy secret' in those days of punk), but just bought the odd one every now and then. `Bringing It All' I've probably owned for less than ten years but well, it's the one, isn't it?
There's lots of albums I love more, there's even a couple of Dylan's that I listen to more, but this is the one, isn't it? This is the one where he truly became `Bob Dylan' - nobody's spokesman but his own, constrained only by the limits of his own imagination. Just listen to the songs! - they're almost ridiculously brilliant. You want social commentary? (though from a more cynical, worldly point-of -view than previously), then try `Subterranean Homesick Blues' or `It's Alright Ma'. You want to hear a beautiful tune? Then try `She Belongs To Me' or `Love Minus Zero' or Mr Tambourine Man'. You want to hear him having a good sneer? (and, let's face it, nobody sneers as well as His Bobness), then try `Maggie's Farm' or `It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'. Even the `fillers', those songs which aren't really supposed to be up to much, they're all really great as well! (That's `Outlaw Blues', `On The Road Again' and `Bob Dylan's 115th Dream' in case you hadn't already guessed).... Read more ›
There's lots of albums I love more, there's even a couple of Dylan's that I listen to more, but this is the one, isn't it? This is the one where he truly became `Bob Dylan' - nobody's spokesman but his own, constrained only by the limits of his own imagination. Just listen to the songs! - they're almost ridiculously brilliant. You want social commentary? (though from a more cynical, worldly point-of -view than previously), then try `Subterranean Homesick Blues' or `It's Alright Ma'. You want to hear a beautiful tune? Then try `She Belongs To Me' or `Love Minus Zero' or Mr Tambourine Man'. You want to hear him having a good sneer? (and, let's face it, nobody sneers as well as His Bobness), then try `Maggie's Farm' or `It's All Over Now, Baby Blue'. Even the `fillers', those songs which aren't really supposed to be up to much, they're all really great as well! (That's `Outlaw Blues', `On The Road Again' and `Bob Dylan's 115th Dream' in case you hadn't already guessed).... Read more ›
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classic Dylan
I love Bob Dylans early stuff and primarily bought this album for Love Minus Zero/No Limit. A nice album at a nice price.
Published 1 month ago by Allen Bennett
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i love it
This is Bob Dylan in the early years and for what its worth in my opinion at his best yippee
Published 2 months ago by christopher john roberts
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Bob at his best!
After the rawness of his first few albums, Bob then hit his peak with this album. "it's alright, Ma" is only one of the greatest classics to be found on this album. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jewellguitars
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Bringing it all back home: Bob Dylan - It's all right Ma, it's only...
This 1965 release is the fifth studio album from icon Bob Dylan, and for me one of his all time greatest works. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Victor
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Bringing it all back home: Bob Dylan - It's all right Ma, it's only...
This 1965 release is the fifth studio album from icon Bob Dylan, and for me one of his all time greatest works. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Victor
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My first, and still the best
This was the first Bob Dylan album I ever heard. I was on a holiday with famliy friends (just after O'levels in the mid 80's), and my buddy had his headphones on. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Algernond Crupe
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Why cant I give it 6 stars!
I have been a fan of Bob Dylan for many years but since seeing him at the London Feis Festival I have become somewhat obsessed with the man. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Mr. P. D. Horner
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...And then it all changed
This album really took names from the folk scene. His first time recording with electrical instruments as well recording acoustic. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Peter
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Amazing amazing amazing
If you don't have this record it is the next purchase you should make. It will be your friend forever.
Published on 2 Dec 2010 by stark raven maven
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the greats
This is one of the essential Dylan albums.
Love Minus Zero is one of the great love songs of all time
and Subterranean Homesick Blues shows rappers how it should
be... Read more
Love Minus Zero is one of the great love songs of all time
and Subterranean Homesick Blues shows rappers how it should
be... Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2010 by Ken Speed
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