- Audio CD (25 Oct 1990)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Sony
- ASIN: B0000024RZ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 612,730 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Times They Are A-Changin' |
| 2. Ballad Of Hollis Brown |
| 3. With God On Our Side |
| 4. One Too Many Mornings |
| 5. North Country Blues |
| 6. Only A Pawn In Their Game |
| 7. Boots Of Spanish Leather |
| 8. When The Ship Comes In |
| 9. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll |
| 10. Restless Farewell |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the darkest of Dylan albums, Times is the work of a 22-year-old who sounds no less sick of it all than the ailing 55-year-old who made Time out of Mind. There's a place here for rousing protests such as the title track and "When the Ship Comes In", but those songs are outnumbered by the equally powerful, drainingly pessimistic likes of "Only a Pawn in Their Game", "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll", and "The Ballad of Hollis Brown". It's as if Dylan had to deliver his grimmest topical material before moving on to Another Side's liberation and laughs. --Rickey Wright
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Bob Dylan's third album, and his first collection of all-original material, "Times" may not be quite as rich as its predecessor ("Freewheelin'"), but it is a memorable record in its own right.
Several of Dylan's best early songs are here...the only thing you can really say against "Times" is that most of them are available on equally good or better renditions on Dylan's live albums or on the first two "Greatest Hits" albums. Even casual fans should pick up "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", but they may find that the live renditions of songs like "One Too Many Mornings", "With God On Their Side", and "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" available on "Live 1964" and "Live 1966" is all they need.
Serious fans will definitely want this one as well, though. A notable lack of up-tempo songs and the generally bleak outlook of this album might turn off casual listeners a little bit, but you can't deny the quality of songs like "Only A Pawn In Their Game", "Boots Of Spanish Leather", "Hattie Carroll", and the title track.
Dylan's most traditionally folkish album, "Times" concentrates mainly on social protest, writing a bunch of very serious lyrics without the whimsical absurdism of other early records. It may pale next to its predecessor, but it's pretty terrific by most other standarts.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I am not going to argue that "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is the best of Bob Dylan's early albums, because that honor clearly belongs to "The Freewhelin' Bob Dylan," when the prospects of war gave Dylan's protest songs greater potency. But this is the one that is his most earnest attempt to emulate the great Woody Guthrie, a fact that I think is perfectly clear just from the black & white cover photograph of Dylan. The point is underscored in Dylan's "Outlined Epitaphs" that takes the place of traditional liner notes. There Dylan writes "In time behind, I too wished I'd lived in the hungry thirties an blew in like Woody t New York City an sang for dimes on subway trains satisifed at a nickel fare."
This year I have been listening to a lot of Woody Guthrie's songs and as great as Bob Dylan was in the Sixties and beyond, if there are people who do not remember when Guthrie was America's troubadour that is truly a shame. Listening to these songs you can clearly see the strong parallels between the two, with Dylan providing the same angry arrogance as his hero in the title track on "With God On Our Side." But Guthrie could also tell stories and Dylan takes his turn at that as well, with "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." There are not as many Dylan classics on this one as "Freewheelin'," but this is perhaps an even better collection of the really early Dylan, in off the bus from the Hibbing in the big bad city.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In the early 1960's a singer/songwriter/poet named Bob Dylan had released two albums, the self titled 'Bob Dylan', a mediocre debut and 'The Freewheelin'', a folk masterpiece containing classics like 'Blowin' In The Wind' and 'A Hard Rains A Gonna Fall' but his next album was to change folk forever.
In 1964 Bob Dylan produced 'The Times They Are A Changin''. In my opinion this is Dylan's best album. I am not one of these people who call Judas at concerts and believe him to be a traitor, my second favourite album is 'Highway 61 Revisited' but this is just something beyond this world.
His last 'protest' album before he started his 'rebellion' really is a treat. The way Dylan effortlessly puts poetic imagery in your mind which makes you think about the way the world is really makes me believe he's from another planet.
This album has the infamous song which holds the same title as the album and that is worth the price of the album alone.
This album is a piece of music history and simply is the greatest album in the world. Don't be put off by the word 'folk' it's so much more than a man singing songs about farms and women, It is poetry and music mixed and the product is 'The Times They Are A Changin'' and it does not dissapoint.
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One of Dylan's most depressed and emotionally draining works
Dylan's third studio album, THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' continues in the protest vein of its predecessor, FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, but with a much more narrow focus. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2007 by Mike London
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Although not an easy album to listen to by today's standards, the importance of "The Times They Are A'Changin'" in Bob Dylan's catalogue cannot be overstated. Read more
Published on 22 Feb 2006 by SJOxford
The man they call Bob Dylan........
This being Bob Dylan's third album is commonly classed as his 'protest album'. Rightly so as there a five songs of the like on here. Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2004 by J. C. Eames
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This is Dylans protest album and is my favourite Dylan Cd, granted I haven't heard them all but I have heard all of the ones from the 60's and 70's. Read more
Published on 14 April 2003
Dylan's best
This is definatly Bob Dylan's best album ever. The lyrics are thought prevoking, fantasticly performed and contain a moral message that is relevant to everybody. Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2001 by phillips_bong@hotmail.com
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To me, this is a magnificent album - intelligent and moving. It is admittedly slightly depressing but Dylan performs with such honesty that it is a truly emotive listen. Read more
Published on 22 Jan 2001
Dr. Dylan's Patented Antidote To Happiness.
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