Music : Blood on the Tracks
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969239827
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Sales Rank: 896
Studio: Sony
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Inevitably, when critics praise a new Dylan album, they label it the "best since Blood on the Tracks," and with good reason. Inspired by a crumbled marriage, and recorded after a tour with the Band had apparently re-ignited his creativity, Blood is among Dylan's masterpieces. The album's epic songs are well known, but its real high points are the shorter numbers--"You're a Big Girl Now," the flawless blues "Meet Me in the Morning," and the sweetly devastating "Buckets of Rain." These are songs of "images and distorted facts," each expressed through tangled points of view, and all of them blue. --David Cantwell
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Blood on the Tracks being Dylan's 1975 release and his 15th studio album was his return to Columbia Records after having released two albums with Asylum Records. The album reached nr 1 on the Billboard 200 and it is easy to see why. This ranks up there with other great releases such as
Highway 61 Revisited and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Some of my favorite tracks are "Simple Twist of Fate", "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" and "Shelter from the Storm". The book-let has a list of the muisicians and a very good essay about Dylan written by Pete Hamill. There are no lyrics but being that the album is loaded with the pain from his seperation from his then wife Sara Dylan this is easy to understand. 5/5.
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Blood on the Tracks (1975) may not be Bob Dylan's greatest album, but it is certainly his most perfect. There isn't a single wasted moment on this flawless classic, and as it intently flows from start to finish with scarred passion and fresh acoustic beauty, it presents the listener with a clear image of the isolation, resentment and (sometimes) vindication that Dylan seemed to be experiencing at the time.
I wouldn't exactly call Blood on the Tracks a concept album, but the theme of a relationship that has fallen apart is apparent in nearly every song here. The collapse of Bob's marriage to Sara Lowndes is said to be the inspiration for the album.
One of the things that sets Blood on the Tracks apart from many of Dylan's other albums is the sheer beauty of it's sound. The wonderful melodies and handsome acoustic musical arrangements are just as remarkable as Dylan's poignant and thoughtful lyrics here. Where Dylan's singing and lyrics often carry the lion's share of the weight on his albums, here the crisp production gives the acoustic guitars and other instruments a chance to step up and add a whole new dimension of excellence to every song.
Pain, sadness, loneliness, anger and regret run through the songs here like a sharp silver thread of naked emotion. Tangled Up In Blue opens the album with a 5:42 minute folk/pop confessional of a relationship dying, drifting across the country solo, and broken-hearted loneliness.
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This is such a great album. Tangled up in Blue and Shelter from the Storm are Dylan classics for sure, but every song is great!
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I've heard many Bob Dylan albums and been to dozens of concerts. Blood on the Tracks is one of his best. The variety of his voice and moods is unlike most I've listened to. I have an old 78rpm Blood on the Tracks album that I never listened to, but now I will, to get the feel of those old recordings he made. He is THE BEST.
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This would be one of the five albums I would take with me if I was to be deserted on a small island for an extended period of time. I hope there would be electricity!
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