TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE in the news (updated 5/1/09)
Bob Dylan's new album Together Through Life is now available! Here's what the critics are saying. Please write your own comments on this page:
USA Today's Edna Gunderson: "a raffish riff on romance...yarns, wry and real, of ordinary folks in the grip of lust, longing and heartache...Dylan has captured the vibrant, visceral, ramshackle sound of music made on the fly." Four Stars.
JamsBio's JBev: "What Bob Dylan is accomplishing these days is unprecedented to the point of being supernatural."
Spectrum Culture's David Harris: "While Dylan's voice has opened up to become not only an intrinsic part of musical history, he has also adapted the role of living curator of a time and place almost erased by those who care more about the trappings of stardom than the roots of music. He is not trying to prove anything. But, as our world slides towards the brink of chaos, maybe Dylan does have the answer." 4.5 Near Classic
Washington Post's Joe Heim: "And yet if the aptly titled "Together Through Life" turns out to be the last album that America's most important song poet records, its mix of inscrutability, flashed teeth, existential angst, deep sorrow, deadpan humor and dead-on takedowns would make it a perfectly satisfactory coda to a remarkable half-century of musicmaking. "
Newsday's Glenn Gamboa: "Timely masterpiece...the perfect soundtrack for down-but-not-out America, a clear-eyed, often elegant-sounding, road map that notes the struggles, but keeps its focus on making it through - with your sense of humor intact, no less."
Huffington Post's Mike Ragogna: "As the world reinvents itself in these re-orienting times, Together Through Life's neighborhood cappuccino club warmth instead offers shelter from the storm. It's a tonic whose pace is moderate, music is organic, lyrics are intelligent, and feel is refreshingly human."
Uncut's Allan Jones: "The album’s a gas, a riot, a hoot." Five stars
San Francisco Chronicle's Joel Selvin: "The offhand, crudely informal atmosphere of the new Bob Dylan album, "Together Through Life," is a deceit. Beneath the apparently tossed off blues tracks and carelessly drawled vocals lies a master of details and pungent, piquant observations, couched as old blues songs. The music feels fresh, organic, and Dylan imbues each song with a powerful sense of storytelling... All of the songs are sung by this ragged, weary, impossibly gravelly voice perfectly suited to the sensibilities of the pieces. Latter period Dylan is turning out to be some of his deepest, richest work. "Together Through Life" is another brilliant, sure-handed outing by one of the few certified greats still living up to his legend."
Blender's Rob Sheffield: "he’s going off the cliff along with everyone else, yet he’s laughing all the way down." Five stars.
Rolling Stone's David Fricke: "Dylan...has never sounded as ravaged, pissed off and lusty, all at once, as he does on Together Through Life." Four stars.
The Telegraph's Neil McCormick: "Together Through Life is a beautifully played collection of antique blues pop." Four stars.
The Hawk's Richard Hughes: "Relaxed and sage, Dylan does not need a feigning culmination to his career on record as he nears his 68th birthday. Originality and 'being constantly in the state of becoming' are far more important to Dylan. He really has been together with his listeners through life. He takes you "from the cradle to the grave" as Bono once put it. Together Through Life is another impressive outing in an unprecedented career with songs serving as little snapshots into an unfiltered and romantic view of life."
The Ithacan's Julian Williams: "Together Through Life presents the 67-year-old on top of his game and completely aware of it. Throughout the album, the swagger and style present testifies to a life without regret and a voice more alive than ever."
The Times's Pete Paphides: "his warmest, most unforced, set of songs in recent memory." Four stars.
Los Angeles Times's Ann Powers
The New Yorker's Alex Ross
Mojo's Michael Simmons: "It's a powerful personal work by a man who still thinks for himself in an era of fear, conformity, and dehumanization. That it rocks mightily makes the message even more compelling. Whatever the hell it gets called, it'll be in the running for Best Album Of 2009."
- Re: TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE in the news (updated 5/1/09)posted on 05/28/2009
- Re: TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE in the news (updated 5/1/09)posted on 05/28/2009
got to buy it today.
迪伦后期(近来)的长说唱,有古epic风,至少有中世纪韵味。
风格是愈老愈醇。记得他早期的Desolation Row,Stuck Inside Of
Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again,以后是Time Out of Mind。
迪伦够长青,还是说唱的老道。单纯的抒情,就象上回上演的百老汇
,一个月就关门了。
欣赏老迪伦!
- posted on 05/29/2009
今天提早下班,给车换机油,顺便到Best Buy去买迪伦,另买了两盘
Beatles给孩子。一盘是Yellow Submarine,一盘Magical Mystery
Tour。都是同名电影专辑,还有些卡通。
迪伦的新专辑名Together Through Life,还真有点Bono说的"from
the cradle to the grave",迪伦的歌带着一代人成长。虽然咱晚生
了二十年,也能感觉到一代人的命脉:
一代人
在一代歌曲聲中老去
剩下
几幅粗老的歌喉
在鐳射的舞台
在強烈的背景音樂中
喘著粗息 -
“難忘記,過去
難忘記,過去相遇
昨天是年輕的心
昨天是一生記憶”
http://www.mayacafe.com/forum/topic1sp.php3?tkey=1124127766
这个专辑,车上听,再对着网上歌词听,特别惊心的这一首:
"My Wife`s Home Town"
Well I didn’t come here, dear, with a doggone thing
I just came here to hear the drummer's cymbal ring
There ain’t no way you can put me down
I just wanna say that hell’s my wife’s home town
Well there’s reasons for that and reasons for this
I can’t think of any just now, but I know they exist
I’m sittin in the sun ‘till my skin turns brown
I just wanna say that hell’s my wife’s home town, home town, home town
She can make you steal, make you rob
Give you the hives, make you lose your job
Make things bad, she can make things worse
She got stuff more potent than a gypsy curse
One of these days I’ll end up on the run
I'm pretty sure she'll make me kill someone
I’m going inside, roll the shutters down
I just wanna say that hell’s my wife’s home town
Well there’s plenty to remember, plenty to forget
I still can remember the day we met
I lost my reasons long ago
My love for her is all I know
State gone broke, the county's dry
Don't be lookin' at me with that evil eye
Keep on walking, don’t be hanging around
I’m tellin you again that hell’s my wife’s home town
Home town, ha ha, home town
一种苦涩刻骨的家园,苍老之岁,以虐爱的主题表达的心态,特别穿
透人心的歌词。我以为是迪伦的独特!
"If You Ever Go To Houston"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1VkzO_Ohq8
一首老兵歌,让我想起舒伯特晚年谱的中世纪战场老兵。
If you ever go to Houston
Better walk right
Keep your hands in your pockets
And your gun belt tight
If you’re asking for trouble
If you’re looking for a fight
If you ever go to Houston
Boy, you better walk right
If you're ever down there
On back near Lamar
You better watch out for
The man with the shining star
Better know where you're going
Or stay where you are
If you’re ever down there
On back near Lamar
Well I know these streets
I’ve been here before
I nearly got killed here
During the Mexican War
Something always
Keeps me coming back for more
I know these streets
I’ve been here before
If you ever go to Dallas
Say hello to Mary Ann
Say I’m still looking along the trigger
Hanging on the best I can
If you see her sister Lucy
Say I’m sorry I’m not there
Tell her other sister Nancy
To pray the sinner's prayer
I got a restless fever
Burnin' in my brain
Gotta keep right forward
Can’t spoil the game
The same way I’ll leave here
Will be the way that I came
Got a restless fever
Burnin' in my brain
Mister policeman
Can you help me find my gal?
Last time I saw her
Was at the Magnolia Motel
If you help me find her
You can be my pal
Mister policeman
Can you help me find my gal?
If you ever go to Austin
Fort Worth or San Anton'
Find the barrooms I got lost in
And send my memories home
Put my tears in a bottle
Screw the top on tight
If you ever go to Houston
Buddy, you’d better walk right
迪伦感应这个特别的时候,也感应到东方,这一首"I Feel A Change
Comin` On" 应该有点东方情节:
Well I'm lookin the world over
Looking far off into the east
And i see my baby comin'
she's walking with the village beast
I feel a change comin' on
and the last part of the day's already gone
We got so much in common
we strive for the same old ends
And I just can't wait
wait for us to become friends
I feel a change comin' on
and the fourth part of the day's already gone
Well life is for love
And they say that love is blind
If you wanna live easy
Baby, pack your clothes with mine
I feel a change comin' on
and the fourth part of the day's already gone
Well now what's the use in dreaming
You got better things to do
Dreams never did work for me anyway
Even when they did come true
You are as porous as ever
Baby you can start a fire
I must be losing my mind
You're the object of my desire
I feel a change comin' on
and the fourth part of the day's already gone
I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver
And i'm reading James Joyce
Some people they tell me
I got the blood of the land in my voice
Everybody got all the money
Everybody got all the beautiful clothes
Everybody got all the flowers
I don't have one single rose
I feel a change comin' on
and the fourth part of the day's already gone
全专辑并连歌词可以在这个网站收听。乍听有些刺,愈听愈醇厚,这
样的歌手难值。专辑,我也给五颗星:-)
http://www.songlyrics.com/bob-dylan/together-through-life/
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