Another Side of Bob Dylan
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Another Side of Bob Dylan
Another Side of Bob Dylan is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 8, 1964 by Columbia Records. The album deviates from the more socially conscious style which Dylan had developed with his previous LP, The Times They Are A-Changin'. The change prompted criticism from some influential figures in the folk community Sing Out! editor Irwin Silber complained that Dylan had "somehow lost touch with people" and was caught up in "the paraphernalia of fame".-Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2015. While the music followed the same format of his previous efforts, Dylan accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica (with piano on "Black Crow Blues"), the lyrics showed the new directions in which Dylan was moving.
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Consequence of Sound
2014. Though the album eventually was certified gold for sales, its highest chart position was No. 43. The impact, however, would far exceed its sales. Although he despised and disparaged the term, the new genre took on the tag “Folk Rock” and Dylan was once again a reluctant leader.
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All Music
Both the lyrics and music have gotten deeper and Dylan's trying more things -- this, in its construction and attitude, is hardly strictly folk, as it encompasses far more than that. The result is one of his very best records, a lovely intimate affair.
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Rolling Stone
2016. Yet the album would be a milestone for him – his declaration of independence from his protest-song typecasting and phase one of an exploratory period that would lead to places even he couldn’t have imagined at the time.
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Analog Planet
2012. He sounds slightly toasted—in the zone between effervescence and inebriation— and having taken the weight of the world’s problems off his shoulders, sounded as if he was enjoying every second of his performance even when he wasn’t cracking himself up.
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Musician's Friend
One could hear Dylan evolving from protest singer to mischievous poet on this 1964 triumph.
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Sputnik Music
It is more developed; the songs are more poetic, graceful and layered. 2005.
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Countdown Kid
2013. Another Side Of Bob Dylan, released in 1964, owns a bit of an awkward spot in the Dylan catalog, wedged in between the protest folk of his first few albums and the incendiary shift to electric music in the middle of the decade.
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Warehouse Eyes
The title, which some saw as an arrogant statement of intent would cause problems, as would the album content which was patchy and uneven, but surprisingly, apart from a few poor songs it stands up well today.
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Norman Records
Another Side of Bob Dylan is the great man’s fourth album, put out in 1964 while the world was really waking up to him. Another Side is solo Dylan, nice and direct, with his unique voice standing alone apart from guitar and harmonica.
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itunes Apple Music
Bob Dylan took an artistic turn on this 1964 album (his fourth), balancing personal exploration and symbolist poetics while establishing a link between his folk and electric years. It captures Dylan taking himself less seriously while slowly evolving into a mainstream star.
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MoFi
Its inseparable conjunction of apocalyptic imagery, personal emotion, allusive lyricism, balladic alliteration, and inclusive sympathy signaled that, having already eviscerated the rules associated with pop and folk music.
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Corduroy Soul
2017. Bob Dylan’s “another side” is his inside. Another Side of Bob Dylan was Dylan’s fourth studio album released in August of 1964, and could quite possibly be his most genuine album.
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Entertainment
991. Dylan left the folk and protest crowd behind with songs that were more personal (tunes like ”It Ain’t Me Babe” inspired James Taylor) and impressionistic (songs like ”Spanish Harlem Incident” inspired Bruce Springsteen).
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Mark Prindle
The true follow-up to Freewheelin', this one finds Robert Dylan in topnotch songwriting form, churning out terrific acoustic melody after terrific acoustic melody, with extremely well-written non-political poetry recited atop it all. And the humor's back, too!
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Paste Magazine
2012.Recorded in just one night in the summer of 1964, Another Side offers a rare snapshot of the still-developing young artist beginning to find a voice of his own with impressive clarity.
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Only Solitaire George Starostin's Music Reviews
In short, it's a little bit disconcerting that Another Side is often overlooked - jammed into an uncozy position between Bob's most celebrated acoustic album and his classic string of electric ones, because it's really (almost) just as deserving as the rest of them all.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
An amazing songwriting effort; Dylan's sense of melody, creative wordplay, and instinct for entertainment were all at a peak ("Spanish Harlem Incident"), and there's a good crop of classics tunes like "It Ain't Me Babe" and "Chimes Of Freedom."
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The Daily Beast
2016. His first post-“protest music” album, Another Side indeed showcases another side of the musician—one that was annoyed by the preening protest-folk movement and more concerned with existential crises. Here the world was introduced to Dylan as a symbolist poet of the road, a Rimbaud-meets-Kerouac, if you will.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
2013. The writing of these songs were heavily influenced by Dylan's burgeoning interest in becoming an author of poems and books rather than of songs. This shaped the words to these new songs.
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Clems Music Reviews
Some of the songs seem to run a bit long, but with its light atmospheric feel, it sometimes get a bit overlooked, which it shouldn't. This is Dylan at his best.
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Peter Stone Brown
2018. So after 50 years, while you never see Another Side at the top or even close to the top on anyone’s Best of Dylan list, and while it in many ways is a transitional album, in fact an arrow on a door post, it really is one of his more important records and one that’s as real as it gets.
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