Modern Times (album)
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Folk / Rock , Country , Blues |
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10 |
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62:43 |
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Bob Dylan (under the pseudonym Jack Frost ) |
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Studio (s) |
February 2006 in New York |
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Modern Times is the 32nd studio album of Bob Dylan .
Music magazines Uncut and Rolling Stone ranked it # 1 on their best album lists of 2006. It was the second best album of the year for Mojo magazine . Overall, Modern Times is one of Dylan's most successful albums.
Songs
It was released five years after the album “Love and Theft” and contains ten new songs that Dylan recorded with the then current musicians of his touring band in the spring of 2006 within three weeks in a studio in New York - just one week after rehearsals for the album earlier this year at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, an old theater in Poughkeepsie . With Modern Times , Dylan achieved the first number one position in the US charts since his album Desire in 1976.
Shortly after its publication, a controversy arose, especially on the pages of the New York Times, as to whether Dylan was guilty of plagiarism in his texts . In several of the songs there are obviously borrowings from poems by Henry Timrod (1828–1867), who had gained fame as an apologist for the southern states during the Civil War .
It was also pointed out that many of the quotations and motifs on this album come from the exile poem of the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC - approx. 17 AD). However , Dylan has always rearranged these echoes of the books Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto and thus placed them in a completely different context.
Cover motif
The cover of Modern Times features a photograph by Ted Croner entitled Taxi, New York at Night (1947).
Croner died on August 15, 2005 at the age of 82. He became known in the 1940s and 50s for his black and white photos of the city of New York. Taxi, New York at Night featured the single Hedgehog by the American band Luna in 1995 .
Track list
- Thunder on the Mountain - 5:55
- Spirit on the Water - 7:42
- Rollin 'and Tumblin' - 6:01
- When the Deal Goes Down - 5:04
- Someday Baby - 4:55
- Workingman's Blues # 2 - 6:07
- Beyond the Horizon - 5:36
- Nettie Moore - 6:52
- The Levee's Gonna Break - 5:43
- Ain't Talkin ' - 8:48
A limited edition CD includes a bonus DVD with the titles
- Blood in My Eyes (promotional video for the album World Gone Wrong, 1993)
- Love Sick (live at Radio City Music Hall, New York; Grammy Awards, February 25, 1998)
- Things Have Changed (promotional video for the soundtrack of Wonder Boys, 2000)
- Cold Irons Bound (full version, excerpted from the film Masked and Anonymous, recorded July 16, 2002)
proof
- ↑ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/uncut.htm#2006
- ↑ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/rolling.htm#2006
- ↑ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/mojoend.html#2006
- ↑ Motoko Rich: Who's This Guy Dylan Who's Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod? New York Times, September 14, 2006; Accessed March 13, 2007.
- ^ Suzanne Vega : The Ballad of Henry Timrod . New York Times, September 17, 2006, accessed March 13, 2007.
- ↑ Christian Rösch: Naso sings the blues - In search of the exiled Ovid in Bob Dylan's lyrics . In: The ancient language teaching . tape 3/4 , 2018, p. 76-82 .
Web links
- Lyrics at expectingrain.com
- “Folk without a lore. Who would have thought that? After thirty years, Bob Dylan is 'Top of the Charts' again ” , specifically , No. 11, 2006, by Günter Amendt
