Posted on 12/28/2006 10:40:46 AM PST by pissant
Billboard magazine has chosen Bob Dylan's Modern Times as the best album of 2006.
It was the second top billing for the 65-year-old singer, after Modern Times topped Rolling Stones magazine's picks of the year earlier this week.
The album, Dylan's first in five years, topped Billboard sales charts earlier this year.
Billboard picked its top 10 based on the opinions of its 48 staff and freelancers.
Another veteran American rocker, Bruce Springsteen, came second with his We Shall Overcome — the Seeger Sessions.
The Beatle's Love, a remix of original Apple recording sessions created for a Cirque du Soleil show, was tied for ninth place.
The top 10 list actually has 12 albums, because there were two ties:
Bob Dylan, Modern Times.
Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome — The Seeger Sessions.
Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere.
Arctic Monkeys, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain.
Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards.
The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America.
A tie between Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium and Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way.
A tie: Tool, 10,000 Days, and The Beatles, Love.
Corinne Bailey Rae, Corinne Bailey Rae.
Nothing here that I'm likely to purchase.
PING
Only one for me. Bob.
Tom Waits is OK.
Springsteen is about as appealing as the Ditzy Chicks.
It makes you wonder how these musical old farts end up in the top ten; I can't imagine too many people under 35-40 who would want to listen to Dylan or Springsteen. Are boomers still shelling out the big bucks for these guy? I know I'm not.
Went to a Dylan show in October. Amazed at the number of highschool and college kids there - in addition to us old farts. Lotsa girls too.
Unlike most old timers, Dylan has not been resting on his laurels. His last 3 albums have been top notch.
Merry Christmas Scott.
Happy New Year Scott!
I'm not at all surprised. At first I really liked two cuts from the album and each time I listened I found myself liking another and then another. There's not one song on Modern Times that I can say I don't care for. It's Dylan's best work, ever.
I saw him in the mid-80s and he totally blew (and I own just about all of his albums up through Desire); we walked out halfway into his show and I became a non-believer right then, right there!
Cagey, I wouldn't go that far. LOL
Thats too bad. He was excellent each time I've seen him, including in Oct. His voice is a croak, but it still works.
Excellent!
It think "Bat Out of Hell 3" should be runner-up. (This may drum me out of the Hard Rock Club, but I just love that album.)
8~)
Bob was really bad live for a lot of 1985-1989 so I don't blame you. He really has improved since 1991 and really got it together since 1998.
I thought his voice on "Modern Times" was terrific. I can't hear "Beyond the Horizon" without humming along.
My favorite cut on the album is "When the Deal Goes Down." How can anyone hear that song and not know Dylan is still a believer?
Cool. I do think Someday Baby has been played live, if memory serves me. Though I can't swear to it. If not, just toss in Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat instead. ;o)
Yep, that song ain't about a chickee.
When he sings the phrase "the Bells of Saint Mareeeeeeees" on Beyond the Horizon it sounds like Bob from 40 years ago, I swear.
Not yet...
Here is list of all songs played in 2006--
http://my.execpc.com/~billp61/song2006.html
Funnel Cloud, by Hem
Damaged, by Lambchop
Rebels, Rogues and Sworn Brothers, by Lucero
Nashville, by Solomon Burke
But then, I have strange tastes in music.
I stand corrected.
I must be getting old. I've heard of none of those. LOL
Are you confusing it with Maybe Someday, a great little tune from Knocked out Loaded?
Amazed. Thanks for the ping.
LOL, Maybe I did get carried away in saying it was his best work, ever. But, it's his first album where I've liked every song. Of course that's not counting the first "Greatest Hits" album from 1967. That one was stolen from my Jeep at a Car Wash last year. I had no idea Mexicans were such big Dylan fans.
I'm still a Blonde on Blonde guy. If it was only Visions of Johanna and Absolutely Sweet Marie it would still be the best rock album ever.
Well, the moon gives light and it shines by night
When I scarcely feel the glow
We learn to live and then we forgive
O'r the road we're bound to go
More frailer than the flowers, these precious hours
That keep us so tightly bound
You come to my eyes like a vision from the skies
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down
Well, I picked up a rose and it poked through my clothes
I followed the winding stream
I heard the deafening noise, I felt transient joys
I know they're not what they seem.
In this earthly domain, full of disappointment and pain
You'll never see me frown
I owe my heart to you, and that's sayin' it true
And I'll be with you when the deal goes down.
Nice follow up to his ode to his kids - Forever Young.
May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous,
May you grow up to be true,
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you.
May you always be courageous,
Stand upright and be strong,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy,
May your feet always be swift,
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift.
May your heart always be joyful,
May your song always be sung,
May you stay forever young,
Forever young, forever young,
May you stay forever young.
I just checked the tune from the Toads show- its actually titled on bootlegs as-
No More Trouble- but is in fact Someday Baby.
Its done really fast- the Modern Times version is a lot better.
Did you see these yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNv02iE_9rU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUR7Fl-lcAE&mode=related&search=
Thanks! I have posted the Beyond the Horizon video before but never saw the When the Deal Goes Down one.
I remember hearing that Scarlet was going to be in it...I need to study it in depth.
For some reason Dylan cracks me up...here is Maybe Someday lyrics.
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Maybe someday you'll be satisfied
When you've lost everything you'll have nothing left to hide.
When you're through running over things like you're walking 'cross the tracks,
Maybe you'll beg me to take you back.
Maybe someday you'll find out everybody's somebody's fool,
Maybe then you'll realize what it would have taken to keep me cool.
Maybe someday when you're by yourself alone
You'll know the love that I had for you was never my own.
(break)
Maybe someday you'll have nowhere to turn,
You'll look back and wonder 'bout the bridges you have burned.
You'll look back sometime when the lights grow dim
And you'll see you look much better with me than you do with him.
Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns,
Thirty pieces of silver, no money down.
Maybe someday, you will understand
That something for nothing is everybody's plan.
(break)
Maybe someday you'll remember what you felt
When there was blood on the moon in the cotton belt.
When both of us, baby, were going though some sort of a test
Neither one of us could do what we do best.
I should have known better, baby, I should have called your bluff.
I guess I was too off the handle, not sentimental enough.
Maybe someday, you'll believe me when I say
That I wanted you, baby, in every kind of way.
(break)
Maybe someday you'll hear a voice from on high Sayin' "For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die?"
Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do
For not breakin' down no bedroom door to get at you.
Always was a sucker for the right cross.
Never wanted to go home 'til the last cent was lost.
Maybe someday you will look back and see
That I made it so easy for you to follow me.
(break)
Maybe someday there'll be nothing to tell.
I'm just as happy as you, baby, I just can't say it so well.
Never slumbered or slept or waited for lightning to strike.
There's no excuse for you to say that we don't think alike.
You said you were going' to Frisco, stay a couple of months.
I always liked San Francisco, I was there for a party once.
Maybe someday you'll see that it's true
There was no greater love than what I had for you.
I've seen those. That chick in the first is eye candy!
That chick in the first one is Scarlett Johansson. Eye candy, indeed.
The Knocked Out Loaded cd-
I have not listened to that one a lot....
First Bob does Victorias Secret, now this. Amazing.
Brownesville Girl is one of his best songs ever, IMO
She could be filmed in a potatoe sack on a cell phone and pull it off.
I haven't bought a BD album since 72, but I really like this one. Good choice(and none of the cuts feature Jay-Z or Snoop Dog).
Solomon Burke is an older name.
I remember Solomons Marbles from the Dead's Blues for Allah album, does that count?
Bob, Arctic Monkeys and Red Hot Chili Peppers are good choices, don't really care for the rest.
When is Zeppelin gonna make a new album?
I'm 30, and love the songs I've heard off the album. I think it's his best yet.
My daughter (19 and a college junior) loves Dylan. Many of her friends too. Dylan is big with the college kids.
Are boomers still shelling out the big bucks for these guy?
Yeah, and I did too. It is an excellent CD.
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