C'mon guys, this album rules. "Brownsville Girl" and "You Wanna Ramble" alone make it worth owning. OK??
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 4 December 2008 05:23 (seventeen years ago)
"Brownsville Girl" is perfectly fine. The rest, oh well.....
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 4 December 2008 11:30 (seventeen years ago)
"Maybe Someday" and "Got My Mind Made Up" are pert, tough rockers behind the tinsel. Obviously "Brownsville Girl" is the classic here.
Christgau's temperate review:
Automatic horns and Dylanettes echoing every chorus, covers and collaborations--sounds like something he threw together in a week and away forever. But throwing it away is how he gets that off-the-cuff feel, and side two is great fun. Tough rocker with Tom Petty, lissome popper with Carole Bayer Sager, and with Sam Shepard one of the greatest and most ridiculous of his great ridiculous epics. Doesn't matter who came up with such lines as "She said even the swap meets around here are getting corrupt" and "I didn't know whether to duck or run, so I ran"--they're classic Dylan. And on side one we have automatic horns and Dylanettes echoing every chorus, covers and songs he wrote all by himself. B
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 4 December 2008 13:22 (seventeen years ago)
It inspired one damn funny Mark Prindle review.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 4 December 2008 14:54 (seventeen years ago)
The cover art!
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7157/6810207955_e252d13711_z.jpg
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 05:03 (seven years ago)
he he
one of the worst dylan covers
― niels, Friday, 3 August 2018 07:56 (seven years ago)
I kind of love it
― marcos, Friday, 3 August 2018 11:45 (seven years ago)
and Brownsville Girl of course
It’s a good cover!
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 13:52 (seven years ago)
I don’t think any Dylan LP containing a majority Dylan-written material* has a bad cover...(*note how carefully I phrased that)
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 13:59 (seven years ago)
this album ain't that bad. it sounds kinda rushed and blurry, though.
― brimstead, Friday, 3 August 2018 17:47 (seven years ago)
it sounds like people trying to imitate expensive production but lacking the imagination and resources
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 August 2018 18:04 (seven years ago)
It is also a better album than, say, "Down in the Groove" (if that counts as a defense)!
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 19:59 (seven years ago)
In the Howard Sounes book Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, it is reported that Dylan said "if the records I'm making only sell a certain amount anyway, then why should I take so long putting them together?"
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Friday, 3 August 2018 20:01 (seven years ago)