utorak, 13.04.2010.
Bob Dylan & The Band - Before The Flood (1974) (Remaster Edit 2009)
Dylan has issued a large number of live albums in his day, but 1974's Before the Flood deserves special mention because of the presence of the Band behind him. Dylan had recently brought the Band into the studio to record the chart-topping (yet still somehow underappreciated) Planet Waves, which was the first (and, as it turned out, only) studio record he made after leaving Columbia for Asylum. He then asked them along on the subsequent tour, which at the time became the most successful rock tour in history. The fruits of that partnership are contained on this two-CD set, which actually ignores Planet Waves completely in favor of older classics. Although the album includes several strong collaborations, the highlights ironically come during Dylan's solo-acoustic portion, which yields powerful and gritty versions of "Don't Think Twice" and "It's Alright Ma," and during the Band's own exhilarating numbers with Dylan sitting out...M. Greilsamer
Bob Dylan and the Band both needed the celebrated reunion tour of 1974, since Dylan's fortunes had been floundering since Self Portrait and the Band stumbled with 1971's Cahoots. The tour, with its attendant publicity, definitely returned both artists to center stage, and it definitely succeeded, breaking box office records and earning great reviews. Before the Flood, a double-album souvenir of the tour, suggests that these were generally dynamic shows, but not because they were reveling in the past, but because Dylan was fighting the nostalgia of his audience -- nostalgia, it must be noted, that was promoted as the very reason behind these shows. Yet that's what gives this music such kick -- Dylan reworks, rearranges, reinterprets these songs in ways that are still disarming, years after its initial release. He could only have performed interpretations this radical with a group as sympathetic, knowing of his traits as the band, whose own recordings here are respites from the storm. And this is a storm -- the sound of a great rocker, surprising his band and audience by tearing through his greatest songs in a manner that might not be comforting, but it guarantees it to be one of the best live albums of its time. Ever, maybe...S. Thomas
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 212 MB
Genre : Folk-Rock
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Tracklist:
CD 1
01 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 3:16
02 Lay Lady Lay 3:00
03 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 3:09
04 Knockin' on Heaven's Door / The Band 3:30
05 It Ain't Me Babe 3:15
06 Ballad of a Thin Man 3:29
07 Up on Cripple Creek 4:57
08 I Shall Be Released 3:19
09 Endless Highway / The Band 4:45
10 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 4:05
11 Stage Fright 4:22
CD 2
01 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 3:34
02 Just Like a Woman 4:46
03 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 5:12
04 The Shape I'm In 3:33
05 When You Awake 2:54
06 The Weight 4:20
07 All Along the Watchtower 2:58
08 Highway 61 Revisited 4:05
09 Like a Rolling Stone 6:06
10 Blowin' in the Wind 3:46
