It's such a perfect day...
Posted by: Voltaire on 28 August 2006
I'm glad I spent it with Naim.
Perfect day today..
New Bob Dylan Wowlbum, 2 bottles of a rather forward semillion chardonnay and a months worth of hifi magazines and sunday times newspapers and, of course my Naim equipment.
As to Modern Times, Dylans 44th studio album, it could almost be Love & Theft part 2 except for the plethora of covers, reworkings and homages (or fromages). I would have liked more origininal tracks but I'll settle for whatever breadcrumb sins Dylan offers up. This is a good album, it covers Dylan's familiar territory of love, death, life, society etc but it does so with a new found cadance to his once nasal voice.
Buy it-if for nothing else than track 10's glourious Ain't Talkin.
Many of you will be aware of Rick Rubin's seminal work with Jonnny Cash and whilst I don't want Rubin to work with Dylan (he's doing a damn fine job with Niel Diamond imho), I would like Dylan to record an intro/restropective seminal acoustic tablette of work, the songs he would choose, the way he would perform them. Let's get away from the hype, the gripe and the deliberate attempts by Dylan to demystify himself and let the only producer who knows Dylan (Jack Frost...Dylan) record Dylan.
Perfect day today..
New Bob Dylan Wowlbum, 2 bottles of a rather forward semillion chardonnay and a months worth of hifi magazines and sunday times newspapers and, of course my Naim equipment.
As to Modern Times, Dylans 44th studio album, it could almost be Love & Theft part 2 except for the plethora of covers, reworkings and homages (or fromages). I would have liked more origininal tracks but I'll settle for whatever breadcrumb sins Dylan offers up. This is a good album, it covers Dylan's familiar territory of love, death, life, society etc but it does so with a new found cadance to his once nasal voice.
Buy it-if for nothing else than track 10's glourious Ain't Talkin.
Many of you will be aware of Rick Rubin's seminal work with Jonnny Cash and whilst I don't want Rubin to work with Dylan (he's doing a damn fine job with Niel Diamond imho), I would like Dylan to record an intro/restropective seminal acoustic tablette of work, the songs he would choose, the way he would perform them. Let's get away from the hype, the gripe and the deliberate attempts by Dylan to demystify himself and let the only producer who knows Dylan (Jack Frost...Dylan) record Dylan.