I gotta give it to you, Modern Times is a classic. A work of brilliance. Your voice gets better and better.
Love And Theft was great.
Time Out Of Mind should be included here with Infidels.
So the question I have to ask is, where you been hiding for so long Bobby?
I can’t tell you how glad you are back and seeming to have so much f****ing fun.
Here’s hoping your 65th was as much fun as it was for all of us!!!
I gotta say, I’m thoroughly addicted to his radio show. Man’s got a surprising amount of charisma.
His music ain’t half bad either. 
I’m seriously digging Theme Time Radio Hour. I love his corny jokes, the emails he reads on the air (any Dopers try writing Bob?), the interviews, and of course the tunes. And Steven Wright’s intro to the Halloween show was hilarious. (“Somewhere, a female announcer dresses like me.”)
What? What? Radio show?
Gimme, please.
I got Modern Times off iTunes the minute it came out. I was hooked on the first listen. I even love the videos. :eek:
mangeorge
It’s on XM. Guess I’m gonna have to get set up. Someday, baby. (now)
mangeorge
I don’t have XM either.
There are ways, Dude.
I got Modern Times for my birthday. I can’t say I care for it. What do you like about it?
That’s a good question, and hard (for me) to answer. I like most music, but I really enjoy this album. I like that it gives me something to listen to. Over and over. I also like it’s eccentricities, like how Dylan, sometimes awkwardly, fits the words into the song. He seems to like these songs, and enjoys singing them. In the videos you can see him listening to the music, including his singing, as he sings.
I even like the song that’s getting all the radio play, Someday Baby.
But no, it ain’t dance music. 
For that I pop in my old, much played, Dirty Vegas CD.
mangeorge
I bought Modern Times at Barnes & Noble and was rewarded with a free CD of his baseball-themed radio show, which is great. Maybe it’s available on eBay or something like that.
Does that CD (the radio show one) have a name?
Sorry I haven’t answered this earlier – I don’t have the CD with me (I’m mid-move and it’ s deeply packed), but it seems to be called “Theme Time Radio Hour: Baseball.”
The promo CD is indeed available on eBay.
Are you serious? That thing is so soporific they should pipe it through airplanes at take off. I have no idea how people could listen to it with full knowledge that Blonde on Blonde exists. If that record had been released with the name Jack Smith on the cover, no one would have given it a second thought.
YMMV, of course 
Got it. Well, I ordered it. $7.99 total, new. From dynamorecords. In SC, iirc. I’m always a little jumpy about ebay. We’ll see. :dubious:
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Really! You prefer Dylan from his “fuck you” days, I see. Man, those old songs. Beautiful. And timeless. And apples and oranges to compare to Modern Times.
Well, he’s still got a lot of that in him, and what’s so brilliant for me is that he could do both albums with equal genius. Watch the “Cold Irons Bound” video if you get a chance. 
Also genius was his interview with Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes last year. 
While Googling for an half-remembered blog post about the “Theme Time Radio Hour”, I found a site that’s hosting MP3 files of the show.
I won’t post a link here because I’m not sure of the legality of it, but I’m amazed that it’s so freely available.
In case you’re interested, here’s the lineup for show #10: “Summer”
Summertime - Billy Stewart
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
Heat Wave - Martha & the Vandellas
Heat Wave - Sol K. Bright
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
June-teenth Jamboree - Fatso Bentley
So Nice - Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley
Youth of 1000 Summers - Van Morrison
Hot Weather Blues - Mr. Sad Head
Summer in the City - Lovin’ Spoonful
Too Hot - Prince Buster
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Ice Cream Man - John Brim
Fourth of July - Dave Alvin
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone
I just put my iPod down and I gotta say Someday Baby is an amazing song.
Zimmy sounds better than he has in a helluva’ long time. Like I said before, he sounds like he is actually having fun. Lots of it.
If you don’t get this album, read this review.
Then give it a listen.
I liked it better when it was called Trouble No More. Dylan’s voice just keeps me from getting into him, so I kind of respect people who can get past that.
No doubt Blonde on Blonde is a great album. Or Street Legal, Highway 61 Revisited, Infidels, or basically… any album by Bob Dylan.
Sorry, I just see it as being another masterpiece by an artist who has given us more than should be expected of any individual.
And tough for you that after all this time Zimmy has a #1 album. It seems like that’s your problem and doesn’t have anything to do with the work itself.
You really haven’t listened to it have you? *Jack Smith *indeed…
I’m fully aware Blone on Blonde exists, and I enjoy Modern Times too.