Highway 61 Revisited

This is a great album, filled with poetry put to music. I had heard these songs before but the advantage of the CD is being able to adjust the sound to get all the words with clarity. Bob Dylan put all those circus experiences together into a gritty entertainment that's relatable and non-stop. This is reporting from the crusty lower ends of the World and it leaves you empty until you recover from the depths. It's strange but hilariously beautiful, seeing through illusions.

It's interesting from a historical perspective. Can't dance to it which is always an issue with Dylan

Love Bob Dylan & his music.

Memorable music from Bob Dylan.

I don't get into ranking rock albums. I don't compare them to eachother and debate who or what is the greatest. It doesn't make any sense. I do however, think there is a certain level of creative greatness that can be achieved by the human mind, and "Highway '61 Revisited" has achieved it.Long reviews rub me the wrong way, so I'll just say that every song on this recording was an historical recording. Nothing else before or after this album has sounded like it. It is in a class all by itself. So many things have already been said about it, so I will write in general terms. These are not songs that are about topics. These are songs about the human mind, the human predicament, and lack of a concrete reality in human experience. Everything we think we know is challenged by the words in combination with the melodies. The best part about it is nothing is challenged directly. In the highest, most artistic way all meaning is conveyed by showing, not telling. We are left to draw our own conclusions, which can only be drawn via sensory experince. Dylan gives no questions and no answers, just situations tied into universal human experiences.Is there any popular song more powerful than "Desolation Row"? Is it the lyrics, the voice matched with the simple chords changes, or the beautiful guitar playing that accompanies Dylan's singing? Is it that it lasts 10 minutes, wth one, heartbreaking harmonica solo? Or, is "Desolation Row" so profound because it follows "Like A Rolling Stone," "Tombstone Blues," "Queen Jane Approximately," or "Just Like Tom Thumb Blues"? How about the lazy, oddly settling "It Takes A Lot to Laugh"? Somehow that loping country song fits with this recording in its otherwise epic grandeur. It works in a way that seems to say, this is still just music, folks. Don't take any of it too seriously. Dylan has so much style every word he utters on this recording means something. There are no insignificant words or notes. It's all a perfect melding of extraordinary elements.It all works, independently and together. No song is about any one thing, but all together the meaning is there. It has as much to do with image and lifestyle as it does with music. Everything matters. It is the human mind in its most profound level of artistic expression.

Highway 61 Revisited is Bob Dylan's profile album. Containing all the sorts of material he wanted to make and all the sounds he envisioned. Dylan takes the opportunity to lash out against others in "Like A Rolling Stone" and lash out against the wild fanfare and press that followed him around in his early years in "Ballad of A Thin Man". This is the obsessive, resentful and fun Bob Dylan that was dwelling deep inside. Al Kooper joins on organ and really defines the mood of the whole album, while Mike Bloomfield joins with some real stoney and radical guitar licks. "From A Buick 6" and the title track get real bluesy and show off some of Dylan's most surreal lyrics while the 11 minute closer "Desolation Row" takes on an intimate portrayal of the world. In Highway 61 Revisited Dylan really sheds his skin and is looking to lose listeners. The music is deviant and tempting, the lyrics are surreal and in your face and the overall tone is one of playful delight, yet, in doing so Dylan has created some of the most captivating songs he would ever make. Fortunately, this album would be followed by his masterpiece "Blonde On Blonde", meanwhile this album will tear out your ears and make you rethink your position in the world. Be sure to checkout "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" , the highlight of the album.

Not sure why, but Bob Dylan never really stuck with me. Of course, he's written great stuff, but I'd only ever picked up one of his albums before, and that was actually a CD club accident. Good album, but still, by accident. I picked Highway 61 Revisted because I like the enjoy the title track. It was a good deal, and I figured I might as well expand my Dylan. It's fantastic. I listened to it a day after I bought it, then went back and listened again. Fantastic.It doesn't really feel like it's from 1965. I figured this is supposed to be one of his more important albums, and has songs on it I like, so it was a good place to start poking around some more. The title track was probably the high point of it for me, but that's why I got the album. What surprised me was that there really wasn't much of a low point on it. The last track is 11 minutes long, and I enjoyed it as much as the rest. Fantastic album, classic in the timeless sense.

Cd is fine but case was broken. Not happy about this..