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Modern Times
by Bob Dylan
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Overall Rating:
3.4144
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3385
Modern Times Rank 3 Reviews
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cokemachineglowModern Times is a record of both giddy songwriting peaks and overall uniformity, a record whose music ultimately delivers and enriches its well-bred messages of realism and religion, work and devotion, the certitude of decay and the decay of certitude. ...more
PitchforkThe biggest disappointment here is that Modern Times is probably Dylan's least-surprising release in decades-- it's the logical continuation of its predecessor, created with the same band he's been touring with for years, fed from familiar influences, ...more
PopMattersSome of the songs are two minutes too long and the album is sometimes so breezy it nearly dissolves, but Dylan’s lyrics are in top form and his band is impeccable. ...more
PlaylouderHere Dylan has written a great part and acts it out beautifully. And, as usual, everything is out in the open but nothing, absolutely nothing, is revealed. ...more
Dot Music"Modern Times" offers further evidence that this man remains more than capable of greatness. ...more
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The GuardianIt's hard to hear Modern Times' music over the inevitable standing ovation and the thuds of middle-aged critics swooning in awe. When you do, you find something not unlike its predecessor, Love and Theft. ...more
ShakingThrough.netIf Time Out of Mind is the weathered, death-obsessed uncle who drinks too much and broods over things unchangeable and distant, and Love and Theft is the rakish cad gleefully dancing on the edge of the apocalypse, then Times is Theft’s clean-shaven, ...more
BillboardThis enchanting album is rife with homespun reflections on philosophy, religion and the never-ending quest for true love. ...more
Virgin.netAlready the subject of much debate - and the cause amongst Dylanites of considerable celebration - Modern Times is the first album from our Bob in what, five, ten years?Less notable than the length of time it has taken for Dylan to come up with ...more
PopMattersiTunes Before Bob Dylan’s new album, Modern Times , even hit the shelves, it was already being heralded as the last album in a trilogy of masterworks that signals Dylan’s bona fide return to form. Such hyperbole is typical when ...more
John Mcferrin Music ReviewsWell, Dylan came back, and this is certainly a worthy inclusion to Dylan's career and to the Old Man trilogy in particular. The essential formula of this album is the same as the last two, except that the general tone is less morbid than Time , on ...more
NeumuThis record came in a wooden box. When I opened it the hinges creaked. Inside there was an old phonograph and a dusty 78, cracked. The label said "Modern Times." Next to it was a cowboy hat with a snakeskin band. And a green Bible with a ...more
GuardianLargely pleasant and unassuming record. ...more
Adrian Denning.co.ukSometimes with Dylan I feel overwhelmed and also feel like I’ve misunderstood exactly what he’s all about. Should I have been paying more attention to his lyrics, all along? Yet Dylan himself shied away from writing message songs for much of the 80s ...more
E! OnlineThe veteran singer-songwriter has opted to retreat into old-timey blues, rattling off clichés about blind horses and hog-eyed towns while laying down a halfhearted soundtrack of brushed drums, plucked guitars and woozy strings. ...more
Austin ChronicleOverlong as they are, these are beautifully recorded tracks: unadorned, antiquated, intimate. ...more
Stylus MagazineIt’s an intriguing and thoughtful and occasionally lively record, but it’s not the rollicking, randy good time some folks would lead you to believe. ...more
TimeOutAn excellent album. ...more
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