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Modern Times

by Bob Dylan

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All Time

of 455,477

669
2000's

of 265,750

50
2006

of 33,755

6

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Overall Rating: 3.4144 Modern Times is ranked overall as 3.4144 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3385 Modern Times has an avg. critic score of 3.3385 out of 4 stars

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MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)

The entire construction is a thing of grace -- conservative, and new under the sun. ...more

Observer Music Monthly

Now, more than at any time since his first few folk albums, he sounds like a traditionalist. He's walking down that same road that Sonny and Cisco and Leadbelly walked down. ...more

The Onion (A.V. Club)

The slow-building atmospherics of Dylan's 1997 comeback album have given way to some of the most immediately accessible tunes in his catalog. ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

Perversion packed with allusions -- forgotten titles, purloined and paraphrased sources, pilfered public records and archives. This is what steeps the songs in American history instead of planting them in psycho wards, clinics, and retirement homes. ...more

PrefixMag

Modern Times may not contain a single song that would rank among Dylan's all-time best, but it doesn't have to. ...more

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Entertainment Weekly

Intriguing, immediate, and quietly epic, Modern Times must rank among Dylan's finest albums. ...more

RollingStone

Dylans thirty-first studio record and his third straight masterwork. ...more

BBC Music

An album of the year, in any century... ...more

Los Angeles Times

This swinging, sometimes mournful, often tender set of 10 songs proves an easy album to, well, ...more

Slant Magazine

Might be the most upbeat feel-bad album of 2006. ...more

All Music Guide

It feels live, immediate. ...more

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