Bob Dylan-Another Side Of Bob Dylan (1964)
Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Another Side Of Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia
Format: LP
Cat #: PC 8993
Year of Release: 1964
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 70's reissue
Listed Condition: VG+/VG 4" spine damage
Sell Date: 5/30/25
Sell Price: $6.96
Discogs Last Sold: 6/1/25 NM/VG+ $10.00
Low: $4.99 F/G+
Median: $10.00
Average: $9.99
High: $17.05
Current low price: $11.98 VG+/VG
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 11
Have/Want: 784/239
Where Sold: South Williamsport, PA
Time it took to sell: 10 years
Where and When Bought: Worcester MA That's Entertainment $2.99 early 80's
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+
Sad To See It Go: No
So here we have Another Side Of Bob Dylan, arguably the best of Bob's acoustic years if you want relationship songs and not political ones. It seems trite to say that since maybe that means this is the most political album of the first 4. The real politics here is trying to read the small print on the back cover. I put the sharpest scan I could find below, and I hope you can read it if you don't have the record in hand. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but I will say the word "the" is abbreviated down to the letter t throughout. Form over function from the poet who knows it and probably doesn't care so much if you think he blows it. What can I say? Call him T' bard of Bleecker Street? All those t's are lowercase, and an apostrophe is just too much.
I still have my beat-up mono childhood pass down that I can play in my head. The one that sold was a very clean 70's stereo copy with a cat clawed spine. The comedy songs I liked most as a kid like "I Shall Be Free, No. 10" and "Motorpsycho Nitemare" were long ago replaced by my favorite "To Ramona" in my heart. I always thought it was a vacuous scheme not a sucking vacuum. The rest of the best were outdone by McGuinn to the point where in the electric years Bob wouldn't even bother to compose anything for Easy Rider outside a napkin scrap, despite Peter Fonda getting down on his knees. Rumor has it the napkin McGuinn got with the Dylan lyric was wadded and caked up when he got it, but he could still make out "the river flows, it flows down to the sea."
So, Another Side still sounds embryonic in the far future now that Bob & The Band beat "I Don't Believe You" over our heads in 1966 and Pete Seeger is still rolling in his grave over it.
The chimes of freedom forever flashing.
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