Another Side of Bob Dylan released: August 8, 1964 BUY

People seem not to have been too sure what to make of this record when it came out late in 1964. After the one-two punch of political engagement on Freewheelin’ and The Times… Dylan released an album of acerbic, ironic love songs, full of word play, bitterness, tenderness and sometimes corrosive humor. Songs like “All I Really Want To Do” and “It Ain’t Me, Babe” were a new kind of love song, full of ambivalence, teasing, truth telling, and evasion. “My Back Pages,” was also something new – a kind of self-dramatization in imagist poetic lines, a technique that he would expand on greatly. But it is “Chimes of Freedom,” with its tumbling, hallucinatory, juxtaposed imagery that points most unambiguously in the direction Dylan was heading. All I Really Want to Do | listen | Black Crow Blues | listen | Spanish Harlem Incident | listen | Chimes of Freedom | listen | I Shall Be Free No.10 | listen | To Ramona | listen | Motorpsycho Nightmare | listen | My Back Pages | listen | I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) | listen | Ballad in Plain D | listen | It Ain't Me, Babe | listen |