Recommendations of the Editorial team
No longer protest folk and still unrestrained by musical ambitions, the songs on “Another Side of Bob Dylan” are sometimes brutal, sometimes mixed, but always very private and self-referential.
At the time, he was fed up with the prompted the poet to give the mouthpiece of a generation or to serve other impossible expectations. What did not prevent him from taking the entire album on a single Juni evening in 1964 so that it could be presented in good time for the Columbia representative conference.
The quality gap of the songs is atypical and ranges from the sublime “to Ramona” to Talkin ‘Blues Nonsense such as “Motor Psycho Nitemare”.
For the Byrds, however, Bob Dylans turned out to be a chocolate side. Five of the eleven songs learned the patented Rickenbacker refinement, including the sensual “Spanish Harlem Incident”, which was only under the skin in the Byrds version, the self-critical, yes purgatory “My Back Pages” and “All I Really Want To Do”, in the dylan version launched and jamed, from the Byrds Folk rock polished, very nicely trimmed by Cher (!).