Rough and rowdy ways is as good as anything Dylan has ever released.
I loved Tempest, but Murder Most Foul takes commemorative song-writing to a level it has never seen before. I Contain Multitudes is ballsy as fuck, and Goodbye Jimmy Reed just rocks. No idea if it’s an unpopular opinion. #Dylan
Oooh thats an interesting take. Most people like murder most foul, I can’t even bring myself to appreciate it let alone like it.
Meanwhile I contain multitudes I kind of like but feel like it lacks the subtlety I so appreciate in a lot of Dylan’s works.
I think this is his most well liked work post 80s but personally I’m not big on it.
For me I feel like the lack of subtlety in I Contain Multitudes is part of what makes it - once again, he reinvents himself and changes up his songwriting to create something that he would never have written a few years earlier.
I see it in relation to Crossing the Rubicon, which can of course be seen as a metaphor for his artistic choices throughout his career. Yet again he’s coming in like a bulldozer, comparing himself to Ceasar and boasting about the choices he’s made.
I think there’s also a lot of humour in being very subtle your entire career, winning a Nobel price, and then publishing a “rough and rowdy” album tooting your own horn in an over the top manner.
Yeah it does fall right in his character that way. Its exactly what you’d expect of Dylan.
My dislike, or more accurately the lack of love comes from the difference in taste. I can appreciate the album for what it is, but I don’t really enjoy it.
I was thinking of comparing it to changing of the guards, but crossing the Rubicon is the better comparison there.