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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''I must remember that I, too, play guitar.'']] |
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4 | ''Another Side of Bob Dylan'' is the fourth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1964. It marked his transition from [[ProtestSong protest songs]] to impressionistic, expressive lyrics, which caused his first major backlash from fans and critics. The album is best remembered for "It Ain't Me Babe", "Chimes of Freedom" and "My Back Pages". |
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6 | It would be his last solo acoustic studio album for many decades, until the arrival of ''Music/GoodAsIBeenToYou'' from 1992. |
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9 | !! Tracklist: |
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11 | [[AC: Side One]] |
12 | |
13 | # "All I Really Want to Do" (4:04) |
14 | # "Black Crow Blues" (3:14) |
15 | # "Spanish Harlem Incident" (2:24) |
16 | # "Chimes of Freedom" (7:10) |
17 | # "I Shall Be Free No. 10" (4:47) |
18 | # "To Ramona" (3:52) |
19 | |
20 | [[AC: Side Two]] |
21 | |
22 | # "Motorpsycho Nitemare" (4:33) |
23 | # "My Back Pages" (4:22) |
24 | # "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" (4:22) |
25 | # "Ballad in Plain D" (8:16) |
26 | # "It Ain't Me Babe" (3:33) |
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28 | ---- |
29 | !! ''Motorpsycho Tropes'': |
30 | |
31 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: "Black Crow Blues". |
32 | --> ''I '''w'''oke in the mornin' '''w'''andrin' '' |
33 | --> '' '''W'''orried and '''w'''orn out'' |
34 | --> '' '''W'''ishin' my '''l'''ong '''l''' '''l'''over"'' |
35 | --> '' '''W'''ill '''w'''alk to me, talk to me'' |
36 | * ArcWords: "My Back Pages". |
37 | --> ''Ah, but I was so much older then'' |
38 | --> ''I'm younger than that now.'' |
39 | * AntiLoveSong: "I Ain't Me Babe". |
40 | --> ''I'm not the one you want, babe'' |
41 | --> ''I will only let your down'' |
42 | --> ''You say you're lookin' for someone'' |
43 | --> ''Who will promise never to part'' |
44 | --> ''Someone to close his eyes for you'' |
45 | --> ''Someone to close his heart'' |
46 | --> ''Someone who will die for you an' more'' |
47 | --> ''But it ain't me, babe'' |
48 | --> ''No, no, no, it ain't me babe'' |
49 | --> ''It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.'' |
50 | * BreakUpSong: |
51 | ** "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" has Dylan get over a former partner who ignores him: |
52 | --> ''And if anybody asks me, "Is it easy to forget?"'' |
53 | --> ''I'll say: "It's easily done. You just pick anyone and pretend that you never have met."'' |
54 | ** "Ballad In Plain D." |
55 | --> ''I courted her proudly, but now she is gone'' |
56 | --> ''Gone as the season she's taken'' |
57 | ** "It Ain't Me Babe" |
58 | --> ''Go 'way from my window'' |
59 | --> ''Leave at your own chosen speed'' |
60 | --> ''I'm not the one you want, babe'' |
61 | --> ''I'm not the one you need'' |
62 | * CaptainMorganPose: Dylan strikes a casual version of this in the cover photo. |
63 | * ContinuityNod: |
64 | ** The cover of this album can also be seen on the cover of Dylan's ''Music/BringingItAllBackHome'' from 1965. |
65 | ** "I Shall Be Free #10" is one to "I Shall Be Free" on ''Music/TheFreewheelinBobDylan''. |
66 | * DeliberatelyMonochrome: The black-and-white album cover. |
67 | * DrinkingOnDuty: The album was recorded over one single night with Dylan polishing off a few bottles of wine, and he's noticeably loose, and several songs end up with completely different chord progressions in different verses. |
68 | * EpicRocking: The 8:16 "Ballad In Plain D". |
69 | * FaceOnTheCover: Dylan resting on one knee. |
70 | * NewSoundAlbum: As indicated by the title; while the ''sound'' isn't much changed from his previous albums, the lyrics certainly are. |
71 | * OneWomanSong: "To Ramona" |
72 | * PapaBear: "Motorpsycho Nightmare", where Dylan spends the night at a farmer's home. |
73 | --> ''He said, "I got a bed for you'' |
74 | --> ''Underneath the stove'' |
75 | --> ''Just one condition'' |
76 | --> ''You got to sleep right now'' |
77 | --> ''That you don't touch my daughter'' |
78 | --> ''And in the morning, milk the cow"'' |
79 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: "All I Really Want To Do". |
80 | --> ''I ain't lookin' to block you up'' |
81 | --> ''Shock or knock or lock you up'' |
82 | --> ''Analyse you, categorize you'' |
83 | --> ''Finalize you or advertise you'' |
84 | --> ''All I really want to do'' |
85 | --> ''Is, baby, be friends with you.'' |
86 | * ProductPlacement: |
87 | ** "I Shall Be Free, No. 10". |
88 | --> ''Carry the New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds'' |
89 | ** "Motorpsycho Nightmare". |
90 | --> ''Well, he threw a Readers Digest at my head and I did run'' |
91 | * ProtestSong: |
92 | ** "My Back Pages" has Dylan disowning his status as a protest singer, so in a sense it's a protest song of its own. |
93 | ** "Motorpsycho Nightmare" is a story about a man being persecuted by a farmer for expressing admiration for UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, but despite him threatening to turn him to the FBI Dylan assures us: |
94 | ---> ''Me, I romp and stomping'' |
95 | ---> ''Thankful as a romp'' |
96 | ---> ''Without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp'' |
97 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "To Ramona". |
98 | --> ''I've heard you say many times'' |
99 | --> ''That you're better 'n no one'' |
100 | --> ''And no one is better 'n you'' |
101 | --> ''If you really believe that'' |
102 | --> ''You know you have nothing to win and nothing to lose'' |
103 | * RecordProducer: Tom Wilson. |
104 | * RedScare: Dylan pretends to like UsefulNotes/FidelCastro in "Motorpsycho Nightmare" and gets attacked by the farmer who gave him a place to rest for the night. |
105 | --> ''He said he's going to kill me'' |
106 | --> ''If I don't get out of the door in two seconds flat'' |
107 | --> ''"You unpatriotic rotten doctor Commie rat!"'' |
108 | * RefugeInAudacity: In "Motorpsycho Nightmare" Dylan tries to be thrown out by the farmer by expressing admiration for UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, which has the desired effect. |
109 | * RhymingList: "All I Really Want To Do" |
110 | * SelfTitledAlbum: "Another Side Of Bob Dylan". |
111 | * ShoutOut: |
112 | ** "Motorpsycho Nightmare". |
113 | --> ''Then in comes his daughter, whose name was Rita'' |
114 | --> ''She looked like she stepped out of ''Film/LaDolceVita'' '' |
115 | --> ''(...) There stood Rita lookin' just like Tony Perkins'' [[note]]Actor Creator/AnthonyPerkins, who played Norman Bates in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''[[/note]] |
116 | --> ''(...) "I like UsefulNotes/FidelCastro and his beard"'' |
117 | ** "I Shall Be Free No. 10". |
118 | --> ''I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day'' |
119 | --> ''I figured I was ready for [[UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Cassius Clay]]'' |
120 | --> ''I said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay here I come'' |
121 | --> ''26, 27, 28, 29, I'm gonna make your face look just like mine'' |
122 | --> ''Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run'' |
123 | --> ''99, 100 101, 102, your ma won't even recognize you'' |
124 | --> ''14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleen'' |
125 | --> ''(...) But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater'' |
126 | --> ''Move in next door and marry my daughter'' |
127 | --> ''You must think I'm crazy'' |
128 | --> ''I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba'' |
129 | ** Music/TheByrds covered "Spanish Harlem Incident", "Chimes Of Freedom" and "All I Really Want To Do" on their album ''Music/MrTambourineMan'' from 1965 and "My Back Pages" on their album "Younger Than Yesterday". |
130 | ** Music/{{REM}} referenced ''My Back Pages'' in their song ''King of Birds'': |
131 | ---> Old man, don`t lay so still, you`re not yet young, there`s time to teach... |
132 | * SomethingBlues: "Black Crow Blues". |
133 | * TimeMarchesOn: "I Shall Be Free No. 10" references the American Russian space race, US politician Barry Goldwater and boxer Cassius Clay, who would rename himself as UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli in 1965. |
134 | * WithFriendsLikeThese: "I Shall Be Free No. 10" |
135 | --> ''Now I gotta friend who spends his life'' |
136 | --> ''Stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife'' |
137 | --> ''Dreams of strangling me with a scarf'' |
138 | --> ''When my name comes up he pretends to barf'' |
139 | --> ''I've got a million friends !'' |
140 | * WordSaladLyrics: "I Shall Be Free No. 10", lamp-shaded by Dylan in the final lines: |
141 | --> ''You're probably wondering by now'' |
142 | --> ''Just what this song is all about?'' |
143 | --> ''What's probably got you baffled more'' |
144 | --> ''What this thing here is for'' |
145 | --> ''It's nothing'' |
146 | --> ''It's something I learned over in England'' |
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