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With Another Side of Bob Dylan, Dylan began to move beyond folk, and with Bringing It All Back Home, he pushed the boundaries, producing an album of boundless imagination and skill. And it's not just that he went electric, rocking hard on "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Maggie's Farm," and "Outlaw Blues"; it's that he explodes with imagination throughout the album. Indeed, the music on the second side—the nominal folk songs—starts from the same vantage point as the rockers, leaving traditional folk concerns behind and delving deeply into the personal.
And it's not just introspection, for the surreal paranoia of "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and the whimsical poetry of "Mr. Tambourine Man" are individual, but not personal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, for he writes unusually beautiful love songs ("She Belongs to Me," "Love Minus Zero/No Limit") alongside unusually funny fantasies ("On the Road Again," "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream"). This is where Dylan eclipses any conventional meaning of folk and rewrites the rules of rock, making it safe for personal expression and poetry, making the words not only mean as much as the music, but making the music an extension of the words. A truly remarkable album.
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