Bob Dylan joins the Apple team

September 1, 2006 7:35 PM

iPod + iTunes + Bob Dylan = Modern Times?
posted by persona non grata (17 comments total)

I think it's a great ad, though the iPod dancer interspersed with his guitar pickin' is kinda incongruous.
posted by blucevalo at 7:38 PM on September 1, 2006

Yeah, but how many times has he posted on Metafilter?
posted by furtive at 7:42 PM on September 1, 2006

I'm still waiting for the Ministry spot to pop.

Jesus built my iPod

Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
B Bob Dylan was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

Mainly Jesus
and my iPod
posted by isopraxis at 8:00 PM on September 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

I love Dylan but give me a break this is in no way a 5 Star effort! ! But Rolling Stone has a history of doing that, after all they gave Mick Jagger's Goddess in the Doorway 5 Stars tee hee!! I just hate it when critics fall over themselves and heap generous praise on a decent, albiet lackluster effort. Like Love and Theft before it, Modern Times will get some play and then end up in the back of most peoples CD shelf's collecting dust. This is no Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde or
Blood on the Tracks. The last really steller Dylan effort was
Oh Mercy.
posted by thedailygrowl at 8:09 PM on September 1, 2006

Link to iPod advertisment + links to two record reviews = utter crap post.
posted by mds35 at 8:11 PM on September 1, 2006

Like I'm one to talk...but that first FPP of yours was gold.
posted by mds35 at 8:15 PM on September 1, 2006

I realize I'm probably in the minority, but I though Goddess in the Doorway was friggin' awesome. For what it's worth.
posted by skammer at 8:18 PM on September 1, 2006

Like I'm one to talk...but that first FPP of yours was gold.

I was so much older then, I'm older than that now...
posted by persona non grata at 8:27 PM on September 1, 2006

I'm with mds35 on that one.

The iPod is so 2004 -- move on please.
posted by NewBornHippy at 9:36 PM on September 1, 2006

hm. well. appropriateness of this as a post aside (I think it's alright -- Bob Dylan putting out a new album seems fairly important, from the perspective of how influential he's been on the entire world of music) I think I might end up checking out the album, now.

I think I'll listen to it while enjoying this delicious grande caffé mocha from my local Starbucks™.
posted by blacklite at 10:13 PM on September 1, 2006

the thing that impresses me most about this new album is that he seems to actually be pulling/tugging/pushing/shoving the tempo/phrasing of his songs again

the chorus in that commerical is a good example -- i cant remember the last time he teased with his delivery like that

saying this album doesnt top the first few waves of his career is kinda, well.... shhh, dont talk.
posted by Satapher at 11:00 PM on September 1, 2006

CDs sounds like crap. DRM'd highly compressed and lossy AAC, well, now you're talking Bobby's language!
posted by damn dirty ape at 11:17 PM on September 1, 2006

Man, Dylan looks totally cool and sounds fucking great on that ad. I don't doubt that his new record (self-produced, I hear tell) is fantastic.

The last really steller Dylan effort was Oh Mercy.

So, dailygrowl, Time Out of Mind didn't make it to your local record shop?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:21 PM on September 1, 2006

Whatever, this is totally six stars. Crank it up to 11.
posted by allen.spaulding at 11:37 PM on September 1, 2006

Dylan looks totally cool
Um, don't you mean Dylan's hat looks totally cool? 'Cause he looks kinda beat up to me.
posted by DenOfSizer at 8:23 AM on September 2, 2006

Um, don't you mean Dylan's hat looks totally cool? 'Cause he looks kinda beat up to me.

Um, no, I mean he looks totally cool. But then I think lines of age often make a person's face more interesting, more noble, more authoritative.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:53 AM on September 2, 2006

fwiw, I reaaaally digg the new album. I'm pretty sure Ain't Talkin is gonna get played as much as Highlands as much as It's all over now baby blue, etc.

It stands up with the best of his rest.
posted by dig_duggler at 3:01 PM on September 2, 2006