Track Listing

1. All I Really Want To Do
2. Black Crow Blues
3. Spanish Harlem Incident
4. Chimes Of Freedom
5. I Shall Be Free No. 10
6. To Ramona
7. Motorpsycho Nitemare
8. My Back Pages
9. I Don't Believe You
10. Ballad In Plain D
11. It Ain't Me Babe

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70467 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
This set captures a still-growing Dylan on the edge, just before he makes the jump to rock & roll, continuing to expand the notion of folk music with openhearted, unprecedented compositions and performances like "All I Really Want to Do," "Chimes of Freedom," "My Back Pages," and "It Ain't Me Babe." If Dylan's previous album The Times They Are A-Changin' was a bit too literal and focused on current events, Another Side indulges Dylan's more mythic and expansive side, making more rumor for the humor that would explode when Dylan formed a band. It's just Dylan, guitar, and harmonica here, but Another Side is a rock & roll album without that band. --Jimmy Guterman

Album Description
Japanese pressing of the singer/songwriter's 1964 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS. 2004.

Customer Reviews

I Can't Praise this Record Enough
I really wanted this record as soon as it came out, however I was in Uncle Sam's clutches during the month of August in 1964, in the middle of boot camp. It wouldn't be until advanced infantry training at Camp Pendleton a few months later that I'd be able to get my hands on it and give it a listen. I had a month's liberty before going to Pendleton, but frankly, as much as I liked Dylan back then, I had more important things to do.

My first listen disappointed me, because I really liked the earlier records, wanted more of his protest stuff. I was in the military, didn't like it and Vietnam was looming large. But when I got to "Chimes of Freedom" I fell in love, not only with the song, but with the whole record. To me, at the time anyway, it seemed like the whole record led up to and surrounded that song. Now years later I listen to a whole gang of songs on that record. Now I know, if I didn't back then, that every song on "Another Side" is a masterpiece, well all of them except the opener, which is better left to Sonny and Cher. Maybe it's the way he does it, I don't, but I've never been able to get behind "All I Really Want to Do."

However the imagery in the rest of the songs on this record is truly mind blowing. Can you just picture a "dirty rotten, doctor, commie rat." Not only can I, but I've been using that phrase for almost four decades. Lord has it been that long.

"Ramona" is a song I never tire of. "My Back Pages" could a been a story about me and my dad. "Ballad in Plain D" is so good, so poetic, so hard to describe. I love this record, can't praise it enough.

Ken Douglas, author of Dead Ringer, Desperation Moon & Running Scared.

9.0/10.0
Anyone who has listened to this album knows the title puts it aptly. It is not to say that the album marks a remarkable change in the musician's interests, as if the work marks a new period of Dylan's biography (although every one of his albums seems to constitute a new Dylan epoch, don't they?). But the album embraces a new idea of what music could be: most of Dylan's work up until this point is concretely composed: the lyrics and the melody beeline right towards each song's theme. On Another Side, the musician seems to offer a more relaxed confluence of music and lyrics: in a word, things are freestyle here. The stylistic transition marks a major change in Dylan's oeuvre, one that would come to be a signature of his work, ultimately changing the course of American music history.
While the transition is obvious to even an un-careful listener, what remains is the beauty that inheres in nearly everything musical Dylan has put his hand to. Dylan proves his folk virtuoso on nearly every track. Just listen to "Spanish Harlem Incident", for instance: "your pearly eyes so fast and slashing / and your flashing diamond teeth."
While many have pointed to "Chimes of Freedom" as the centerpiece of this album, it ought to be recognized that Another Side's considerations are not chiefly political, and this song, while excellent in its embrace of metaphor (lightning as freedom's crashing, reckless shout). No, the true "magnificent mantlepiece" of this album is his Ballad in Plain D, a rolling, emotional weave with a slow, methodical rhythm. The tale therein is of love's (and lovers') failings, and the regret and sense of loss that comes when love has been lost. Dylan's conclusion here is nothing short of brilliant: "Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me, / `How good, how good does it feel to be free?' / And I answer them most mysteriously / `Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?'"
While it may be true that Another Side is one of Dylan's lesser albums (and I think the reviews here have reflected that), that is analogous to griping about Joyce's short stories. Any way you slice it, there is plenty of sheer excellence to go around on Dylan's other side.

definately another side of bob dylan
Great songs, I have the record but never the less great songs. "Black crow blues" is a great one, no guitar or harmonica, just piano. "I dont believe you", "Spanish Harlem Incident" and "To Ramona" are all great songs too. "Motorpsyco Nightmare" is hilarious.