Bob Dylan - Modern Times Limited Edition (2007)

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I really hate "Special Tour Edition" CDs, even from artists that I love.

The fans have probably already bought the album at the original time of release and then the record company sees the chance to gouge a few more dollars out of us by re-releasing it with a couple of extra tracks or a video, thinking that we will buy it twice.

When Dylan first released "Modern Times" in 2006 it was rightly hailed as a cracker of an album by an artist who strides the music world like Colossus.

Few artists can release three and four CD set retrospectives that simply scratch the surface of their talent and leave you hungry for more and fewer still have you genuinely excited as to what their next new album will be like. "Modern Times" is worth $25 of anyone’s money.

As you would expect from Dylan, it has love, pathos, darkess, light, humour, poignancy and more within knockout tunes all supported by a band who are not just tight but hermetically sealed.

The greatness of "Modern Times" is clear from track one; the glorious, storming Thunder on the Mountain. Who else but Dylan could get away with rhyming, 'Sons of bitches' with 'orphanages' and have it work?

The standard simply never dips at any point throughout the album, all the way to the dark and broody Ain’t Talkin.

So, as for 'extras' you get Deluxe cardboard packing and a Bonus DVD disc with performances of Blood in my Eyes, Love Sick, Cold Irons Bound and Things Have Changed.

For completists, this might convince them to re-buy, especially if you too think that Things Have Changed is the best song and video that Dylan has done in the last 10 years. Some call. For others, they might just stick to their original copy and watch the other DVD songs on YouTube.

RATING: 4.5 out of 5

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