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Track Listings

1 Duquesne Whistle
2 Soon After Midnight
3 Narrow Way
4 Long and Wasted Years
5 Pay in Blood
6 Scarlet Town
7 Early Roman Kings
8 Tin Angel
9 Tempest
10 Roll on John

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Columbia Records announced that Bob Dylan's new studio album, TEMPEST, will be released in the U.S. on September 11, 2012. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of TEMPEST coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artists eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962. The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35th studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009s worldwide best-seller, TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE. Bob Dylan's four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist.

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Grade: A
Ten remarkable new songs, tackling topics like the Titanic disaster (the epic title track) and the assassination of John Lennon (the deeply felt ''Roll On John''). Thirty-five albums in, Dylan remains as magical and mysterious as ever.

Rob Brunner --Entertainment Weekly

5 out of 5
Blood, shipwrecks, bad memories....Dylan now stands virtually alone among his 1960s peers. His own final act, meanwhile, rolls on. It s a thing to behold .

Will Hermes --Rolling Stone

5 out of 5
Dylan sets sail on his finest album of this century....[He is] is a most remarkable survivor: still standing, working and confounding.

David Fricke --Mojo

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 88725457602
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2012
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 8 minutes
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2012
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008LZHA3G
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2012
    When I'd heard that Bob Dylan was releasing an album in September this past summer, I was stoked. Ecstatic. This was already a great year for music (with The Beach Boys, Van Halen, and Neil Young all releasing great albums this year), but it got a whole lot better when Columbia announced the release of 'Tempest.' I immediately pre-ordered my copy here on Amazon without thinking twice -- this was an album I was going to listen to for the duration of the year and really get into.

    So the day came, and I received the album. I had heard 'Duquesne Whistle' and snippets of a few other songs, and I had really liked what I heard. So, my expectations were relatively high for the album -- surely it wouldn't be as good as 'Together Through Life' or 'Modern Times,' but it was in all likelihood going to be a good album. I put the album on my speaker, shut my eyes, and just listened.

    "Wow" was the only word I could mutter when the album had ended. I sat in silence, stunned at the musical forcefield that was just bestowed upon me. Was it possible? At 71 years of age, has Dylan *really* created one of his best albums of his career? Maybe I was just so excited and so eager to have a new Dylan album to listen to that my judgment was being clouded. So I walked away and put the CD back into its cardboard sleeve and walked away for the night.

    The next day, I listened to it again. Same setting -- a dark room, eyes shut, and the speaker aimed directly towards me. Wouldn't you know it but I liked the album better the second time around than I did the first, which is really saying something. And I would continue to play it day after day after day after day. It then hit me -- Dylan HAS released an album that is on par with his best albums.

    Dylan's growl is as powerful and as moving as it has ever been. Here, Dylan tackles some great upbeat songs ('Early Roman Kings' is an incredible, Chicago-blues influenced piece of music -- it even "nicks" a bit or so from 'Mannish Boy,' the classic Muddy Waters cut) as well as some amazing slower songs ('Soon After Midnight' is the best ballad Dylan has done since 2006's 'Spirit on the Water').

    But the highlight on this album is most definitely the 13+ minute title track. 'Tempest' was written about the Titanic, and includes some great references to the 1997 James Cameron film (with Leonardo DiCaprio, the film's star, having a few subtle namechecks thrown in). 'Tempest' is right up there with some of the great Dylan epics -- 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,' 'Idiot Wind,' 'Highlands' and obviously 'Brownsville Girl,' and the poetry used on this track is classic Dylan.

    A tribute to John Lennon is also featured. 'Roll on John,' not to be confused with the old folk song that Dylan covered very early on in his career (1961-1962, namely), is an extremely well-written tribute to the legendary Beatles member and it also features a few subtle references (namely a few lyrics from 'A Day in the Life'). The track is nearly 8-minutes, and Dylan's growl is on full display here.

    Part of what makes 'Tempest' interesting are the song lengths. Only two songs clock in under 5 minutes on the entire album, and half of the songs are over the 6-minute mark. The total time for the album is 68 minutes -- quite impressive for a man that is over 70-years old and is concluding his 51st year as a recording artist. The tracks are so well-performed, however, that they don't feel long. And that's what makes 'Tempest' great. It doesn't feel like a long album -- you'll get so immersed in the songs that before you know it, 68 minutes has come and gone. That is a testament to just how great an artist Bob Dylan is.

    Overall, if you have been hesitating to buy 'Tempest' (and I honestly have no idea why you would hesitate), get it immediately. This album (and I know this is a bold statement, but I sincerely believe it to be true) is a better album than 'Modern Times' and 'Together Through Life.' While both of those albums are masterpieces, this album is, hands down, among the best Dylan has ever recorded. And while I personally prefer "Love & Theft" (and judging how I feel about this album less than a month after its release, that could quickly change), that's not knocking this album in any way. 'Tempest' belongs in that elite group of Dylan albums -- 'Bringing it All Back Home,' 'Highway 61 Revisited,' 'Blonde on Blonde,' 'John Wesley Harding,' 'Blood on the Tracks,' 'Oh Mercy,' 'Time out of Mind,' etc. -- in essence, the "all-time classics."

    Even if you are a casual fan of Bob Dylan, I can almost guarantee you you'll find something you like in 'Tempest.' There's something here for all Dylan fans. I cannot recommend 'Tempest' enough. I've got tickets to see Bob Dylan in Philadelphia on November 19 with Mark Knopfler (a long-time Dylan collaborator and Dire Straits' frontman), and boy, this CD has got me feeling pretty good about the quality of that show. Needless to say I'm psyched.

    Highly, highly recommended. Not only one of Dylan's best albums of the 21st century (like I said, only "Love & Theft" beats it and only by a small margin), but one of the best albums to be released in the 21st century so far. Get this album immediately. You won't be sorry.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2012
    Tempest is, admittedly, for those who Joan Baez calls "True Believers" only. If this is your first exposure to Bob, the odds of your becoming an instant fan are a million to one. This album is for those of us who have never heard a 1 or 2 star Dylan album. Even his arguable "worst" albums offered up gems like Brownsville Girl and Silvio.

    My very first reaction was, "Why all this gratuitous violence?" but I got over that in no time. I think it's at least as good as Love & Theft, perhaps better. Then again, my "favorite" Dylan output changes all the time.

    I was pleasantly surprised to find that Duquesne Whistle might be, lyrically, the weakest song on the entire album. And it didn't take long to figure out that the bizarre video had more to do with the album than that song. Narrow Way is about, I read elsewhere -- his critics? Maybe, but as always he speaks on many levels. The If-I-can't-get-up-to-you, you-have-to-come-down-to-me line is just as much about all of his relationships - Critics? Yes. God? Yes. Lovers? Absolutely. Expectations be damned. This is a reminder that he's "got nothing more to live up to." And speaking of critics, and his voice, I think his biggest slap at them is the satisfaction on his face as he sucks his stogie on the inside cover, bringing his tobacco and whiskey drenched throat to the level of perfection they so despise.

    The melodies generally go where I would not expect. I'm no musician, but the songs are performed in unusual keys. Flat notes. Minor chords. High notes where you expect low and vice versa. Clapton once said that was Dylan's genius, and it shows here. Not much you can dance to here unless you want to waltz along with Tempest or jerk awkwardly to Whistle. Listen to Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy. Then listen to Early Roman Kings. Love or Theft? Probably both, except he returns to the scene of an earlier crime. This is the song where Muddy growled, "I'm a rolling stone."

    Lyrically, he swipes not obscure, but classic lines from Paul Simon's Feelin' Groovy, and from the Beatles: Twist & Shout, A Day in the Life, The Ballad of John and Yoko, and Come Together. Three of these are in obvious homage to Lennon, and I am sure there are several more that I missed.

    Women. These are not the same creatures in his earlier works who ache and have warehouse eyes and are mystical children and who he splits with on dark sad nights or make him lonesome when they go. Nope. Tempest is populated with wenches and bitches and hags and flat-chested junky whores. And murderers. By the way, I wonder what the body count is when you put all these songs together?

    Tempest, the song, is both a waltz and an Irish sea chantey; he even chops off his words like an Irish troubador every time he brings up the dreamin' watchman. Soon after Midnight is baffling; I'm not sure who killed Two-Timing Slim ("whoever heard of him?") but his corpse was dragged through the mud. I LOVE Long and Wasted Years. The repetitive seven note descent into complacency. They cried. Therapeutic? Healing? Nope. "So much for tears." Pay in Blood ("but not my own") is vicious, disturbing, vengeful - in fact my adult son said he would not like to meet this psychopath in real life, the song is as close as he wants to get to the narrator of this madness.

    Finally, at first listen I thought Roll on John was contrived and out of time and place on this album. Too gentle and saccharine. On second listen I appreciated the melody, but assumed this must be a decades-old outtake, rerecorded in his "new" voice (sarcasm intended). On third listen, I thought it was the most remarkable use of his voice on the album. Now it's the one song that is stuck in my head. Go figure.

    If you've made it this far, I thank you. Now, if we can just get Tom Waits and Bob to sing some harmony at the next Grammies we're all set.
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  • Sandro R.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo Dylan
    Reviewed in Italy on February 4, 2021
    Sul disco non dico niente, è molto bello. L'edizione "deluxe" contiene il CD in versione jewel case molto scarna (libretto minimale, anzi più che libretto, foglietto") , e una sorta di block notes che contiene in ogni pagina : a destra un foglio bianco a righe, a sinistra una foto. Le foto sono molto belle, sono copertine di riviste con Dylan, di varie epoche e vari paesi (anche un paio italiane)
  • April
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Vinyl Pressing
    Reviewed in Australia on May 7, 2023
    Fantastic LP and great pressing as all tracks spread over 2 x LPs makes it just perfect.
  • Humberto I
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dylan, no te mueras nunca
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 6, 2015
    Algo más para demostrar por parte de Dylan? Más que quiere morir haciendo su obra (ya va más allá de simple música), gran disco, para escuchar mientras tomas whisky
  • blindlyhere
    5.0 out of 5 stars the band's a-cookin'
    Reviewed in Canada on October 19, 2012
    Well, I've only listened to it about 20 or 30 times but it's growin' on me. Great songs, great phrasing, great band. Love the mysterious "take 'em how you want to" songs that time cannot erase.... who's blood? what town? There's no song here that I can imagine tiring of. Whichever song I listen to last plays over & over in my brain & just doesn't want to stop. Today my favorite is Tin Angel (why a golden chain?), but ask me again tomorrow.
    The watchman leaves me dreaming of things that just could be, dreams filled with images rescued from the timeless sea.
    Roll on Bob.
  • Sardequin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Superbe album de Dylan
    Reviewed in France on October 6, 2012
    Dylan frappe encore très fort avec ce dernier album. Des chansons magnifiques, crépusculaires, et des textes sombres. Il n’a pas chanté aussi bien depuis longtemps. Bref un disque incontournable.