Album · 2006
Modern Times
by Bob Dylan
Modern Times is a 2006 folk rock album by Bob Dylan. It runs 10 tracks across 63 minutes.
Folk Rock · Rock · Contemporary Folk
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- 10
- Tracks
- 63 min
- Runtime
- 114 bpm
- Tempo
- A# major
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4 credits
- Photography
- Kevin Mazur, Ted Croner, William Claxton
- Art direction
- Geoff Gans
Tracklist
10 tracks · 63 min
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Modern Times is the thirty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 2006 by Columbia Records. The album was Dylan's third straight (following Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft) to be met with nearly universal praise from fans and critics. It continued its predecessors' tendencies toward blues, rockabilly and pre-rock balladry, and was self-produced by Dylan under the pseudonym "Jack Frost". Along with the acclaim, the album sparked some debate over its uncredited use of choruses and arrangements from older songs, as well as many lyrical lines taken from the work of 19th century poet Henry Timrod.
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Modern Times became the singer-songwriter's first #1 album in the U.S. since 1976's Desire. It was also his first album to debut at the summit of the Billboard 200, selling 191,933 copies in its first week. At age 65, Dylan became the oldest living person at the time to have an album enter the Billboard charts at number one. It also reached #1 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, debuted #2 in Germany, Austria and Sweden. It reached #3 in the UK and The Netherlands, respectively, and had sold over 4 million copies worldwide in its first two months of release. As with its two studio predecessors, the album's packaging features minimal credits and no lyric sheet. In the 2012 version of Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", Modern Times was ranked at number 204.
In brief
- When was Modern Times released?
- Modern Times was released in 2006.
- How many tracks are on Modern Times?
- Modern Times has 10 tracks, with a runtime of 63 minutes.
- What genre is Modern Times?
- Modern Times is catalogued under Folk Rock, Rock, Contemporary Folk.
- What BPM is Modern Times?
- Modern Times runs at a median tempo of 114 BPM across its tracks, most often in A# major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Modern Times?
- Listeners of Modern Times also rate Abbey Road by The Beatles, In Rainbows by Radiohead, Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones.
Modern Times at a glance
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Produced by
- Bob Dylan
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