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| Seeing Things | 
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| Artist: Jakob Dylan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $15.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1589
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 702328
UPC: 886970232821
EAN: 0886970232821
ASIN: B0016CGNZW
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Evil Is Alive And Well | | • | Valley Of The Low Sun | | • | All Day And All Night | | • | Everybody Pays As They Go | | • | Will It Grow | | • | I Told You I Couldn't Stop | | • | War Is Kind | | • | Something Good This Way Comes | | • | On Up The Mountain | | • | This End Of The Telescope |
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Album Description
Digipak.This is Jakob's first solo album which was produced by Rick Rubin at his home studio throughout 2007. With its direct, open production and moving themes, Seeing Things is the continuation of Rick's groundbreaking work and sheds new light on Jakob as a singer and songwriter. Jakob is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers as well as being the youngest of four children born to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and ex-wife Sara Dylan.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Seeing Things is not a look into the past July 1, 2008
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
Seeing Things does NOT hearken back to the days of Bob, but instead clearly plays out poetic visions of today and tomorrow. Jakob & Bob may be similar in style and attitude, but listen, pay attention, hear Jakob's sentiment, and you'll see very clearly that he draws strength from an emotive engine very much his own.
Bob Dylan and Jakob Dylan are two phenomenal singer/songwriters, each standing firmly on his own ground, each deserving of our full attention. I'm an avid listener of both Bob and Jakob's music and simply do not understand why reviewers are reluctant to grand Jakob his own platform.
Don't listen to this album with 3-minute hyper-pop expectations.
Listen to this album with time and quiet to hear the whole thing through.
The listener will glean as much depth and sentiment as he/she brings to the table. Pay attention and you will not be disappointed.
Seeing Things is a mellow masterpiece in a gallery of neon noise.
Please rate this review "helpful" if you're tired of reading through the "He's not as good as Daddy" comments... >_> I'm absolutely certain that those reviewers are either not listening or... something worse.
Hearing things--good things! June 11, 2008
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I like the Wallflowers and I like Jakob by himself. This CD is sparsely orchestrated and acoustic with Jakob's voice as the highlight. The CD is very listenable, but watch out--the lyrics will sneak up on you. There's a lot of strong sentiment in these mostly quiet songs.
"Evil is Alive and Well", the opener, is definitely a strong start. It's sparse and almost gothic sounding. The first listen made my hair stand up on end.
"Valley of the Low Sun", sounds like a ready-made traditional with very strong contemporary lyrics 'with snow covered beaches and bombers named after girls...' Either his Dad or Richard Thompson could have written this one.
"War is Kind" is one of the softest spoken protest songs you will ever hear. Jakob gets his message across in a quiet and ironic manner.
You hear a lot of influences in this collection: Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Richard Thompson, and yes, I think Jakob hears his own drummer as well. At 10 songs and a little over 37 minutes, "Seeing Things" keeps me hearing things a little less time than I would like, but the CD is still a winner and I am predicting it will be one of the best CDs of the year.
Rebecca Kyle, June 2008
 A solid, albeit melancholy, album June 17, 2008
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
I had to think for a minute how I was going to review this album. Positively, that was obvious; Dylan's songwriting, though not on par with Dad's, is pretty impressive. The arrangements offer the bleak, acoustic atmosphere that Rick Rubin has pretty much patented lately. They fit the lyrics like a glove, offering a nice comparison/contrast to Dylan's infectious melancholy.
The problem is, if you take the album as a whole, you walk away rather depressed. Even when he's trying to be light-hearted (which isn't often), Dylan comes away as a preacher of sorrow. That's okay; usually, we have banging drums and rhythmic electric guitars keeping us away from the overwhelming wall of blues. But here, we don't. We have strong lyrics, great musicianship/arrangement, and a singer with the perfect voice to convey his multi-layered lyrics. But we're missing something. What's that?
The Wallflowers. Hate me for saying it...but it's true. Does Jakob Dylan stand well on his own? Yes, he does. But...well, we don't want to be face-to-face with our personal demons for TOO long. SEEING THINGS will have you seeing your own sorrows, and we need something to keep us away from that. If you take this album track-by-track, it excels; if you take it as a whole, through one straight listen, it's a bit overwhelming. Maybe that's the point (in fact, I'm betting it is). But it's just a bit too much. So I reccommend taking this album in small doses; listen to a track, back off, think about what the lyrics REALLY mean, then dip your head back under for another listen or two. You'll come away truly appreciating the subtleties of Dylan's writing, and you won't be nearly as depressed.
Beautiful Release June 10, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Kudos to Jakob Dylan for a gorgeous acoustic album that, while channeling a bit of Jackson Browne, Greg Brown, Buddy Miller and even his father, nevertheless manages to stand alone as a unique expression of outstanding songwriting, inspired song arrangements and spot on deliveries.
This one is a keeper.
Yes, it will grow!! June 11, 2008
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
After five albums with his band The Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan steps out on his own for the first time ever. The aptly titled "Seeing things" is a look at the sad state of the world, set to stark, acoustic Folk songs produced by master of stripped music, Rick Rubin. Rubin produced Johnny Cash's "American" series of albums, of which I have two which I love.
Listening to it the first time, everything sounded much the same to me, though I thoroughly enjoyed every song, even going "yes" at 2 or 3 tracks, but listening to it over and over fully unfurls the beauty of this album. The songs are hugely melodic yet simple.
Accompanied primarily by guitar, and sometimes some delicate percusion and harmonies, there is subtle variety despite the simplicity. "Will it grow" is Country tinged with a 2 step beat, while the sing-a-long "Something good this way comes" is Americana. "All day and all night" is the most upbeat sounding song (if that's possible on this laid back, gentle CD).
The guitar/vocals only "Valley of the low sun" (with its lyrics about war; "I know that soldiers are not paid to think/But something is making us sick" he sings, also referring to bombers named after girls) sounds very much like something from Bruce Springsteen's song book.
Other standouts include the acostic ballads "Everybody pays as they go" (with some female harmonies, lovely), "War is kind" (another Springsteen-esque song, a look at the effects of war through the eyes of a mother, brother, daughter, and a lover), "On up the mountain", and the Blues-tinged "I told you I couldn't stop" which is more richly adorned with guitars, Jakob's forlorn raspy delivery and a faintly tapped beat, this is my absolute favourite song.
Jakob stated that he set out to create music on this album that would be timeless. I think he succeeded.
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