Bob Dylan - Modern Times

Modern (ie backward-looking and a little bit timeless) Dylan-rock-and-roll. I know the critics jumped up and down about this one, but to me it's impossible to hear the record out of the context of everything else the man has recorded - it makes sense when set against that background, but has only a limited amount to offer outside of it...playing with artificial distinctions maybe, but that's the best way to make sense out of my response to it - it's listenable, and yet not especially captivating, and all I can think while listening to it is that Modern Times is a latter-day Bob Dylan album. In a more receptive phase I might be more taken with it, 'cause it certainly has that Dylan-ness - but that's how it sounds to me now.