Time Out of Mind is a fantastic latter day Dylan album proving that not all great artists use up all of their creativity, imagination and power in their youth. Sonically murky, densely written and wearily sung, Time Out of Mind sounds like Dylan went on a three-day drinking spree and then decided to record an album of immense isolation and darkness.
Description:Time Out of Mind is the thirtieth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in September 1997 on Columbia Records. It is his first vinyl double studio album since 1970's Self Portrait. It was also released as a single CD.
For fans and critics, the album marked Dylan's artistic comeback after he struggled with hTime Out of Mind is the thirtieth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in September 1997 on Columbia Records. It is his first vinyl double studio album since 1970's Self Portrait. It was also released as a single CD.
For fans and critics, the album marked Dylan's artistic comeback after he struggled with his musical identity throughout the 1980s, and hadn't released any original material since Under the Red Sky in 1990. Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of the singer-songwriter's best albums, and it went on to win three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998. Also, the album is ranked #408 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.
The album features a particularly atmospheric sound, the work of producer (and past Dylan collaborator) Daniel Lanois, whose innovative work with carefully placed microphones and strategic mixing was detailed by Dylan in the first volume of his memoirs, Chronicles: Volume One. Despite being generally complimentary to Lanois, especially his work on the 1989 album Oh Mercy, Dylan has voiced dissatisfaction with the sound on Time Out of Mind. He has gone on to self-produce his subsequent albums.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Columbia Release date : 30 September 1997 EAN: 0074646855621 UPC: 074646855621
""The first of Dylan's two late-career triumphs. Producer Daniel Lanois' dark, atmospheric settings envelop Dylan in a sonic fog appropriate to the isolation and distance he sings of in a ravaged, weary voice. The songs - especially "Love Sick" and "Not Dark Yet" - are ghostly but forceful.""
“Time Out of Mind is a fantastic latter day Dylan album proving that not all great artists use up all of their creativity, imagination and power in their youth. Sonically murky, densely written and wearily sung, Time Out of Mind sounds like Dylan went on a three-day drinking spree and then decided to record an album of immense isolation and darkness.
The album is filled with an early rockabilly sound, but slowed down to a bluesy crawl, that would mature and go on to make Love and Theft so essential. This is a great album to listen to late at night, around two in the morning to be more specific, while you’re in a melancholy or frustrated mood. “Dirt Road Blues” sounds like it could have been plucked from the obscurities pill in the Sun Records vault, not an insult. While “” read more
"“After a decade of borderline irrelevance, the lead track, "Not Dark Yet," appealed to sentimentalists because it felt like Dylan was revealing a truth ("Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear/ It's not dark yet but it's gettin' there") and bearing down for arts' sake, too. Forget truth—Dylan always has—and focus on the sly, world weary atmospherics of "Dirt Road Blues" and "Highlands," Dylan's funniest song since the 60s. ("She got a pretty face and long white shiny legs/ She says "w"
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