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 A great album if you like dark dylan lyrics Nov 15, 2009
Great album. Had this one in my collection for must have been ten years before I really got into it. Tried many times but it just was too dark and didn't connect with me. Maybe it is because I am older now, but I now realize it has some of Dylan's best songs here. Since getting into it a month ago I have played over and over songs like "Not Dark Yet", "Standing in the Doorway" and "Tryin' to get to heaven". This is a black coffee kind of album. Dark lyrics from a guy who has seen a lot over the years.
 Time Out of Mind Nov 12, 2009
I live on the border, drive cold hard winter roads, big winds and -30°. I listened to this a few times and it was good. Then the next summer I got Blastomycosis. I almost died. I was so weak and sick. They saved my life at North Memorial and then I knew this record. I heard it in my dreams at night. I saw them come for me in the night, wild fever, and sweats and cold shiver. When I got home, still weak, still sick, but alive, I put this CD on every night and the last thing I did before going to bed was to get through one song. Bob had Histomycosic. The drugs I took were most likely the same ones that Mr. D got as they treat the Blasto and Histo the same. And I think I got to a place really close to these songs. It's my favorite because it puts me in time again with the time when time was moving real slow. Grateful to be alive. There are little bits of lyrics, and the tempo is perfect to that time. Amazing art by Mr D. A painting is drawn for me throughout this recording...
Maybe they'll get me and maybe they won't
But not tonight and it won't be here
There are things I could say, but I don't
I know the mercy of God must be near
I've been ridin a /the midnight train
Got ice water in my veins......
God Bless the special people out there that saved Bob, and saved me. And to Sue, who stayed there with me, the 104° for weeks, shakes, night sweats, and all that came with the blasto. God is close.
Time Out of Mind
fantastic! Aug 03, 2009
longtime fan. it is amazing how dylan continues to innovate and create the highest level albums.
like no other Dylan album Jul 15, 2009
It was clear this was a unique Bob Dylan album when it first appeared and now that time has past, already over a decade now(!), "Time Out of Mind" has not only withstood the test of time, but grown in stature.
What went into the creation of this album? The album is clearly the result of a collaboration between Dylan and producer Daniel Lanois who's love for a rich, moody, atmospheric sound is fully present. Many of these songs Dylan had written years before and he has stated that they describe him personally at the time of their recording in 1997. Also of interest is that Dylan claims this to be the only album of his that he listens to, but none the less was not satisfied with the sound. While expressing respect for his two time producer (Lanois produced Dylan's best 1980s album "On Mercy") he has notably since gone on to produce his own albums, "Love and Theft", "Modern Times", "Together Through Life". But again, why is THIS album special? All I can figure is that the songs were a long time in the making and came right from the heart. In the end it's just fantastic writing from a recording artist and one of America's greatest song writers. He seemed to have struggled for a long time with problems in life many of us face and endured a creative slump which lasted many years and these songs marked a return but from an older man who has seen it all, done it all. This is album is a deeply spiritual album, even to those of us that don't share Dylan's faith. For a fascinating analysis I'd recommend you see "Time Out of Mind...With New Eyes" by Ronnie Keohane.
The Blues Is Dues-Dylan Style Jun 29, 2009
The first paragraph of this review has been used to review other later Bob Dylan CDs.
Okay, okay I have gone on and one over the past year or so about the influence of Bob Dylan's music (and lyrics) on me, and on my generation, the Generation of '68. But, please, don't blame me. Blame Bob. After all he could very easily have gone into retirement and enjoyed the fallout from his youthful fame and impressed one and all at his local AARP chapter. But, no, he had to go out on the road continuously, seemingly forever, keeping his name and music front and center. Moreover, the son of a gun has done more reinventions of himself than one could shake a stick at (folk troubadour, symbolic poet in the manner of Rimbaud and Verlaine, heavy metal rocker, blues man, etc.) So, WE are left with forty or so years of work to go through to try to sort it out. In short, can I (or anyone else) help it if he is restless and acts, well, ....like a rolling stone?
All of this is by way of introduction to the latest group of CDs from the vaults of one Bob Dylan's vast repertoire of musical interests. I note that there is a touch of going back, way back, and a life times' summing up driving the music. I also note the increased emphasis on the music that influenced him early on in his rise to fame and many tips of the hat to the so-called American Songbook that he seemingly knows by heart. While we are all familiar with the various periodizations of the Dylan musical trajectory- folk troubadour a la Woody Guthrie, hard rockster, semi-Christian evangelical, old vaudeville showman and sentimental (for him) songster it is good to see him return ever more to his beginnings. "Bringing It All Back Home", "Blonde On Blonde" and "Blood On The Tracks" will probably be his monuments in the folk/rock/pop pantheons but some of the late work, especially some of the covers of the early blues men like Skip James and Blind Willie McTell will endure as well.
Stick outs here include; "Love Sick', a pathos-filled (excuse the expression) homage to a life time of 'gone wrong' love; the ode to aging children "Trying To Get To Heaven": and, the "Desolation Row" long, highly poetic "Highlands". This is a darkly beautiful aging Dylan album. So what else is new, right?
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