Time Out Of Mind

3.1 + If someone told me this was their favorite Dylan album, I'd punch them in the dick.

Bored out of mind

What a vibe. This album transports you. It picks you up and drops you into the midwest in the early 20th century, pours you a Jack Daniels, offers you a cigarette and tells you it's late night tales. An album that puts the world to rights. A few tracks could have lost a minute or ten which drops a half mark, but as we don't have half marks it gets the five.

This is a highly regarded Dylan that I never really warmed to. Maybe it's the languid pace of the songs, or maybe the swampy bluesy feel that was never my thing. Maybe its the foggy atmospheric Daniel Langlois production or the old mam world-weary voice that keeps me at arms length. In any case a Dylan album that is near the bottom of the list for this Dylan fan. 2.5 🌟

This album sounds like Dylan's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, and in fact, he almost died after releasing it. Thankfully, he's still around, but that does nothing to diminish the album's dark look at mortality. It's brutally honest, like any Dylan record, but this one feels moreso. Best track: Not Dark Yet

Me one week ago, listening to Blood on the Tracks: "Oh wow, Bob Dylan did make good music after the '60s! Maybe I was wrong." Me today: "Maybe he just didn't make good music after 1975." This is tremendously boring. His voice is like a weak Tom Waits parody, which isn't good because Tom Waits is already like a goofy Leonard Cohen parody. Such a long, aimless album. Only one track on here that I enjoyed, the rest felt like I was sitting in a coffee shop trying to have a conversation over the aspiring local artist playing for the night. Wikipedia says "Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of Dylan's best albums." Whoever wrote that must work at Lids because that's nothing but cap. Dylan, I've given you two 4.5 star ratings so far, that makes this one even more disappointing. This doesn't belong here. Favorite tracks: Not Dark Yet (but maybe it should be Bob; go home). Album art: Looks like a trashy picture for a greatest hits, Starbucks compilation CD. I think my distaste for the music is seeping in here, but this is very bland. The least interesting Dylan cover I've seen so far, so it fits I guess. 1.5/5

This is Old Dylan at his darkest and I mean that in the very best way. Dylan's voice has aged so well. Granted, his early voice wasn't the best so it's not a far trip to "better" but, even so, Old Dylan's voice is a pleasure to listen to. It feels like it has finally grown to match his powerful songwriting. The end result is an amazing piece of art that cuts hard.

I listened to this the day that Tr*mp won the US presidential election. I was depressed. As far as Dylan sounds go, this is the stuff I tend to prefer. However, I keep reading how he didn't like the production on this album, which means I just don't care for the "typical" Dylan sound. That's not news. I was vibing along until I hit that final track which felt like it lasted for 16 hours, just like this week feels like it has lasted 16 years. Minus one star just for that, for making this terrible day in this terrible week seem even longer than it already is.

Song writing of the highest standard, brilliant from start to finish. A beautiful and immersive album.

It's 5/5, but not without its faults. I'm a big Bob Dylan fan, but I never quite *got* Time Out of Mind. It's a lot of people's favourite album of his, and I couldn't understand why. Then it finally clicked - this album demands to be listened to at either dusk or dawn, and no time else. This isn't a 10am listen, or a mid-day 2pm listen, or a late afternoon 5pm listen. This is a 9pm with a cup of whiskey surrounded by wooden cabinetry listen. This is a 5am studying for your final exam in two hours listen - times where ruminations and meditations on one's mortality are inevitable. This album singlehandedly saved Bob Dylan from irrelevant aging Boomer icon to modern Americana gatekeeper. And it's easy to see why. Not Dark Yet is one of his greatest songs ("There's not even room enough to be anywhere...It's not dark yet, but it's getting there"), with Love Sick, Tryin' to Get to Heaven, Standing in the Doorway, and Make You Feel My Love rounding out for a very strong tracklist. The palate cleanser blues numbers can be nice - Cold Irons Bound is good - but you can't tell me Million Miles needs to be 6 minutes long. As I said, it's not without its faults. The blues tracks are simply too long. Speaking of too long, Highlands is like 16 minutes long. And you know what, I don't mind it. It's nowhere near the strength of other Bob Dylan long songs like Desolation Row, but it's kinda dumb fun that he can pull off. Dylan has mentioned he doesn't like the Lanois production on it, but I think it serves the music well and creates a unique listen compared to all of his other records. All in all, that's all to say that it's a 5/5 album. It's either one of the best albums of all-time or an unremarkable slog - completely dependent on how, where, and when you listen.

Captivating album. It really feels like you’re hearing the last breaths of Bob Dylan, as he’s nearing the end. It’s rough, yearning, full of pathos. But what really struck me about the album was the way it’s recorded! I read about the album production beforehand… how everything was done live, in this one-mic-in-the-room style, how the effects on Bob’s voice were printed on the performance as he sang. I had read all this background, but I honestly didn’t expect to hear that much of a difference in the sound. Man was I wrong! It’s such a unique-sounding album, sonically. It sounds full and live but also fuzzy, like an hazy, impressionistic version of a 50’s blues record. Something about the recording makes it feel so out of time, so strange… and made me on my toes for the whole listen. You know, 5 stars! It had me all the way through.

July 28, 2021 I really like the gravelly texture of old Dylan voice, which feels like it fits better with some of his songwriting than young Dylan voice. He sounds jaded and cynical and wise - exactly the right person to be meditating on mortality.

Though I'm not as big of a fan of Dylan after Desire, I must say this is quite an enjoyable record where he seems to have established a sort of template/persona of sorts for his subsequent records. How Dylan got his groove back.

Excellent album from the latter half of Dylan's career. Daniel Lanois' production aesthetic goes really well with these songs, giving them a heavy atmosphere and mood. It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. 4 stars.

This one presented me with a bit of a quandary. One one hand Bob Dylan is an amazing lyricist and writes a solid tune - acoustic and electric. On the other hand I find his nasally voice kind of irritating.

Holy hell, this listen made me recognize I need to reevaluate my top 10 list of Dylan albums. Highway 61 and Blood on the Tracks always battled for my top spot but upon this listen, I've got some soul searching to do. To think that this album came after a trifecta of ugh (Under the Red Sky, Good as I Been to You, World Gone Wrong), which was preceded by the brilliant Oh Mercy, Dylan makes his case that he is absolutely our Poet Laureate. This album hit a very specific point in my life that made me feel like that homeless kid who arrives at Lennon's door in 1971 (google it if you are unfamiliar)..."but you wrote this for me?!" To hear how Dylan's aged vocals really bring it all home and wrench your gut just zero in on "My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired...and the clouds are weepin." This is the song that the strange Soy Bomb dude danced to at the Grammy's, proving more than anything that Dylan is one cool cat. Dirt Road Blues takes me back to All Along the Cove, which really got me thinking of the connections he builds via lyrics and music across his massive discography. You gotta give it to Daniel Lanois on this album too. That dreamy soundscape in the background reeks of Lanois. And on this dark day in American history, its Dylan's words that echo in my mind: Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there

I really love the sound he created with this one. Not Dark Yet is one of my favorite songs.

The good songs are sad wallows in the darkness of death and heartache with an immersive atmosphere and a slow burning intensity. The bad songs are disposable blues tracks with a more upbeat feel but pretty boring - necessary pallette cleansers for contrast maybe, but there're too many of them and they're all overlong. The whole thing is a classic case of CD-era bloat - the 45 minute LP cut of this would be great. The soaring lap steels, delicate clean guitar leads, gentle organs, and moody pianos and the huge reverby production all give the slow songs such a sombre reflexive feel - a heavenly sound for a morbid mood.

Mind-blowing that this is almost 30 years old, and he is still producing! Man,,, Good stuff - polished, wiser and more contemplative Dylan as he matures. I enjoy it a lot. love "Highlands" I listen to it over and over. poignant but really humorous. Makes me smile.

Bob Dylan No. 5, but I’ve had a nice six month break from him on this generator TBH my interest in Bob Dylan's music is flagging post-70s, but as much as I hate to admit it, the critics are right: he did have his mojo back by this point. The blues are roarin', the ballads heartwrenching, the lyrics funny. My attention span was a little fried by the time the 16 minute-long closer came around, but I did chuckle some at the detailed excuses to get out of drawing that waitress. HL: "Standing in the Doorway", "Trying to Get To Heaven", "Not Dark Yet", "Make You Feel My Love", "Highlands" January 9, 2024

If a whisky dive bar was an album its this !

A stone cold return to form after the frankly abysmal previous 20 years (give or take).

I didn't expect this to be so good!

this is the third time since starting 1001 that i've learned bob dylan is still alive. and, you know, since starting 1001 i've been having trust issues because i listen to widely acclaimed albums and wonder why everyone's favorite hobby is lying. so: thank you all for at least having SOME integrity when you all say bob dylan is good. if you had told me this morning i would have been rapturously engaged in an 18 minute long folk song that included the lines "i say, tell me what i want / she say, you probably want some hard boiled eggs / i said, that's right, bring me some / she says, we ain't got any. you picked the wrong time to come" i would have asked you why you were in my house and can you please leave. highlights - love sick, tryin' to get to heaven, not dark yet, cold irons bound, highlands

Goddamit I liked this. I can’t believe it.

Dylan doing the blues is cool, but not for an hour and 12 minutes.

Standard Bobby-D affair. It’s good, worth a listen but probs not as good as the fans make it out to be

I’ve been thinking about Bob Dylan a bit lately. I’ve never really been a fan of his, to the point of actively disliking his music at points in my life. Some of that has to do with Bob Dylan fans - you know the type, the Bob Dylan Gen X/Older millennial super fan, who play folk songs at coffee shops and think they are actually Bob Dylan. You can probably travel to just about any small town in America, spend some time there and encounter one. That’s not the whole of it, and that’s not even really his fault. Musically, he isn’t necessarily for me, the vocals, his delivery, the folk/americana sound…doesn’t really do anything for me. Sure, there’s some songs that I think are good, but as a whole, this dude isn’t really for me. He is an excellent lyricist, however, and his songs, in the hands of someone other than Bob Dylan, often turn out to be major hits, like All Along the Watchtower or Mr. Tambourine Man being the most obvious examples. So it’s a weird circle to square. He can clearly write a good song, but to my ears, he doesn’t always execute them well, or more accurately, he executes them in a way that doesn’t appeal to me. Now, as for the reason I’ve been thinking about Bob Dylan lately….I was recently made aware of a Dylan performance on David Letterman’s show in the 1980’s where he performs the song “Jokerman” with the punk band The Plugz. The end result is an amazing power-pop song and it squares that circle I mentioned before in a very meta way: Bob Dylan “covering” a Bob Dylan song and turning it into gold. If you’re going to watch that Letterman performance, I’d recommend listening to the studio version of the song first to familiarize yourself with it, if you’re not already familiar. It’s on the “Infidels” album and that version is…ok. The Letterman version is so good, that it has me kind of doing a 180 on Bob Dylan. Like not a full 180, but enough of a change that I’m sitting here writing a short novel about Bob Dylan. But it’s not just me…Uber-prolific Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Romano and his excellent band, The Outfit, are such fans of that that performance that they released a re-imagining of the entire “Infidels” album as though it were performed by Bob Dylan & the Plugz. They recorded their version “Jokerman” perfectly in-sync with the Letterman performance and used that as a basis to flesh out the rest of the songs on the album in the same punk/power pop style. It is an *excellent* record, but it lends credence to my feeling that Dylan writes good songs, but executes them oddly. (You can find “Daniel Romano’s Outfit - Do (What Could Have Been) Infidels” on YouTube along with their version of “Jokerman” synced up perfectly with Dylan’s Letterman performance) As for “Time Out of Mind”, the songs here are relatively straightforward and I think that Dylan benefits greatly from Daniel Lanois’ production. It’s spacious and open and Lanois’ pedal steel playing gives otherwise standard sounding songs a more ethereal quality. It’s a very good album, but as I’ve said, Dylan isn’t usually for me and a little seems to go a long way here - especially by the time I got to the 16 minute closer, “Highlands”, which could’ve been 10 minutes shorter and achieved the same goal.

Is it his best? No. Will you enjoy it? Yes. But…only if you like Bob. If you don’t, you’ll hate this.

135 albums generated so far, this is the fifth Bob Dylan. That's a Dylan album every 27 days. For someone who has so far given every Dylan album a 2/5, that's too much Dylan. The first song sounds like Nick Cave so that was slightly confusing. His voice sounds pretty different on this (much later) album and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think I like his voice more (I couldn't really like it less), but I like his songwriting less throughout most of this record. It's frequently just very plodding. By the time Cold Irons Bound hit, I realised that the parts of this album I was enjoying the most, were the bits that reminded me of Nick Cave. And them he butchered his own song (I don't even particularly like Adele, but her cover of Make You Feel My Love is so much better). This possible scrapes a 2.5 but it's not enjoyable enough for a 3/5 so it's another 2/5

This was a long and boring album. All of these songs could be trimmed of their fat. Last song is 16 minutes without ever changing anything.

Bob Dylan obsessed with his ex for 1 hour 12 mins

I try. I really do try to like Dylan.

Of all the great albums of 1997, this one won album of the year? Really? Sure, it is well made but like every Dylan album except his early folk stuff it's WAY too long and just...boring. Some great urns of phrase of course, but you have to Wade through a sea of mediocre slow blues to rescue them. It sounds like Randy Newman and Eric Clapton...stale and derivative sad blues rock for aging Boomers. I ended up being genuinely annoyed by the end.

Another Dylan snoozefest, but this one is slightly tolerable

Not Dylan’s best, but acceptable for a fan.

I don't get bob Dylan. He's a poet and songwriter, and should have stayed away from being a 'frontman' he's very very boring. The upbeat bluesy songs stand out. The rest are skippable.

His voice is annoying

I love Bob Dylan covers! He’s one of the greatest songwriters of all time. I just don’t want to listen to him. But his musical career is impressive and I have mad respect for the guy!

Boring. Shit voice. It’s a Dylan album. For all of his renown, most songs offer nothing particularly interesting lyrically, so even the one thing all the Dylan-worshippers beat you over the head with is absent here. More of the boring version of the blues that white men of a certain age love to flog to death. You can hear this album at any local blues open mic, and probably with better vocals. Listened to three minutes of this sixteen and a half minute final track before scanning forward to see if it was ever going to do anything else. It doesn’t. Fuck you, Bob.

Not Dark Yet is good but generally just not for me

This is so boring. I've given several Dylan albums a 5 and there's some not on this list (I think) that I would also rate as a 5. I never understood the appeal of this album.

Quite boring.Not be try energetic.I don’t really like bob Dylan’s voice.I know that his lyrics are the most improtant thing to his listeners but the songs are so slow for me that I just kinda get bored.Also there’s a 14 minute long song.

Parody

Easy listening. Or as much as it can be with that voice.

Yeah yeah, lyrical genius, blah blah

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: I did, Dylan’s vocals and haunting guitar work complement this record well especially in the latter half of this one. I have to confess though I did not listen to Track 12 - Highlands as it was 16 minutes long so unless I’m being told multiple times I need to hear it, I have no interest of doing so. Favourite track: Track 11 - Can’t Wait

Why do I feel so indifferent about Bob Dylan? This album didn't do anything for me, mediocre.

Bob Dylan is the Boomers' ultimate scourge on all later generations. Had his name (and Daniel Lanois) not be attached to this, this is just some dork-assed, coffee-shop dad playing blues that nobody wants to hear.

I am a bit prejudice against Bob Dylan for no reason other than it being fun to not like him. I tried to listen to this with an open mind but I honestly found it so dull. His voice is ok but looking at this as an album I felt it was not helped by it's length.

Good ol' blues + Dylan's writing = a damn fine album. 4.5 bumped up to 5.

I’m at a 5. Hell, I’m actually probably higher. Hell froze over a while ago; this is a full tundra at this point. When we got Tom Waits’ “Swordfishtrombones” in March of this year, I wrote down that “some of the lyrics on the tracks feel like a sort of contemporary, mildly buzzed Bob Dylan for the 1980s”. Bob Dylan, on this album, feels like the 1980s Tom Waits of the 1990s, which is basically to say that… well, he sounds a lot like Tom Waits here, telling some stories in the same little dirty dive bar that a group member imagined when they reviewed “Swordfishtrombones”. That imagery permeated into my head throughout the album, and I think it really makes the whole thing click that much more. For 1997, this is no longer the voice of a generation writing protest songs, asking people how they feel, or writing endless amounts of vaguely confusing purple prose that felt like a novel to decipher. This is, surprisingly, the most straightforward Bob Dylan album we’ve gotten so far, helped by the fact that a lot of these are just tracks about being an older, heartbroken man sort of lamenting his mortality, his shattered relationships, the futile chase to retain them & the feelings of lost time that come with it. It’s an extremely grounded album, enhanced by Bob Dylan’s more gravely 56-year-old voice. Yes, it’s still kinda goofy, but he’s aged into a sort of old gunslinger of an artist who’s allowed to express these regrets in a way that feels very genuine. In a weird way, this is the most control I’ve heard Bob Dylan have in his voice, which is more than passable on a majority of these tracks. I hesitate to say he finally became a good singer, especially given what Adele did for “Make You Feel My Love” a decade later, but there are moments here where Bob Dylan really does sound confidently strong, and it gives the tracks an added sense of conviction. Daniel Lanois’ production work is what truly, fully makes this album work. Bob Dylan provides a great foundation, but the moodier tones of the backing band, as well as the slight filtering on Dylan’s vocals throughout the album, add the contemporary touch that’s desperately needed to make this album feel like it’s from 1997 as opposed to 1967. In the same way that “Tanto Tempo” subtly infused its extra instrumentation into a bossa nova base, Daniel Lanois adds just the right amount of light grunge / trip-hop elements into Dylan’s style, where it adds to each track in a way that captures the same emotion & conviction that Bob Dylan put into writing & singing each of these tracks. It also helps that there’s a decent variety of genres explored here, perhaps most surprisingly the reggae / blues-inspired energy of “Can’t Wait”. If there’s any one singular all-timer highlight here, it’s “Not Dark Yet”, which is one of the best-written tracks I’ve heard from any artist, ever. The sunset-driven imagery, building with past regrets & eventually culminating in this character on his death bed, felt like a man preparing for a funeral, in a way that reminded me deeply of “You Want It Darker”, with the instrumentation growing more intense in a way that felt reminiscent of Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt”. Granted, Bob Dylan is still alive, 28 years later, so that same emotional impact of his actual death is not there yet (and I hope it’s not there for a while longer), but the fact that the track feels so viscerally indicative of death is impressive all the same. If there’s a lowlight here, well… yeah, it’s “Highlands”, but only because it’s 16 minutes. I actually didn’t mind it at all though; when I was listening, my brain went back to the old dive bar imagery that permeates the album – the stream of consciousness style, while sort of undermined by the repetition in the instrumental, slowly started to come around to work for me. In a way, I’m vaguely reminded of Weird Al’s “Trapped in the Drive-Thru”, where a lot of the dialogue is sort of uselessly conversational, and yet vaguely compelling, for seemingly no reason. (I refuse to give R. Kelly any credit.) Yeah, there’s a whole aside about some waitress in Boston that Bob Dylan barely indulged in drawing a picture of, but it serves to sell the bigger point of the track: Bob Dylan just wants to be a fucking hermit, but he’s in too deep at this point as an artist, and he just has to settle for mentally living in the highlands. Could’ve gotten to the point way faster than 16 minutes, but again, the dive bar imagery in my head made the track work more fruitfully. Overall, it’s a remarkably strong album, and one that I wouldn’t possibly have expected from Bob Dylan, especially 3 decades after his most relevant period. He basically disappeared for the vast majority of the 1990s, only to come out with something that still holds up really well 28 years later. The writing is on point, his vocals have finally caught up, the production meshes perfectly, and I think the slight Tony Bennett-esque career renaissance that emerged from it was probably well deserved. Granted, I’m not sure if it’s “win the Grammy for Album of the Year over OK Computer” levels of deserved, but I’m surprised at the fact that it’s even slightly justifiable in my head. This is a damn good one, and I think it’s the best Bob Dylan album we’ve gotten, and probably the best one we’ll get. We have 3 more of these damn things to go, all from the 1960s. I can only hope at least one of them matches the quality of this one (and hopefully, that’s “Blonde On Blonde”) – to my ears, this is a 5, if not a little higher. It’s that good. Hell of a job, Bob.

Perfection.

The master at work. Like all his best work, depths you can't fathom and breadth that disappears over the horizon. No need for extremes of novelty, Bob's undersell leaves you coming back for more. 4.8 only so as to leave room for some of his even more fine works.

4.5

I did listen to this album twice once with the original mix and once with the new mix and I actually prefer the new mix in that I think it feels more truer to the Dylan sound than the original 97 mix. And with that it brings it up to five stars. The original mix for some reason always I felt a little arms length away from the feel of the album but I always recognize that it's some of Dylan's best material.If I used the original mix it would have been a high 4½ enough for it to be a five on the app anyways so I'm going to post it with the rating of the new mix 10 ★★★★★

Onr of the best albums in existence So dark, yet magnificent. 5 stars

4.5/5

This album is one of the best examples of a comeback album for an older artist I can think of. I think Dylan and Daniel Lanois do a really nice job of crafting an album that sounds modern, but doesn't fall into the trap of using a bunch of production elements that make it sound dated. Much like Tom Waits' stuff from this era, it has a timeless feeling to it that feels both fresh and old at the same time. I think the style of the album really plays to Dylan's strengths too. His voice isn't what it used to be, but in this context, it's perfect. Dylan also turns in some of his best songs too -- "Standing in the Doorway", "Cold Irons Bound", "Make You Feel My Love", "Love Sick", and "Not Dark Yet" being among the highlights. 5 stars.

I definitely have a bias when it comes to Dylan, but it’s been about 10 years since I last listened to this and I think it holds up great. It’s no surprise that his songwriting is strong but it’s quite a feat to carve out a fresh sound when you are in about 40 years into your career. He even manages to not sound very sarcastic on “Make You Feel My Love.” And props to the producer who brought you the soundtrack to Red Dead Redemption 2.

Excellent album

A modern day master piece that really marked the beginning of Dylan’s current place as a gothic Americana artist.

Den åldrande Dylans pånyttfödelse. Daniel Lanois murriga suggestiva produktion. Dylans röst och ord skär som en kniv genom varenda låt. Det är något uråldrigt och samtida genom hela den här skivan. Inledande Love sick, magnifik. Not dark yet, Cold iron bounds, Highlands i hela sin längd. Och en av mina absoluta Dylan-favoriter Tryin to get to heaven. I’ve been all around the world, boys. Now I’m tryin’ to get to heaven before they close the door. (Jag tror att Håkan Hellström tog en rad därifrån också till Jag har varit i alla städer.)

Боб Дилан крассавчик ( бляяяяя как у него много альбомов )

Bluesy

Love the Lanois production. A top-5 Bob for me.

Brilliant. This is the devastated, gaunt, hobbled, and grizzled counterpart to Dylan's earlier work. It really feels like the inevitable conclusion to Bringing All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde trilogy. After the world has beaten all of the youthful exuberance and enthusiasm out of you, you get Time Out of Mind, and the older I get, the more it makes sense to me.

An absolute raw album of love, longing, and life’s deep cuts.

Just saw someone who commented saying they would punch anyone who said this was their favorite Dylan album in the dick... Well guess I'll never tell anyone then, just to be safe

A pocket of sound that is like alchemy

One of his best. 30 years after his first heyday still creating masterpieces. An atmospheric creation from New Orleans reflecting on life, loss and near death.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Bob Dylan died shortly after this album recorded. And he nearly did! Dark and bitter songs by a man who has seen too much of life. Dylan’s voice is no longer tinny like he’s known for and much more age appropriate. Good stuff.

One of the more interesting albums. It’s Dylan’s take on rock, with some blues and country/folk. Great sound and tunes though.

dans mon top 5 de Dylan

Loved this. I'm a Dylan fan but mainly for his 60s/70s output and I don't know his more 'recent' (ish) work that well. The gravelly, Tom Waits style voice suits his music very well and I love the bluesy style and production As always with Dylan though it's the writing that's the real star... just picking out a few lyrics that I loved (Tryin' To Get To Heaven) You broke a heart that loved you Now you can seal up the book and not write anymore I’ve been walking that lonesome valley Trying to get to heaven before they close the door (Not Dark Yet) I was born here and I'll die here against my will I know it looks like I'm movin', but I'm standin' still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from (Make You Feel My Love) I could make you happy, make your dreams come true Nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love Could've gone on easily but that'll do. It's easily 5*

own

Relistening after many years and I forgot how great it is! CLASSIC

Dark and brooding atmosphere; it feels like Dylan’s on deaths door. Love sick and Not dark yet are my favourite cuts.

Album 661 of 1001 Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind (1997) Rating : 5 / 5 This was much more than I expected. Has been called a "late career masterpiece" and I won't argue with that. Themes of love, loss, mortality, and redemption. I didn't think this could hold up next to his early releases but I was wrong. Great album.

1 star. 1 good song.

The rare late career resurrection - brilliant album. But I'll never understand why musicians of that generation seemed to be unsatisfied unless there was at least one blues-dirge-filler track on each album. Mr. Dylan you've got over an hour's worth of brilliance, you didn't need Dirt Road Blues. Highlights: Love Sick, Standing in the Doorway, Not Dark Yet

The rare late career resurrection - brilliant album. But I'll never understand why musicians of that generation seemed to be unsatisfied unless there was at least one blues-dirge-filler track on each album. Mr. Dylan you've got over an hour's worth of brilliance, you didn't need Dirt Road Blues. Highlights: Love Sick, Standing in the Doorway, Not Dark Yet

I really enjoyed this record and want to slot it into normal rotation.

Time Out Of Mind is Bob Dylan's thirteenth studio album, and one of his more acclaimed albums; it even won a few Grammys. It was seen as something of a "comeback" for Dylan, who had only recorded two, not as well regarded albums in the decade prior. These songs have Dylan become a wise, old man in his story telling. There's a sense of mortality to these stories, but it's not a dark picture. In the resigned sense of his songs, Dylan seems amused with place he finds himself in.

Genius

Low, slow, dark and groovy. I like it. Tom Waits vibes.

Created an incredible vibe that is consistent through the whole album. Bob showing how he can paint the most vivid pictures with his words. Great mix. Full sound with lots of space. You can feel the room they made the record in.

Great later Bob album.

Great lyricism is everything. Not my favorite Bob Dylan album but his average lyrics are still better than most other songwriters. 4.5/5.

Great Bob Dylan album

He can sing in this one 😅 I like the last, 16min song so much

Geweldig album, rauwe stem, goede nummers, had ik niet verwacht van een late Dylan.

The renaissance record of all renaissance records. What Time Out of Mind did for Bob’s career can never be overstated. Fortunately, it still holds up 25 years later. As he did for Oh Mercy, Daniel Lanois provides a swampy magic with his production, utilizing the exact right amount of reverb and textural coating to sonically enhance the proceedings. By all accounts, he and Dylan had an even harder time balancing their differences while making this album, but the results speak for themselves. For the most part, Time Out of Mind lives in two equally excellent worlds. In the first, we find Bob embracing the blues to a degree he hadn’t since the mid-60’s, and he embodies the spirit of the genre as well, if not better, than he ever has. “Can’t Wait”, “‘Til I Fell in Love with You”, and “Million Miles” are effortlessly groovy and engrossing, never straying far enough to call their “bluesiness” into question but never settling for complete cliché either. The opening “Love Sick” is on another level, a masterclass in dynamic intensity, and “Cold Irons Bound” offers up one of the deadliest combinations of virtuosity and sheer coolness in Bob’s entire catalog. These tracks in particular benefit from Lanois’ production and the first-rate studio musicians that contributed to these sessions (Brian Blade, Jim Keltner, Bucky Baxter, Duke Robillard, and Jim Dickinson among them). In the second world, we find Bob writing some of the most crushing meditations on life and love that he’s ever committed to tape. Whereas he approaches the bluesier numbers with a formidable growl, he deftly handles the melodies on these tracks while continuing to establish the voice he began discovering on Oh Mercy. “Not Dark Yet” and “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” are hair-raising; even if you didn’t know about the near-death experience Bob had suffered in the year leading up to this record or the myriad of other hardships he’d faced in his life, you’d have to be heartless to not recognize and appreciate the emotional depth of these songs. “Standing in the Doorway” is proof that the man can still write as perfect a heartbreaker as anyone; on the flip-side, he proves he can still casually write a timeless love song with “Make You Feel My Love”, already a modern-day standard. The brilliance is almost unfathomable. I’m also a fan of the four tracks that didn’t make the cut: “Mississippi”, “Red River Shore”, “Dreamin’ of You”, and “Marchin’ to the City”, all available on the tremendous Tell Tale Signs Bootleg Series. Unlike Shot of Love and Infidels, however, I don’t feel as if this album suffers for not featuring these songs. The latter two are atmospherically coherent with the tracks that made the album, but given that they lyrically evolved into “Standing in the Doorway” and “‘Til I Fell in Love with You”, I’m perfectly fine valuing them as strong outtakes. The former two are both beautifully evocative, and I love them individually out of context, but I simply have a hard time imagining how they would have fit on the record. They certainly wouldn’t have made it a worse project, but overall, I’m very satisfied with the final track list. Ultimately, I think Time Out of Mind deserves all of the praise and accolades it’s received in the last two-and-a-half decades, and will rightfully be heralded as a crowning moment in Bob’s discography for the rest of time. Least favorite track: “Highlands”. It’s definitely cool; I tend to zero in on a different series of verses every time I listen to it, though I appreciate the whole journey. I also never skip it when I listen to the album as a whole, despite its length and being the final song. But it doesn’t interest me as much as many of his other epics, and I find a bit more in every other song to enjoy. Favorite track: “Cold Irons Bound”. Lyrically, my answer might be “Standing in the Doorway” or “Not Dark Yet”. This one’s no lyrical slouch, though, and as a full listening experience, it’s a top 10 Dylan track for me. A tidal wave of guitars and organs crash around David Kemper’s irresistible drum beat and an all-time bass performance from Tony Garnier; only “Most of the Time” rivals this track for coolest bass line in Dylan’s catalog. Just an absolutely phenomenal recording, one that will forever be a favorite of mine. 5/5

Bob Dylan released one of his best albums 35 years after his 1st. What. The atmosphere of this album is insane, feels like I'm in a dusty quiet bar playing cards and listening to Dylan and the band play. The lyrics are of course incredible, "You could say I was on anything, but a roll" fuckin amazing. I don't think this tops "Blood on the Tracks" for me but it's pretty close. What a legend Funny side story, my grandma knew Bob Dylan's cousins and they all said he was stuck up 😂

I <3 Bobby D

i'm sure that's the kind of music they play in heaven

5/5

These songs are spare and cold. That makes them memorable to me because this was the first Dylan album released in my lifetime that seemed to really matter. He’d released tons of music, but he was washed. This album was the start of a string of music that was relevant and felt real, important. I understand why some folks don’t like this one, but for me…this is great.

Enjoyed this far more than I'd like to admit...

5 stars