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| 3.0 good | ExoskeletalJunction | October 27th 21 |
19th January 2021: Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy (pop/folk/roots rock, 1989)
I’ll have to revisit this. I’ve never been much of a Dylan fan, even of his most acclaimed
material, so I put this on not expecting much. And for the first half, I wasn’t really paying much
attention. Same old moaney old bloke that I’ll never get. But on Side B I started to actually get
into it a bit, as it took on a quite nice atmosphere that reminded me the most of recent War on
Drugs records. Maybe I should have paid more attention in the first half.
5.7 (1st listen)
Part of my listening diary from my facebook music blog - www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction
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| 3.5 great | lz41 | August 30th 18 |
With Daniel Lanois onboard, Dylan steadily regained his footing after his career nadir. Lanois' dry, guitar-heavy sound regained an old, late night Americana atmosphere. The marriage between man and music is an uneasy one and Dylan still had a long way to go before recapturing the writing voice of "Time Out of Mind" (he was not on a good day when he stuck "Roses are red, violets are blue" into 'When Teardrops Fall') but "Oh Mercy" is an understated work in the man's oeuvre and his best album of the 1980s - obviously. Best songs: 'The Man in the Long Black Coat', 'Ring Them Bells', 'Most of the Time'.
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| 3.5 great | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | johmi | December 30th 23 |
| 3.0 good | perival | September 11th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Jepchem | August 16th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | April 22nd 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | KuyJuk | January 11th 22 |
| 2.5 average | gschwen | November 24th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | February 8th 21 |
| 3.5 great | tom79 | January 27th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | hel9000 | January 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Khattak | October 13th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | artyzmu | November 6th 18 |
| 3.5 great | NateMa | September 17th 18 |
| 3.5 great | J1m1 | September 8th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | igi78 | May 17th 18 |
| 3.0 good | deslad | September 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | ramoncd | December 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | jpjpablo | November 27th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Lassie | November 20th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Ggg777 | October 27th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smelty | June 22nd 16 |
| 4.5 superb | Unkie | October 4th 15 |
| 3.5 great | willow | November 17th 13 |
| 3.5 great | unkle | November 11th 13 |
| 3.5 great | ADM20 | September 19th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Grant | August 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | MTEK | April 30th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | 13km | March 5th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | zook13 | February 28th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | BobZyo | December 2nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | tomlop | October 27th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Ehar | December 20th 11 |
| 3.5 great | true | August 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Totes | July 20th 11 |
| 3.5 great | KaliMa | June 29th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | andlit | May 26th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mmadden | February 20th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | cvrcmrc | September 15th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | noisy | September 6th 10 |
| 2.5 average | IAJP | August 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Zizzer | August 3rd 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zoso4 | July 26th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | joppe | May 29th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vance | February 20th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | wens | September 28th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | JesusV4 | September 2nd 09 |
| 3.5 great | Mach | May 30th 09 |
| 5.0 classic | orlok | March 26th 09 |
| 3.0 good | Egglord | September 15th 07 |
| 4.5 superb | Bak | September 15th 07 |
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