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Dark and beautiful
I only own two "studio albums" by Bob Dylan, first I bought "Blonde on blonde" and now I've bought "Time out of mind". Most songs on the album are more or less blues-flavoured, there are two kinds of songs, ballads (most of the uneven numbers) and blues (the even numbers). This is an extremely dark album, I'm not too much into that kind of music, but I'd like to describe this record more like goth than blues. One example is the blues song "Cold irons bound" that in some strange way reminds me of something that skeletons would dance to in a graveyard. The highlights of the album are three ballads, they are "Standing in the doorway", "Not dark yet" and the best song of the album; "Tryin' to get to heaven". In the last song; "Highlands", Bob tells us about a conversation between him and a waitress in a Boston restaurant. :-) The only thing that disapointed me was the album sleeve, I mean, the back looks alright, but that blury grey pic of Bob Dylan and brown colors around, NO! I'd rather like something blacker, something like a cafe or a street at night or Bob in a suit, but this cover is ugly!!! Although this is such a dark album, it's definitely not tragic at all, it's more like dark in the spooky and beautiful way like a ghotic ghost story. In other words, I love this album!!!

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Dylan's finest in decades
It is beyond a doubt that Dylan reached the peak of his creative relevance in the 60s and early 70s. With albums spanning from the folky "Times They Are A-Changin'" to the electric experimentation of "Highway 61 Revisited," to the confessional blues of "Blood On The Tracks," Dylan pioneered multiple genres of music, forever altering the landscape of our musical vocabulary.

But in the mid-70s, after a string of superb albums, including "Desire" and "Planet Waves," Dylan seemed to lose some of his creative viability. Throughout the remainder of the 70s, he released a string of unexceptional studio discs and unnecessary live albums. The 80s were even worse, featuring some of Dylan's least-inspired performances, and in the 90s Dylan was nearly silent except for sporadic touring.

Then, in 1997, Dylan returned to the public eye in a big way with this disc, easily his best album since 1976's "Desire" (his last consistently good album). After decades of mediocrity and near-silence, Dylan returned as if he'd never even been gone. "Time Out Of Mind" is an older, more mature Dylan: his voice is a whiskey-choked growl, filled with the pain and emotion of 60 years of hard living. The music on "Time" is bluesy and sad, featuring snail-paced bluesy guitar chords and hollow drumming as a backing to Dylan's depressed vocals.

Dylan sounds tired here, in a way, and yet that tiredness doesn't seem to spill over into his music; you can tell that he's pouring his whole soul into these performances. Songs like "Can't Wait," "Love Sick," and "Cold Irons Bound" crawl along with angst-filled lyrics about lost love and pain. Listening to this entire album in one sitting is an exhausting experience, but it is well worth it. After you've heard "Time," you feel like you're closer to Dylan than you've ever been before. His lyrics here take on a real personal, confessional tone.

This may not be the best Dylan album of all-time, but it captures a single mood better than any of his other efforts ever have. And it's certainly the best album he's done since his peak in the mid-70s, so it's good to see the master regain some of his previous glory.

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Very good.
Best Dylan album since "Blood on the Tracks".....That one I'd give a 10 if possible.