Knocked Out Loaded
| Bob Dylan
Knocked Out Loaded
Knocked Out Loaded is the 24th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 14, 1986 by Columbia Records. The album was received poorly upon release, and is still considered by some critics to be one of Dylan's least-engaging efforts. However, the 11-minute epic "Brownsville Girl", co-written by Sam Shepard, has been cited as one of his best songs by some critics. Sales for Knocked Out Loaded were weak, as it peaked at No. 53 on U.S. charts and No. 35 in the UK.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1986. it suggests Dylan’s utter lack of artistic direction. Less bad than pointless, Knocked Out Loaded will prove most satisfying to those content to expect the very least from it.
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All Music
But even with songs as good and interesting as that, the record follows too many detours to be consistently compelling, and some of those detours wind down roads that are indisputably dead ends.
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Something Else Reviews
2015. This hallucinagenic cowboy odyssey might be the only thing to recommend from a confusingly constructed, justifiably forgotten album project.
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Warehouse Eyes
"Knocked Out Loaded" was released slap bang in the middle of the American leg of the Dylan/Petty True Confessions tour and about the only thing it did for Dylan's career was enhance its decline.
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Countdown Kid
2013. The album has one undisputed classic, a few other fair-to-middling originals, and some goofy cover songs.
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Vanity Fair
2013. this is the Dylan album to go to if you ever wanted to hear what he sounds like with a children’s choir.
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The Current
2017. Knocked Out Loaded is an occasionally entertaining, yet slight, entry in Dylan’s library.
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DeBaser
"Knocked Out Loaded" is a significant example of the dylanian marasmus of the eighties and plays the unenviable palm of the worst work of the minstrel of Duluth (if we exclude the homonymous album of 1973, consisting of the only cover).
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Mark's Record Reviews
THE GREAT '60S FOLK POET AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME!!!!!..... is what I might be saying if this album weren't so truly awful.
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Robert Christgau
Automatic horns and Dylanettes echoing every chorus, covers and collaborations--sounds like something he threw together in a week and away forever. But throwing it away is how he gets that off-the-cuff feel, and side two is great fun.
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George Starostin Music Review
2014. But Knocked Out Loaded is not even a proper album, in a way.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
There seems to be no purpose or point to Dylan releasing 'Knocked Out, Loaded', other than to tie it into whatever tour he was doing at the time.
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Entertainment
Tracks from many different sessions make a haphazard album. But a couple of songs with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are fun and ”Brownsville Girl” — an 11-minute epic Dylan wrote with Sam Shepard
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John McFerrin Music Reviews
In short, Knocked Out Loaded finds Dylan recycling ideas that had already been recycled into oblivion, and it's hard to understand why anybody would enjoy this album.
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Clems Music Review
Although you wouldn't be able to tell from the album cover, this album is in many ways identical to the over indulgent eighties flavored previous album by Dylan, Empire Burlesque. It had only been about a year between records, and he assembles many of the same musicians.
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