Time Out of Mind
| Bob Dylan
Time Out of Mind
Time Out of Mind is the 30th studio album by the American musician Bob Dylan, released on September 30, 1997, by Columbia Records. It was his first double studio album (on vinyl) since Self Portrait in 1970. It was also released as a single CD.-Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2018. Time Out of Mind feels like the antithesis of our pervasive need to have an opinion about everything all the time. It is a reflection on a life lived, not a reaction to someone else’s ideas.
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Rolling Stone
1997. Now, Dylan has made a coherent, sonically striking but equally subdued ensemble album that sorts through the mess of the more recent past.
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Stereogum
2017. Time Out Of Mind kicked off a career renaissance for Dylan. People once again realized that this prickly, elusive old weirdo was one of our most fascinating artists. The album only barely scratched the Billboard top 10 but still went platinum easily
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Billboard
2017. It’s a monumental album in Dylan’s career, which means it’s the one of the best of the best of the best.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2015. Partly inspired by his own mortality, partly inspired by his own mythology and partly inspired by whatever goes on inside Bob Dylan’s head, Time Out of Mind is a milestone in a career that’s had plenty of them over the past five decades.
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All Music
Time Out of Mind is carefully considered, from the densely detailed songs to the dark, atmospheric production.
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AV Music
2002 The rumor is true: Bob Dylan, an artist for whom many fans had simply given up hope, has made an excellent album. Dylan's first collection of new songs in six years, Time Out Of Mind is a stark, haunted work that recalls his best material and doesn't suffer by comparison.
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No Depression
1997. Throughout Time Out Of Mind, Dylan gives us an up-close look of what can happen when the line between love and hate begins to blur, warning that the line is thinner than we would care to acknowledge.
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Albumism
2017. Time Out of Mind took risks, succeeded, and was rewarded.
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Literary Hub
2016. the Dylan of Time Out of Mind was coming at us squarely from the perspective of hard-earned Experience. If the earlier records could be likened to prophetic books of the Bible, this new record was his Wisdom Book, his voice now more Ecclesiastes than Isaiah.
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Countdown Kid
2013. There are arguably better Bob Dylan albums than 1997’s Time Out Of Mind, but perhaps none more important in his winding road of a career.
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Untold Dylan
2017. “Time Out Of Mind”: Bob Dylan Paints His Masterpiece
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Entertainment
1997. the Bob Dylan revealed on Time Out of Mind is a man out of time, in self-imposed exile from rock trends, and all the wiser and stronger for keeping his distance from their energy-sapping fickleness. Like his son but in a different sense, he’s a wallflower at the party of pop music.
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NME Internet Archive Wayback Machine
'Time Out Of Mind', on one level, is a collection of 'ma woman done me wrong' songs that indirectly pays tribute to many an unheard old bluesman, and on another is a collection of musings on broken hearts, broken dreams and broken ideals.
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Punrock Hardcore Rock 'N' Roll
2014. Dylan gives himself a grimmig, dreariness and despair are spreading, it is quite a gloomy work. He gives himself sufficient time, with the exception of one song, each piece is longer than five minutes, enough time anyway to let off steam.
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Classic Rock
2017. Some of the basic motifs that should shape Dylan's subsequent creative decades are laid out here: desperate love, meaninglessness, darkness, death. Dylan immerses himself in the mythical and - perhaps more than ever - in the American music tradition of folk and especially blues.
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Amino
2017. For me it’s a great return to form for Dylan after years of missteps and mediocrity. I love it’s bluesier and more atmospheric sound, Dylan’s lyrics are on point, and it’s one of my favorites in his discography.
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The Music Box
1998. Time Out of Mind is more than just a visit to the past. The songs mix Dylan's various musical styles quite nicely with new twists and turns and a whole slew of subtle textures.
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Drop-D Magazine
With Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan has done to the blues what only the rare ones do: he's bent substance, style and structure in an indelible, distinctive and very personal way -- but kept it all, well, bluesy.
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Catchgroove
2018. On Time Out Of Mind Dylan sings the blues. It is Dylan’s unique take on the blues: weary and regretful.
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Paste Magazine
2012. the album was a strong commercial success and helped solidify Dylan’s rightful place among the world’s best musicians.
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George Starostin's Reviews
A good comeback. A new voice, some new songs, and a new sound. What more could be wished?
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