12/25/2023 0 Comments Bob dylan time out of mind songsSure, I’ve been moved and even teared up a thousand times…but when I first heard “Not Dark Yet,” I began to sob uncontrollably. But…I have only sobbed upon hearing a song for the first time once in my life. I went back and forth about including ‘Blood on the Tracks’ or this album in my Top 10, but the truth is I had already discovered ‘Blood’ years earlier, and I’m sure I’ve heard it more than this album. Even ‘Mississippi,’ the best known song of his next album was written during this period…and left off the record. Vintage microphones and big-room techniques (with the whole band playing) merged with wide stereo mastering and ghostly effects…all supporting the best songs Dylan had written in twenty or thirty years. But with ‘Time Out of Mind’ he allowed Lanois (and a motley crew of studio veterans so seasoned you can smell their leathery chops emanating from the speakers) to create an ethereal, crunchy sonic animal that sounds trapped in time and simultaneously timeless. ‘Blonde on Blonde,’ ‘Blood On The Tracks,’ ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’…the creator himself felt ‘meh.’ Should have done this differently, should have done that differently. With Daniel Lanois at the helm (and missing ever since), Dylan created the first album in which he was ever truly happy with the final product. ![]() The band themselves were shocked he left it off, but the industry and Dylan fans were none the wiser, as Time Out of Mind stunned everyone in 1997. (Which, btw, is the best 2-discs of Late Era Dylan you’ll find). Now here’s the kicker: This song isn’t even on ‘Time Out of Mind.’ Dylan opted to keep the almost 17 minute “Highlands” instead, and dump this masterpiece into the ‘hold bin’ until the TellTale Signs Bootleg Series came out in 2008. Don’t bother looking on YouTube either…Columbia Records don’t play with their Prize Poet, and they scrub the internets real good to make sure you pay to hear it. A song melodically and chordally so simple that when I (or any other mortal) attempts to perform it, it sounds empty and repetitive. Thus begins the first of eight verses of Dylan’s ‘The Girl from the Red River Shore.’ Probably my favorite Dylan song ever (and buddy that’s saying something). The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.“Some of us turn off the lights and we live With the moonlight shooting by Some of us scare ourselves to death in the dark To be where the angels fly Pretty maids all in a row lined up Outside my cabin door I’ve never wanted any of them wanting me Except the girl from the Red River Shore” This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.2/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.3/100. This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on. (*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. ![]() You can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page! Time Out Of Mind collection Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. Latest 20 charts that this album appears in: Sort ranks
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