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syphibliss
I love it even more than "Blonde on Blonde". What a consistent and beautiful record
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MyMediaMusic
One of my all-time favorite Dylan albums. Thought it was too stark and under-produced at first listen, but I've really warmed up to it in time, and now it's probably in my top five favorite Dylan albums, along with Times They Are a-Changin', Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks.
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MisterJunior
Yeah, that one is kind of similar. This is a very special album, though, I think. Something I've really come to appreciate is music that is "out of time," meaning it doesn't sound like it's from any particular time either sonically or topically. The Band's 1969 album (and Music from Big Pink to a slightly lesser extent) has that quality and this record has it too. I think it's a really beautiful album with top-notch songwriting, crystal clear production, terrific harmonica playing and some of Bob's best lyrics.
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TheUselessGolem
I almost agree with you about this being "the only album he made like this," MisterJunior, except that Under the Red Sky is close kin, in spirit and conception if not in sound. People overlook it but it rewards time and close attention.
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MisterJunior
My long-standing favorite Dylan album. Gone is the overly clever/contrived wordplay that in my view marred some of his earlier albums; in its place are some concise but literate, superficially simple but surprisingly complex/ambiguous lyrics, and instead of the kind of samey blues rock type songs he filled out some of his electric period albums with, he's turning out an encyclopedia of songs in various folk and country forms. Stuff like "All Along the Watchtower" (of course), "As I Went Out One Morning," the title song, and "Drifter's Escape" just blows me away. It's unfortunate that this album basically stands on its own as an era unto itself because this was just a wonderful sound and vibe for Dylan, but the other way of looking at it is that because it's the only album he made like this it's all the more special as a result.
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augustofelipe
uno de mis discos preferidos del maestro dylan, muy bueno para escuchar tranquilo en un día de lluvia
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TheGreatChupon
Where the hell did this album come from? One second Bob is spouting surrealist diatribes and jumbled-up love songs; the next he's digging deep into the New England loam for rainy, earthy, worm-wet party songs; and then here he is, narrating our way through a mesmerizing labyrinth in a [post-?]apocalyptic world and giving us genuinely comforting moral advice about what we should do if we ever find ourselves within it. Which, now and then, we do. (And after all that, we blink and he's off crooning about country pie and domestic bliss.) There's simply nothing like John Wesley Harding: it's a masterpiece and a work of genius in every sense possible, and hell, probably in a bunch of impossible ways too. Plus quite possibly THE crown jewel of album sequencing.
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appreciations
Never can pick between this, The Times They Are A-Changin' and Blood on the tracks and decide which is my favorite. Might all be tied.
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PinkFloydrulez
ok so I've been listening to dylan for at least 5 years now and... I can't believe it took me this long to really give this album a chance. goddommit
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FeelingVoxish
This is Dylan's best album. Cryptic, subtle. Not one wasted word or wasted note.
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cicatriz-esp
rennie sparks once said that "john wesley harding is like coming upon an abandoned farmhouse, where next to the rusted shotgun, you find a golden sword in a pool of fire". i couldn't agree more.
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HampusForever
what?! Dylan is really getting more expressive with the harmonica on this one, after playing with the band he became a better musician in general.
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blaineryan17
@ BradyMan, yeah I know what you mean. There's just something about it. This album is, in my opinion, the most mysterious and wrongly overlooked album in Dylan's catalog; it's also the one where he sounds most like the "prophet" people claimed him to be.
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KristianHT
I feel Dylan misrepresents the historical namesake of the album in his lyrics. Hardin was an utter bastard, shot through the ceiling of a hotel room because someone upstairs was snoring when he wanted to sleep, and killed the guy
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