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Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy
Audio CD
Disk ID: 87929
Disk length: 39m (10 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1989
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Political World | 3:47 |
| 2. Where Teardrops Fall | 2:32 |
| 3. Everything Is Broken | 3:15 |
| 4. Ring Them Bells | 3:00 |
| 5. Man In The Long Black Coat | 4:34 |
| 6. Most Of The Time | 5:03 |
| 7. What Good am I? | 4:44 |
| 8. Disease Of Conceit | 3:43 |
| 9. What Was It You Wanted | 5:02 |
| 10. Shooting Star | 3:12 |
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Review
The '80s was a particularly shifting, uncertain decade for Bob Dylan's creative voice. But he capped it off with his first album of all-original material in several years and his best since Infidels. A lot of the credit for Oh Mercy's distinctive appeal has been given to producer/musician Daniel Lanois (who backs Dylan on all but one cut), and there's no denying the effect of his magnetic, fog-thick sound sculpturing here. Overlays of lap steel, dobro, and mercy keys along with a slithering subterranean bass evoke a complete sonic climate, and the synergy between Lanois and Dylan would have a huge payoff with 1997's devastating Time out of Mind. But however tightly produced, Oh Mercy also displays Dylan at the peak of his songwriting craft, fracturing words and phrases for the things-fall-apart jeremiads of "Political World" and "Everything is Broken" and stringing images together for the noirish ballad "Man in the Long Black Coat." There's the usual dichotomy between Dylan's slashing accusatory mode ("What Was It You Wanted") and the self-effacement of "What Good Am I?" Aside from the miscalculated, sappy "Where Teardrops Fall" (the disc's sore thumb), this album has the classic staying power of Dylan's finest efforts. --Thomas May
Other Versions
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 38m 59s (-1m 59s)
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 1s (+0m 1s)
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 3s (+0m 3s)
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 19s (+0m 19s)
Tracks: 10, Disk length: 38m 18s (-1m 18s)
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