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General Information
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Artist...............: BOB DYLAN
Album................: Desire
Released.............: 5 January 1976
Styles...............: Folk-Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Rock & Roll
Duration.............: 56:09
Number of Songs......: 9
Cover(s) Included....: Yes (full)
Audio Format.........: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Ripper...............: EAC Secure mode (log included)
Encoder..............: FLAC v1.2.1
Bitrate..............: VBR 890 kbps
Reader...............: Plextor PX-712A
Source...............: CD
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Release Notes
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Track Listing:
01-Hurricane-08:32
02-Isis-06:58
03-Mozambique-03:01
04-One More Cup Of Coffee-03:46
05-Oh, Sister-04:04
06-Joey-11:05
07-Romance In Durango-05:43
08-Black Diamond Bay-07:30
09-Sara-05:30
Album Review:
If Blood on the Tracks was an unapologetically intimate affair, Desire is
unwieldy and messy, the deliberate work of a collective. And while Bob Dylan
directly addresses his crumbling relationship with his wife, Sara, on the final
track, Desire is hardly as personal as its predecessor, finding Dylan returning
to topical songwriting and folk tales for the core of the record. It's all over
the map, as far as songwriting goes, and so is it musically, capturing Dylan at
the beginning of the Rolling Thunder Revue era, which was more notable for its
chaos than its music. And, so it's only fitting that Desire fits that
description as well, as it careens between surging folk-rock, Mideastern dirges,
skipping pop, and epic narratives. It's little surprise that Desire doesn't
quite gel, yet it retains its own character -- really, there's no other place
where Dylan tried as many different styles, as many weird detours, as he does
here. And, there's something to be said for its rambling, sprawling character,
which has a charm of its own. Even so, the record would have been assisted by a
more consistent set of songs; there are some masterpieces here, though:
"Hurricane" is the best-known, but the effervescent "Mozambique" is Dylan at his
breeziest, "Sara" at his most nakedly emotional, and "Isis" is one of his very
best songs of the '70s, a hypnotic, contemporized spin on a classic fable. This
may not add up to a masterpiece, but it does result in one of his most
fascinating records of the '70s and '80s -- more intriguing, lyrically and
musically, than most of his latter-day affairs.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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