"Tangled Up In Blue" might be the best single he put out since "Like A Rolling Stone"

Before FemDerris I had two long term relationships. One was for 2+ years and the other was for 5 years. It's strange. When both ended I was surprisingly relieved. Both had seemed to run their course and it just wasn't working for whatever reason. After both relationships I quickly fell in with other women. Classic rebounds. I, of course, was not ready for this and I'm sure I acted like a freak and both quickly bailed. It was then that I became heartbroken, just devastated. Both times and for relationships that lasted maybe a month, two tops. I clearly hadn't dealt with things.

It was during both times that this record was a god send. For whatever it's original intention, "If You See Her Say Hello" was the most cathartic thing I'd ever heard. I must've listened to it 50 times in a 3 week period after that first relationship. The record is littered with heartbreak but that song in particular always was a dagger.

Still, all the talk about this being his break up record, it still works on a rock/pop level as well. I mean, "Tangled Up In Blue" might be the best single he put out since "Like A Rolling Stone"

Also, this album is one of those touchstones that has formed the current indieboy mindset, and for that alone it can go fuck itself.

Thanks for sharing some more perspective from the furthest nether regions of your colon. I think we all know a lot more about the view from in there than we ever needed to.

When you say things like this, it proves what a fraud you really are. Congratulations, Dr. Never-Had-A-Clue.

Hey, while we're on the subject of frauds, in which chapters of Ellroy or Thompson are the protagonists house-bound dads who think they're edgy by following someone else's script?

You still live in the invisible enemy laden world of your high school parking lot.

Give me a shout the day you have anything interesting to say about anything. In the meantime, shouldn't you be busy handing out 7/10 ratings to EVERY piece of shit album ever ignored by sentient beings?

I'm torn between my general disdain for the whole unearthing refuse from the vaults thing since usually people don't release things for a reason from what little of that sort of thing I've delved into and the fact that I really like the original album.

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.