He won the Grammy Award for Best Album for this Album. Thx for another good Dylan reaction. There is noone like Dylan.

That's not Dylan in his wilderness. That's one of his biggest creative moments and one of his most respected albums.

This was Dylan's comeback, hailed as his best album after a long, long time. Producer Daniel Lanois played a big role in that new, layered and intimate sound. My favorite song from this one probably is Not Dark Yet.

Dylan had a major health scare earlier in the same year. I think the album had already been mostly recorded already at the time, but it made titles like this and "Not Dark Yet" really poignant. Here was a hero of the previous generation looking down the barrel of time. Of course he got better and has since released several albums, but this one is particularly special.

He's quoting song titles on each line before he repeats the title. "Walking that lonesome valley", "Going down the road feeling bad", "I been all around the world", "I been to Sugar Town, I shook the sugar down (Shake Sugaree). All old folk songs, mostly because they were sung by Woody Guthrie.

He won the Grammy, as others have noted, but Lanois also won for producer, and the song Cold Irons bound won for song of the year. I read and interview with Dylan where he stated that he spent 7 years writing these songs, and rewriting! He then said he considered these songs his only fully finished work!! When recieving his grammy Lanois said he got a knock on the door one day. It was Dylan, he handed him the lyrics and said " read this, let me know if you want to do it" Lanois read it, and said, Wow! This is powerful, strong, deep, yeah I told him, I want to do this!! Syed, you do a great job digging into his complex work, better than anyone else I've heard, keep up the great work!!

'They tell me everything is gonna to be alright But I don't know what 'all right' even means'..... this hits true. Looking back, trying to make sense of it all.

There is an astonishing live version of this song on the Tell Tale Signs Bootleg Series. The way he can interpret and reinvent his own material is truly incredible. There really is no one like him out there.

Dylan refers to a couple of old songs in the verse you like. When he says "no ramblers, no gamblers" it's referring to "This Train", a gospel song that states that This train heading for Heaven doesn't take ramblers or gamblers. In the following line where he says he "Shook the Sugar Down," he's referring to the old folk song "Shook Sugaree" a song about someone asking if didn't they have a good time in life dancing and partying but now have pawned all their possessions and is contemplating going to Heaven in a peanut shell because they ended up with nothing....

Its hilarious to see us all discussing, arguing, about Bobs work. How many artists survive, change, adapt and remain at the top of the tree for sixty plus years? His work will outlive him as did Shakespeares..

More "Time Out of Mind' cuts please!,

Amazing reaction as usual! You always have the greatest insights out of any reactor on KZfaq.

This whole album is so great! Thank you, thank you 😊💕 l Love Bob!!

The new volume of the Bootleg Series is a box set called Fragments containing the Time Out of Mind Sessions with multiple versions of the songs from that album. It's streaming now and definitely worth listening.

Great thoughtful melancholy tune. Never heard it before.

Time Out of Mind was a huge comeback for Dylan, won a Grammy if I'm remembering right. For much of the late 70s and through the 80s he wasn't anywhere near as commercially successful as he was in the 60s and early 70s. His career was sort of languishing, the way a lot of people from that early era did once the civil rights movement and Vietnam were over. The culture had moved on to other things, and a lot of artists had a hard time moving with it. Dylan did some great work during his obscure period, but it wasn't very commercially viable for one reason or another. You could pick any song from Time Out of Mind and it would be a banger to react to, though. Lanois and Dylan working together was a huge deal. Cold Irons Bound and Make You Feel My Love are great songs. Stuff from the official bootleg Tell Tale Signs has stuff from this era, and it's probably one of the best official bootleg releases they've done.

Time Out of Mind was his return to pure genius out of the lost period. From the mid-80s to early 90s, he made a couple forgettable albums and one brilliant album called Oh Mercy. Then, he went back to the roots and made two folk covers albums with just guitar and harmonica. That seemed to bring him back a bit musically. Then, he had a health scare which led to Time Out of Mind's ruminations on death and reflections on the past. The album is brilliant. And, along with the subsequent Love and Theft and Modern Times, Dylan produced yet another trilogy of masterpieces. Thanks for your reviews. You are always so insightful and thought-provoking with your comments.

The recognition of age and one's own mortality. And that the stridency of youth can be tempered by time. 30+ years earlier he sang "when you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose". Here, he writes "when you think that you've lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more."

Time Out Of Mind is when Dylan got his mojo back. Previous albums like Oh Mercy had a few good songs, but this album was the first really good one since the late seventies. Check out Highlands, it's hilarious.

Love LOVE your comments about artists especially Bob Dylan. Thank uou

I used to listen to this cd on repeat over and over, this was his comeback.

I liked your reaction on this one. Hopefully sometime soon you'll check out Cold Irons Bound (live video) from the same album... it's a Grammy winner. That band of his is really tight, IMO.

I think that whole album needs a review, one of his best in his latter years

Bob the musical chameleon. He knows how to pick the right musicians and compose the right music for his lyrics.

This whole album is awesome! If I remember correctly, he won a Grammy Award for it. Thanks, Syed! ✌🏻💀

Didn't know this one. Gorgeous. Love him. Edit: Yes I did know, of course. I have this album. Doh!

"when you think that youve lost everything You find out You can always lose a little more" That cuts. The older I get and the more life I've seen it cuts deeper as time goes by.

Dylan lost his way human nature so what the man is back on track god bless Bob Dylan 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎸

One of the greatest heartbreak albums ever made. Brilliant!

This album is magnificent. He doesn’t have his voice anymore, but some of the songs here are just timeless masterpieces.

This is a fantastic album to have on vinyl. The lyrics are great, but it's all about the sound. It has so many layers. Personally I like that spooky feel of Cold Irons Bound, and that bluesy jive in Million Miles.

Yes! I can't believe you're reacting to this song. Thank you 🙌🙌🙌 Please listen to "Cold Irons Bound" from this same album.

People say he can’t sing but listen to lay lady lay it’s beautiful

My Sony Record sister sent this down to me on it's release. I drank myself into oblivion wearing it out

Man, sensational lyrics. Incredible delivery by Dylan.

Collab with producer Dany Lanois. They’ve done two albums together and both sound just so dang haunting. A great duo and chapter in Bob’s career. And yes, his harmonica on this album has a really unique sound. Distinct from most of the rest of his output.

Great angle you've taken on this track . Verry insightful LUV YOUR WORK

‘97 was Dylan’s comeback year. This was a great album. It came out when I was 11 and I remember liking it then.

This album was actually his comeback and an extremely well acclaimed album. You could say that between 1984 and 1989 there was one really good album called Oh Mercy and then it took to 97 for Time Out of Mind to be released. Two brilliant albums in a span of 15 years was his dry spell.

You sum That track up Very well my friend.Been a Dylan fan Many Many years .Keep it up.

He was going full steam on this album.

My favourite track from late Dylan. Lanois's production has always been about creating audio space through layering. Here, Lanois's interests in Americana instrumentation coincide perfectly with Dylan's setting of the antebellum, here used to explore ideas of journeys of redemption.

Merci, really a good album that I also own but forgot. As a toddler I sang Blowing... without understanding a word. Bob was/is a role model for all artists who valued their lyrics. I first fell in love with Bob's side on the triple album THE CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH 1971 organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar/has also inspired some pop musicians. I bought old classics, later including Blood On The Tracks, Desire, Slow Train Coming (with Mark Knopfler as guitarist) Modern Times ..., actually releases consistently good albums.

This whole album deserves a listen. It’s fantastic and not a bad track. As a whole piece of work it’s as cohesive and brilliant in its way as Blood On The Tracks.

Time Out of Mind was the album that brought Dylan back to his former glory. It’s Not Dark Yet is another awesome song from that album.

Thanks Syed for revisiting Dylan’s great and deep work again. If I may suggest the song “ Chimes Of Freedom “ from the past, I think you’ll like it as everyone else in this channel. Thank you for the great work, and keep it coming. God bless

Great channel and I’m especially enjoying your insights on Dylan’s work! You might also like to check out Mississippi from Love and Theft, Key West from Rough and Rowdy Ways, Brownsville Girl from Knocked Out Loaded, and Pretty Saro from Another Self Portrait - a beautiful song and a different vocal delivery. Keep up the great work!

Missouri = 'the show-me state'. The chorus / title ('tryin' to get to heaven before they close the door') comes from an old Gospel song. 'Riding in a buggy with Miss Mary Jane' from an old childrens' song.This and other info from the recent 'Fragments' release. Since around 1997, he seems to make songs by piecing together fragments (!!) of old songs, phrases he has picked up and whatever he can find. Kind of like James Joyce.

Amazing album. My personal favorites are the feverish tracks like Cold Irons' Bound, and then the haunting Highlands which is like the feeling of detachment in a song form.

Thank You my Brother!!

This from "Rolling Stone" When Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind hit shelves on Sept. 30, 1997, it was hailed by fans and critics as his best work in decades. The Daniel Lanois-produced LP won a Grammy for Album of the Year, kickstarted an incredible period of renewed vitality for Dylan, and forever silenced any doubters who felt he’d never recapture the magic of his early years. Just about the only person unhappy with the album was Bob Dylan himself. “I felt extremely frustrated, because I couldn’t get any of the up-tempo songs that I wanted,” he told Rolling Stone’s Mikal Gilmore in 2001. “I got so frustrated in the studio that I didn’t really dimensionalize the songs. I could’ve if I’d had the willpower. I just didn’t at that time, and so you got to steer it where the event itself wants to go. I feel there was a sameness to the rhythms. It was more like that swampy, voodoo thing that Lanois is so good at. I just wish I’d been able to get more of a legitimate rhythm-oriented sense into it.” A quarter-century later, Dylan is releasing a remixed version of Time Out of Mind that minimizes the “swampy” vibe he found so objectionable in favor of a more natural sound. It’s the centerpiece of Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions 1996-1997, the 17th volume of his ongoing Bootleg Series, in stores Jan. 27. The five-disc collection is also packed with early versions, alternate takes, studio outtakes, and live versions of all 11 original tracks. “What we wanted to do was find a different way to look at Time Out of Mind, to contextualize it,” says a source close to the Dylan camp. “We also wanted it to sound more natural and less processed.”

This is a beautiful song!

Yeah, this was the album that he put out when I first saw him live with my dad as a 12-year-old. It was sort of his comeback, but that’s complicated - his real comeback began around the early ‘90s or so when he began The Never-Ending Tour, around the time when he recorded two albums of old folk standards (Good as I Been to You and World Gone Wrong) that was the best material he’d put out since Blood on the Tracks, to many of us who loved him in the ‘60s. After that he did this album, which was his first great proper album of original material since Blood on the Tracks, and followed it with several more similarly fantastic albums that all had a similar sound - Love and Theft and Modern Times, both of which he recorded with his really great touring band at the time.

Absolutely amazing album!

Great track ,great album 👍✌️❤️

Hi Syed, I like your observation about how it must feel to be Bob Dylan in his 6th Decade of life after revolutionizing music when he was so young. It must be exhausting to be Bob Dylan, with everybody idolizing him and having expectations based on his past work. He once said to an interviewer who was disappointed with his response to his questions; “If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.” Dylan's early work is unparalleled, but I find myself drawn to his late career work more and more. It is not as revolutionary, but it is more profound. A lot of the Time Out of Mind songs express Bob's sentiment of being weary of the legacy that is Bob Dylan: In the song Highlands, he talks about being in a park in Boston, observing the young people wearing bright colored clothes, drinking and dancing and looking so good... and he concludes with the line "Well, I'd trade places with any of them, in a minute if I could". Would love to hear your reactions to some of the other songs on this great album: Standing in the Doorway, Not Dark Yet, Cold Irons Bound, and Love Sick (the song Victoria's Secret used to sell their Lingerie) 😃😃

If you think Dylan is always great you should hear some of his mid-80s songs! Seriously though, his revival for me came in the early '90s with a couple of covers albums, Good As I Been to You and World Gone Wrong, where he went back to the source of blues, folk, country and Western Swing, doing acoustic covers. They are quite powerful records.

Phrasing in my 73 years two people stand out as great phrasers. Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan. Not comparing them - but as it is Dylan released an album of old Sinatra songs

This Grammy winning Daniel Lanios produced masterpiece following Oh Mercy is great. See if you can do ‘ It’s Not Yet ‘ there is a great official video release

Grammy for album of the year...it's great.

Yes. As has been noted here, this was after Bob's 80's wilderness years. His renaissance actually began with his 2 folk/blues cover albums "Good As I Am To You" and "World Gone Wrong", leading into the very good "Oh, Mercy". The 80's were rough on all of us.

My favorite Bob song, I think. So underrated. Legendary album

Some of Dylan's recent albums include a string of Sinatra style American standards recorded live in studio with his touring band - no headphones - just the band playing together, like albums used to be cut 70 years ago.

"Not Dark Yet" probably the best track off of this great album. I would say from Oh Mercy on, the quality in his writing was topnotch. Time Out of Mind and the album after, Love and Theft are every bit as good as some of his very best albums from the 60's/70's. Modern Times and Rough and Rowdy Ways are great too. In fact, I like a lot of his later stuff more than those earlier albums (though I love those early songs and albums too)

The reference to gamblers and midnight ramblers could come from “This Train is Bound for Glory” by Woody Guthrie

This album is genius! The new bootleg that was recently released from this period is fabulous!

This was his best album since the brilliant 1989 “Oh Mercy.” Bob doesn’t go more than 10 years before he floors everyone again. Even the albums in between have fine songs on them, and are better albums than most artists best work.

As others have noted, this was Dylan emerging from a fallow period... this kicked off a trilogy of fantastic albums. "Time Out of Mind", "Love and Theft", & "Modern Times"

Don't fall apart on me tonight is a great track you should check out. The one on KZfaq I think is the best version (version 2). The other tracks on the same album are great too.

Cool that you do all these Dylan songs. His ‘Oh Mercy’ was truly his first comeback from 1989. An album people who just don’t like Bob Dylan often love. I can always put that on and nobody complains.

This whole album is brilliant.

Great song

Some days this is my favourite ever album...

I do like the older Dylan as well as the younger one. Two songs that stand out for me are 'Mississippi' (from 2001) and 'Murder Most Foul' (from 2020), where he addresses the assassination of John F. Kennedy. They're both brilliant.

Great analysis!

@SyedRewinds I would love to see you react to "Idiot Wind" from the Blood on the Tracks album. Absolutely brilliant songwriting!

There are so many incredible eras in Dylan's music. I really can't think of anyone that's made such surprising, inventive music into their 80s. For me, "Rough and Rowdy Ways" from 2020 was one of his best albums. I don't know that you're up for a pretty repetitive 17 minute song, but "Murder Most Foul" is an incredible poem about the assassination of JFK that looks into so many aspects of American culture. Not for everyone, for sure. One song I think you would really love is "Hurricane" from the album Desire in the mid-70s. Personally, I think it's as good as any song he, or anyone else, ever did. Dylan at his outraged best, singing a song about a wrongly-convicted boxer that ultimately helped get him out of jail.

Only watched you react to young Dylan. This is the old Dylan. It´s different but still great

Best listen to the whole album.

Bob is still writing and also has Art exhibitions for his paintings and his Metal work of gates and much more, all over the world, I've visited them in London New Bond Street a few times, he's just a genius in all he does. Just released his No. 17 bootleg serious of "Time out of Mind" sessions, amazing alternative takes on there.

Syed, this was actually from the album that brought Dylan OUT of his artistic wilderness, the magnificent TIME OUT OF MIND. It's as good an album as he's done. Worth exploring man.

Dylan has just released the "making" of this album "Fragments. Bootleg Vol 17

Oh, I'd argue this is from when he's just gotten his mojo back. This album onward really is his late era renaissance. If you want to listen to his wilderness in the 80s and early 90s (when he still made several fantastic tracks), try the amazing Blind Willie McTell, Jokerman, Most of the Time, Dark Eyes, Dignity, Series of Dreams.

I Only saw what they let him SEE- The SHOW ME STATE- Missouri When you think that you've lost EVERYTHING - You FIND you can ALWAYS LOSE A LITTLE MORE - Perhps the MOST MATURE PHRASE EVUH UTTERED IN A Rock nRoll Song

I recommend I Stayed in Mississippi a little too long from this time period

Enjoying your channel very much. Have you considered reacting to Gordon Lightfoot? "Favouite Lightfoot songs? Shadows, Sundown, If You Could Read My Mind. I can't think of any I don't like!" - Bob Dylan

Since I've Been Loving You. Led Zeppelin 3. It is time. This delay really makes life a drag. I don't think that's right. Said, I've been crying, yeah. Oh, my tears they fell like rain.

The ‘Time Out Of Mind’ and ‘Oh Mercy’ albums are quintessential mid period Dylan. I’d suggest reviewing ‘Not Dark Yet’ from ‘Time Out Of Mind’ and ‘Most Of The Time’ from ‘Oh Mercy’ Both albums are creatively Dylan at his peak. Or I should really say one of his peaks, there were quite a few, from early/mid 60’s, mid 70’s, in fact every decade had a least one peak 😂

“Going down the road feeling bad” is an old folk song that the Grateful Dead performed often. I think Dylan’s use of this phrase is alluding this song. He also refers to “Sugartown” and “Midnight Rambler” among others. Check out his new book “the philosophy of Song”.

Missouri is the, "show me state."

If you want to hear proper creative lull Dylan, try wiggle wiggle. Would love to hear your reaction :p

Oh, I don't know about this album being a part of Dylan's wilderness; this was more an excellent return to form (through some new musical forms, as Dylan always does) album as he emerged from the wilderness. For me, so many of the songs on this album seem to be love letters to Dylan's fans, as he finally was coming to terms with his relationship to them and their expectations. I also think that this was the album on which Dylan was coming to terms with the new sound of his voice and the limitations therein as he aged, a coming to terms that reached its fruition on the next album, the stellar "Love and Theft," on which he found his sense of humor as well. Just my thoughts, anyway. I'm glad to see that you enjoyed the track!

Not so spent creatively that Dylan could not write Make you feel my love on this album. It was a world wide smash when covered by Adele

Hey I would love you to react to 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream' an underated gem. Would like to hear your lyrical interpretation

Its like he BEGINS STUCK In the Middle of No Where - ANYONE RELATE??

Perhaps it feels like "Maybe"?

You can call me ZIMMY....

I loved this song very much. Then somebody told me that the lyrics were too much over the top bad luck and based on blues clichés. Still musically it is great.

Hearing Bob Dylan sing makes me miss school days when kids would run their finger nails on a chalk board LOL!!!

What does marijuana have to do with anything here? Sometimes Mary Jane is just a name.