Product Description
Scarce Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing Still In Top Condition! Includes Inner Sleeve & 6-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese. One Of Bob Dylan’s Best LPs!
Includes the brilliant protest song “Hurricane”, about the wrongful imprisonment of boxer, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter. The LP features Emmylou Harris on backing vocals.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT!
Condition – Cover: NEAR MINT!
Side 1:
Hurricane
Isis
Mozambique
One More Cup Of Coffee
Oh, Sister
Side 2:
Joey
Romance In Durango
Black Diamond Bay
Sara
AMG –
There are some masterpieces here: "Hurricane" is the best-known, "Mozambique" is Dylan at his breeziest, "Sara" at his most nakedly emotional, and "Isis" is one of his very best songs of the '70s. 4 ½ Stars Dylan returns 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. There are some masterpieces here: "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. One of his most fascinating records of the '70s and '80s -- more intriguing, lyrically and musically, than most of his latter-day affairs. 4 ½ Stars