Customer Reviews
Best since Blood on the Tracks!! - By: Big Wow, 25 Jul 2008 
I'm Sorry , call me closed minded , but i simply can not be friends with anyone who thinks this album merely OK. If you still don't like it after 10 listens , subscribe to MTV & buy the whole back catalogue of Now Thats What I Call Music albums . I know it's snobbery , but you really are not a Dylan fan if you don't like this. If you are a football fan , it's a bit like a guyin the pub claiming Maradona was a bit too small to be considered as good as Sir Bobby Charlton. ..Buy it..if you don't like it , go livein Germany. They have made David Hasselhoff No1 there.
Disappointed Dylan fan - By: Comical Engineer, 02 Jul 2008 
I have a shed load of Dylan albums & have been listening to him since the mid-1970s, starting with Desire & Street Legal & then working around to Blood on the Tracks & back as far as the first "Bob Dylan" album. Dylan is no great shakes as a vocalist to start with, but this album really disappointed me. The vocals are croaking & the famed Dylan lyrics don't work on this one. The tunes are mostly nothing to shout about either. There are two good tracks on this album, It's Not Dark Yet & Love Sick. For me, the rest just don't do it. That said, It's Not Dark Yet is a Dylan classic & almost worth the price of the album alone.
Bearin mind that this album can be had on CD for about £2.50. There is a reason for that. Much critical acclaim but not popular with the public. I think that sums it up. Only for the real hardened Dylan fans.
Melancholy masterpiece - By: Pieter, 17 Jun 2007 Time Out Of Mind is a masterpiece of atmospheric mood music & evocative imagery, expressedin moody blues numbers & melodious ballads. This mix of blues & ballad is reminiscent of the style of many Tom Waits albums. Although I prefer the folky ballads, the album forms a cohesive musical statement with an impact that lingers long after the last notes have died down.
The bluesy tracks include Love Sick, the almost talking blues Million Miles & Can't Wait, & Till I Fell In Love With You whichin its undulating rhythms is midway towards being a ballad. The instrumental mix & arrangements on all of these are raw & gripping & will have great appeal to those who love blues music.
Despite its title, the uptempo Dirt Road Blues is a fast lilting ballad with a catchy tune. The tone changes for the next song, the melancholy & soulful Standing In The Doorway with its stirring organ & absorbing imagery. I suspect this one will eventually take its place as one of the most memorable songsin his oeuvre. Likewise, the beautiful Tryin' To Get To Heaven has elements of autobiography & haunting poetic phrases that stickin the mind.
There is something darkly prophetic about the shimmering Not Dark Yet, a song of ominous foreboding & weary resignation with sublime poetic lyrics, whilst Cold Irons Bound with its driving beat is closer to a rock song. Not surprisingly, Make You Feel My Love is a straightforward & tender love song, & the album concludes with Highlands, a mid tempo rumination with understated jangling guitar.
Working with Lanois previously produced the 1989 masterpiece Oh Mercy & this one is another winning combination. The mood is mostly somber & reflective, perfectly captured by the production which lends added gravitas to the sentiments expressed. Time Out Of Mind is definitely amongst Dylan's top ten works, a truly timeless masterpiece.
What artist from the 60's is producing masterpieces in the late 90's? - By: C. Moss, 24 Sep 2006 Written shortly after Bob suffered a life threatening disease, this album can be seen as Dylan's battle with the angel of death. Bob knows his time is running out & this album has a sense of being separate form time, like a sidestep out of the way of mortality, whilst still bowing down to it asin "not dark yet".
MY favorite tracks will have to be the opener "love sick", "Standingin the doorway", "not dark yet" Butin my opinion the best track on the album, & arguably all his albums since 1975 is highlands, the 16 minute epic, which will silence those who say Bob's lyrics are not as clever as they used to be. The loneliest manin the world can somehow raise your spirits. this is one of the greateset albums ever, & where as most other artist slowly fade out as there career progresses, Dylan goes from strength to strength, a must have.
Bob's Re-awakening - By: Jervis, 02 Sep 2006 
It's always difficult to make a judgement which seems to have validity when critical opinion seems so opposed to the view wishing to be expressed. Sometimes i feel the critics have over rated 'Time Out Of Mind' somewhat because it follows a terribly barren patchin Bob's career.
'Time Out Of Mind' represents for me the moment Bob begins his reawakening as a credible contemporary songwriter after a number of yearsin the doldrums. Unfortuately for me at this pointin time Bob still hadn't quite fully regained his faculties.
The songs all tend to be downbeat & split between love songs/ ballads & blues tunes. The problem is nearly every song on the album is downbeat & Bob's usual wonderfully eloquent lyrics have been stripped of many of their fine attributes to reveal words that seem unneccessarily simple.
Daniel Lanois production seems equally lacking as it demonstates only too well the artificiality which often goes alongside much of Daniel's recorded output.
Many of the songs aren't perhaps genuinely bad but lack the magic of Bob's best work- they lack a springin their step.
'Time Out Of Mind'in retrospect is the beginning of Bob's re-emergence as a writer. That would come to fruition fully on Bob's following albums the much better 'Love And Theft' & 'Modern Times'.
'Time Out Of Mind' represent the first step.
