Bob Dylan, "Love and Theft"

I just don't get the complains that LAT rates a "zzz." Dylan's phrasing and the mileage he still gets out of that corroded voice would be pleasure enough even if that wondrous backing band wasn't cracking out great riffs.

I suspect that "thin, wild, hard mercury sound" (sic) is just one of the chimeras he's been pursuing for the last 30 years.

i do want a pony also while i'm at it if it's not too much to ask

I got a new pony

Maybe I should listen to this again. When it came out I thought meh. Much preferred TOOM although that was gloomy enough that I need to be in a particular frame of mind to appreciate it. L&T, from memory, had too many songs with an orthodox 3 chord blues structure, something I just find impossible to enjoy these days, particularly in faster tempos. I tend to like Lanois productions for Dylan: "Oh Mercy" may be my favourite Dylan album nowadays, certainly my pick as his most critically underrated. But I'm only a moderate Dylan fan and don't generally listen very carefully to the lyrics, so I'm pretty unrepresentative.