Infidels

Slow Train Coming	Oh Mercy The '80s was a particularly shifting, uncertain decade for Bob Dylan's creative voice. But he capped it off with his first album of all-original material in several years and his best since Infidels. A lot of the credit for Oh Mercy's distinctive appeal has been given to produc...	Shot of Love Out of print tin the U.S.! 1981 album from Mr. Dylan featuring musical backing from Ron Wood, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Douglas, Benmont Tench, Jim Keltner, Donald 'Duck' Dunn and others. 11 tracks. Sony.	Saved	Street Legal
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Infidels
Infidels is a good album but not his best. It was produced as a collobartion between Mark Knopfler and Dylan. Then one would have expected it to be a tremendus recording. It is not bad by any means but not amazing by any means which is a shame. If one compares this would a classic like Highway 61 Revisited, it feels a bit flat. Still Dylan is an accomplished lyricist and writes several great tracks. For instance, one track that I particularly like is License to Kill. The book-let is a drab and to be frank it is atrocious. The drawing on the back looks shoddy and must have been drawn by a friend since otherwise Dylan should ask for his money back.

What about bob?
Ok he sort of looks like a bearded tom cruise in the picture. Maybe its just the glasses?? It sound just like most bob. He can really string together decent tunes. It came out in the 80's and musically sounds that way. The cd does feature some slid guitar going on in the background.

Folk Singers Mellow With Age
The first time I heard music from INFIDELS was on Pandora Radio on the inernet. I don't remember them playing this music on local FM. The song EYE AND EYE appealed to me and is why I bought this CD. I used to think it was EYE FOR EYE, BUT I was wrong. Bob Dylan has a good mellow sound to him on this album and I could listen to it over and over.

Just Simply Amazing -- Even Better if Played Loud
For this record Bob Dylan went back to Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame, who he'd worked with on Slow Train for guitar work and he asked ex-Rolling Stone axe man Mick Taylor to join the crew. Add Sly Dunbar as a drummer and put Robbie Shakespeare on Bass, then finish it off with Alan Clark on keyboards and now you really have a band. Gone on this record, except for Clydie King's vocals on "Union Sundown" are the female backup singers, although this track sounds not a bit like the others with the female singers, it actually sounds more like how Ronnie Blakely's backup did on "Hurricane." Dylan, though he didn't make an overtly Christian record here, didn't shed his Biblical references. They abound in the long and powerful song, "Jokerman." However, there is a lot for Dylan's old fans to like with "Infidels." He's put protest songs, or at least topical songs, on this rocker of a record. "Union Sundown" is about as political as you can get. Then there is "Neighborhood Bully" about Israel and her confrontation with her Arab neighbors. However, sadly, Dylan left off the excellent "Blind Wille McTell." Fortunately that song made it's way onto a later compilation. I said, this was a rocker of a record and a lot of that can be credited, I believe to Mick Taylor. He just plays his heart out. The other musicians do too. This is a must own Dylan record. That's what I think anyway, this record is just simply Amazing and even better if you play it loud.

Bob Dylans best album from the 1980s
"Infidels" is undoubtedly Bob Dylan's best album from the 1980s. It marks a significant move away from his "gospel" phase of the late 70s/early 80s but neverthless still drips with religious imagery. The songs "Jokerman", "Sweetheart Like You", "Licence to Kill", and "Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight" are among his best work and the other songs are also interesting with the political commentary of "Neighborhood Bully" and "Union Sundown".