After disappointing sales with Knocked Out Loaded and Down in the Groove, Oh Mercy was hailed as a comeback. Consensus was strong enough to place Oh Mercy at in The Village Voices Pazz & Jop Critics Poll for 1989. Also in 1989, Oh Mercy was ranked on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. Oh Mercy'''s production drew praise from a majority of critics. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice wrote, "Daniel Lanois's understated care and easy beat suit [Dylan's] casual ways, and three or four songs might sound like something late at night on the radio, or after the great flood. All are modest and tuneful enough to make you forgive 'Disease of Conceit,' which is neither." But as Heylin notes, "Though many a critic who had despaired at the sound of Dylan's more recent albums enthused about the sound on Oh Mercy, it was evident that rock music's foremost lyric writer had also rediscovered his previous flair with words". Rock critic Bill Wyman criticized the production but praised the songs. "Taken over by Daniel Lanois, master of a shimmering and distinctive electronically processed guitar sound...[the album] is overdone", writes Wyman. "It's irritating to hear Dylan's songs so manipulated, but there are sufficient nice tracks—"Most of the Time", "Shooting Star", both simple and direct, among them—to make this by far the most coherent and listenable collection of his own songs Dylan has released since Desire". Though it did not enter Billboards Top 20, Oh Mercy remained a consistent seller, enough to be considered a modest commercial success. To celebrate the album's 20th anniversary, Montague Street Journal: The Art of Bob Dylan dedicated roughly half of its debut issue (published in 2009) to a roundtable discussion on Oh Mercy. It was voted number 438 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd Edition (2000). In 2006, Q magazine placed the album at in its list of "40 Best Albums of the '80s". During that same year, "Political World" appeared in the film Man of the Year. Michael Azerrad in a Rolling Stone article felt that "it would be unfair to compare Oh Mercy'' to Dylan's landmark Sixties recordings". Lou Reed selected "Disease of Conceit" as one of his favorite songs of 1989. Track listing Personnel Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica, twelve-string guitar, Hammond organ Additional musicians Malcolm Burn – tambourine, keyboards, on