 Released in early 1975 , Blood on the Tracks received mixed reviews . In the NME , Nick Kent described " the <unk> [ as ] often so <unk> they sound like mere practice takes . " In Rolling Stone , Jon <unk> wrote that " the record has been made with typical <unk> . " Over the years critics came to see it as one of Dylan 's greatest achievements . In <unk> , Bill Wyman wrote : " Blood on the Tracks is his only flawless album and his best produced ; the songs , each of them , are constructed in disciplined fashion . It is his <unk> album and most dismayed , and seems in <unk> to have achieved a sublime balance between the <unk> @-@ plagued excesses of his mid @-@ 1960s output and the self @-@ consciously simple compositions of his post @-@ accident years . " <unk> Rick Moody called it " the <unk> , most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape . " 
