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Title: Dylan's Most Underrated Album
Review: Dylan's conversion to raving fundamentalist Christianity shouldn't have come as a surprise to anybody who heard Dylan at Budokan or Street Legal. That's because: a) Budokan is evidence that he'd lost it to the point that his songs no longer meant anything whatsoever to him, and b) Street Legal is a brilliant and powerful chronicle of a guy who's losing his grip. Songs like "Baby, Please Stop Crying," "Journey Through Dark Heat," and "We Better Talk This Over" continue the breakup narrative of Blood on the Tracks and Desire, taking it to a more desperate level ("I think we better talk this over, maybe when we both get sober..."). Songs like "Changing of the Guards," "New Pony," and "Senor," on the other hand, appear to find him wandering a wasteland far more stark than the playful landscape of "Desolation Row," grasping at symbols, crying "this place don't make sense to me no more...." Harrowing stuff, indeed.
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