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Title: love and death
Review: As a long time fan of Bob Dylan, and as one who has dutifully bought every album that he has ever produced, I have to repectfully disagree with all the reviews which I have read. With one exception, I find the songs on Love and Theft to be almost unlistenable. As I look back on the last couple of decades of Dylan albums, I find an interesting trend: Each record contains one gem amidst a lot of filler. Songs like Not Dark Yet, Every Grain of Sand, Born in time, Brownsville Girl, Series of Dreams, and the recent Things Have Changed (which did not appear on an album) all sparkle like diamonds discovered in a rock pile. Perhaps Bob only has one great song in him per year, and maybe that's enough, maybe that's as much as any great poet has ever produced.The gem on this album is Missisippi, and it is, by itself, worth the price of the record.
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