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Bob Dylan - Planet Waves (Reissue) (1973)

Track listing:
  1. On A Night Like This 2:57
  2. Going, Going, Gone 3:27
  3. Tough Mama 4:17
  4. Hazel 2:50
  5. Something There Is About You 4:45
  6. Forever Young 4:57
  7. Forever Young 2:49
  8. Dirge 5:36
  9. You Angel You 2:54
  10. Never Say Goodbye 2:54
  11. Wedding Song 4:42

Notes

Reteaming with the Band, Bob Dylan winds up with an album that recalls New Morning more than The Basement Tapes, since Planet Waves is given to a relaxed intimate tone — all the more appropriate for a collection of modest songs about domestic life. As such, it may seem a little anticlimactic since it has none of the wildness of the best Dylan and the Band music of the '60s — just an approximation of the homespun rusticness. Considering that the record was knocked out in the course of three days, its unassuming nature shouldn't be a surprise, and sometimes it's as much a flaw as a virtue, since there are several cuts that float into the ether. Still, it is a virtue in places, as there are moments — "On a Night Like This," "Something There Is About You," the lovely "Forever Young" — where it just gels, almost making the diffuse nature of the rest of the record acceptable.