'Funk, Gutter..funk!'

You should check out Telephone Free Landslide Victory (the album Skinheads originally appeared on) if you haven't already. What a fun LP that is.

Right, that & the training scene are the things that have really lived on, I'd think.

Other way around?

I would think that franchise/soundtrack was a lot of folks' introduction to Hallelujah (although is it John Cale's cover in the movie?).

The Peppers did Search & Destroy? Life was somehow more carefree before I knew this.

Did (you) say make some fuck?

It's odd as I used to feel the same in regard to The Beatles in my younger years but now I gravitate much more to the first half of their career, almost without fail. Time may have blunted just how revolutionary their sound was then to a lot of folks, but it absolutely was incredible.

I can see why it resonated so deeply.

Yeah, I haven't heard it in years but I remember it being one of the few listenable things on there (a throaty, repetitive Kim vocal over a pleasant enough beat).

Terrific take indeed.

One of the few defensible knocks on Dylan imo might be some of his editing choices as far as deciding what made it to LP in numerous instances.

Ha, true enough (& I quite like Oh Mercy as well).

You might just be right about the Rolling Thunder period containing his greatest vocals. There was some first rate music in that period to be sure. For instance, I've always liked the transformation of A Hard Rain's Gonna Come into the celebratory stomper it became in recordings from that era.

I'd rank Desire ahead of Street Legal personally but I concur completely that it's his most underrated 1970s album.

It's funny, I still think 1960s Bob Dylan might be the best singer ever, with no qualifiers necessary. He absolutely slays with his phrasing seemingly at every turn & his voice wielded such power. There are certainly vocal highlights in his mid-1970s output as well. I remember my being taken aback when I bought…

It really is a great album although I feel like Daniel Lanois' production is a little too omnipresent in more than a few spots. Let's just say there's no doubt who produced this album, ha. The songwriting is top notch & I love Dylan's delivery throughout though.

You'd put Tempest in the top 5 of Dylan's entire discography? Or do you mean his late period (whatever your definition of that might be)?

Same!

Ta-dow!