Every Bob Dylan Album Ranked Worst To Best

25. Oh Mercy (1989)

After a poor 80s run - Knocked Out Loaded and Down In The Groove both proving to be massive commercial and critical flops - Oh Mercy has hailed as yet another of Dylan's "comeback" records.

Recorded entirely at night because Dylan wanted to "get the right sound", Oh Mercy is nonetheless an over-produced album that occasionally buries the famous crooner in a sea of distorted and inconsistent sounds. This can be distracting, like with the single Most Of The Time, though the savage lyricism and breezy songs like Shooting Star and Where Teardrops Fall scream vintage Dylan.

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