The Rewind Button is a group blogging project that I’m participating in. We’re taking on Rolling Stone‘s Top 40 albums of all time and writing our own reviews of them. There will be a new album and review each Thursday (or there about).

I’m sick of Dylan. Specifically, I’m sick of Blood on the Tracks. It’s the first album of this project that I couldn’t wait for it to finish so I could listen to something more agreeable with me.

After multiple listens, I still find it tedious and plodding. It doesn’t move me, and I feel no connection to it. Perhaps it’s one of those albums that I’m not ready for in my life. That’s happened before. Ten years from now I may declare this the best album humankind has produced. I’m allowed to change. But for now, I’m going to switch this one off and listen to something else, something that inspires a creative impulse in me. Blood on the Tracks makes me want to shut down and shut out the world.

Maybe that’s what it’s meant to do.

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