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Desire | 
| Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 4565
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 92393
UPC: 827969239322
EAN: 0827969239322
ASIN: B00026WU50
Release Date: June 1, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Hurricane | | • | Isis | | • | Mozambique | | • | One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) | | • | Oh, Sister | | • | Joey | | • | Romance in Durango | | • | Black Diamond Bay | | • | Sara |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 This Record is Doggone Good April 10, 2008
Ken Douglas (The Coast)
Desire came out twelve days shy of a year after "Blood on the Tracks," but it wasn't a whole year without a new Dylan record, because The Basement Tapes came between them, though it was recorded something like eight years earlier. "Desire" is sort of new sound for Dylan as he is performing with the Rolling Thunder Review band and Scarlett Rivera's violin adds a haunting sound throughout.
"Hurricane" the lead off song marks kind of a return of Dylan to social commentary. Dylan did the song, because he was convinced of Mr. Carter's innocence. The song was first recorded with Emmylou Harris doing the vocal with Dylan, like she does on the other songs on the record, but apparently Colombia thought the song was libelous, so Dylan re-recorded it with Ronnie Blakely. I've heard both versions and the one used on the final release is a much better song. "Isis," is like a never ending story song that reminds me kind of "Idiot Wind." I love it, my favorite song on the record is "Black Diamond Bay." It tells a story of a Pacific Island that is destroyed by a volcano. The people on the island all react differently and when the narrator hears about it on the evening news, he gets up and gets another beer. He doesn't care and boy is there a lot of that going around. This is a superb record and one of Dylan's top sellers. Probably the reason for that is because it is so good.
 Despite some gems this is a mournful, sluggish album from Dylan March 28, 2008
Peter Hoogenboom (New Zealand)
"Desire" (1976) is a mixed bag. "Hurricane" is an effective protest song and "Sara" is justly famous but much of the rest of the album is mournful, sluggish, and curiously unmoving. The mechanical "Joey" at 11 minutes long is a real test of patience.
Sprawling Mythological Journey November 26, 2007
MythMaker (PA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Desire" is a truly epic album. Recalling the works of Carl Jung, Robert Graves (White Goddess), James Frazer (The Golden Bough), William Blake and the Beat Poets, Dylan weaves a dense tapestry of images and words. The narratives are dreamlike and elusive, like primitive folk-tales. Benefiting greatly from a recent remastering, this once dreary sounding recording returns with a tight, crisp, 'live' sound. One of the richest, deepest, and evocative rock albums ever recorded. Highlights: Isis, Black Diamond Bay, Sara, Oh Sister.
 Dylan Returned November 18, 2007
Hawkeye (Arizona)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
After Blood on the Tracks, Dylan followed it up with Desire and his return from musical obscurity was complete with the album that spawned the Rolling Thunder Revue. Most of the reviewers take Joey with a certain amount of surprise, but not me. I think Joey is Dylan as satirist, after all, how many bad guys have ended up as folk heroes, and why can't Crazy Joe be included in with this crowd? Sara has to be Dylan at his most depressing best with a plaintive, agonizing love song to his wife as the marriage is breaking up. While I suspect that the Dylan purists will cringe, with Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Hard Rain you have the essential Bob Dylan of the 70's with music that has withstood the test of time just as strongly as the music of Bob Dylan the 60's folkie. I'll take him both ways without regret.
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