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  15 Desire (1976)</h1>
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  18 <p class="recdate">Recorded July 1975<br />
  19 Released Jan 16 1976</p>
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  23 <ol>
  24   <li><a href="hurricane.htm">Hurricane</a></li>
  25   <li><a href="isis.htm">Isis</a> </li>
  26   <li><a href="mozambique.htm">Mozambique</a> </li>
  27   <li><a href="one_more_cup_of_coffee.htm">One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)</a> </li>
  28   <li><a href="oh_sister.htm">Oh, Sister </a></li>
  29   <li><a href="joey.htm">Joey</a> </li>
  30   <li><a href="romance_in_durango.htm">Romance in Durango</a></li>
  31   <li><a href="black_diamond_bay.htm">Black Diamond Bay</a> </li>
  32   <li><a href="sara.htm">Sara</a> </li>
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  35 <p>Outtakes:
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  37 </p><ul>
  38   <li><a href="rita_may.htm">Rita May</a></li>
  39   <li><a href="../28_biograph/abandoned_love.htm">Abandoned Love</a></li>
  40   <li><a href="../34_bootleg/golden_loom.htm">Golden Loom</a></li>
  41   <li><a href="../34_bootleg/catfish.htm">Catfish</a></li>
  42 </ul>
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  44 <div id="intro">
  45 <h2>Introductory remarks</h2>
  46     <h3>Eyolf &Oslash;strem</h3>
  47 <p>In a <a href="http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2009/02/things-twice-the-book-now-in-html/#comment-42999" name="Things Twice">blog post</a>, Oisin O&rsquo;Faghain suggested I write the following about <em>Desire</em>:</p>
  48 <p class="quote">I think Dylan&rsquo;s best singing is on <em>Desire</em> and Rolling Thunder (the latter being the superior).</p>
  49 <p class="quote"><em>Desire</em> stories (yes i just used &ldquo;story&rdquo; as a verb) the crap out of other story albums and yet its &rsquo;stories&rdquo; contain questionable biographies &rsquo;Joey&rdquo;, &rsquo;Sara&rdquo;, &rsquo;Hurricane&rdquo;.</p>
  50 <p class="quote">It is (chord-speaking) probably his most straightforward album with major and minor chords, no capo and all standard tuning. A departure, but also lyrically it is a stand-alone album (probably closest to John Wesley Harding) because its lyrics are not complex but yet remain opaque: &rsquo;Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore&rdquo;.</p>
  51 <p>So I did. I think I have a thing or two to say about <em>Desire</em> myself, eventually, but until I do, the above stands, with the possible qualification that it should start: &ldquo;While I listen to <em>Desire</em>, I tend to forget that Dylan&rsquo;s best singing happened a few years later, during the Gospel period.&rdquo;</p>
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