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Bob Dylan - Saved

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Saved      Artist : Bob Dylan      List Price : $9.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-08-20      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (65 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Saved      awsome      Rating:      i think this record is beautiful,who ever doesent like needs to get there ears checked and there heart.     Customer Reviews for Saved Cd      The Gospel According to Bob Dylan Part 2 of 3      Rating:      In 1980 Bob Dylan was nearly twenty years into his career and I was five years from being born. People like me, of the information overload epoch, have a lot of flotsam to wade through when forming opinions; we have voices screaming at us from every direction (a lot of them attempting to be Bob Dylan themselves). From what I gather in my readings concerning Bob Dylan's career after Desire and before Time Out of Mind, you would think the guy would have met less controversy had he released a pro-Hitler album instead of a few pro-Jesus albums. For music enthusiasts, time has been friendlier to the Christian-era Dylan than the actual era. Unfortunately, our godless digital society still finds believing in God more appalling than our own materialist greed. If Slow Train Coming was revelatory and Shot of Love song-based, Saved finds Mr. D right in the heart of the chapel. These songs follow the structures of a hymnal rather than the radio. Granted, they are still very blues-infused and fronted by Dylan's unmistakable gruff, but it is clear the man did some studying into gospel and hymnal song patterns when putting this collection together. The liner notes to Shot of Love feature a quote from Matthew; Saved, on the other hand, feature a line from the prophecy of Jeremiah foretelling the coming of the Messiah. This arrangement is appropriate. Whereas Shot of Love finds Dylan relishing in love of humanity through example of Christ, Saved is Dylan in an eschatological fervor. Awaiting the saving grace of Christ and celebrating his resurrection and eventual return, Dylan and his band raise the steeple with rambling choruses, evangelical lyrics, and a gospel groove that would intimidate any cynic. Saved opens with "A Satisfied Mind", a song by Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes, and we hear Dylan humbling himself before a higher power and might be asking "Why?". Dylan promptly answers with the stomping title track where he admits he was indeed "Saved by the blood of the lamb". "Covenant Woman" is a slow one with impressive organ work (a church organ sound marks this album throughout). Saved features two songs where Dylan directly addresses the listener in a preachy fashion, "What Can I Do For You?" and "Are You Ready". These songs have the listener examine their own lives, and, take the Jesus out of it, they still work on a moral scale. "Solid Rock" next to "Pressing On" is probably the albums strongest point. These are two heavy handed numbers, complete with excellent guitar, keyboard, choir vocals, and of course, the lyrics of Mr. Dylan himself. Already stated was that this album was very Church-oriented in fashion, nowhere is this more evident than on "In The Garden". This song sounds like it could come straight from the wooden pew of your neighborhood church. Dylan speaks of scripture, describing the last days of Jesus, his death, and his resurrection, mentioning Peter and Nicodemus along the way. "In the Garden" is like the Easter vigil in this tabernacle of an album. Many critical complaints about Dylan works such as Saved aren't targeting the lyrical content as much as they are the lyrical quality. People don't want reflections on the Bible from Dylan, they want "Hurricane", "Rolling Stone", or "Blowing in the Wind". Saved, for many listeners, might not suffer so much from bad lyrics as it does from a lack of lyrics. It is true that, while these songs often delve into six minutes, he uses much less verbiage than he had in his heyday. However, there is something to be said about a man who can say more with few words than he can with an arsenal. For all the stories he had told, all the places he had taken us, Dylan revealed little about the man himself on his "classic" works. On Saved, though he may get Pauline at times, Dylan tells more about himself than he ever had. He just needed a little help from the Lord.