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| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r6448/review|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r6448/review|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2Score = {{Rating-Christgau|B}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=169 |title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 169 |first=Robert |last=Christgau |work=robertchristgau.com |accessdate=10 September 2011}}</ref>
| rev2Score = {{Rating-Christgau|B}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=169 |title=Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 169 |first=Robert |last=Christgau |work=robertchristgau.com |access-date=10 September 2011}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref>
| rev3Score = B–<ref>[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,313768,00.html Entertainment Weekly review]</ref>
| rev4 = [[MusicHound]]
| rev4 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev4Score = B−<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ew.com/article/1991/03/29/bob-dylans-discography/|title=Bob Dylan's discography|website=Ew.com|access-date=Aug 8, 2024}}</ref>
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| rev4Score = 1.5/5<ref>{{cite book|last1=Graff|first1=Gary|last2=Durchholz|first2=Daniel (eds)|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|edition=2nd|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|p=371}}</ref>
| rev5 = [[MusicHound]]
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| rev5Score = 1.5/5<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|edition=2nd|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/371 371]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/371}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev6score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA262&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false |last1=Brackett|first1=Nathan|last2=with Hoard|first2=Christian (eds) |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Fireside|location=New York, NY |year=2004 |accessdate=August 22, 2015|p=262|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
|rev6score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA262 |editor-last1=Brackett|editor-first1=Nathan|editor-last2=Hoard|editor-first2=Christian |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Fireside|location=New York, NY |year=2004 |access-date=August 22, 2015|page=262|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20071002033450/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/albums/album/99586/review/5941740/knocked_out_loaded |archivedate=2007-10-02 |title=Bob Dylan: Knocked Out Loaded : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Anthony |last=DeCurtis |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/albums/album/99586/review/5941740/knocked_out_loaded |date=1986-09-11 |work=web.archive.org |accessdate=10 September 2011}}</ref>
| rev7Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071002033450/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/albums/album/99586/review/5941740/knocked_out_loaded |archive-date=2007-10-02 |title=Bob Dylan: Knocked Out Loaded : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Anthony |last=DeCurtis |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/albums/album/99586/review/5941740/knocked_out_loaded |date=1986-09-11 |url-status= dead |access-date=10 September 2011}}</ref>
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'''''Knocked Out Loaded''''' is the 24th studio album by American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], released on July 14, 1986 by [[Columbia Records]].
'''''Knocked Out Loaded''''' is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], released on July 14, 1986 by [[Columbia Records]].


The album was received poorly upon release, and is still considered by some critics to be one of Dylan's least-engaging efforts. However, the 11-minute epic "[[Brownsville Girl]]", co-written by [[Sam Shepard]], has been cited as one of his best songs by some critics.<ref>Gray, ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', 95-100</ref> Sales for ''Knocked Out Loaded'' were weak, as it peaked at {{thinspace|No.| 53}} on U.S. charts and {{thinspace|No.| 35}} in the UK.
The album was received poorly upon release, and is still considered by some critics to be one of Dylan's least-engaging efforts. However, the 11-minute epic "[[Brownsville Girl]]", co-written by [[Sam Shepard]], has been cited as one of his best songs by some critics.<ref>Gray, ''The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia'', 95-100</ref> Sales for ''Knocked Out Loaded'' were weak, as it peaked at {{thinspace|No.| 53}} on U.S. charts and {{thinspace|No.| 35}} in the UK. The album's highest chart position was in Norway, where it peaked at No. 9.


==Composition==
==Composition==
The album includes three [[cover versions|cover songs]], three collaborations with other songwriters, and two solo compositions by Dylan. Most of the album was recorded in the spring of 1986, although recording or mixing work on one track, "Got My Mind Made Up", reportedly occurred in June. Several tracks from the album used overdubbing to build on instrumental tracks from 1984 and 1985 sessions.
The album includes three [[cover versions|cover songs]], three collaborations with other songwriters and two solo compositions by Dylan. Most of the album was recorded in the spring of 1986, although recording or mixing work on one track, "Got My Mind Made Up", reportedly occurred in June. Several tracks from the album used overdubbing to build on instrumental tracks from 1984 and 1985 sessions.


One song, "Maybe Someday", paraphrases a line from [[T. S. Eliot|T. S. Eliot's]] poem ''[[Journey of the Magi]]'': Eliot's "And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly" becomes in Dylan "Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns".
One song, "Maybe Someday", paraphrases a line from [[T. S. Eliot|T. S. Eliot's]] poem ''[[Journey of the Magi]]'': Eliot's "And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly" becomes in Dylan "Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns".
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==Cover art==
==Cover art==


The cover art is a reworking of the January 1939 cover of [https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7157/6810207955_e252d13711_z.jpg Spicy Adventure Stories].
The cover art is a reworking of the January 1939 cover of ''[https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7157/6810207955_e252d13711_z.jpg Spicy Adventure Stories]''.


==Reception==
==Reception==
The album earned mostly negative reactions, with only a rewritten version of an outtake ("New Danville Girl'", retitled "Brownsville Girl") recorded during the ''[[Empire Burlesque]]'' sessions, receiving uniform praise. [[Robert Christgau]] called it "one of the greatest and most ridiculous of [Dylan's] great ridiculous epics."
The album earned mostly negative reactions, with only a rewritten version of an outtake ("New Danville Girl'", retitled "Brownsville Girl") recorded during the ''[[Empire Burlesque]]'' sessions, receiving uniform praise. [[Robert Christgau]] called it "one of the greatest and most ridiculous of [Dylan's] great ridiculous epics."


"''Knocked Out Loaded'' is ultimately a depressing affair," wrote [[Anthony DeCurtis]] in his review published in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, "because its slipshod, patchwork nature suggests that Dylan released this LP not because he had anything in particular to say, but to cash in on his 1986 tour. Even worse, it suggests Dylan's utter lack of artistic direction." In the Howard Sounes book ''Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan'', it is reported that Dylan said "if the records I'm making only sell a certain amount anyway, then why should I take so long putting them together?"
"''Knocked Out Loaded'' is ultimately a depressing affair," wrote [[Anthony DeCurtis]] in his review published in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, "because its slipshod, patchwork nature suggests that Dylan released this LP not because he had anything in particular to say, but to cash in on his 1986 tour. Even worse, it suggests Dylan's utter lack of artistic direction." In the Howard Sounes book ''Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan'', it is reported that Dylan said "if the records I'm making only sell a certain amount anyway, then why should I take so long putting them together?"


Dylan has played few songs from this album in concert; "Driftin' Too Far From Shore", with 14 performances (all but one in 1988), is the most frequently performed. Four songs remain unplayed, while the other three have together been aired only five times.
Dylan has played few songs from this album in concert; "Driftin' Too Far from Shore", with 14 performances (all but one in 1988), is the most frequently performed. Four songs remain unplayed, while the other three have together been aired only five times.


In recent years the album has gained a cult following among some Dylan fans who believe it is one of his least-understood works,<ref>{{cite web
In recent years the album has gained a cult following among some Dylan fans who believe it is one of his least-understood works,<ref>{{cite web
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|length2 = 4:00
|title3 = Driftin' Too Far from Shore
|title3 = Driftin' Too Far from Shore
|writer3 = Bob Dylan
|writer3 = Dylan
|length3 = 3:39
|length3 = 3:39
|title4 = [[Precious Memories (hymn)|Precious Memories]]
|title4 = [[Precious Memories (hymn)|Precious Memories]]
|writer4 = Traditional; arranged by Bob Dylan
|writer4 = Traditional; arranged by Dylan
|length4 = 3:13
|length4 = 3:13
|title5 = Maybe Someday
|title5 = Maybe Someday
|writer5 = Bob Dylan
|writer5 = Dylan
|length5 = 3:17
|length5 = 3:17
|total_length = 17:23
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{{track listing
{{track listing
|headline = Side two
|headline = Side two
|title1 = [[Brownsville Girl]]
|title1 = [[Brownsville Girl]]
|writer1 = Bob Dylan, [[Sam Shepard]]
|writer1 = Dylan, [[Sam Shepard]]
|length1 = 11:00
|length1 = 11:00
|title2 = Got My Mind Made Up
|title2 = Got My Mind Made Up
|writer2 = Bob Dylan, [[Tom Petty]]
|writer2 = Dylan, [[Tom Petty]]
|length2 = 2:53
|length2 = 2:53
|title3 = Under Your Spell
|title3 = Under Your Spell
|writer3 = Bob Dylan, [[Carole Bayer Sager]]
|writer3 = Dylan, [[Carole Bayer Sager]]
|length3 = 3:58
|length3 = 3:58
|total_length = 17:51
}}
}}


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
* [[Bob Dylan]] – [[guitar]], [[harmonica]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[Singing|vocals]], [[record producer|production]]
* [[Bob Dylan]] – [[guitar]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[Singing|vocals]], [[record producer|production]]
* [[Peggi Blu|Peggie Blu]] – [[Backing vocalist|background vocals]]
* [[Peggi Blu]] – [[Backing vocalist|background vocals]]
* Majason Bracey – background vocals
* Majason Bracey – background vocals
* [[Clem Burke]], [[Anton Fig]], Mike Berment, Milton Gabriel, [[Don Heffington]], Bryan Parris, [[Stan Lynch]], Raymond Lee Pounds – [[Drum kit|drums]]
* [[Clem Burke]], [[Anton Fig]], Mike Berment, Milton Gabriel, [[Don Heffington]], Bryan Parris, [[Stan Lynch]], Raymond Lee Pounds – [[Drum kit|drums]]
* [[T Bone Burnett]], [[Tom Petty]], Ira Ingber, [[Mike Campbell (American musician, born 1950)|Mike Campbell]], [[Jack Sherman (guitarist)|Jack Sherman]], [[David A. Stewart]], [[Ronnie Wood]] – guitar
* [[T Bone Burnett]], [[Tom Petty]], Ira Ingber, [[Mike Campbell (musician)|Mike Campbell]], [[Jack Sherman (guitarist)|Jack Sherman]], [[David A. Stewart]], [[Ronnie Wood]] – guitar
* [[Carolyn Dennis]] – background vocals
* [[Carolyn Dennis]] – background vocals
* [[Steve Douglas (saxophonist)|Steve Douglas]] – [[saxophone]]
* [[Steve Douglas (saxophonist)|Steve Douglas]] – [[saxophone]]
* [[Howie Epstein]], James Jamerson Jr., [[John McKenzie (musician)|John McKenzie]], Vito Sanfilippo, Carl Sealove – [[bass guitar]]
* [[Howie Epstein]], [[James Jamerson, Jr.]], [[John McKenzie (musician)|John McKenzie]], Vito Sanfilippo, Carl Sealove (Brownsville Girl), Jon Paris – [[bass guitar]]
* Lara Firestone – background vocals
* Lara Firestone – background vocals
* Keysha Gwin – background vocals
* Keysha Gwin – background vocals
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* April Hendrix-Haberlan – background vocals
* April Hendrix-Haberlan – background vocals
* Dewey B. Jones II – background vocals
* Dewey B. Jones II – background vocals
* Phil Jones – [[congas]]
* [[Phil Jones (musician)|Phil Jones]] – [[congas]]
* [[Al Kooper]], Vince Melamed, Patrick Seymour, [[Benmont Tench]] – keyboards
* [[Al Kooper]], Vince Melamed, Patrick Seymour, [[Benmont Tench]] – keyboards
* Steve Madaio – [[trumpet]]
* Steve Madaio – [[trumpet]]
* Queen Esther Marrow – background vocals
* [[Queen Esther Marrow]] – background vocals
* Larry Mayhand – background vocals
* Larry Mayhand – background vocals
* Larry Meyers – [[mandolin]]
* Larry Meyers – [[mandolin]]
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* Crystal Pounds – background vocals
* Crystal Pounds – background vocals
* Madelyn Quebec – background vocals
* Madelyn Quebec – background vocals
* Pamela Quinlan – background vocals
* Daina Smith – background vocals
* Daina Smith – background vocals
* Maia Smith – vocals
* Maia Smith – vocals
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* Britt Bacon – [[Audio engineering|engineering]]
* Britt Bacon – [[Audio engineering|engineering]]
* Judy Feltus – engineering
* Judy Feltus – engineering
* [[Greg Fulginiti]] – [[Audio mastering|mastering]]
* Don Smith – engineering
* Don Smith – engineering
* George Tutko – engineering
* George Tutko – engineering
{{div col end}}


==Notes==
==Notes==
{{Reflist|30em}}
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[https://www.biography.com/musician/bob-dylan Bob Dylan Biography], biography.com


{{Bob Dylan}}
{{Bob Dylan}}

{{Authority control}}


[[Category:1986 albums]]
[[Category:1986 albums]]

Latest revision as of 23:04, 31 December 2024

Knocked Out Loaded
A painting of a woman in a bikini holding a water jug over her head to use as a weapon against a man who is wearing a bandolero and hat while throttling another man
Studio album by
Bob Dylan
ReleasedJuly 14, 1986 (1986-07-14)
RecordedApril–June 1986
GenreRock
Length35:18
LabelColumbia
ProducerBob Dylan
Bob Dylan chronology
Empire Burlesque
(1985) 		Knocked Out Loaded
(1986) 		Down in the Groove
(1988)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Robert ChristgauB[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[4]
MusicHound1.5/5[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Rolling Stone[7]

Knocked Out Loaded is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 14, 1986 by Columbia Records.

The album was received poorly upon release, and is still considered by some critics to be one of Dylan's least-engaging efforts. However, the 11-minute epic "Brownsville Girl", co-written by Sam Shepard, has been cited as one of his best songs by some critics.[8] Sales for Knocked Out Loaded were weak, as it peaked at No. 53 on U.S. charts and No. 35 in the UK. The album's highest chart position was in Norway, where it peaked at No. 9.

Composition

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The album includes three cover songs, three collaborations with other songwriters and two solo compositions by Dylan. Most of the album was recorded in the spring of 1986, although recording or mixing work on one track, "Got My Mind Made Up", reportedly occurred in June. Several tracks from the album used overdubbing to build on instrumental tracks from 1984 and 1985 sessions.

One song, "Maybe Someday", paraphrases a line from T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi: Eliot's "And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly" becomes in Dylan "Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns".

Cover art

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The cover art is a reworking of the January 1939 cover of Spicy Adventure Stories.

Reception

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The album earned mostly negative reactions, with only a rewritten version of an outtake ("New Danville Girl'", retitled "Brownsville Girl") recorded during the Empire Burlesque sessions, receiving uniform praise. Robert Christgau called it "one of the greatest and most ridiculous of [Dylan's] great ridiculous epics."

"Knocked Out Loaded is ultimately a depressing affair," wrote Anthony DeCurtis in his review published in Rolling Stone magazine, "because its slipshod, patchwork nature suggests that Dylan released this LP not because he had anything in particular to say, but to cash in on his 1986 tour. Even worse, it suggests Dylan's utter lack of artistic direction." In the Howard Sounes book Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, it is reported that Dylan said "if the records I'm making only sell a certain amount anyway, then why should I take so long putting them together?"

Dylan has played few songs from this album in concert; "Driftin' Too Far from Shore", with 14 performances (all but one in 1988), is the most frequently performed. Four songs remain unplayed, while the other three have together been aired only five times.

In recent years the album has gained a cult following among some Dylan fans who believe it is one of his least-understood works,[9] but critical consensus remains negative, with recent reviews from Salon.com to Rolling Stone calling it a "career-killer" and "the absolute bottom of the Dylan barrel" respectively.

The album was remastered and re-issued in 2013 as a part of The Complete Albums Collection, Vol. One box set.

Track listing

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Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Wanna Ramble"Little Junior Parker3:14
2."They Killed Him"Kris Kristofferson4:00
3."Driftin' Too Far from Shore"Dylan3:39
4."Precious Memories"Traditional; arranged by Dylan3:13
5."Maybe Someday"Dylan3:17
Total length:17:23
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Brownsville Girl"Dylan, Sam Shepard11:00
2."Got My Mind Made Up"Dylan, Tom Petty2:53
3."Under Your Spell"Dylan, Carole Bayer Sager3:58
Total length:17:51

Personnel

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Production

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  • Britt Bacon – engineering
  • Judy Feltus – engineering
  • Don Smith – engineering
  • George Tutko – engineering

Notes

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  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Knocked Out Loaded at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 169". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ "Bob Dylan's discography". Ew.com. Retrieved Aug 8, 2024.
  5. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 371. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  6. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York, NY: Fireside. p. 262. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
  7. ^ DeCurtis, Anthony (1986-09-11). "Bob Dylan: Knocked Out Loaded : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2007-10-02. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
  8. ^ Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, 95-100
  9. ^ "Knocked Out Loaded analysis". Weebly.com.
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