Album · 1983
Infidels
by Bob Dylan
Infidels is a 1983 folk rock album by Bob Dylan. It runs 8 tracks across 42 minutes.
Folk Rock · Rock · Heartland Rock
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- 8
- Tracks
- 42 min
- Runtime
- 129 bpm
- Tempo
- F minor
- Key
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8 tracks · 42 min
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Infidels is the twenty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in October 1983 by Columbia Records. Produced by Mark Knopfler and Dylan himself, Infidels is seen as his return to secular music, following a conversion to Christianity, three evangelical, gospel records and a subsequent return to a secular, culturally Jewish lifestyle. Though he has never abandoned religious imagery, Infidels gained much attention for its focus on more personal themes of love and loss, in addition to commentary on the environment and geopolitics. Christopher Connelly of Rollong Stone called those Gospel albums just prior to Infidels "lifeless", and saw Infidels as making Bob Dylan's career viable again. According to Connely and others Infidels is Dylan's best poetic and melodic work since Blood on the Tracks . It has been reported that reviews like these of Dylan's religious works depressed Mr. Dylan profoundly, upon which he has commented in one concert that I am only referred to as a "prophet" when I am a secular "prophet" (paraphrased).
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The critical reaction was the strongest for Dylan in years, almost universally hailed for its songwriting and performances. The album also fared well commercially, reaching #20 in the US and going gold, and #9 in the UK. Still, many fans and critics were disappointed that several songs were inexplicably cut from the album just prior to mastering—primarily "Blind Willie McTell", considered a career highlight by many critics, and not officially released until it appeared on The Bootleg Series Volume III eight years later.
In brief
- When was Infidels released?
- Infidels was released in 1983.
- How many tracks are on Infidels?
- Infidels has 8 tracks, with a runtime of 42 minutes.
- What genre is Infidels?
- Infidels is catalogued under Folk Rock, Rock, Heartland Rock.
- What BPM is Infidels?
- Infidels runs at a median tempo of 129 BPM across its tracks, most often in F minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Infidels?
- Listeners of Infidels also rate Abbey Road by The Beatles, Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones, Born in the U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen.
Infidels at a glance
- Label
- Columbia Records
- Produced by
- Mark Knopfler
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