Bob Dylan: Infidels (Columbia)
John Swenson, Record, February 1984
BOB DYLAN is the most consistently misunderstood figure in pop music history. Dylan's approach to songwriting, and to his public persona in general, has always been perverse enough to suggest an apparent meaning that throws you off the track of what he is actually saying. Those who took his conversion to fundamentalist Christianity on Slow Train Coming and Saved at face value a couple of years ago may well have been confused by the subsequent Shot Of Love, in which he eulogized Lenny Bruce and likened his need for religion to Bruce's need for heroin.
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