We are lucky enough to have excellent quality rough mixes of almost all the serious contenders for the album, taken from the bootleg Outfidel Intakes, which apparently received a recent 24-bit remaster by a fan using CEDAR mastering software (kudos to their fantastic job). The first step in my reconstruction is to fix the dated ’80s production and utilize alternate mixes for all of the songs.
Either way, that was the Infidels that was released, without Knopfler’s valuable final input. Why he did this, no one knows some believe Dylan made artistic choices that were intentionally counter-intuitive and contrary to his inner circle’s recommendations. He also rerecorded vocals for a number of tracks, specifically giving “Jokerman” a new vocal that sounds as if Dylan is falling asleep at the mic. It was at this point in time that “Foot of Pride” and “Blind Willie McTell”, the later unanimously hailed as one of the best songs of Dylan’s career let alone the decade, was dropped from the album and replaced by inane “Union Sundown”.ĭylan also helped himself to additional now-antiquated production giving the whole album the slick 1980s rock ‘gleam’ that makes Infidels sound incredibly dated. Dylan declined, insisting that his label needed the final mix immediately and he choose to create the final mix himself with the studio’s house engineer. Knopfler’s story was that he was forced to leave the sessions early because of touring obligations and offered to create a final mix of the album upon his return. At the conclusion of the sessions, Dylan and Knopfler had compiled a rough mix of an album that contained nine songs: “Blind Willie McTell”, “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight”, “Foot of Pride”, “I and I”, “Jokerman”, “Neighborhood Bully”, “License To Kill”, “Man of Peace” and “Sweetheart Like You.” And yes, it includes the unreleased full-band version of “Bind Willie McTell” which is a 50 per cent improvement in itself.ĭylan recorded a bulk of material for his supposed comeback album throughout April and May of 1983, new originals, random covers and aimless jams alike. This is a reconstruction of the album that Infidels could have been, utilizing alternate “drier” rough mixes and the early tracklist of the album. But after all these years, can Infidels be saved? Infidels could have been the best album of his post-Desire era and, while admittedly not a masterpiece, could have been on par with his much stronger albums John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline or Desire (or at least certainly superior to New Morning, Planet Waves or Street Legal anyways). What we got instead was stereotype mainstream early ’80s mixing and some of Dylan’s best songs of the decade left on the cutting room floor, mostly due to Knopfler’s early exit from the album, leaving Dylan to finish it himself and make rather disastrous creative choices. Infidels was intended as a return to his idiosyncratic poetic acrobatics and interesting song structures with a lean, meat-and-potatoes rock band production (in contrast to his overproduced slew of post-Desire albums)… Or so we thought. Coming off a trilogy of non-secular music that is frankly off-putting and of little inventive substance, Bob Dylan returned to the studio in 1983 with Dire Straits mastermind Mark Knopfler as producer to mark Dylan’s comeback album to secular music.
Thanks to soniclovenoize for the effort and for sharing the tracks on the net.īob Dylan, what the hell were you thinking? This is what we asked him all through the 1980s.
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