Infidels was the first secular record Bob Dylan recorded since Street Legal, and it's far more like a classicist Dylan album than that one, filled with songs that are evocative in their imagery and direct in their approach.
This is lean, much like Slow Train Coming, but its writing is closer to Dylan's peak of the mid-'70s, and some of the songs here -- particularly on the first side -- are minor classics, capturing him reviving his sense of social consciousness and his gift for poetic, elegant love songs.
For a while, Infidels seems like a latter-day masterpiece, but toward the end of the record it runs out of steam, preventing itself from being a triumph.
Still, in comparison to everything that arrived in the near-decade before it, Infidels is a triumph, finding Dylan coming tantalizingly close to regaining all his powers.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JokermanBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 06:19 | 14 MB | 38 MB |
| 2 | Sweetheart Like YouBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 04:35 | 10 MB | 26 MB |
| 3 | Neighborhood BullyBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 04:37 | 10 MB | 32 MB |
| 4 | License to KillBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 03:38 | 8 MB | 21 MB |
| 5 | Man of PeaceBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 06:32 | 14 MB | 42 MB |
| 6 | Union SundownBob Dylan | Bob Dylan, Clydie King | Play | 05:25 | 12 MB | 35 MB |
| 7 | I and IBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 05:12 | 11 MB | 30 MB |
| 8 | Don't Fall Apart on Me TonightBob Dylan | Bob Dylan | Play | 05:54 | 13 MB | 37 MB |
| 42 mins | 96 MB | |||||
| 42 mins | 266 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh Abbey | Engineer |
| 2 | Alan Clark | Guest Artist, Keyboards |
| 3 | Neil Dorfsman | Engineer |
| 4 | Sly Dunbar | Drums, Guest Artist, Percussion |
| 5 | Bob Dylan | Composer, Guitar, Harmonica, Keyboards, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals |
| 6 | Clydie King | Performer, Primary Artist, Vocals |
| 7 | Bill Kipper | Mastering |
| 8 | Mark Knopfler | Guest Artist, Guitar, Producer |
| 9 | Robbie Shakespeare | Bass, Guest Artist |
| 10 | Ian Taylor | Mastering, Mixing, Remixing |
| 11 | Mick Taylor | Guest Artist, Guitar |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |