Time Out Of Mind
by Bob Dylan

Time Out Of Mind by Bob Dylan
Year: 1997
Release date: 1997-09-30
Overall rank: 708th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 626 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1997 (16th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (120th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (708th)

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Bob Dylan bestography

Time Out Of Mind is ranked 8th best out of 80 albums by Bob Dylan on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited which is ranked number 29 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,897.

Bob Dylan album bestography « Higher ranked (508th)
The Times They Are A-Changin'
This album (708th)
Time Out Of Mind
Lower ranked (861st) »
John Wesley Harding

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Time Out Of Mind track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 708th | 1990s rank: 120th | 1997 rank: 16th

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Average Rating: 
79/100 (from 626 votes)
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04/10/2026 03:33 RetoK  Ratings distribution  10276/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.0/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.

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80/100
From 04/23/2025 08:57 | #308679
Album Of the year at the 1998 Grammys
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80/100
From 04/09/2023 19:34 | #295899
Dylan sempre brilha quando se aproxima do blues.
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65/100
From 11/16/2022 11:33 | #291328
Not a huge fan of this Dylan record as I always found it to drag on so much especially with that 16 minute closing song which I find is completely unnecessary. It all seems to lack a bit of energy and feel quite lacklustre a lot of the time. The instrumentation is pretty repetitive and gets predictable after a while making it feel even more elongated to me as I know what is coming. I do enjoy the vocal on here a lot and I can appreciate the tone difference he has gone for on this record which works very well in places. Make You Feel My Love is also one of his greatest ever songs. Overall, this album never really clicked with me and I just find myself waiting for it to end whenever I listen to it.
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70/100
From 09/18/2022 16:51 | #289776
For me it was good but not great Dylan but I need to give it more rotation
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50/100
From 06/20/2022 07:36 | #286531
Really enjoyed this project. Love Sick was my favourite
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From 05/05/2022 17:39 | #284980
Album of the year, 1997. just ahead of Urban Hymns, OK Computer, The Boatman's Call.
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85/100
From 03/12/2022 11:56 | #282765
A great album from Uncle Robert.
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85/100
From 01/11/2020 21:39 | #246726
So good!
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95/100
From 01/01/2019 18:26 | #228485
Una obra maestra, que colocaría incluso entre los 5 mejores discos de Bob Dylan, y que crece con cada escucha.
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85/100
From 07/18/2018 02:55 | #218411
Very atmospheric album with great production by Daniel Lanois. There are some wonderful bluesy sounds on this one and "Make You Feel My Love" is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard by Mr. Dylan. This is definitely one of Bob's best efforts.
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