Very interesting, thanks.

I admit I'm biased being a massive Dylan fan but I'm well aware he has feet of clay, as do all "idols".

Some of his religious period stuff has been re-evaluated lately (some of the live performances in that period were pretty amazing) but he was really in a mad place in the eighties and this line from the linked interview says it all:

The battle of Armageddon is specifically spelled out: where it will be fought, and if you wanna get technical, when it will be fought. And the battle of the Armageddon definitely will be fought in the Middle East.

Ok Bob, ok.

I agree on "Blood on the Tracks"; one of the greatest albums of all time.

"Desire" is superb too and that came a year or two after Blood but is easily the equal of it. "Street Legal" was after that and got panned but is now generally regarded as the last album of his golden period.

Still, it all goes to show how religion can be hard to tell apart from madness in a lot of cases.