History Music / OhMercy

%%* NiceHat: Dylan wears a straw hat on the back cover.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Oh Mercy''.]]

%%* BreakUpSong: "Most Of The Time"
%%--> ''Most of the time she ain't even in my mind''
%%--> ''I wouldn't know her if I saw her''
%%--> ''She's that far behind''
%%--> ''Most of the time I can even be sure''
%%--> ''If she was ever with me''
%%--> ''Or if I was ever with her?''

* ListSong: "Everything Is Broken" basically lists all kinds of things that are broken.

* NiceHat: Dylan wears a straw hat on the back cover.

%%* AsTheGoodBookSays:

* AsTheGoodBookSays:
** "Man In The Long Black Coat"
---> ''Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote''

** "Shooting Star"
---> ''All good people are praying''
---> ''It's the last temptation the last account''
---> ''The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount''

* BreakUpSong: "Most Of The Time"
--> ''Most of the time she ain't even in my mind''
--> ''I wouldn't know her if I saw her''
--> ''She's that far behind''
--> ''Most of the time I can even be sure''
--> ''If she was ever with me''
--> ''Or if I was ever with her?''
* BrickJoke: This amusing exchange in "What Was It You Wanted?"
--> ''What was it you wanted''
--> ''Could you say it again?''
--> ''I'll be back in a minute''
--> ''You can get it together by then.''
--> ''What was it you wanted?''
--> ''You can tell me I'm back''
--> ''We can start it all over''

* CrapsackWorld: "Political World"
--> ''We live in a political world''
--> ''Love don't have a place''
--> ''We live in a time where men commit crime''
--> ''And crime don't have a face''

* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: "The Disease Of Conceit"
--> ''Conceit is the disease that the doctors got no cure''
--> ''They've done a lot of research on it but what it is they're still not sure''
* HeelRealization: "What Good Am I?"

* OneManSong: "Man In The Long Black Coat".
* PoliceAreUseless: "Political World"
--> ''We live in a political world''
--> ''Wisdom is thrown in jail''
--> ''It rots in a cell''
--> ''Is misguided as hell''

* RecordNeedleScratch: "What Was It You Wanted?"
--> ''Has the record been breaking?''
--> ''Did the needle just skip?''
* RecordProducer: Daniel Lanois.

* StarsAreSouls: "Shooting Star"
--> ''Seen a shooting star tonight''
--> ''And I thought of you''
--> ''You were trying to break into another world''
--> ''A world I never knew''
--> ''I always kind of wondered if you ever made it through?''
--> ''Seen a shooting star tonight''
--> ''And I thought of you.''
* WalkingThePlank: "Political World"
--> ''We live in a political world''
--> ''Where mercy walks the plank''
* WarIsHell: "Political World"
--> ''We live in a political world''
--> ''Where peace is not welcome at all''
--> ''It's turned away from the door''
--> ''To wonder some more''
--> ''Or put up against the wall''

--> ''Somebody said from the Bible he'd quote''

--> ''Ring them bells so the world will know that God is one''
--> ''Oh the shepherd is asleep''
--> ''Where the willows weep''

--> ''All good people are praying''
--> ''It's the last temptation the last account''
--> ''The last time you might hear the sermon on the mount''
* BadassLongcoat: The title character in "Man In The Long Black Coat", obviously.

'''''Oh Mercy''''' is the twenty-sixth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1989. At the time it was well received by critics after a long period of weaker-reviewed albums and thus perceived as a comeback album. Many critics and Dylan fans regard it as his best album of TheEighties. The record is best remembered for the single "Everything Is Broken".

* ContinuityNod: In his "Chronicles Volume One" Dylan described "Political World" as "a catalogue of troubles... almost an update on "With God On Our Side" from ''Music/TheTimesTheyAreAChangin''.

** The line "We banged the drum slowly" in "Where Teardrops Fall" is a reference to Mark Harris' 1956 novel "Bang the Drum Slowly". The same song also quotes from the poem "RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue".

* BadassLongcoat: The title character in "Man In The Long Black Coat", obviously. Dylan also wears one on the back cover.

** The line "We banged the drum slowly" in "Where Teardrops Fall" is a reference to Mark Harris' 1956 novel "Bang the Drum Slowly". The same song also quotes from the poem "Roses are red, violets are blue".

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'''Oh Mercy''' is a 1989 album by Music/BobDylan, the 26th studio album in his catalogue. At the time it was well received by critics after a long period of weaker-reviewed albums and thus perceived as a comeback album. Many critics and Dylan fans regard it as his best album of TheEighties. The record is best remembered for the single "Everything Is Broken".

'''Tracklist'''

[[AC:Side One]]

[[AC:Side Two]]

!! ''Broken Tropes''

** "Ring Them Bells" namedrops St. Peter and St. Catherine.

--> ''Everytime you leave and go off someplace''