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The first album from this legendary collaboration between Tom the nose Petty, Roy the shades Orbison, the quiet Beatle, fuckin Bob Dylan, and that guy who did "Don't Bring Me Down" starts with the smile-inducing "Handle With Care"****, a very popular single back half a lifetime ago in 1988 if you can imagine that. It would take a paragraph to explain the silly mess that is "Dirty World" so I'll present it in movie poster format:
Car parts as Double Entendre! Traveling Wilburys' Trampled Underfoot! Dylan's speak-sing is ridiculous! Red Bell Pepper! F-in Dirty World! Lynne dumps syrup all over everything! It's a fun listen every 20 years or so.
Actually, Lynne saves all the rockabilly grit for his own respectable "Rattled" - interesting. "Last Night"****, which sounds more than a little like "Ob La Di Ob La Da", could not possibly have any greater quantity of cowbell. "Not Alone Any More" is another respectable outing for Orbison, "Heading For The Light" is pretty good for Harrison. "Margarita" is mostly instrumental, but with some fine lead guitar. "Tweeter And The Monkey Man" is another half-ass Dylan story song. Actually this album doesn't seem to do him any favors. "Congratulations" would serve up some satisfying sour grapes if it came 10 years later. The album closes out with the memorable countryish single "End Of The Line"****.
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