Hello, hello, and welcome to the final look at Omercy. We've been revisiting Omercy over the last few episodes.

So if you're joining me for the first time in a while, go back and listen to the first part of these episodes and work away through them chronologically.

Because I think it does make a difference. The stuff we discuss in later episodes refers back to some stuff in earlier episodes.

So go back and listen to the earlier parts of oh mercy revisited it if you haven't done so already and as i say this is the final look at that album it's been nice going back to um to take it all in once again actually because i think it's just such an incredible record and um i'm sure people have fell up with me saying but i think it's um i think it's one of Dylan's best and I also think it's still even these days underrated even though you see loads of Dylan fans talking about how great it is on regular occasions online I still think it's a little

bit underrated maybe because it didn't really have a big breakout song like some Dylan albums

I mean most of the time seems to get a lot of recognition, doesn't it? Maybe man him a long black coat as well. But it didn't have a kind of make you feel my love that was turned into like a big hit, even though if it wasn't necessarily from Dylan himself. But yeah, I think it's still an amazing, amazing record, Omer Mercy. And I hope you've been enjoying revisiting it with me too.

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And let's, for the final time, revisit 1988.

Oh, Mercy.

And so we've come to the end of the road not only for Omercy but for this extra podcast.

Fittingly, O Mercy's ending is an illustration of something we've seen time and time again on this podcast.

Dylan's flair for an ending. Shooting Star, the album's final track, is as good an ending to a record as buckets of rain is to blood on the tracks or even

restless farewell is to the times they are are changing. It, like those other two songs, beautifully

encapsulates what the entire album has been about,

but moves the narrative on to some sort of conclusion.

In the song we have yet more questioning, like we've had all over this LP,

but it seems to be from a place of enlightenment, or at least a more settled place.

Gone is that angsty questioning of what good am I or the inability of acceptance on most of the time. Here on Shooting Star,

our narrator is much more subjective. They're much more level-headed about their situation.

In the second verse, Dylan sings, seen a shooting star tonight,

and I thought of me, if I was still the same, if I ever became what you wanted me to be.

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