“Love Sick” by Bob Dylan

"Love Sick" opens Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan's 30th studio album, from 1997, and it sets the mood before you've settled in: a minor-key love song whose narrator trudges through a world that has gone dead around him. Dylan cut it in January 1997 with Daniel Lanois producing and Mark Howard engineering, and with two drummers, Brian Blade and Jim Keltner, on the session.

The Dylan scholar Tony Attwood hears it as the lost-love song to end them all, and a strange way to begin a record, since it seems to start at the end. Columbia issued it as the album's second single in June 1998, spread over several CDs, some carrying the live take Dylan played at that year's Grammy Awards. It followed "Not Dark Yet" as a single, and "Things Have Changed" came after.

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