From an interview with Rolling Stone:

“You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them,” he added. “There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static.”


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14467222/

I just read the news wire about what he said in the Rolling Stone interview :drool:

Bob Dylan was always looking for a "thin" sound. See, for example, "Blonde on Blonde."