Blonde on Blonde has my favorite song of all time in FOURTH TIME AROUND, but I think once in a while I find myself enjoying Desire and even Bringing It All Back Home (especially It's Alright Ma) a bit more in terms of listening straight through. TTAAC comes close though too, as Boots of Spanish Leather in in my top five.
In my, humble, ultimately worthless opinion, dylan is the greatest living musician in terms of his catalogue... Desire... Blood on the Tracks... Highway 61 revisited... Blonde on Blonde... Freewheelin'... Times they are a changin'... Love and Theft... Modern TImes... JOhn Wesley Harding... Bringing it all back home... Slow Train Coming... Time out of mind... Why even bother? Hero.
Too hard to say, too many to choose from. I can listen to pretty much all of his albums straight through. I love his bootleg releases as well, especially Vols. 1-3. But if I had to say 1 LP, I'll go w/........Ahh, I don't know...his self-titled '62 release.
Blood On The Tracks has to be my favourite. It's Dylan's most mature output by far as well as being the tightest and most consistently high quality. I love Blonde On Blonde but it just doesn't have the cohesion of Blood... Bringing It All Back Home comes a very close second, such a stunningly daring move away from what was expected of him, musically and lyrically
Nashville Skyline is my favourite. He had just finished all these amazing albums like Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61, and I don't think anyone could have seen it coming. His voice is completely different than other album, some of the songs are simple but amazingly catchy, others are just brilliant. Best album to put on in the middle of Sunday afternoon.
John Wesley Harding. Highway 61 and Blonde On Blonde are great albums, but a year later when people were expecting another album accompanied by another larger scale band, they find out it's mostly just him, a bass player and a drummer. That's it!
Some songs like I'll Be Your Baby Tonight and All Along The Watchtower sound much better simplified, and in a way it's also an ode to his acoustic days with asongs like St. Augustine probably working on an album like Freewheelin' or even Another Side.
Hey man, great topic..and much props for mentioning his early folk acoustic material, because it is IMO his best material, so genius, simple, beautiful, catchy and timeless. so yea i gotta say the best and also best album to start by is THE FREEWHEELIN BOB DYLAN..so many good songs (girl from the north country, dont think twice, hard rain's, corinna, masters of war, etc) I find it to be stronger then THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN. they are very similar but freewheelin wins. much respect BOB!
I never cared bout the dude, despite I like folk music. I never understood why people idolize him or call him the god of modern music, my care cup is as dry as the Sahara when people call me "not a real musician" for disliking Dylan.
Only song I DO like though is "Along The Watchtower", just because Hendrix covered it and reminds me of the fact that if there was no Dylan, there prob was no Hendrix. Only reason why I won't totally trash him whenever I get the opportunity.
highway 61 revisited. all the tracks are tied together into one great masterpiece. love ballad of a thin man and desolation row and tombstone blues. and don't forget highway 61 revisited.
my favourite and the one I would reccomend to a new fan are different, a new fan I'd give Bringing it all Back Home because of how it carries the best of both era, but my favourite is either Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks.
I admire how excited you sound throughout this review! And when you're skimming through the Blonde On Blonde tracklist, your facial expression almost matches that of a kid unwrapping a present on Christmas morning. I love this love for music and the way you keep your mind open. Cheers.
I suspect no Dylan fans will agree with me but my favorite Dylan album is 'Street Legal'... why street legal you ask? Because it's the only Dylan album that I really enjoy listening to every song on (and i mean every song).. Yes there are classic songs on quite a few Dylan albums that are arguably "better" compared song vs song but every one of those albums has songs that are nowhere near as honest passionate and memorable as the least of these songs, so Street Legal wins for consistency....
Bringing It All Back Home, hands down. Bringing It All Back Home is always overshadowed by its twin, Highway 61. Its a shame because it marks the beginning of Bob Dylan's "hipster-phase"--when he got weirder and edged further away from topical songs. Listen to it. "She Belongs to Me" kills me every time.
Time Out of Mind is my favorite. I didn't like his voice for the longest time until I heard "Love Sick". And then I just really got into the whole album, and it's usually the first record I know that's my favorite.
I started with the freeweeling bob dylan. Another side of bob dylan is great. fav songs are "its alright ma im only bleeding", "obviously 5 beleaviers" and "father of the night" as for why, because i interpret them to my life. its like he wrote them to touch my soul. But my favorite is john wesley harding because he went back to basics with musicians on it.
I can't say there is one bad track on Bringing It All Back Home. I love the mix between the electric and acoustic, blues rock and folk, and the political and the personal. It's just interesting hearing his transition into newer territory for the time. It's a great example of his versatility. Not to mention "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is my favorite song of all time.
Difficult question because everyone who has listened to all his releases (or at least to his studio albums) will have problems in answering. The man has a lot of different phases & Haynes understood that, so that the Dylan in Times They Are A-Changin' is different from the one in Bringing It All Back Home even though there is just a year that separates both albums & it persists in all his production. My favorite? I think it would be easier to say the one that i like less. But depends on my mood.
My favorite Dylan album is Blood On The Tracks. I think it has the best combination of short catchy tunes, but also has the incredible story telling of Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of or, his best tune, "Tangled Up In Blue" with its amazing rhyme structure. Add in a little bluesy tune ("Meet Me In The Morning"), the lonesomeness of "Simple Twist Of Fate" and all the other songs just tell amazing stories in 3-5 minutes.
I love Bob Dylan, and I LOVE K'naan and J. Period's tribute to him in their mixtape "The Messengers." Amazing mix of soul, rap, and bob dylan. Listen if you haven't!
Bringing it all Back Home and Blood on the tracks are my favorites. Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 are okay, but the way Bringing it all Back Home is set up is amazing. It just goes right into it, pure 2 minute rock and roll!!
Blonde on Blonde is easily my favorite just because its the only pre-motorcyclecrash release that was as big and absurd as his personality then. Bringing it all back home is the best to introduce people to Dylan because its catchy and mixes his best two periods together (60s electric and folk).
Now the deputy walk on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, but nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts. and the one eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn. come in she said i'll give you shelter from the storm.
Bob Dylan's pre-1980 catalogue is nearly flawless. But, again I agree you have to separate it between his "pre-electric" and "electric" phase as bad as that sounds. So for anyone listening to Dylan for the first time, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is essential material. After that, I would go for Bringing it All Back Home or if you're looking for something more dense try The Basement Tapes.
I'm gonna go with Bringing It All Back Home, for how it shows the transition between his acoustic and electric phase. Also becaus there are just some awesome songs on there - Mr. Tambourine Man, It's Alright Ma, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm, Outlaw Blues...
But goddamnit, it's so hard to choose. I love those three classic electric albums, as well as all the early acoustic stuff... Really, I think he hardly made any bad albums right up until the 80s.
@TomBandfield (continued) ... Apart from Self Portrait, 'Dylan' from 1973, and the woeful Live At Budokan. Then at the beginning of the 80s he went through his godawful christian phase... :|
@GenesisKnights Yeah, the godawful (pun DEFINITELY intended) ones I was mainly referring to were Saved and Shot Of Love... A sample lyric from the former album I’ve been saved By the blood of the lamb Saved By the blood of the lamb Saved Saved And I’m so glad Yes, I’m so glad I’m so glad So glad I want to thank You, Lord I just want to thank You, Lord Thank You, Lord *shudder* O.O
For me it's a 3 way split between Blood on the Tracks (honest, raw, moving love/hate songs), Blonde on Blonde (same reasons as you), and Bringing it all back home (SO many good songs on there. I particularly like love minus zero). If I had to pick one, it'd be blood on the tracks.
Ok, my favorite Dylan album is Blonde on Blonde and I think you covered that pretty well (although my favorite tracks from it are Visions of Johanna and Absolutely Sweet Marie.) My other favorite is probably Blood on the Tracks. Just a really great look at love and loss that you don't get often by Dylan. That's some real shit there. Like you can tell he really means what he says on that record.
@masterofscotland the times they are a changin, changed my mind on him, i fucking HATED dylan, for no reason really, bu theres somethin beautiful in that album. lyrics are just unreal
Thank you, PorroFirst! Mr. Tambourine Man is just such a versatile song! You can plug it in and turn up the volume, you can put the guitar away and slow it down to a lullaby's pace.
It's hard because of the different stages of Dylan, but my favourite might be Bringing It All Back Home, just a brilliant album of accousticness and electricness, the song Gates of eden is a personal favourite, the lyrics are so mesmerizing. But I also love Blood on The Tracks because its so moving and of course highway 61 and blonde on blonde as they are just amazing lyrically and musically. Freewheelin and Times they are a changing are must listens and i really like desire and basement tapes!
"The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert" Just the best songs of "Blond on Blond" and "Hightway 61 Revisited' combined and improved coz of live sound. Don`t know why but Vol. 4 is the only albom i regulary listen. Maybe not the best stuff to start with. I started with "Time out of mind" and it still means a lot to me, but not even in top 5. (ps. try "She's Your Lover Now";p)
man so many tracks but my fave and I rocomend is Times they are changing, I like it cause he sings about how you are young enjoy it because times do change, another one is Mr. Tamborine man he just sings about how much he loves music and feels free, and my very best, gots to be It aint me babe, that's just to good, he sings about how woman sometimes want the perfect man, but that aint me babe B) love bob dylan for ever lol B)
Bob Dylan is the Greatest, its hard to say his greatest Freewheelin' is a classic, Bringing It all Back Home and Blood on the Tracks have brilliant tracks, Blonde on Blonde is brilliant too.
The true purpose of the song really becomes clear in the final verse, where Dylan talks about about watching the disaster on the news. He shrugs their tragedy as 'just another hard luck story that you're gonna hear'. It's so profound.
There's a track towards the end of 'Desire' called 'Black Diamond Bay'. It's about some people dying in a volcano eruption. It's full of great lines that give really vivid, humanistic descriptions of the lives of these people. 'The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner Thinking of forbidden love.' - for example.
Why: not too sure. I've always been a huge fan of electric dylan. And its the sound ive grown to know and love. plus its a double LP. Gotta get as much Dylan as possible
I would recommend The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan to someone who hasn't listened to much Dylan. I think the album has a more well rounded feeling than some of his other albums. Blonde On Blonde is great and Bringing It All Back Home.
Robbie Robertson of the Band plays guitar on a few tracks on blonde on blonde. If you haven't seen the last waltz by martin scorcese, I highly recommend it. It is perhaps one of the best music performances captured on tape of all time.
NASHVILLE SKYLINE, cos it's light, subtle, easy and fluid, and his weird voice on that record really goes well with country, plus the opener is a duet with Johnny Cash!
Then Bring It All Back Home, love the melodies on it and the lyrics are like a big punch in the face
A couple album reviews ago you were talking about how important sincerity in the music was to you and that's what you were looking for. Blood on the tracks, to me, is one of the most sincere album I have ever listened to and will probably always be my favorite
I always loved Blonde on Blonde (most of his releases are amazing), but I have to say all my favorite tracks are Highway 61 revisited. And I will always love Bringing It All Back Home for It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding). I could actually define that song as one of the first rap songs. His lyrics are unbelievably good on that song. Dylan changed my life.
The Times They Are A-Changing for its poetry and political significance. People should start with Freewheelin' because of its beauty through simplicity. Highway 61 Revisited because it pissed so many people off. And Blonde on Blonde for all the reasons you said.
Bringing It All Back Home is good as an introduction to his 60's stuff with one side electric and one side acoustic. Plus it has some of his masterpieces on there.
@GenesisKnights I do, I really hate his last record Together Through Life, It's like torture to me, the lyrics are corny painful and boring, his voice is pathetic and awful, it's just sound like a bunch of old Irish dudes playing blues in a shitty pub (wait a minute that actually sound too cool to sound like Together Through Life)
@pierreerichexum It's a shame. I enjoy it, fair enough... It's not inspired and yes it's probably his worst in years... But it's still a Dylan album for the fans. The accordion was a bit much, that's all.
I'm not shamed to say I liked his music when he went loopy with Self Portrait or his religious stuff. :3
As you said, people only want to remember him when he was young. Though why is that? Is it some kind of trend that goes around? Is his older stuff not as good? I'm just asking for curiosity sakes, seeing as I'm a fairly new Dylan fan.
@GenesisKnights As you said, people only want to remember him when he was young. Though why is that? Is it some kind of trend that goes around? Is his newer stuff not as good? I'm just asking for curiosity sakes, seeing as I'm a fairly new Dylan fan.
@eduardo13rocha Well.. as you progress through Dylan's music catalogue... you will find out.
He pretty much goes in different directions which kind of confused people, but in my opinion that's the Dylan I like. That charismatic guy who knows no bounds, if he wants to put a shit album out, he'll do it.. but you know the humour behind it because he wants you to laugh.
Self Portrait for example, you honestly think he wanted people to take it seriously? Look at the front cover and stare at it. :P
I'm laughing right now because I thought this was going to be about Dylan from making the band. I assumed all five of his LP's were going to be self titled.
For someone unfamiliar with Bob Dylan (heaven forfend!), I'd recommend Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). Some of his best work on this album: "All I Really Want To Do," "I Shall Be Free No. 10," "It Ain't Me Babe."
he is my HERO! wrote a multiple genre paper on him, 15 pages, and an A+!!!
he's important because he defined every FUCKIN generation, voiced every possible view, and has the most influence on every genre, even if you don't see it. Blonde on Blonde is still a masterpiece, it was the closest thing to touching a golden sound that many artists wanted to do that day. Lyrically, poetically, and just his attitude and presence is so, DYLAN. that's the only way to explain him, DYLAN.
I can pick apart each album song by song, and Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, the Basement Tapes and even Modern Times come close, among many others.
But then Like a Rolling Stone comes on and I get an indescribable feeling, something I rarely feel being a lover of all genres of music. Nothing compares to me personally, you just can't beat that album. And I'm saying that purely out of personal preference.
01; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. I love it because it's powerful, and masters of war just rings with raw emotion.
02; Bringing it All Back Home; Maggie's Farm, Outlaw Blues, Subterranean Home-Sick Blues, amazing flawless songs.
03; Nashville Skyline, cause I'm a sap and I like the sappy songs that are beautifully done by Dylan, even the jarring duet with Cash on the album's first track (a re-recording of Girl From the North Country) is awesome.
Favorite album: Blood on the Tracks [absolutely his only album with 0 throwaway tracks (for me). This release is especially poignant if you've gone through a rough relationship.]
Favorite song: Mr. Tambourine Man [one of the first Dylan songs I ever heard and continues to be the one I go back to the most. The lyrics are unbelievable and the song just sticks with me.]
Recommended to new listeners: Freewheelin' ["Blowin' in the Wind" and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". Enough said.]
Blonde on Blonde has my favorite song of all time in FOURTH TIME AROUND, but I think once in a while I find myself enjoying Desire and even Bringing It All Back Home (especially It's Alright Ma) a bit more in terms of listening straight through. TTAAC comes close though too, as Boots of Spanish Leather in in my top five.
BigTuna1994 1 week ago
In my, humble, ultimately worthless opinion, dylan is the greatest living musician in terms of his catalogue... Desire... Blood on the Tracks... Highway 61 revisited... Blonde on Blonde... Freewheelin'... Times they are a changin'... Love and Theft... Modern TImes... JOhn Wesley Harding... Bringing it all back home... Slow Train Coming... Time out of mind... Why even bother? Hero.
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RyWagner2 1 month ago
Too hard to say, too many to choose from. I can listen to pretty much all of his albums straight through. I love his bootleg releases as well, especially Vols. 1-3. But if I had to say 1 LP, I'll go w/........Ahh, I don't know...his self-titled '62 release.
RedAndGoldSF49 1 month ago
Blood On The Tracks has to be my favourite. It's Dylan's most mature output by far as well as being the tightest and most consistently high quality. I love Blonde On Blonde but it just doesn't have the cohesion of Blood... Bringing It All Back Home comes a very close second, such a stunningly daring move away from what was expected of him, musically and lyrically
TheDjymn 1 month ago
Nashville Skyline is the most played Dylan album on my iTunes.
joepulliam1993 2 months ago
I've really enjoyed Nashville Skyline and Blonde on Blonde the most.
smallbimbo 2 months ago
I'm not a Dylan fan but, I do respect him for how much he's influenced music today
ZmbZ96 2 months ago
Nashville Skyline is my favourite. He had just finished all these amazing albums like Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61, and I don't think anyone could have seen it coming. His voice is completely different than other album, some of the songs are simple but amazingly catchy, others are just brilliant. Best album to put on in the middle of Sunday afternoon.
Paroxysm77 4 months ago
John Wesley Harding. Highway 61 and Blonde On Blonde are great albums, but a year later when people were expecting another album accompanied by another larger scale band, they find out it's mostly just him, a bass player and a drummer. That's it!
Some songs like I'll Be Your Baby Tonight and All Along The Watchtower sound much better simplified, and in a way it's also an ode to his acoustic days with asongs like St. Augustine probably working on an album like Freewheelin' or even Another Side.
somynamesdan 5 months ago
boots of spanish leather is amazing..its melody is almost identical to girl from the north country though...best songs on each of the albums
shaihuludxx 5 months ago
Hey man, great topic..and much props for mentioning his early folk acoustic material, because it is IMO his best material, so genius, simple, beautiful, catchy and timeless. so yea i gotta say the best and also best album to start by is THE FREEWHEELIN BOB DYLAN..so many good songs (girl from the north country, dont think twice, hard rain's, corinna, masters of war, etc) I find it to be stronger then THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN. they are very similar but freewheelin wins. much respect BOB!
shaihuludxx 5 months ago
I never cared bout the dude, despite I like folk music. I never understood why people idolize him or call him the god of modern music, my care cup is as dry as the Sahara when people call me "not a real musician" for disliking Dylan.
Only song I DO like though is "Along The Watchtower", just because Hendrix covered it and reminds me of the fact that if there was no Dylan, there prob was no Hendrix. Only reason why I won't totally trash him whenever I get the opportunity.
DarkAngelEU 6 months ago
highway 61 revisited. all the tracks are tied together into one great masterpiece. love ballad of a thin man and desolation row and tombstone blues. and don't forget highway 61 revisited.
appleAddict240872 6 months ago 2
Times They Are a-Changin' for sure.
tottenham19 6 months ago
my favourite and the one I would reccomend to a new fan are different, a new fan I'd give Bringing it all Back Home because of how it carries the best of both era, but my favourite is either Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks.
JJtheEskimo 6 months ago
boots of spanish leather. The one.
JJtheEskimo 6 months ago
I admire how excited you sound throughout this review! And when you're skimming through the Blonde On Blonde tracklist, your facial expression almost matches that of a kid unwrapping a present on Christmas morning. I love this love for music and the way you keep your mind open. Cheers.
marksthaman 7 months ago
blonde on blonde! favourite track is definitely visions of johanna. the lyrics are just so gorgeous
ggGosper 7 months ago
Bringing it All Back Home, mang
noctiferbirmingham 7 months ago
I suspect no Dylan fans will agree with me but my favorite Dylan album is 'Street Legal'... why street legal you ask? Because it's the only Dylan album that I really enjoy listening to every song on (and i mean every song).. Yes there are classic songs on quite a few Dylan albums that are arguably "better" compared song vs song but every one of those albums has songs that are nowhere near as honest passionate and memorable as the least of these songs, so Street Legal wins for consistency....
rokkinla 7 months ago
To clarify further, why Highway 61 is his best LP by far is because it simply brought about the fusion of rock and folk. And it's done so well.
Also, Dylan taking on other topics is a great, great challenge - and he stands up to it like a boss.
Malkmusianful 7 months ago
Highway 61 Revisited ftw
Malkmusianful 7 months ago
you should do more of these. Like.."fav Beatles LP" or "fav Who LP" or some other artist with a large discography.
jfitz1431 7 months ago
Bringing It All Back Home, hands down. Bringing It All Back Home is always overshadowed by its twin, Highway 61. Its a shame because it marks the beginning of Bob Dylan's "hipster-phase"--when he got weirder and edged further away from topical songs. Listen to it. "She Belongs to Me" kills me every time.
jbstinton88 7 months ago
Hard to say, but my favorite Dylan song is Girl From the North Country.
jvthatsme 8 months ago
New Morning! Criminally underrated! It's got such a low-key and laid-back vibe. Plus you can tell he's really having fun on that record.
Delaneyableful 8 months ago
Time Out of Mind is my favorite. I didn't like his voice for the longest time until I heard "Love Sick". And then I just really got into the whole album, and it's usually the first record I know that's my favorite.
lilswaggy93 8 months ago
I started with the freeweeling bob dylan. Another side of bob dylan is great. fav songs are "its alright ma im only bleeding", "obviously 5 beleaviers" and "father of the night" as for why, because i interpret them to my life. its like he wrote them to touch my soul. But my favorite is john wesley harding because he went back to basics with musicians on it.
Roberthenryii 8 months ago
freewheelin'. the version of girl from the north country on that album is one of the greatest things ever recorded
BeauSylvester47 8 months ago
I can't say there is one bad track on Bringing It All Back Home. I love the mix between the electric and acoustic, blues rock and folk, and the political and the personal. It's just interesting hearing his transition into newer territory for the time. It's a great example of his versatility. Not to mention "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is my favorite song of all time.
magglesrevolution 8 months ago
I'ma be that boring guy who says Highway 61 revisited on Blonde on blonde is the best.
1349j 8 months ago
Blonde on Blonde is Dylan's masterpiece and probably my favourite of his, but Blood On The Tracks comes close! The man is a genius!
MrDylanRecords 8 months ago
Dude you didnt even mention "Blood on the Tracks!!" My favorite
hippiesmurphy 8 months ago
U FORGOT TO SAY VISIONS OF JOHANNA!!!!!!!
Cannon216 8 months ago
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theskyisflying 8 months ago
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arguably greatest artist of all time
instantkarma519 8 months ago
DESIRE because it is fucking pure beauty
letmeloginyoucunt 8 months ago
Difficult question because everyone who has listened to all his releases (or at least to his studio albums) will have problems in answering. The man has a lot of different phases & Haynes understood that, so that the Dylan in Times They Are A-Changin' is different from the one in Bringing It All Back Home even though there is just a year that separates both albums & it persists in all his production. My favorite? I think it would be easier to say the one that i like less. But depends on my mood.
FacetheCritic 8 months ago
This might be kind of cheating but I love the basement tapes/music from big pink
peterrvarga 8 months ago
Blood on the Tracks was his best.
HipHopiz4Real 8 months ago
My favorite Dylan album is Blood On The Tracks. I think it has the best combination of short catchy tunes, but also has the incredible story telling of Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of or, his best tune, "Tangled Up In Blue" with its amazing rhyme structure. Add in a little bluesy tune ("Meet Me In The Morning"), the lonesomeness of "Simple Twist Of Fate" and all the other songs just tell amazing stories in 3-5 minutes.
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Blood on the tracks...it speaks for itself.
TheSethIkrass 8 months ago
Blood on the tracks...it speaks for itself
TheSethIkrass 8 months ago
THANK YOU for saying With God On Our Side
fuzzytongue0 8 months ago
Freewheelin'
fuzzytongue0 8 months ago
Not a huge fan but I love Subterranean Homesick Blues and I like the first half of Bringing it all Back Home.
vinylthis 8 months ago
I love Bob Dylan, and I LOVE K'naan and J. Period's tribute to him in their mixtape "The Messengers." Amazing mix of soul, rap, and bob dylan. Listen if you haven't!
pretzelspine 8 months ago
I want to love him but i just can't.
TrialandError1223 9 months ago
John wesley harding!
svanteball 9 months ago
Freewheelin' (Bob Dylan's Dream)
Blonde On Blonde (4th Time Around)
Blood On The Tracks (Shelter From The Storm)
JayDeeDonuts10 9 months ago
I only had Highway 61 and then I watched "No Direction Home" this week. Dude is so awesome, getting a lot more of his stuff now.
MrCrim123 9 months ago
Bringing It All Back Home is diverse, interesting, and perfection
ElTiant 9 months ago
Bringing it all Back Home and Blood on the tracks are my favorites. Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 are okay, but the way Bringing it all Back Home is set up is amazing. It just goes right into it, pure 2 minute rock and roll!!
idespisereading 9 months ago
I'm in complete agreement on Blonde on Blonde. Acoustically I'm drawn to Another Side of Bob Dylan,
boonzo 9 months ago
I'll never be able to choose between The Freewheelin Bob Dylan and Another Side of Bob Dylan;.
Aniland 9 months ago
i like some of his earlier stuff
chaosinorderrr 9 months ago
No favorite. I think his music is boring.
captainbadd 9 months ago
Blood of the Tracks.
DesolationRow0 9 months ago
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
andyxkaragiozi 9 months ago
Blonde on Blonde is easily my favorite just because its the only pre-motorcyclecrash release that was as big and absurd as his personality then. Bringing it all back home is the best to introduce people to Dylan because its catchy and mixes his best two periods together (60s electric and folk).
technolust14 9 months ago
Now the deputy walk on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, but nothing really matters much, it's doom alone that counts. and the one eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn. come in she said i'll give you shelter from the storm.
soursweettooth 9 months ago
even the president of the us has to stand naked
BLACKGURU635 9 months ago
Blood on the Tracks for me too.
mk741 9 months ago
Bob Dylan's pre-1980 catalogue is nearly flawless. But, again I agree you have to separate it between his "pre-electric" and "electric" phase as bad as that sounds. So for anyone listening to Dylan for the first time, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is essential material. After that, I would go for Bringing it All Back Home or if you're looking for something more dense try The Basement Tapes.
GReck4 9 months ago
you are awsome, what a great video
Led1995Zeppelin 9 months ago
is it wrong to only like one genre of music your entire life?
Ir0nF1st924 9 months ago
@Ir0nF1st924 Not wrong, but uninteresting because it's in essence, the same thrill.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
People attacking the jesus years are forgetting Slow Train Coming is a pretty good album
starcraft108 9 months ago
@starcraft108 I love that album. Shot of Love is pretty good too.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
Times They Are A Changin' definitely. The title song itself is a masterpiece.
fishnet4media 9 months ago
Another Side of Bob Dylan- mostly personal reasons. occupied my ears during a difficult time. filled mostly with confessional heartwrenching songs
Highway 61 Revisited- every song is a classic. This record is just immense; makes everything feel alive and glowing
frankie1833 9 months ago
I'm gonna go with Bringing It All Back Home, for how it shows the transition between his acoustic and electric phase. Also becaus there are just some awesome songs on there - Mr. Tambourine Man, It's Alright Ma, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm, Outlaw Blues...
But goddamnit, it's so hard to choose. I love those three classic electric albums, as well as all the early acoustic stuff... Really, I think he hardly made any bad albums right up until the 80s.
TomBandfield 9 months ago
@TomBandfield (continued) ... Apart from Self Portrait, 'Dylan' from 1973, and the woeful Live At Budokan. Then at the beginning of the 80s he went through his godawful christian phase... :|
Sorry, off topic I know :P
TomBandfield 9 months ago
@TomBandfield Infidels and Oh Mercy are decent.
Self Portrait is tame and hilarious.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
TomBandfield 9 months ago
@TomBandfield Yes. Saved in my opinion is his worst album, but I could enjoy it.. When I have to.
But Shot of Love isn't too bad, at least he sounds like he's trying, which is nice to hear.
I don't understand where he was coming from, but whatever. Maybe I need to read his autobiography.
P.s. I guess that means you hate his Christmas album? :D
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
@GenesisKnights Yes. Yes I do. Have you *seen* the video for It Must Be Santa?! :| :P
TomBandfield 9 months ago
@TomBandfield Hehe.
I don't think you quite grasp that Dylan is a funny guy :-)
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
For me it's a 3 way split between Blood on the Tracks (honest, raw, moving love/hate songs), Blonde on Blonde (same reasons as you), and Bringing it all back home (SO many good songs on there. I particularly like love minus zero). If I had to pick one, it'd be blood on the tracks.
pra05rt 9 months ago
S/t, just a great blues album.
diediedie999 9 months ago
Ok, my favorite Dylan album is Blonde on Blonde and I think you covered that pretty well (although my favorite tracks from it are Visions of Johanna and Absolutely Sweet Marie.) My other favorite is probably Blood on the Tracks. Just a really great look at love and loss that you don't get often by Dylan. That's some real shit there. Like you can tell he really means what he says on that record.
FdUpHearts 9 months ago
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FdUpHearts 9 months ago
Bringing Blonde On the Freewheeling Tracks Revisited
cdiSPAGHETTI 9 months ago
Blonde On Blonde. I'm not his biggest fan, but my middle name is Dylan because of this guy.
pizzarules22 9 months ago 10
I'm one of those guys that can't listen to dylan because my ears just don't agree with
his voice.....
masterofscotland 9 months ago
@masterofscotland the times they are a changin, changed my mind on him, i fucking HATED dylan, for no reason really, bu theres somethin beautiful in that album. lyrics are just unreal
EmeraldStag92 7 months ago
Bringing It All Back Home
ajmitch95 9 months ago
Bringing it all back home its a solid album the whole way through and the last two tracks are probably my favorite songs by him.
JesusLoveMonster 9 months ago
Blood on the Tracks!
whiplash1499 9 months ago 16
Nashville Skyline and John Wesley Harding. I love the country rock Dylan.
Of course desire and blonde on blonde are great too.
IAteYourTV 9 months ago
nope
DanAran162 9 months ago
To be honest, I wholly expected this to be about Dylan Carlson. luls...
LiftYourSkinnyFist 9 months ago
@TheControlsBand Lol, The Wombats haha
QuarantineThePast 9 months ago
One Two Many Mornings! Bob Dylan's 115th Dream!!
cubyman23 9 months ago
Thank you, PorroFirst! Mr. Tambourine Man is just such a versatile song! You can plug it in and turn up the volume, you can put the guitar away and slow it down to a lullaby's pace.
lolsistrata 9 months ago
oh and like a rolling stone from bootleg vol 4 is the greatest live performance ever, for me
starcraft108 9 months ago
It's hard because of the different stages of Dylan, but my favourite might be Bringing It All Back Home, just a brilliant album of accousticness and electricness, the song Gates of eden is a personal favourite, the lyrics are so mesmerizing. But I also love Blood on The Tracks because its so moving and of course highway 61 and blonde on blonde as they are just amazing lyrically and musically. Freewheelin and Times they are a changing are must listens and i really like desire and basement tapes!
starcraft108 9 months ago
it has to be blood on the tracks. so moving. Tangled up in blue is huge
concussiongod 9 months ago
Blood On The Tracks. Those lyrics on that album really hits home for me.
EarBudz123 9 months ago
"The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert" Just the best songs of "Blond on Blond" and "Hightway 61 Revisited' combined and improved coz of live sound. Don`t know why but Vol. 4 is the only albom i regulary listen. Maybe not the best stuff to start with. I started with "Time out of mind" and it still means a lot to me, but not even in top 5. (ps. try "She's Your Lover Now";p)
ZaFrostPet 9 months ago
OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY OH MERCY
stevenmorrisEP 9 months ago
@stevenmorrisEP I love that album. So atmospheric and nice :3
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
I love Blood On The Tracks and Desire
FolkMetalPiper 9 months ago
We mourned a death? a Death In Fire?
FolkMetalPiper 9 months ago
man so many tracks but my fave and I rocomend is Times they are changing, I like it cause he sings about how you are young enjoy it because times do change, another one is Mr. Tamborine man he just sings about how much he loves music and feels free, and my very best, gots to be It aint me babe, that's just to good, he sings about how woman sometimes want the perfect man, but that aint me babe B) love bob dylan for ever lol B)
ukhouseRJ 9 months ago
hmmm i think Bringing It All Back Home is my favorite
AphoticAgony 9 months ago
Bob Dylan is the Greatest, its hard to say his greatest Freewheelin' is a classic, Bringing It all Back Home and Blood on the Tracks have brilliant tracks, Blonde on Blonde is brilliant too.
eaterHP 9 months ago
pre 70's Blonde on Blonde, the highway, after that I love Desire and Blood on the tracks, so I tie for Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks
ThisISHappanin 9 months ago
freewheelin' cause i like his guitar :D and his voice. and i like the album art :D hi fantano.
LivingwithoutAir912 9 months ago
Either that song or 'I want you' from Blonde on Blonde.
It's bubble gum pop that makes me want to fuck anything that moves.
regularjon 9 months ago
+ The melody is divine.
regularjon 9 months ago
Cont.
The true purpose of the song really becomes clear in the final verse, where Dylan talks about about watching the disaster on the news. He shrugs their tragedy as 'just another hard luck story that you're gonna hear'. It's so profound.
regularjon 9 months ago
There's a track towards the end of 'Desire' called 'Black Diamond Bay'. It's about some people dying in a volcano eruption. It's full of great lines that give really vivid, humanistic descriptions of the lives of these people. 'The soldier and the tiny man were crouched in the corner Thinking of forbidden love.' - for example.
regularjon 9 months ago
Blonde on Blonde (fuck yeah)
Why: not too sure. I've always been a huge fan of electric dylan. And its the sound ive grown to know and love. plus its a double LP. Gotta get as much Dylan as possible
mazurchris 9 months ago
I would recommend The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan to someone who hasn't listened to much Dylan. I think the album has a more well rounded feeling than some of his other albums. Blonde On Blonde is great and Bringing It All Back Home.
peliccanfly 9 months ago
Robbie Robertson of the Band plays guitar on a few tracks on blonde on blonde. If you haven't seen the last waltz by martin scorcese, I highly recommend it. It is perhaps one of the best music performances captured on tape of all time.
peliccanfly 9 months ago
Blonde on Blonde. Dylan himself said it best: "that wild mecury sound".
buckleygeneration 9 months ago
The freewheelin'
why? because I enjoy it, music is a feeling, I like the feeling. It's that simple.
cMONSTERitd 9 months ago
0+2=1 is a great dylan album. Why do they call me mr. happy also. And not to forget: the worldhood of the world as such.
kingandkongo 9 months ago
NASHVILLE SKYLINE, cos it's light, subtle, easy and fluid, and his weird voice on that record really goes well with country, plus the opener is a duet with Johnny Cash!
Then Bring It All Back Home, love the melodies on it and the lyrics are like a big punch in the face
pierreerichexum 9 months ago
@pierreerichexum Nashville Skyline is amazing. Have it on Lp.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
Blood on the Tracks
A couple album reviews ago you were talking about how important sincerity in the music was to you and that's what you were looking for. Blood on the tracks, to me, is one of the most sincere album I have ever listened to and will probably always be my favorite
riggsblitzkrieg 9 months ago
>music
>art
PungPhooie 9 months ago
I always loved Blonde on Blonde (most of his releases are amazing), but I have to say all my favorite tracks are Highway 61 revisited. And I will always love Bringing It All Back Home for It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding). I could actually define that song as one of the first rap songs. His lyrics are unbelievably good on that song. Dylan changed my life.
SushiGoat 9 months ago
blood on the tracks...i dont know why, but that album speaks to me on a different level
deathlikesilence710 9 months ago
blonde on blonde and times they are a changin
<3
sockostealshearts 9 months ago
Blood On The Tracks probably. That album is so fucking honest, I still get chills every time I listen to it.
Aisle3Comedy 9 months ago
You should do more question of the weeks
gregcro55 9 months ago
Blood on the Tracks. It got me through high school (along with some NMH).
gamexprt1 9 months ago
The Times They Are A-Changing for its poetry and political significance. People should start with Freewheelin' because of its beauty through simplicity. Highway 61 Revisited because it pissed so many people off. And Blonde on Blonde for all the reasons you said.
Dylan is a living legend!
stewyjmu 9 months ago
Blood on the tracks is great too, my favorite albums are: Bringing it all back home, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61
downrodeo2112 9 months ago
Bringing It All Back Home is good as an introduction to his 60's stuff with one side electric and one side acoustic. Plus it has some of his masterpieces on there.
TheVideoEnthusiast 9 months ago
FOL KUH?
Why?
TehChiken 9 months ago
Not many people talk about his recent stuff. :-(
GenesisKnights 9 months ago 5
@GenesisKnights I do, I really hate his last record Together Through Life, It's like torture to me, the lyrics are corny painful and boring, his voice is pathetic and awful, it's just sound like a bunch of old Irish dudes playing blues in a shitty pub (wait a minute that actually sound too cool to sound like Together Through Life)
pierreerichexum 9 months ago
@pierreerichexum It's a shame. I enjoy it, fair enough... It's not inspired and yes it's probably his worst in years... But it's still a Dylan album for the fans. The accordion was a bit much, that's all.
I'm not shamed to say I liked his music when he went loopy with Self Portrait or his religious stuff. :3
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
@GenesisKnights MMh yeah why is that?
eduardo13rocha 9 months ago
@eduardo13rocha People only want to remember him in his young folk persona.
If you want to appreciate his artistry for as long as he's around, why not care and discuss his recent work too?
They're really good.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
@GenesisKnights
As you said, people only want to remember him when he was young. Though why is that? Is it some kind of trend that goes around? Is his older stuff not as good? I'm just asking for curiosity sakes, seeing as I'm a fairly new Dylan fan.
eduardo13rocha 9 months ago
@GenesisKnights As you said, people only want to remember him when he was young. Though why is that? Is it some kind of trend that goes around? Is his newer stuff not as good? I'm just asking for curiosity sakes, seeing as I'm a fairly new Dylan fan.
eduardo13rocha 9 months ago
@eduardo13rocha Well.. as you progress through Dylan's music catalogue... you will find out.
He pretty much goes in different directions which kind of confused people, but in my opinion that's the Dylan I like. That charismatic guy who knows no bounds, if he wants to put a shit album out, he'll do it.. but you know the humour behind it because he wants you to laugh.
Self Portrait for example, you honestly think he wanted people to take it seriously? Look at the front cover and stare at it. :P
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
@eduardo13rocha but in all seriousness, his recent stuff is brilliant. Especially "Love And Theft".
Some say "Time Out Of Mind", but Dylan didn't like the production on that and I can sort of relate with it.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
YAY!! Great pick. Blonde on Blonde. You win. You guessed the right one.
zach9899 9 months ago
SebastiAn - Total review, PLEASE
Phamone 9 months ago
Also, Mr Fantano should've talked about his work in recent years. It definitely bought him a surge of popularity.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
Love and Theft
Bringing It All Back Home
Blonde On Blonde
I chose a recent one because lyrically.. It's charming, funny, charismatic... And musically it is sublime.
The other two are kind of personal enjoyments. I do feel the political driven albums, but I prefer when he went wild with it :3
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
Dylan
and Dylan
Because he spits hot fire!
mana2432 9 months ago
John Wesley Harding! Gotta dig that stripped-down style!
LordNotis 9 months ago
Anybody like Time Out Of Mind? because i do
MrThefall3 9 months ago
@MrThefall3 Yes, that is amazing. Have it on Cassette lol.
GenesisKnights 9 months ago
My favourite Dylan album is that one at Starbucks... did you know that Spanish leather is not actually made from Spaniards? Well... it's not!
cnightingale9 9 months ago
I'm laughing right now because I thought this was going to be about Dylan from making the band. I assumed all five of his LP's were going to be self titled.
themanimal07 9 months ago
boots of spanish leather fav. dylan song
bananaphone83 9 months ago
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited
The Times They Are A-Changin
those are probably my top three, in no particular order
Gabiyoh 9 months ago
SEPTICFLESH THE GREAT MASS REVIEW PLEASE!!!!!
spidarz 9 months ago
For someone unfamiliar with Bob Dylan (heaven forfend!), I'd recommend Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). Some of his best work on this album: "All I Really Want To Do," "I Shall Be Free No. 10," "It Ain't Me Babe."
hsubnairb 9 months ago
I'd have to say my top five favorite Bob Dylan albums are:
1.Bringin' It All Back Home
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Blood on the Tracks
4. Nashville Skyline
5.Desire
Just because, you can't do wrong with those albums, and I love each atmosphere in them.
enyafreak2007 9 months ago
also positively 4th street is probably one of the best F U songs ever.
aidsgunz 9 months ago
he is my HERO! wrote a multiple genre paper on him, 15 pages, and an A+!!!
he's important because he defined every FUCKIN generation, voiced every possible view, and has the most influence on every genre, even if you don't see it. Blonde on Blonde is still a masterpiece, it was the closest thing to touching a golden sound that many artists wanted to do that day. Lyrically, poetically, and just his attitude and presence is so, DYLAN. that's the only way to explain him, DYLAN.
aidsgunz 9 months ago
Highway 61 Revisited.
I can pick apart each album song by song, and Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, the Basement Tapes and even Modern Times come close, among many others.
But then Like a Rolling Stone comes on and I get an indescribable feeling, something I rarely feel being a lover of all genres of music. Nothing compares to me personally, you just can't beat that album. And I'm saying that purely out of personal preference.
thatsgame2001 9 months ago
@theneedledrop SebastiAn's "Total" LP - **worth it** -
Geniusallen1 9 months ago
Can you review Low...C'mon its a really great slowcore album, it would mean soooooooo oo o o o o much to me, thanks.
bleedingums13 9 months ago
BLONDE ON BLONDE!
dirtycoffee22 9 months ago
only a pawn in their game all the way. I like the image it lays down of racism in the states at and before that time.
aaronmarsman 9 months ago
01; The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. I love it because it's powerful, and masters of war just rings with raw emotion.
02; Bringing it All Back Home; Maggie's Farm, Outlaw Blues, Subterranean Home-Sick Blues, amazing flawless songs.
03; Nashville Skyline, cause I'm a sap and I like the sappy songs that are beautifully done by Dylan, even the jarring duet with Cash on the album's first track (a re-recording of Girl From the North Country) is awesome.
theGodofDeath 9 months ago
hey he has my same birthday! and we're both lefties! just so much in common..
whw524 9 months ago
Blood on the Tracks!!!
jemarlow1 9 months ago
Favorite album: Blood on the Tracks [absolutely his only album with 0 throwaway tracks (for me). This release is especially poignant if you've gone through a rough relationship.]
Favorite song: Mr. Tambourine Man [one of the first Dylan songs I ever heard and continues to be the one I go back to the most. The lyrics are unbelievable and the song just sticks with me.]
Recommended to new listeners: Freewheelin' ["Blowin' in the Wind" and "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright". Enough said.]
SinsOfArcadia 9 months ago
The Times They Are A-Changin' The Times moves me emotionally like no other. The raw honesty and sentiment found on that record is very moving
jfitz1431 9 months ago
1. Desire
2.Blonde on Blonde
3.Blood on the Tracks
4.Highway 61
5.The Times are Changin
theone456 9 months ago