 20thmaine  | 31 Aug 2011 5:40 a.m. PST |
Now, that's a eral toughie. Probably best to go for top 3, no ? Bringing it all back home
Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the tracks |
| Historicalgamer | 31 Aug 2011 5:55 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 31 Aug 2011 5:59 a.m. PST |
Really ? Not even Christmas in the heart ? |
| BundyTime | 31 Aug 2011 6:05 a.m. PST |
Highway 61 Revisited
The Times They are a-Changing
Blood on the Tracks |
| Chris B | 31 Aug 2011 6:05 a.m. PST |
Hah! Christmas in the Heart is great ammo for people that claim Dylan sucks. They're wrong, but it is awful. I vote Blonde on Blonde. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 31 Aug 2011 6:05 a.m. PST |
Meh, they are okay, but no favorites. |
| BundyTime | 31 Aug 2011 6:07 a.m. PST |
6:05 am
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| Shagnasty | 31 Aug 2011 6:26 a.m. PST |
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| 20thmaine | 31 Aug 2011 6:32 a.m. PST |
In which case I'm surprised you have no love for American Beauty or Workingman's Dead. |
| Skrapwelder | 31 Aug 2011 6:35 a.m. PST |
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| John the OFM | 31 Aug 2011 6:48 a.m. PST |
Any of the Travelling Wilburys ones. He didn't get to sing as much on these. |
| 20thmaine | 31 Aug 2011 6:51 a.m. PST |
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 x42brown | 31 Aug 2011 7:15 a.m. PST |
Some songs but no albums come to mind. x42 |
 Saginaw | 31 Aug 2011 7:23 a.m. PST |
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| Connard Sage | 31 Aug 2011 7:33 a.m. PST |
Not a huge Dylan fan. Blood on the Tracks was OK. |
| richarDISNEY | 31 Aug 2011 7:37 a.m. PST |
None.
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Lee Brilleaux  | 31 Aug 2011 8:09 a.m. PST |
Bringing it all Back Home
Highway 61 revisited
Desire |
| 20thmaine | 31 Aug 2011 8:11 a.m. PST |
Blood on the Tracks was OK. OK ? OK ? Yeah, ok for a work of genius. Tsch ! |
 miniMo | 31 Aug 2011 8:17 a.m. PST |
The man with the iron nose, hmm. He wrote good songs. Could I just randomly pick any of the cover albums instead? |
| Mister X | 31 Aug 2011 8:27 a.m. PST |
Highway 61 Revisited is my favorite. |
| Historicalgamer | 31 Aug 2011 8:44 a.m. PST |
His songs are great if someone else (with a decent voice) sings. |
| Plynkes | 31 Aug 2011 8:45 a.m. PST |
The only one I've heard is Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. It's quite good, but about half of it is the same song done again in slightly different ways. That's soundtrack albums for you, I guess. |
| Spreewaldgurken | 31 Aug 2011 9:12 a.m. PST |
Last year I rediscovered "Infidels." Damn, that's a good album. |
| 20thmaine | 31 Aug 2011 10:41 a.m. PST |
First Dylan I bought. It was much underated at the time, but seems to have grown in stature. I liked it. |
| Oddball | 31 Aug 2011 12:42 p.m. PST |
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| nycjadie | 31 Aug 2011 3:06 p.m. PST |
Blood on the Tracks is one of the greatest albums. I still listen to it every week. Buckets of Rain is my fave on that album. A close second would be Time Out of Mind. Dark Dylan. Bootleg Volume 5 – Rolling Thunder Revue is my favorite non-studio album. Would have loved to have seen one of those concerts. |
| Slartibartfarst | 31 Aug 2011 11:26 p.m. PST |
Highway 61 Revisited, he threw away the accuostic guitar and plugged in the amp, his music was never the same |
| 20thmaine | 01 Sep 2011 2:50 a.m. PST |
Picked up the acoustic guitar again on a number of occassions though. "World gone wrong" and "good as I been to you" come to mind |
| brave face | 01 Sep 2011 12:44 p.m. PST |
How to pick just one (for any major artist)?" maybe Blonde On Blonde. or maybe Blood On the Tracks. |
| religon | 01 Sep 2011 1:07 p.m. PST |
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| Martin Rapier | 01 Sep 2011 2:47 p.m. PST |
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| Etranger | 01 Sep 2011 7:53 p.m. PST |
Of his recent stuff, Modern Times showa that His Bobness can still write a decent tune. Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde or Blood on the Tracks would be the top 3. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 02 Sep 2011 3:01 a.m. PST |
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| CeruLucifus | 02 Sep 2011 10:59 a.m. PST |
It's hard to choose between Freewheeling and Highway 61. I find the early Dylan most interesting, although there are several aspects to it. The stream of social consciousness songs really rock my world and are brilliant rock and roll, even if they were considered folk at the time. The pop singles, purely as songs, are generally superior when covered by people with better voices. Still Dylan's versions are instructive and we should not be without them. His love songs are sometimes perfect expressions of what he meant to say at the time, but haven't always aged well since by modern standards the young Dylan was quite sexist, verging on misogynist. (In that era it was perfectly normal for a traveling singer to take it for granted he would find women where he went and leave them behind when he left, and to sing about doing so, but, well, there you have it.) The later longer material with jams, longer songs, really doesn't do much for me. The radicalism of it being electric doesn't sound so radical many years later, and to me anyway, it seems like he just takes longer to say less. Such a brilliant artist deserves many fans of his whole career, and since he has them, I don't feel guilty about only choosing the bits I like the most. |
