Fav Dylan LPs?
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2011
- What are you favorite Bob Dylan albums? Why? I know many a critic, fan, and label PR person has talked about his legacy, but what does his music mean to you? Is it "amazing"? Is it "crap"? How do you feel, and what records make you feel that way.
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Blood on the tracks, it’s his most vulnerable his greatest vocal performance and probably top 10 albums of all time
Indeed
Agreed 100%. Track for track his best
It's a great conversational album. His son Jakob described it as his parents talking.
Time Out of Mind is more vulnerable
agreed, easily my fave
my fave is Kid A. he really "came into his own" on that one. His voice totally changed and he used synthesizers, it was epic!
Shitposting 11 years ago
@@ps1hagrid689 forecasting the shit if you will
Wow, Fantano really has been tortured with the same memes for over a decade.
Blonde on Blonde is a contender for my favorite album of all time. He creates this bizarre, romantic, surreal world, then leads us through it and introduces us to all of its inhabitants. Every time I listen to it I feel as if I'm plunging into the deepest parts of Dylan's mind that anyone's ever seen.
Is Blonde On Blonde still a contender for your favorite?
@@Cyaneth It's still one of my favorite albums, but wow, was I ever pretentious when I wrote this 12 years ago. Thanks for the flashback to when I was an 18-year-old who desperately wanted to sound intelligent.
@@DrSpikeSpiegel Hahaha awesome. Don’t sweat it, my display name for this channel is Set For Deletion because I want to erase all the evidence of my pretentious comments.
@@DrSpikeSpiegel I don't think that description sounded pretentious. Blonde On Blonde is easily one of my favourite albums and I think that description sounded fairly accurate.
Bringing it all back home is grossly underrated
I always thought that was one of his more critically adored albums
@@idontcareanymore7988 it is
Real
@@idontcareanymore7988yeah for it to be grossly underrated it has to be the greatest album of all time in that case
Cap
"Freewheelin " has always been my #1. Great acoustic , its rough and gritty vocals match the mood/ concept of the lyrics. Songs about love, war, friends, and society. All written by man barely 22 years old. It's an album to have on during a late night social drinkin party with friends.
Same here! A Hard Rain on it knocks me for six every time.
I can't believe no one's mentioned "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"! One of the epitomes of a Dylan masterpiece, imo. I love Maggie's Farm, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Positively 4th Street, Tangled up In Blue, Blown' In The Wind, and so much more.
5. Times They Are A-Changing
4. Bringing It All Back Home
3. Blonde on Blonde
2. Blood On The Tracks
1. Highway 61 Revisited
for suuuuuure
No Love and Theft?
also Time out of Mind is amazing
@@Nonesovile96 Fuck your shit
yes but switch the position of highway 51 and blonde on blonde
😠
1. Highway 61 Revisited. Probably my favorite rock album ever honestly. While all of Dylan's best albums take you on a journey, this album just captures that feeling better than any other album I've heard. Not a single weak track. Better yet, not a single less than great track.
2. Blood on the Tracks- Maybe the most heart wrenching album I've ever heard. Those wails on You're a Big Girl Now just wreck me.
3. Bringing it All Back Home- Two distinct sides; both great. Some of my favorite lyrics land on here too: "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun/crying like a fire in the sun." "Upon four legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides." etc.
4. Blonde on Blonde- Everybody talks about Revolver being the breakthrough for rock music, meanwhile that same year Dylan releases a sprawling, surreal, creative beyond measure double album. And One of Us Must Know is on it too.
5. Desire- Fuckin' Isis man.
***** Because Kanye's great. Listen to the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy if you get a chance.
+19PsychoBates60 i love both Bob Dylan and Kanye West as well... open your mind, they're different but in the end great music is great music
Ethan Flynn Highway 61 is NOT a rock album
@Ethan Flynn this is an amazing list. I may have to agree with all of it. Although Blood on the Tracks sneaks up top depending on what I’m going through. Cheers!
Ssme top five
My personal favourite is Bringing it all back home, I just love the mixture of folk and blues. I still love blonde on blonde
It's all over now baby blue is one of his greatest
@@elstonngunn4193 IAOBB is fantastic
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is my favorite of his.
Yess
Only meh songs on it were down the highway and Bob Dylan blues
I was underwhelmed the first time I heard it but since then it's really grown on me, hard rain is one of my favorite dylan sobgs
@@elstonngunn4193 Down the Highway is really good bro
@@elstonngunn4193 Down the Highway is quite a relief from the political and philosophical songs before that. Bob Dylan Blues imo is a filler.
IMO Nashville Skyline is underrated
one more night
saaaame
Alex Gartner wonderful album
It’s perfect top to bottom
Nashville Skyline, John Wesley Harding, Another Side Of Bob Dylan, Desire, & Times are a changing ... are all CRIMINALLY underrated.
Every one of those is an absolute “must-have”.
I’m not sure if “Time out of mind” is known as one of his best because it is from late in his career, so I’m not sure if that many people know about it, but it is definitely a masterpiece. I actually think it’s one of his best, and definitely his darkest album that I’m familiar with.
For those who aren’t familiar with Dylan, I’ll give my advice for albums you MUST check out; in order of his best (imho obviously)
1. Highway 61
2. Blonde on Blonde
3. Bringing it all back home
4. Freewheeling Bob Dylan
5. Blood on the tracks
6. The Basement Tapes (with The Band)
7. Time out of mind
8. John Wesley Harding
9. Another Side of Bob Dylan
10. Nashville Skyline
11. The times they are a changin
12. Desire
13. Modern Times
14. Love and theft
And also make sure to check out his Live at Newport album, and his bootleg collections; especially Volumes 1-3, & “The Witmark Demos: Volume 9”.
I agree with your ranking of Blonde on Blonde-- but why do you stop at 1971? You're missing some great albums: Blood on the Tracks, Slow Train Coming, INFIDELS, and my personal favorite for its beautiful and dense atmosphere: Time Out of Mind. The way Dylan finds ways to evolve musically and as a public character and keep things interesting and fresh for over 50 years is totally inhuman (i mean that in a good way) and if you stop at 1971 you're missing out on a lot of that. thanks for the video
And Street Legal
Fuck slow train. We want good secular poetry
And Self Portrait.
@@irshadhusain6993 I'd say that what you called his comeback trilogy actually is his divorce trilogy and doesn't actually have Planet Waves. Although Planet Waves has "Dirge", which could easily be a BotT song, it's from another state of mind, where he was not having as many personal issues. The two divorce albums, BotT and Desire, have their spirits somewhat present in Street-Legal, in songs such as "Señor", "Changing of the Guards" and "Where are you Tonight?"
In fact I'd say Street Legal is a key album in his career, really. It both ends the divorce mourn and pumps up the religious vein (which, although always present throughout Dylan's career, would come to another level after his Christian conversion).
Blood on the Tracks is my favourite, but Blonde on Blonde is probably his best. Visions of Johanna alone makes it in the top 3
Blonde on Blonde is, and shall forever be, the greatest album of all time.
Jackson Phinney Dark Side of the Moon.
+Gloip Gloip Wish You Were Here > Dark Side of The Moon.
Both are cool, but I have to be cruel.
Kind of Blue? Abbey Road? Dark Side of The Moon? Bitches Brew?
Fuk of
Blonde on Blonde is the second greatest album, the first being hello everyone, we are midori
1. Blood on the Tracks:
Almost certainly him going through his divorce. So much passion in his voice; deepest lyrics I've ever heard by him:
"It was gravity which pulled us down, and destiny which broke us apart,
You tamed the lion in my cage,
But it just wasn't enough to change my heart."
Shows the ups (You're gonna make me lonesome when you go; shelter from the Storm; buckets of rain), the downs (idiot wind is the best angry, confessional song Ive ever heard), good and the bad; and letting us into all of what is going on.
and it makes me feeeeel so sorraaay
I love the electric trilogy. (Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde)
Some time ago Blonde on Blonde was my fav album aswell... but with the time passing, I think, for me, Blood on the Track is his best work.
I might consider between Blonde On Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. They changed my life so much, and each time I play it I feel this magical mood of these albums mixed with my personal nostalgia.
The Live 1966 Royal Albert Hall album is the most amazing live recording I've ever heard. The acoustic set is mesmerizing. He seems in a trance. You'll never hear anyone pronunciate quite like he does here. That's a weird thing to say, but when you listen it's undeniable. Each syllable is given its own platform. He feels transcendent here. And then the electric set just bangs. It's got such a feeling of "electricity". The Band is on point. And Dylan is at the peak of his powers. Still to this day it moves me with such elegance and power. I was a guide near Duluth, MN in 2000 when I first listened. It changed me.
Blood On The Tracks. From the moment the drums and that bass-line hit on the opening track (Tangled Up In Blue), I was taken. The lyrics in this song sum up the whole album for me:
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burning coal
Pouring off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you
Tangled up in blue
The storytelling, and emotion I get out that album make it my favourite. Thanks for doing this video :)
Fav Dylan (at this moment): Love & Theft (2001)
Fav Dylan song: maybe "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"
I can't really describe why Dylan is freaking great to me, or why some albums stand out more to me than others. It's just beyond words.
If someone doesn't know Dylan's stuff, I'd say start with "Bringing It All Back Home" it's got elements of his acoustic and electric stuff on that album.
mine are Blonde on Blonde, Blood on The Tracks, Highway 61 revisited, Nashville Skyline, The Times They're A-Changin' and Time Out of Mind
Good pics Marcela
Phew.... tough questions at the end there Anthony! I'm a mega-huge Dylan fan, he had a huge impact on my life.
My fave Dylan album (and song) changes all the time.
Some of the stuff off Love and Theft is great - High Water is a great song. So is Mississippi.
I've always loved Desolation Row.... Stuck Inside of Mobile... It's Alright Ma... one of his very first songs called "Pretty Peggy-O"... Senor... too many to mention!
I love Jokerman, from his 1983 album Infidels.
With albums, it depends what the person is into. If I'm introducing a millennial to Dylan, I'd probably play them Highway 61 Revisited, because it's a bit wild.
If I'm introducing an older person to Dylan (how could they not have heard him??) I'd go with some of the more mature albums - Time Out Of Mind, Love and Theft, Tempest.
If they like classic songs, one of the Bootleg Albums - maybe like from 1966 Albert Hall.
Thanks to anyone who managed to read all of this :)
Highway 61 Revisited - love this record (in particular Just like Tom Thumb's blues, and It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, Queen Jane Approximately) i love how loud and chaotic it is, how loud the piano is, how drummy the drums are, and how the guitar reminds me of a cat's purr, the brilliant song writing and how personal, aswell as public it is.
Desire - the gypsy/journey feel makes it so abstract but homey at the same time, From the volcanic lands of Black Diamond Bay, to the Mountainous lands of Durango, to the docks of New York, it makes you feel like you're there.
Blonde On Blonde - literally anthony fantano said.
The bootleg New York Sessions version of Blood on the Tracks is his greatest work and a serious contender for the greatest album of all time. Shame it's not the one that was officially released.
I do like that,but I think the one he did release has more punch to it.Great to have both though
Yeah it was scratched for being too sad. Lol
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.
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.
I was just playing Country Pie on my guitar the other day
I think some people focus on the electric Trilogy & early 60s stuff and they miss the post John Wesley Harding brilliance
New Morning is also fantastic
Blood on the Tracks has to be my personal #1. Not that it's his best musical or lyrical triumph but I listened to that album at a time in my life where the raw emotion of it really hit me hard. I will always be able to go back to that album and listen over and over again
Oh Mercy. Lanois’ production is creeping, haunting, badass. Dylan’s voice is scratchier than before and lends itself well to nocturnal anthems like Man In the Long Black Coat and Political World. And Most of the Time is one of his most beautiful and heartbreaking songs.
Ring Them Bells is also worth mentioning.
Wicked, wicked lyrics!
Boy do I agree with you. You said that perfectly.
5. Street Legal - 'Sixteen Years...'
4. Modern Times - Because it's like a novel.
3. The Basement Tapes/White Wonder - Because you can learn more from it than school.
2. Oh Mercy - Because it's just as relevant to Ancient Rome as it is to Nowadays USA.
1. Blonde On Blonde - Because it of magical reasons.
nicely put
Sixteen banners united
Here's my 10 favourite dylan albums and my favourite three songs of each one.
1.Blonde on blonde : Absolutely Sweet Marie, Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowllands, She's your lover now *outtake*
2. Highway 61 Revisited : Like a Rolling Stone, Highway 61 Revisited, Ballad of A Thin Man
3.Desire: Hurricane, Isis, Sara
4. Time Out of Mind: Cold Iron Bounds, Tryin to Get To Heaven, Love Sick
5. Bringing It All Back Home :It's Alright Ma (best song of all time), It's All Over now, Mr Tambourine Man
6. The Times They Are A-Changin : Only A Pawn In Their Game, The Times They Are A Changin, One Too Many Mornings
7. Blood On The Tracks: Idiot Wind, Shelter From The Storm, Up To Me *outtake*
8. The Freewheelin Bob Dylan: Don't Think Twice it's Alright, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Girl From The North Country
9.Another Side of Bob Dylan: My Back Pages, To Ramona, It Ain't Me Babe
10 Street Legal: Changing of The Guards, No Time To Think, Where Are You Tonight
She's your lover now is the most underrated dylan song.
SHES YOUR LOVER NOW
Bringing it all Back Home is my favourite of his. I definetely think it's his most consistent album, starting with Subterranean Homesick Blues and then containing masterpieces like Mr Tambourine Man, Its Alright Ma, Maggie's farm, Love Minus Zero, Its All Over Now Baby Blue etc
You mentioned dylan had just turned 70 when you recorded this, as of this writing he’s turning 80 TOMORROW. Crazy!
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan - Best of his early acoustic work, and 'Girl From the North Country' a favorite of mine
Bringing it All Back Home - The acoustic half is killer, with his first great foray into electric: 'Subterranean,' 'Maggie's Farm,' 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream,' 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit'
Highway 61 Revisited - All lean tissue, and no filler. Featuring his best song 'Like a Rolling Stone,' with 'Ballad of a Thin Man,' 'Tombstone Blues,' 'Desolation Row,' and his homage to his roots in the title track
Blonde on Blonde - His electric hat trick; 'One of Us Must Know,' 'I Want You,' 'Stuck Inside of Mobile,' etc.
Blood on the Tracks - His best from the 70's and a great breakup album. 'Shelter from the Storm,' and 'Simple Twist of Fate.'
Love and Theft - A solid late career offering, and showing how well he's grown into his voice.
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.
blonde on blonde! favourite track is definitely visions of johanna. the lyrics are just so gorgeous
Nothing can beat Blonde on Blonde
Dylan is definitely one of my favorite artists ever.
I love Freewheelin', Times They Are a Changin', Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61, Desire, Blood On the Tracks, Tempest, Time Out of Mind, and more. I listen to one of these at least once a week
Blood on the tracks may be my favorite, but Blonde on Blonde has Visions of Johanna which is my favorite track of all time. Especially the Live at Royal Albert Hall rendition. Seriously hearing that song can almost move me to tears.
You & me both on "Blonde on Blonde", Anthony! I was on "the other side of the aisle" until BonB's thought provoking catchiness and emotion swept me over. Here you hear the heart of a man, and that sound is so beautiful that its association with Dylan's voice makes him sound not grating and annoying but cathartic and amusing. P.S. I'm surprised you didn't mention Visions of Joanna, though ;) Keep up the great work!
Everything! The man is a legend!
also these videos are cool, its sweet to hear what you like that isn't necessarily new music. do more of these things plz
Bringin' it All Back... = Rubber Soul
Hwy 61 = Revolver
You are aware they took from influence from Dylan on those albums
Rubber Soul, yes. Revolver, completely different.
Nah BOB = Revolver
I salute you Anthony.
Blonde on Blonde is definitely one of my favorites. It's hard to pick my favorite Dylan album when there is so many different eras to choose from. The acoustic days, I would have to go with freewheelin, though times they are a changing isn't far behind. Highway 61 blew my mind, but when I first heard Blonde on Blonde...i didn't know what the hell I was listening to. This moaning voice with what seemed like "free-verse poems" had me in awe. truly a masterpiece.
John Wesley Harding has grown on me more and more over the years
You picked two great LPs, obviously. Boots of Spanish Leather is one of my favorites as well.
The Dylan albums that work best for me are Freewheelin' and Highway 61. I think they are his most complete, robust records. I love almost every single song on those ones.
I enjoy pretty much Bob's entire catalog of tunes. His legacy is so vast and his music so influential and ingenious, I can't even begin to describe what he and his songs mean to me.
Thanks for this vid, Anthony.
Hope you're well.
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.
I've been listening to Dylan since I was a small child, as my dad has been a fan for years and years and years.
i'm 16 now, and myself a singer in a band, and I just can't overstate it enough: I think that Bob Dylan is a genius. His lyrics hold so much in so few words, his music is always interesting, even to the point where you don't think so much about the music as it perfectly frames the lyrics and his voice.
I can't, however, tell you what my fave album is - it's impossible to choose..
Holy shit dude, now you’re 25? Still listening to Dylan I suppose?
@@pale_cage right? Good question. 16 to 25. Prob the biggest changes in life occur during that period.
5. street legal
4. Bringing it all back home
3. Highway 61 revisited
2. Blonde on blonde
1. Blood on the tracks
(fav song has got to be either dont think twice or visions of johanna)
One of his bootlegs remains one of my favourite albums by him, The 1964 New York Sessions of Blood on the Tracks. Dylan originally recorded this album solely on acoustic, but changed his mind at the last minute to redo the album with a backing band. This recording is so raw and untouched that you can literally hear the buttons from Dylan shirt scraping against the guitar throughout the album.
Don't you mean 1974?
1. Highway 61 revisited
2. Blonde on Blonde
3. Blood On the Tracks
4. Desire
5. Bringing it all back home
6. The Free Whellin Bob Dylan
7. John Wesley Harding
8. Oh Mercy
9. Nashville Skyline
10. Another Side of Bob Dylan
• Blonde On Blonde
• Blood On The Tracks
• Time Out Of Mind
• Bringing It All Back Home
• The Times They Are A-Changing
• Highway 61 Revisited
the times they are a changin' is my favourite album because it's so emotional and beautiful. the storytelling is fantastic and the themes on this album of injustice, darkness and of course that the times are always changing are thought provoking and beautifully simple. I like blonde on blonde but to me those tracks don't stick with me as well as the ones on highway 61 revisited. If I were to recommend one to someone who hasn't hear dylan it would be that highway 61 for sure.
Yeah, every time a great musician passes away I always think "Well Dylan's still kickin!". I'm glad you like The Times, it usually gets hated or overlooked for Another Side. Favorite is pretty typical, probably Highway 61. My first Dylan album, dad bought it for me at Best Buy when I was in middle school, listened to the it many many times, I fell in love with the lyrics and eventually attempted covers of the songs later on.
I go with the two you just posted about. "Times" is my all time favorite album. That's the record that started me into writing songs. It's just too powerful. But, it is really hard to pick my favorite Dylan LP. I mean "Blond On Blonde" is jusr incredible. 'I want you', 'Just Like A Woman', 'Stuck in Mobile' 'One of us Must Know', 'Visions', 'Sad Eyed Lady'. It's just hauntingly beautiful. I can't pick my favorite. I mean, somtimes I'm in the modd to crank up 'Tombstone Blues'.
Blood on the Tracks might be favourite album...or at least the one I'm heavily into at the moment because its got such a great consistent moodiness in its blues yet it's still incredibly mature. Favourite songs are Tangled Up In Blue, Ballad of a Thin Man and Mr. Tambourine Man; all three are great examples of a coming together of Dylan's evocative lyrics and great tunes!!
If you're starting to get into Dylan, Freewheelin' is a great place to begin that journey. I think my favorite of all time is Blood On the Tracks. Tangled Up in Blue, Shelter From the Storm, and Simple Twist of Fate ALWAYS capture me and do not let go because of the imagery and story. But....ask me again next month and I'll probably tell you my fav is Highway 61 and the month after that it's Love & Theft.
Good vid.
Oh mercy is great. Great production. Mindblowing lyrics. One song in one freaking chord…(political world). And it has a wholeness to it. I always come back to it.
1. Blood on the Tracks
Contains my favorite vocal performances and stories. Verses can haunt, smolder, or bleed; sometimes all three and more.
2. Bringing it All Back Home
An album filled with fun songs that also manage to be very thoughtful and dense.
3. Highway 61 Revisited / Blonde on Blonde
Two unique classics. This whole list changes depending on the week, but today I felt like this is where I would put them.
4. John Wesley Harding
My favorite harmonica performances and pure folk songs.
5. Desire
I enjoy the female vocals (forgive me, I don't know her name) and the violin. (Scarlet Rivera) a lot.
Country legend Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris sang on this album.
My Favorite Dylan Albums are The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and Blonde on Blonde, with Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again being my favorite Song of his. It just feels like a extremely positive, interesting Flow of Images with an unique Sense of Beauty to them. That can be said about Blonde on Blonde in general.
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.
My favourite is still Bringing it all back home - I got the LP for $5 a a second hand record store as a teenager and it blew me away - I'd never imagined you could write songs like that - and have such contrasting songs as those on the A side versus the B side on the same album. So that is still my fav for the personal impact it had on me as far as thinking about what could be done with a song and a set of songs. Similar to when I first heard the Velvet Underground.
I LOVE BOB DYLAN!! he is by far my favorite all time aritst. my favorite album by him is a 3 way split between "the freewheelin' bob dylan", "bring it all back home", and "blood on the tracks", all three are AMAZING top 10 albums for me. awesome video man
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.
John Wesley Harding one of my favs and very underrated
Currently LOving Bloon on the Tracks album ! so so good !
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!!
My personal favourite is The Freewheelin bob dylan, it's really emotional... songs like blowin in the wind, girl from the north country, masters of war, a hard rains a gonna fall, etc are all really moving to me
Blonde on Blonde :) Totally agree, "Stuck inside of Mobile" is one of my favorite Dylan songs.
5. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Bringing It All Back Home
3. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
2. Blood On The Tracks
1. The Times They Are A-Changin'
great video, great albums.....I love Love and Theft....Oh Mercy....Tempest.....Tell-Tale Signs...
in no particular order
1 freewheelin bob
2 The times they are a changing
3 bringing it all back home
4 highway 61 rv
5 Blonde on blonde
my reasoning for these choices is simple because Bob is the Goat ,and these records are Dylan in his prime
why number them than????????????
Stoned lol
hitting that devils lettuce
Blood on the Tracks was my first taste of Dylan, and it's still my favorite album of his. The sadness in that record is crushing, and it covers all the emotions of heartbreak in a wonderful album, except for Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, I could have done without that track. :/
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.
Bringing it all back home.
I enjoy this video... thank you Anthony!
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
Gotta say from 5 to 1
5. Desire
4. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Bringing It All Back Home
2. Blood On The Tracks (I mean, come on...Duh.)
1. Freewheelin' (The first Dylan record I bought and the one that solidified for me to become a folk musician.)
Bringing It All Back Home, I feel it was his biggest transformation. And so on, I could go on forever.
Bringing it all back home
Times they are a Changin', is my favourite album. Lonesome death of Hattie Carrol, one too many mornings, North Country Blues.
Good tunes
My two favorite Dylan LP's: Blonde on Blonde, Blood On The Tracks. I like B on B because its just the most creative thing I heard from him, and every song is great. Blood On The Tracks has fantastic songwriting and catches deep, complex moods.
Favorite album is freewheeling because I think it's his truest form. He's just so real and to the point while still being funny at times on that record. Its real. It touched my heart and cut deeply and chose to make me laugh cry and think at the same time. My favorite song is visions of Johanna because it's one I relate too. It's like when you realize you'll never find what you thought you would. It's heartbreaking and I love Dylan's way of showing those emotions. He's to the point but also elaborates with truly breathtaking imagery
SOO many great, brilliant Dylan albums. Can't really pick favorites that easily. But, I think "Bringing It All Back Home" gets overlooked compared to the two fantastic albums that followed it, it is every bit as good. And - "It's Alright Ma ( I'm Only Bleeding)" might be my favorite song of his......
Bringing it all back home, because of the following reasons. "Subterranean Homesick Blues", "Maggie's Farm", "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)", "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Highway 61 revisited & Bringing it all Back home!!! Both 1965 !!
I also love the Renaissance he had from Time Out of Mind to Modern Times. "Love and Theft" in particular is a special moment in his discography--maybe even a top 10 Dylan album.
Blood on the Tracks, it's a certain kind of romanticism expressed in a way that only Dylan could. On the surface it seems simple, acoustic guitars and pretty production. But the way that Dylan carries the material with the lyrics and the way he sings is transcendental. It's one of those albums that you listen to and go, "Fuck, I didn't think that could be done."
I've recently become a fan of Bob Dylan, my first album was, funny enough, his first album. I love his takes on House of the Rising Sun, and Song for Woody is also one of my favorites. I think from here, I'll take his albums in chronological order to get the viewpoint of what someone who was growing up with Bob Dylan would have.
Times They Are a-Changin' and Blonde on Blonde are also two of my favourite Dylan albums, I'd put Blonde on Blonde as my number 1. My favourite song on that record is Visions of Johanna. As well as the album version I love the some of the live and alternate takes that have appeared on the Bootleg Series over the years.
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.
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.
Blood On The Tracks. Those lyrics on that album really hits home for me.
1. Highway 61 Revisited
An incredible collection of electric tunes (and the glorious 11 minute Desolation Row). Some of his best songs are on this album.
Like a Rolling Stone, Desolation Row, Queen Jane Approximately, and Ballad of a Thinman (honestly all the songs are pretty much as good as eachother with perhaps Like a Rolling Stone trumping the rest)
2. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
This album has great protest tracks and great love songs. His best acoustic album (i think)
Don't think twice it's all right, a hard rains a gonna fall, and of course the "protest" classic Blowin' in the wind
3. Blonde on Blonde
Just great. Some highlights: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues, Absolutely Sweet Marie, and well pretty much all the other songs.
Times They are a changing is my favourite dylan release. I like the simplicity of it, and yet the complexity of it’s messages.
1: Highway 61 revisited
2: Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
3: Bringing It All Back Home
4: Blonde on Blonde
5: John Wesley Harding
Blood on the tracks is great too, my favorite albums are: Bringing it all back home, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61
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
Blonde on Blonde is my favourite both instrumentally and vocally. Although my favourite Dylan song is Positively 4th Street. Blonde on Blonde / BOB, like you said, has such awesome hooks - e.g. 'SOONER OR LATER, ONE OF US MUST KNOW!!!' etc.
That said, I love loads of his records :)
The first Bob Dylan album that I fell in love with was 'New Morning'. I was introduced to it after I heard 'The Man in Me' for the first time on the radio. After listening to his music, I realized two things: 1) Dylan sounds so happy in 'New Morning'... what happened? 2) I'm probably going to be listening to this man's music for the rest of my life. I don't have a favorite Dylan song (it changes from time to time), but I want to throw 'On the Road Again' out there.