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Your Personal Favorite Dylan Albums

Edgy DC Dec 12 2005 03:31 PM

No, not the critical consensus, but yours. I've elimnated re-issue anthologies --- Greatest Hits and Biograph. I'd like to count the Basement Tapes and Bootleg albums, but they're such power punches of multii-disc collections, that they're practically a different format and are apples to the oranges of the other parts of the catalog. I'm sure I'm missing the more than one or two. The polling mechanism wouln't let me list so many options, so pick your favorite, but feel free to list your top five or ten below. Bob Dylan (1962) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Highway 61 Revisited (1965) Blonde On Blonde (1966) John Wesley Harding (1968) Nashville Skyline (1969) Self Portrait (1970) New Morning (1970) Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973) Dylan (1973) Planet Waves (1974) Before The Flood (1974) Blood On The Tracks (1975) Desire (1976) Hard Rain (1976) Street Legal (1978) Slow Train Coming (1979) At Budokan (1979) Saved (1980) Shot Of Love (1981) Infidels (1983) Real Live (1984) Empire Burlesque (1985) Knocked Out Loaded (1986) Down In The Groove (1988) Dylan and The Dead (1989) Oh Mercy (1989) Under The Red Sky (1990) Good As I Been To You (1992) World Gone Wrong (1993) MTV Unplugged (1995) Time Out Of Mind (1997) Love and Theft (2001)

Johnny Dickshot Dec 12 2005 03:40 PM

I don't know 'em all. But I like: Highway 61 Another Side Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde Blood on the Tracks Desire and then, everything else, probably

KC Dec 12 2005 03:43 PM

I refuse to answer until Edge tells us more about his favorite Beatles album.

sharpie Dec 12 2005 03:47 PM

Top 10: Highway 61 Blood on the Tracks Bringing It All Back Home Blonde On Blonde Freewheelin' Time Out of Mind Slow Train Coming Nashville Skyline John Wesley Harding Oh Mercy Next 10: Desire Love & Theft New Morning Before the Flood Planet Waves Infidels Bob Dylan World Gone Wrong Another Side Under the Red Sky

Edgy DC Dec 12 2005 03:51 PM

]I refuse to answer until Edge tells us more about his favorite Beatles album. Umm, OK. It's white and comes with a psychedelic collage poster and some 8 1/2-x-11 promo shots. Paul needed a shave. Ringo was all bloused up and the rest of them were dressed down.

sharpie Dec 12 2005 03:55 PM

5 bad Dylan albums: Dylan (not available on CD, outtakes from Self Portrait) Self Portrait Dylan & the Dead Down in the Groove Real Live

A Boy Named Seo Dec 12 2005 04:17 PM

Sharpie's top 10 is mine, though I've never heard Blood on the Tracks or Slow Train Coming. I guess I'd put Love and Theft in for one of those.

Edgy DC Dec 12 2005 04:31 PM

I've always considered Under the Red Sky a particularly bad Dylan album. It was a huge dropoff from Oh, Mercy for me. Aside from the impressive lineup of players, I'd like to hear the case for it. I play Oh, Mercy all the time (I think I''ve lost and re-bought it twice) and Under the Red Sky almost never.

Zvon Dec 12 2005 04:35 PM

Desire. I bought Love and Theft but never have really given it a fair listenin to. Havent played it since the week I bought it. Ill have to give that a listen.

sharpie Dec 12 2005 04:36 PM

It is a huge dropoff after Oh Mercy and I have it 10 slots lower. It was a toss-up for me between that and Saved (another disappointment after Slow Train Coming) and Shot of Love (which I should probably have put on there). I like the title song. I like "Cat's in the Well." I like "God Knows." Yeah, "Shot of Love" is better and should be in there. Also, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" which I think is the weakest of the first 4 albums really is better than Under the Red Sky too. I got lazy at the end of the list. Zvon cites "Desire" as his favorite. I think it's a big dropoff from "Blood on the Tracks" but it is his best selling album.

Zvon Dec 12 2005 04:48 PM

sharpie wrote: Zvon cites "Desire" as his favorite. I think it's a big dropoff from "Blood on the Tracks" but it is his best selling album. 1st Dylan album I ever bought.

sharpie Dec 12 2005 04:50 PM

"New Morning" was my first. Hence, I rate it higher than most people do.

TheOldMole Dec 12 2005 08:16 PM

In no special order, a 5-way tie for first: Blood on the Tracks Another Side of Bob Dylan Infidels Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited

Willets Point Dec 12 2005 08:41 PM

I don't have any Dylan albums. Don't hurt me.

OlerudOwned Dec 12 2005 08:58 PM

="Willets Point"]I don't have any Dylan albums. Don't hurt me.

TheOldMole Dec 12 2005 10:43 PM

Willets Point Dec 12 2005 11:49 PM

I don't think the author of "Blowin' in the Wind" would condone the use of torture in his name. You folks rank your favorite Dylan albums and I'll go and get the ones that consistently pop up again and again, how 'bout that?

Edgy DC Dec 13 2005 01:08 AM

Oh, Mercy Freewheelin Bob Dylan Slow Train Comin' Highway 61 Revisited Blonde on Blonde/Nashville Skyline (can't decide)

Bret Sabermetric Dec 13 2005 08:55 AM

Blonde on Blonde Highway 61 Revisited Blood on the Tracks Bringing It All Back Home Another Side of Bob Dylan

sharpie Dec 13 2005 09:19 AM

Thinking about this, I don't get how some live albums are included in the list (Before the Flood, Hard Rain, Real Live, Dylan and the Dead, MTV Unplugged) but not others (Bootleg Series 4: Live 1974, Bootleg Series 5: Live 1965 and Bootleg Series 6: Live 1963, Live at the Gaslight). Live album ranking: Bootleg Series 5: Live 1965 Bootleg Series 4: Live 1974 Before the Flood Bootleg Series 6: Live 1963 Live at the Gaslight MTV Unplugged Hard Rain Real Live Dylan and the Dead Recordings that have otherwised unreleased stuff (in some cases with previously released material) but aren't true studio albums (ranked): The Basement Tapes Bootleg Series 1-3 Biograph Greatest Hits Vol. 2 No Direction Home (Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits Vol. 3 and The Essential Bob Dylan all have one otherwise unreleased song but I'm not including them)

Edgy DC Dec 13 2005 09:29 AM

Because it was hard to sort out, and I inexplicably treated the Bootleg albums differently from other live albums, Some are live, some not, so I swept them all out. I appreciate you ranking the live albums and antholigia. At one point or another in my life I've owned Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume II, and Biograph, or at least lived in a house with them. None of them now, so I need guidance.

Willets Point Dec 13 2005 11:01 AM

I used to have Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits on cassette but when I went looking for it last night I couldn't find it. I suspect it was the unfortunate victim of a purge before one of my moves.

Vic Sage Dec 19 2005 03:26 PM

[u:58d47c99dc]top 5 (in order)[/u:58d47c99dc] Blood on the tracks Blonde on Blonde Freewheeling Highway 61 Bringing It all back Home [u:58d47c99dc]honorable mention:[/u:58d47c99dc] Another Side John Wesley Hardin The Times They are a-changin' I just read that director/choreographer Twyla Tharp (she did MOVIN' OUT)is doing a musical based on dylan's songs, THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN', to start out in SD old globe theater. http://www.oldglobe.org/productions/TheTwylaTharpBobDyla416.html

sharpie Dec 19 2005 03:46 PM

Dylan approached Twyla about this show.

TheOldMole Dec 20 2005 01:54 PM

She's done great choreography for songs by the Beach Boys, too. And the wonderful underappreciated choreography for the movie version of Hair.