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- Blonde on Blonde (1966) Released just weeks before his infamous motorcycle crash during that tumultuous, epochal year for Dylan and rock music, Blonde on Blonde found Dylan at his most expansive and productive.
- Blood on the Tracks (1974) Dylan’s raging cri de cœur over the disintegration of his marriage is a masterpiece of such soul-bearing intensity that Dylan himself said that he couldn’t understand why people would want to listen to it.
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) A landmark recording in the history of rock – a completely new type of music brimming with surrealist poetry against a backdrop of a swirling, hypnotic amalgam of folk, blues and swing powered by Al Kooper’s organ and Mike Bloomfield’s blues guitar.
- Bringing It All Back Home (1965) A new genre, folk-rock, was born with this touchstone album split into two halves, one electric, one acoustic. The two-minute twenty seconds adrenaline rush of “Subterranean Homesick Blues” kicks off the electric side and it’s a hard act to follow.
Jan 27, 2024 · The most underrated post-Time Out of Mind album in Dylan’s catalog, this is where he really foreshadowed his eventual turn towards pop, jazz and R&B standards. On tracks like “Duquesne Whistle ...
Jan 31, 2023 · The only reason it’s not among the five worst albums on this list, however: The 11-minute epic narrative “Brownsville Girl,” one of Dylan’s most sorely underrated classics.
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- Overall album rank: #5,415 - Rank in decade: #953 - Rank in year: #104 - Appears on: 58 charts Not only was this sprawling double album panned upon its release, but Dylan himself would become one of its biggest detractors. He later referred to it as a conscious "joke" that was crafted in hopes of turning off his most overzealous fans. Nevertheles...
- Overall album rank: #4,946 - Rank in decade: #773 - Rank in year: #91 - Appears on: 50 charts Jewish-born atheist Dylan converted to Evangelical Christianity in the late 1970s, resulting in a trilogy of Christian-themed albums. This third and final installment adopts a somewhat looser stance than its predecessors and sounds slightly more like tra...
- Overall album rank: #4,939 - Rank in decade: #1,125 - Rank in year: #114 - Appears on: 67 charts Grateful Dead alum Robert Hunter co-wrote the lyrics for this latter-day effort, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts. It was recorded by Dylan and his touring band, with additional help from David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Mike Campbell of Tom ...
- Overall album rank: #3,737 - Rank in decade: #692 - Rank in year: #74 - Appears on: 109 charts Released just four months after the somewhat disastrous Self Portrait, Dylan's 11th studio album delivered both a return to form and a path ahead. It also saw the complete revival of his original voice, now imbued with a raspier edge. Featuring frequent...
- Overall album rank: #3,615 - Rank in decade: #679 - Rank in year: #61 - Appears on: 95 charts Reuniting with roots-rock outfit The Band, Dylan delivered his first No. 1 album on the Billboard chart. Unlike previous collaborations between the two iconic acts, this one strikes a more intimate and relaxed tone. While arguably dispensable when compar...
- Overall album rank: #3,356 - Rank in decade: #530 - Rank in year: #48 - Appears on: 103 charts In the wake of his Christian-themed trilogy, Dylan returned to form once again on his 22nd studio album. Along for the ride was Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler, who co-produced and provided guitar. Former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor also le...
- Overall album rank: #3,337 - Rank in decade: #465 - Rank in year: #64 - Appears on: 111 charts Most of Dylan's 21st-century albums are stylistically indebted to a range of American music traditions, and this one is no exception. Drawing upon everything from blues to rockabilly, it walks the line between influence and originality. There's also a v...
- Overall album rank: #3,216 - Rank in decade: #14 - Rank in year: #14 - Appears on: 189 charts Bob Dylan's 39th studio album marks his return to original material for the first time in eight years. The songwriter reaches back toward his early, message-soaked work with "Murder Most Foul," a 17-minute track representing the songwriter's longest song...
- Overall album rank: #2,288 - Rank in decade: #200 - Rank in year: #4 - Appears on: 157 charts Picking up where his heroes left off, Bob Dylan emerged from New York's Greenwich Village scene as a singular force in folk music. That said, his debut album went largely overlooked upon its initial release. Consisting primarily of classic covers, it fin...
- Overall album rank: #2,263 - Rank in decade: #457 - Rank in year: #45 - Appears on: 121 charts In the wake of his religious conversion, Dylan delivered the first album in his Christian-themed trilogy. Rife with spiritual overtones and dogmatic teachings, it was arguably his most concerted effort since 1975's Blood on the Tracks. The song "Gotta S...
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- Blood on the Tracks’ By 1975, many people had written off Bob Dylan as a Sixties wash-out. He had reunited with the Band the previous year for an extremely lucrative reunion tour, but it was a decidedly nostalgic affair.
- Blonde on Blonde’ In a 1978 interview with Playboy, Bob Dylan was asked if he hears songs in his head before he records them. "The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album," he said.
- Highway 61 Revisited’ By the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan had absolutely no interest in writing folk songs, and the success of the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" single earlier in the year proved to him that fans were willing to follow him down new paths.
- Bringing It All Back Home’ Bringing It All Back Home captured Bob Dylan during a period of tremendous transformation. One side of the LP is just Bob Dylan and an acoustic guitar, while the other side finds him playing with an electric band.
To determine the best Bob Dylan albums of all time, Stacker analyzed data from Best Ever Albums (last updated May 2022), where overall rank is determined by calculating the aggregate position of each album from more than 38,000 different top albums charts.
Sep 12, 2012 · Love and Theft. Year: 2001. Love and Theft begins and ends with worlds ending. “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” concludes with a man dying in a Mardi Gras like party, while “Sugar Baby”...
