[QUOTE=Kurtz]Okay, so I love Highway 61. Where should I go now? Further into his less folk stuff like Blood on the Tracks, or his more traditional sound such as Bringing it all Back Home and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?[/QUOTE]

If you like Highway, check out Blood On The Tracks, and maybe Blonde On Blonde.

[QUOTE=Kurtz]Okay, so I love Highway 61. Where should I go now? Further into his less folk stuff like Blood on the Tracks, or his more traditional sound such as Bringing it all Back Home and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?[/QUOTE]

Blonde On Blonde is the album most similar to Highway 61. Bringing It All BAck Home is half acoustic, half electric, so it's a good way to get into his acoustic stuff. Both albums are brilliant, I'd just buy whichever is cheaper. As I already said, Blood on the Tracks is my personal favorite, but those 2 albums along with Highway 61 are probably easier for somebody new to Dylan to get into.

[quote=robo385746]Well I own at least 19 Dylan albums and I've heard pretty much album he's ever recorded, so yeah, I think you're wrong when you say that I've never heard it. That's a pretty dumb assumption to make. [/quote]

Come again? I never asserted that you "never heard" [i]Blood on the Tracks[/i]. I said, rather, that I'm inclined to believe that you (as representative of any random person who makes the same claim, considering I know you not at all) heard or read that this record is [i]supposed[/i] to be your favorite, and that this is why you say it's your favorite. I may be wrong in your particular case; you may be the odd exception, but for any given person who makes this claim, the odds are greatly in my favor.

[QUOTE=Kurtz]Okay, so I love Highway 61. Where should I go now? Further into his less folk stuff like Blood on the Tracks, or his more traditional sound such as Bringing it all Back Home and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?[/QUOTE]

[i]Blonde on Blonde[/i] BUILDS on Highway 61 and [i]Bringing it All Back Home[/i]. It's the CULMINATION of the potential intimated in these earlier records. It's Dylan's masterpiece.

[QUOTE=Ned]Come again? I never asserted that you "never heard" [i]Blood on the Tracks[/i]. I said, rather, that I'm inclined to believe that you (as representative of any random person who makes the same claim, considering I know you not at all) heard or read that this record is [i]supposed[/i] to be your favorite, and that this is why you say it's your favorite. I may be wrong in your particular case; you may be the odd exception, but for any given person who makes this claim, the odds are greatly in my favor.[/QUOTE]

So, in conclusion, you think that most people whos favourite Dylan album is Blood on the Tracks are lying?

[QUOTE=Alive]So, in conclusion, you think that most people whos favourite Dylan album is Blood on the Tracks are lying?[/QUOTE]

That's what it sounds like to me:confused:

I misinterpreted what he was saying before so I guess I could be misinterpreting it again. And I don't think Blood on the Tracks is his most popular album. I think Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde On Blonde are all more critically acclaimed. Blood on the Tracks gets a lot of praise too, but just because it gets praised doesn't mean it can't be somebody's favorite albums. I don't really care how much praise an album gets, and I don't let that affect how I like the album. I like an album just because everyone else likes it, and don't like an album just because people overlook it. I judge albums strictly on how I view the quality, and popularity or critical acclaim has nothing to do with my opinions.

[QUOTE]Okay, so I love Highway 61. Where should I go now? Further into his less folk stuff like Blood on the Tracks, or his more traditional sound such as Bringing it all Back Home and The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?[/QUOTE]

If you like Highway 61, go with Bringing It All Back Home and Blonde on Blonde. They were all recorded within about a year of each other, and have a similar feel, yet a distinctly different... uniqueness (I don't know how to describe it) that makes them all really good in their own ways. Also, check out Blood on the Tracks. Alot of Dylan fans love that album, and it's considered to be one of his best. I still haven't "gotten" it yet, I guess, it's not as good for me as the three above. I prefer his earlier folk stuff, like Freewheelin' and Times They Are A-Changin' to Blood on the Tracks, and then the Electric Folk Rock era with Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61, and BIABH to that.

[QUOTE=Alive]So, in conclusion, you think that most people whos favourite Dylan album is Blood on the Tracks are lying?[/QUOTE]

No. They let others dictate to them. They have no taste of their own. They have no critical judgement of their own. They think favorites have to do with fashion. That's not "lying".

[QUOTE=CantBuyAThrill]Also, check out Blood on the Tracks. A lot of Dylan fans love that album, and it's considered to be one of his best. [/quote]

And I've already explained the misapprehension.

[quote] I still haven't "gotten" it yet, I guess, it's not as good for me as the three above.[/quote] You [i]have[/i] got it. It's "not as good for you" because it's not as good [i]period[/i] (although, like [i]Planet Waves[/i] it's perfectly okay), because you're listening with your own ears and evaluating with your own mind.

You're quite the douche, sir.

Anyway, my favourite Dylan album is [I]Blood on the Track[/I]s, because apparently I'm a mindless puppet of the evil media, with their relentless BOTT agenda.

The fact that everyone cites it as their favourite album tells that it's a very good album indeed. Not that they are copying everyone else.

[QUOTE=shamed-angel]BAA BAA BAA[/QUOTE]
Dude you're such a sheep. Large groups of people cannot legitimately share the same opinion. Especially if it should conflict with my opinion.

It's not my favourite Dylan album, I was just saying that because a large amount of people say that it's his best album, so someone saying that wouldn't make them a sheep...
My favourite Dylan album is Desire..

I think we should all stop arguing on the point and just agree that:

Dylan = Absolute Genius

[QUOTE=neal_672]I think we should all stop arguing on the point and just agree that:

Dylan = Absolute Genius[/QUOTE]

Dylan is a very instinctive performer, and his instinct is hardly infallable. A statement such as "Dylan = Absolute Genius" needs to be backed up, and if you try to back it up with [i]Blood on the Tracks[/i] eventually someone will come around and point out that the emperor has no clothes. As long as this perverse fashion persists, Dylan's legacy and reputation is in jeopardy--and [i]that's[/i] my concern.

I make a distinction between favorite record and best record. I've always been perfectly willing to agree, for example, with the zillions of people who maintain that [i]Aqualung[/i] is Jethro Tull's best record, but my personal favorite Jethro Tull record has always been [i]Stand Up[/i] (the original [i]Stand Up[/i], not the "remastered" [i]Stand Up[/i] with "bonus" tracks). Now for a very long time, I was the only one, so far as I knew, saying this latter thing. Immediately after Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson remarked on the Jethro Tull website that [i]Stand Up[/i] is also one of [i]his[/i] favorite Jethro Tull records (implying that it is [i]the[/i] favorite), however, all sorts of people came out of the woodwork claiming that [i]Stand Up[/i] is their favorite too, claiming further in fact that [i]Stand Up[/i] is better than [i]Aqualung[/i].

It may very well be a coincidence that Ian Anderson and I share this opinion or we may happen to have similar taste or some such thing. (My opinion could not have been influenced by his, though, because I'd voiced it many times before he ever let his be known publicly, and his could not have been influenced by mine because he's never met me.) It is not likely a coincidence that all these Jethro Tull fans ([i]fan[/i] is short for [i]fanatic[/i]) suddenly came to this opinion directly after Anderson announced his.

Huge Dylan fanboy here.

[quote=Flanders]I make a distinction between favorite record and best record.[/quote] It's a completely subjective thing, and I don't necessarily see the parallels between "best" and "favorite". Favorite would impy that you think it is the best, as a matter of personal opinion. "Best" is for the most part, the same thing. It's just as subjective, and it relies on opinion much more.

I don't relaly understand why you need to conjure up a three paragraph argument every time someone disagrees with you or has a different opinion. There is no need to repeatedly "correct" someone.

[I]Blonde On Blonde[/I] is my favorite. I think.

My favourite is BIABH.

Another Side of Bob Dylan is sorely underrated.

[QUOTE=Delay Pedal Boy]Another Side of Bob Dylan is sorely underrated.[/QUOTE]

Yep. It doesn't really fit in with his other albums though, so it kind of gets ignored. It's folk, but the songs for the most part aren't protest songs so it's not really like The Times They Are A-Changin' or Freewheelin'. But it's still acoustic and folk, so it doesn't fit in with his electric work. It's just a bridge between the folk protest era Dylan and the electric Dylan. Really overlooked. Great album though, Chimes Of Freedom is one of my favorite Dylan songs ever.

I've been lovin' Bringing It All Back Home lately. Such a great album.

[QUOTE=Ned]blah blah blah[/QUOTE]

Um, Planet Waves is a painfully mediocre album, Time Out of Mind is good, Blood on the Tracks is one of his best, and New Morning is bad.

Ned, you shouldn't post anymore. Your posts can basically be summed up as 'everyone only likes certain albums because everyone else does, and I'm a better fan of bands because those aren't my favorite albums.' I'm sure you're a better Pink Floyd fan because your favorite album is More, and a better Beatles fan because your favorite album is Help, too.

Maybe people say Blood on the Tracks is their favorite BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT ALBUM AND THEY LIKE IT.

My favorite is Highway 61. Favorite songs are Changing of the Guards and Series of Dreams.

[QUOTE=Jude]Um, Planet Waves is a painfully mediocre album, Time Out of Mind is good, Blood on the Tracks is one of his best, and New Morning is bad.

Ned, you shouldn't post anymore. Your posts can basically be summed up as 'everyone only likes certain albums because everyone else does, and I'm a better fan of bands because those aren't my favorite albums.' I'm sure you're a better Pink Floyd fan because your favorite album is More, and a better Beatles fan because your favorite album is Help, too.

Maybe people say Blood on the Tracks is their favorite BECAUSE IT'S A GREAT ALBUM AND THEY LIKE IT.

My favorite is Highway 61. Favorite songs are Changing of the Guards and Series of Dreams.[/QUOTE]

Well said.

I agree with you about Planet Waves. I think it's good but not like Blood on the Tracks. Good album, but he was playing with The Band, so being Dylan and the Band, I had higher expectations for it than it fulfilled. I like New Morning too, I think it's a very solid album with a few great songs.

Series of Dreams is such an amazing song. Seriously just something about that song just seems so amazing to me. Love it. Not a big fan of Changing of the Guards though, I don't like the back-up singers.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]My Top 6 Dylan albums in any sort of order:

Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
Bringin' It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisted
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan.
The Time's They Are A-Changin'

edit- Now that I look at this, I put it in quasi-alphabetical order without even noticing.[/QUOTE]
I'd agree with that except I prefer John Wesley Harding and Another Side of Bob Dylan to The Times They Are A-Changin'


I have the lyrics to It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding, Subterranean Homesick Blues and Bob Dylan's Blues on my wall. I'm wearing my Subterranean Homesick Blues t-shirt right now. He's easily the greatest songwriter of the 20th century. He's up there with people like Keats and Wilfred Owen for me in terms of poets.

[QUOTE=Ned][i]Blonde on Blonde[/i] BUILDS on Highway 61 and [i]Bringing it All Back Home[/i]. It's the CULMINATION of the potential intimated in these earlier records. It's Dylan's masterpiece.[/QUOTE]

anyone who would pick a single album as the best one isn't really a fan

my favorite is blood on the tracks but i like all i've heard, and has been before i ever read an article about him

I read someone put down Street Legal, that is actually a very incredible album. The song Senor is bone-chilling, and I can't think of one bad song on the album. It's also very under-rated lyrically, he said he left town with Marcell and St John... who in Hebrew is past and future. How mind-blowing is that?

My favorite dylan albums in order:
1) Highway 61 Revisited
2) Desire
3) Blonde on Blonde
4) The Times They Are a Changin
5) Bringing it All Back Home
6) Blood On The Tracks
7) The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
8) John Wesley Harding

The rest are farely the same. As far as you all arguing over what album is truly better, I would say it's all an opinion. It's supposedly Blonde on Blonde, that is his classic. But I think it's Highway 61 Revisited, I think the songs are catchier, smarter, and Michael Bloomfield is awesome.

He is a big influence on my music.

Bob Dylan is great. The only artist whos lyrics actually strike me. I really like the first album.

I think right now my three favourite albums of his are The Times They Are A-Changin'....Bringing It All Back Home....and Blood on the Tracks. Blood on the Tracks has always been my absolute favourite, but The Times They Are A-Changin' is literally the most powerful album I've ever listened to. It's amazing. I love Bringing It All Back Home because he's got some really fun songs, he's got some great storytelling (Bob Dylans 115th Dream!) and he's got some absolute lyrical masterpieces (I shouldn't even have to name them.)

Although I still listen to Dylan and the Dead like daily.