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.

i think he's so great because he's so real.

he's just like, a normal guy, you know? He seems like he'd be a cool guy, plus his hair is cooler than yours :cool:

You cant go wrong with Dylan. Period.

so long as he plays acoustic he's OK in my book. when he plugs in I need to get out of the room

Yea......
 

- Yea, he's one of the best classic folk artist around. I love the songs "Blowin' In The Wind", "Hurricane", "Don't Think Twice It's Alright", "Lay Lady Lay",and "Knockin' On Heavens Door".:thumb:

[QUOTE=Sexypants.]i think he's so great because he's so real.

he's just like, a normal guy, you know? He seems like he'd be a cool guy, plus his hair is cooler than yours :cool:

You cant go wrong with Dylan. Period.[/QUOTE]

Dylan's hair is so awesome.

You can go wrong with some Dylan. Knocked Out Loaded was pretty terrible. In fact, I couldn't bear to listen to the whole thing.

Blonde On Blonde is so awesome. Sorry Ned, it's still not my favorite but is awesome.

np- Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)

[QUOTE=Bluesman]so long as he plays acoustic he's OK in my book. when he plugs in I need to get out of the room[/QUOTE]
Yeah, who does he think he is? JUDAS!

ok. if you want dylan, listen to subterranean homesick blues. and read this letter by noam chomskey. its way short, i promise.
[URL="http://www.chomsky.info/letters/199406--.htm"]http://www.chomsky.info/letters/199406--.htm[/URL]
it made me very sad...he lived in such an amazing time to make change and be heard...but the only "protest" dylan ever went to was the march on washington. and then he decided it was bull****.
baez, on the other hand...kay, im rambling.

sigh...and by the way, hes horrible now. he can barely sing...he put on a show at Boston University. a friend of mine went, and she said it was terrible.

Bob Dylan albums that I own:
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Time are a Changin'
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
Highway 61 revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Greatest hits vol. 1
Nashville Skyline
John Wesley Hardin
Planet Waves (MY FAV!)
Desire
Blood on the Tracks
The Essential Bob Dylan
Greatest hits vol 3

I am 25 and have been a Dylan fan for 3 years now.

[QUOTE=foxes are like so rad]ok. if you want dylan, listen to subterranean homesick blues. and read this letter by noam chomskey. its way short, i promise.
[URL="http://www.chomsky.info/letters/199406--.htm"]http://www.chomsky.info/letters/199406--.htm[/URL]
it made me very sad...he lived in such an amazing time to make change and be heard...but the only "protest" dylan ever went to was the march on washington. and then he decided it was bull****.
baez, on the other hand...kay, im rambling.[/QUOTE]

Baez had a big mouth on her. But you see the difference between her and Dylan? His stuff is timeless and hers is not. Sure, Baez did alot for political movements, but Bob did more with his music. Dylan kept quite and did his job and said what he wanted to say in music. F*** everything else.

[QUOTE=foxes are like so rad]sigh...and by the way, hes horrible now. he can barely sing...he put on a show at Boston University. a friend of mine went, and she said it was terrible.[/QUOTE]

That has nothing to do with his age... only a true Dylan fan can enjoy the majority of his concerts. He is so sporadic and spontaneous, his songs can be barely recognizable. I would assume your friend didn't know this going into it... Dylan concerts are hardly ever uniform in the least. That is what is so great about him! When I seen him after Love & Theft came out... half the songs he sang we had no idea what they were until we heard the lyrics. A few people bitched because they couldn't sing along like idiots.... but the genuine consensus among die hard Bobby fans was that it was a spectacular show. .... And when has Dylan's pros included his singing voice??!

[QUOTE=godandmud]Bob Dylan albums that I own:
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Time are a Changin'
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing it all back home
Highway 61 revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Greatest hits vol. 1
Nashville Skyline
John Wesley Hardin
Planet Waves (MY FAV!)
Desire
Blood on the Tracks
The Essential Bob Dylan
Greatest hits vol 3

I am 25 and have been a Dylan fan for 3 years now.[/QUOTE]
Planet Waves is your favourite?

Okay, I need help with a song. I only remember the song vaguely, so excuse the bare descriptions kthx.

It's sort of mid paced, the music and production sound very modern, but the vocals sound very early-Dylan. I can't remember too many lyrics, but something about Mary Jane. It had the harmonica in there too.

The only Dylan song I can think of mentioning Mary Jane is Tryin' to Get to Heaven off Time Out of Mind.

I downloaded that, wasn't it. Thanks though.

It had something about a Jane or a Jade in the chorus.

Queen Jane Approximatley of Highway 61 Revisted?

[QUOTE=Livewired]Queen Jane Approximatley of Highway 61 Revisted?[/QUOTE]
Definitely not.

Although the harmonica peice in the song sounded a lot like something from Like a Rolling Stone, but with a couple different notes.

Haha, thatss the only one with Jane that I could think of.

i cant believe no one has mentioned his first album. I bought it, and havent put it down since, not a single bad song on it. listen to his version of house of the rising sun and man of constant sorrow...soo good.

I love the verison of "In My Time of Dyin'" and yes "House of the Rising Sun" is amazing on it.

His first album is good but nothing special. It's a pretty typical folk album. He was still trying to be Woody Guthrie at that point.