Bob Dylan
Outside of the usual favourites (Blood on the tracks, freewheelin, Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 etc...) which of his 70 or so albums is worth investigating?
- Relevant artist taggings:
- Bob Dylan »[x]
- Bob Dylan & The Band »[x]
- The Meaning of Ritual: A Songwriting Masterclass with Conor from Villagers
- Bob Dylan - Tempest
- Benicassim 2012: the DiS review
- DiS Festival News Round-Up: Part One
- Benicassim 2012: the (very early) DiS preview
- 10 Years of singer-songwriters: The Changing of the Guards
- 10 Years of Singer-Songwriters: Some Thoughts
- Watch: Johnny Flynn discusses Dylan and Hop Farm
Bob Dylan
Thread not appearing correctly? Click here to rebuild | Report this
Twitter
Facebook
Last.fm
SoundCloud
MySpace
Friendster
RSS
...
John Wesley Harding
The Basement Tapes
Desire
Time Out of Mind
I'd say those are all very good and well worth a look. Possibly Oh Mercy and Love and Theft too.
..
I've always thought Another Side Of was great. Desire, Love and Theft, 4th & 5th Bootlegs, Time Out of Mind
I'm guessing that you're counting Bringing It All Back Home among the usual favourites, too.
If not then that is highly recommended. I would second the suggestions of Desire and John Wesley Harding.
New Morning has some excellent songs on (but a couple of duds as well).
Oh Mercy is a consistently good album.
Oh yeah
As partially mentioned above, some of The Bootleg Series is worth a look, especially Volumes 4 (the 'Judas' concert) and 5 (the mid-70s Rolling Thunder Revue tour).
Definitely Live '66
(the 'Judas' concert charliepanayi mentioned) - though I have perhaps a slightly controversial opinion of it, preferring the acoustic disc to the electric one. The version of 'Visions of Johanna' in particular is absolutely spellbinding.
And yeah, Desire, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft are all quality too.
i thought the fact that disc one is better
was common knowledge?
Maybe
I originally thought all the fuss was over the going electric aspect of it. I've been wrong plenty of times before though.
thanx guyz
JWH sounds very good on first spin, just listening to Time out of Mind now. Will check out all the others (which I've somehow never heard of!) in good time
some good recommendations here
But for me nearly all his best stuff was done when he was young and on fire. His early '60s albums are underappreciated. You should get The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' and Another Side of Bob Dylan.
The Times They Are A-Changin' is the real classic out of those. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll will annihilate you.
Don't bother with the first album (Bob Dylan), it's a false start.
If you love the early stuff (which you will), get The Bootleg Series Volume 1-3 which has got dozens of amazing songs from the early 60s when he was just machine-gunning them out.
most everything.
I have 14 Dylan albums and Self Portrait is the only one I don't love. Oh and the debut.
Love and Theft is awesome.
John Wesley Harding
could well be my favourite
the first 10 or so
the first 10, are insane, i also have love for the 1st one, one of my favourites
really??
He just sounds like a starstruck boy imitating his heroes and wondering when they're gonna change their minds and kick him out the studio.
Desire
Is one of my favourite Dylan albums. Hurricane, Isis, Joey, One more cup of coffee...all brilliant.
Slow Train Coming (1979)
and Street Legal (1978)
Are very underrated but have some quality tunes on them.