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Bob Dylan Band • Page 4

Discussion in 'Music Forum' started by DaydreamNation, Apr 7, 2016.

  1. Blaine Ryan

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    Oh man, the “Caribbean Wind” with pedal steel rehearsal is awesome. Maybe my favorite Dylan song of the ‘80’s.
     
  2. Matt Chylak Feb 20, 2018
    (Last edited: May 2, 2022)
    Matt Chylak

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    Going to try and rank every Bob Dylan album I've heard from his "official" discography.

    Rules:
    • Assume that the tiers are a stronger indicator of how I feel than individual numbers.
    • (a) and (b) denote stuff that switches all the time.
    • If I can't really remember the album, gonna add it to the "haven't heard in a while" column as a way to push me back towards some of the stranger corners of his discography.
    • Not including bootlegs and weird comps, that's too hard.
    Tiered Ranking (Last Updated 5/5/22):
    1a. Bringing It All Back Home
    1b. Blood On The Tracks
    3a. Highway 61 Revisited
    3b. Nashville Skyline

    5. Slow Train Coming
    6. The Basement Tapes
    7. Dylan & The Dead
    8. Blonde on Blonde

    9. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
    10. New Morning
    11. Infidels
    12. The Times They Are A-Changin'
    13. Fallen Angels

    14. Rough and Rowdy Ways
    15. Another Side of Bob Dylan
    16. Time Out of Mind
    17. Bob Dylan
    18. Oh Mercy

    [Most of recorded music exists below the above records]

    19. Desire
    20. Love and Theft
    21. Shot of Love
    22. Planet Waves
    23. Shadows in the Night
    24. Good As I Been To You
    25. Modern Times

    26. Together Through Life
    27. Christmas In The Heart
    28. Tempest
    29. Saved
    30. Triplicate

    30. Self Portrait
    31. Under the Red Sky
    32. World Gone Wrong
    33. John Wesley Harding

    Haven't Heard In A While:
    Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
    Street-Legal
    Empire Burlesque
    Knocked Out Loaded
    Down In The Groove
     
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  3. zmtr

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    That may be one of the most interesting Dylan lists I've seen.
     
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  4. Matt Chylak

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    I'd imagine that's because I have so many of his early albums in the middle/lower?
     
  5. zmtr

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    Indeed. I love "Slow Train Coming" at #3. I recently picked it up on vinyl. Also love New Morning at #8. It's very underrated.
     
  6. Matt Chylak

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    I'm very much in love with his blues-indebted work. He's got the perfect voice for it, and the "gospel" albums are paradoxically the place where I think it shines most.

    New Morning is so fantastic. Clean singing with no bloat or unnecessary left turns, just a bunch of 2-to-3-minute ditties that are perfectly written. I'd kill for whatever his "old age" version of that album would be. I think he still has a classic in him.
     
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  7. Matthewconte

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    Can't do the entire thing, but I think my top 5 isn't the typical:

    1. The Basement Tapes
    2. The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
    3. Bringing It All Back Home
    4. Highway 61 Revisited
    5. Blood on the Tracks

    Ok actually it's not that atypical, but how can you leave those three off any list? I love Desire and Times They Are A-Changin and Planet Waves but
     
  8. Matt Chylak

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    Yeah, honestly the top of Dylan's canon becomes super boring to talk about at a certain point. I'm more interested in figuring out WTF he was thinking on Oh Mercy.
     
  9. Blaine Ryan

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    He talks a lot about the writing and recording of Oh Mercy in Chronicles.
     
  10. WordsfromaSong

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    Oh Mercy is great
     
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  11. zmtr

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    I can't believe he just decided he was going to transform himself into a country crooner to write Nashville Skyline. What a record and what a brilliant man.
     
  12. zmtr

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    Been listening to Desire a lot recently. It was never really one of my favorites but I'm gaining a new appreciation for it. "One More Cup of Coffee" is an incredible song.
     
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  13. cshadows2887

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    Scarlet Rivera singlehandedly makes that a staple Dylan album.
     
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  14. Aregala

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    I love "Isis"




    does typing that mean I'm on a list now
     
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  15. Steve_JustAGuy

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    I have a weird affinity for Street Legal. Not sure why, outside of New Pony none of the songs are any of my favorites by him, but that album is one that just clicks with me.
     
  16. zmtr

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    Agreed. Can you imagine "Hurricane" without that violin?
     
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  17. Aregala

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    the absolute unimpeachable LEGEND Emmylou Harris serving some of the best backing vocals ever too
     
  18. zmtr

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    I've honestly never gotten through the whole thing. It's been a few years though.
     
  19. zmtr

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    Infidels is cool.

    Jokerman is one of my favorite Dylan songs. This performance rules

     
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  20. Steve_JustAGuy

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    I don't even think it's spectacular by any means, I'm just drawn to it for unknown reasons haha.
     
  21. zmtr

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    Another Side... has busted its way into my top 5 favorite Dylan records. I feel like most people rank it last when it comes to the all acoustic albums (other than the self titled).

    It's a perfect mix of cerebral songwriting and comedy. He takes himself very seriously 1 second and then shits all over it the next. "I don't believe you" is one of the best songs ever written.
     
  22. zmtr

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    Well judging by my post on page 2 it's always been top 5. So don't listen to anything I post. His discography is a fucking anamoly though. Almost daily I'm amazed all over again by pretty much every record he put out for 15 years straight
     
  23. cshadows2887

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    Every time I come back to an album I thought I knew well, I find all kinds of new things. The joy of the journey with a genius of his caliber.
     
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  25. Blaine Ryan

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    No Dylan "best of" is complete without "Changing of the Guards".
     
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