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Wiseman_Vaughn

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Any fans out there? What is your fave album/period.

I used to hate Bob Dylan but I've warmed to him over the years and recently got into his stuff.
I'm slowly working through the back catalogue (in no particular order) and the highlights so far are Nashville Skyline, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks
 
If you listen long enough you will find things to like in all of his albums and the many, many bootlegs.
Highlights?

60s:- the three mid-60's albums released in 65/66 of Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

70s:- Many rate 'Blood On The Tracks' as his greatest album. Also Planet Waves, Desire and Street Legal.

80s. A lot of people can't get away with his religious albums but they are worth a listen. Of the rest, Infidels and Empire Burlesque are good and Oh Mercy is a great album.

For me, Dylan's run of Studio albums beginning in 97- Time out of Mind and continuing with 2001- Love and Theft, 2006 - Modern Times, 2009 Together Through Life, 2012 Tempest 2020 - Rough and Rowdy Ways all stand up as great albums from a man who has found a way to reignite the creative juices late in life.

For a new entrant wondering which albums to listen too I would always say Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the tracks then all his other 60's stuff.
 
Huge fan here, best songwriter ever in my opinion.

Think most has been covered above - his mid-60s run redefined popular music, blood on the tracks probably the best confessional songwriter album ever (also his most deeply personal?) and time out of mind onwards he's been consistently excellent.

I've been digging Street Legal recently, perhaps one of his underappreciated works but some excellent songs.
 
Highway61 to blonde on blonde are the best. The 80s stuff is laughable. The new stuff is utterly tedious 12 bar blues. Time out of mind excepted which has loads of fine songs but is horribly overproduced. If he recorded 12 farts and stuck them on an album he'd be getting five star ratings from the critics. It's bizarre.

60s > 70s > 00/10s > 80s/90s.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
60s:- the three mid-60's albums released in 65/66 of Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

70s:- Many rate 'Blood On The Tracks' as his greatest album. Also Planet Waves, Desire and Street Legal.

80s. A lot of people can't get away with his religious albums but they are worth a listen. Of the rest, Infidels and Empire Burlesque are good and Oh Mercy is a great album.

For me, Dylan's run of Studio albums beginning in 97- Time out of Mind and continuing with 2001- Love and Theft, 2006 - Modern Times, 2009 Together Through Life, 2012 Tempest 2020 - Rough and Rowdy Ways all stand up as great albums from a man who has found a way to reignite the creative juices late in life.

For a new entrant wondering which albums to listen too I would always say Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the tracks then all his other 60's stuff.
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👍 The 60s ones for me. Love his cover of that Adele song too 😆
 
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