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[shaun]

what do you think is bob dylan's best album?

not your favourite album. what you think is his best one.

so come on people. you have alot to choose from.


and if you want. you can put in your favourite dylan album for shits and giggles.


i'd also like to say that i think dylan's best album is 'Blonde On Blonde'
though it is a hard choice and when it comes down to it. i would probably say that. but i'm still not even sure.

and my favourite would probably be one out of 'Blonde On Blonde' 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Bringing It All Back Home'

[-matthEw-]

Best Bob Dylan album I hear you say?

Hmmmm, so very, very hard to choose.

I'd say Blonde On Blonde. 14 tracks of pure genuis made at the height of his creative peak. Fave songs from Blonde on Blonde? Probably Visions of Johanna, or, Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.


Favourite album? For shits and giggles? Hmmmm

Highway 61 is up there - The album that first got me into the man as I'd learned Like A Rolling Stone on guitar without actually hearing the song, so dusted off my Dads copy and was taken by storm. So many memories. Favourite song? Like a Rolling Stone, Ballad Of A Thin Man, Desolation Row

Also - Blood on The Tracks is one of the those albums that appear such a simply put together album, but the more you listen to it, the sheer genius of the man becomes apparent. His best album of the 70s and this record and Desire, show just how close his 70s peak was to his 60s peak. Favourite songs : Tangled Up In Blue, If You See Her, Say Hello and Idiot Wind.


Hounarable mentions to Time Out Of Mind, Desire, Bringing It All Back Home and The Freewheelin.

[-matthEw-]

Shit!

I forgot Burlesque Empire, it easily outclasses Blonde On Blonde.

[shaun]

ah! how could i forget about 'Blood On The Tracks'
that is album full of emotions. i love it. i have been listening to it alot recently. nice to go to sleep to.

and of course 'Empire Burlesque' is better than 'Blonde On Blonde'

*sorry about that matthew. it was me calling it 'Burlesque Empire' that resulted in you also calling it that also. when it is really the other way round.
but it's not a very good album anyway. so who cares.*

[-matthEw-]

Empire Burlesque gives me nightmares....literally

[shaun]

so you choose to say it the other way round to ease the pain?

I prefer Donovan, who started out as a Dylan clone, but soon found his own hippy jazzy/folk/pop sound...

I must be right cos John Peel says so!

[-matthEw-]

It does help knowing that Im degrading that album further everytime i mention it.

What was Bob thinking?

Substiting it on in the dying seconds of the game?? It was suicide. Luckily, I woke up in time not to see the consequences

[-matthEw-]

Originally posted by Turnham Green:
I prefer Donovan, who started out as a Dylan clone, but soon found his own hippy jazzy/folk/pop sound...

I must be right cos John Peel says so!

Donovan certainly was a clone when he started out, even though Donovan was a far more acomplished musician.
But like Dylan (a Woody Guthrie clone back in the day) he soon found his feet and go onto make some great original stuff.

[Ross]

I`d go with Blood On The Tracks being up there....

I generally have a personal favourite as to whatever mood i`m in..

My favourite song of all time by any artist is "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carrol" from Times They Are a Changing....

Masters Of War is also an absolute diamond, as is Down The Highway..... Freewheelin is obviously worth a mention.

Bringin It all Back home was a massive influence on Lennon, Harrison and McCartney and Dylan even first introduced the beatles to serious strength marijuana....

Recently Time Out Of Mind was great... Not Dark Yet being an absolute classic...

The thing with Dylan is that he is so proliffic that you never know when some songs were written.....He has so many that have never seen the light of day apart from occasional fleetings at random gigs that he has performed at....

Personally I find Donovan to be dull and obvious by comparison...

Anyone read "Down The Highway" the new Dylan Biography... It`s really really good.. Best Dylan book ever according to my Dad whose read almost all of them.... I`m currently reading it and it truely is an amazing read....