CC 2004: Bob Dylan
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 07/16/2004 - 10:31
Tags:
- Bob Dylan (1962) - ***
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) - *****
- The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) - **** 1/2
- Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) - ****
- Bringing It All Back Home (1965) - *****
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) - *****
- Blonde on Blonde (1966) - *****
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967) - **** 1/2
- John Wesley Harding (1967) - *****
- Nashville Skyline (1969) - *** 1/2
- Self Portrait (1970) - **
- New Morning (1970) - ***
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1971) - ****
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - **
- Dylan (1973) - 1/2
- Planet Waves (1974) - *** 1/2
- Before the Flood (1974) - ***
- Blood on the Tracks (1975) - *****
- The Basement Tapes (1975) - ****
- Desire (1976) - *****
- Hard Rain (1976) - *
- Street Legal (1978) - ***
- Slow Train Coming (1979) - ***
- At Budokan (1979) - **
- Saved (1980) - * 1/2
- Shot of Love (1981) - **
- Infidels (1983) - *** 1/2
- Real Live (1984) - *
- Empire Burlesque (1985) - ***
- Biograph (1985) - ****
- Knocked Out Loaded (1986) - **
- Down in the Groove (1988) - * 1/2
- Dylan & the Dead (1989) - *
- Oh Mercy (1989) - ****
- Under the Red Sky (1990) - **
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991) - ****
- Good as I Been to You (1992) - ** 1/2
- World Gone Wrong (1993) - ** 1/2
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (1994) - ***
- MTV Unplugged (1995) - * 1/2
- Time Out of Mind (1997) - ****
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: the "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998) - *****
- The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) - ****
- Love and Theft (2001) - *****
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002) - ****
This is a new entry in an old series I am slowly bringing up to date. I'm calling it Critical Consensus 2004. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. I've ditched placing the albums in a recommended purchasing order, instead using a more traditional chronological order.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever