The Guide to Bob Dylan (2008 update)
Submitted by lbangs on Wed, 05/18/2005 - 01:07
Tags:
- Bob Dylan (1962) - *** 1/2
- The Freeweelin' Bob Dylan (1963) - *****
- The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) - ****
- Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) - **** 1/2
- 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) - **** 1/2
- Nashville Skyline (1969) - ****
- 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) - ***
- Before the Flood (1974) - ***
- Blood on the Tracks (1975) - *****
- The Basement Tapes (1975) - **** 1/2
- Desire (1976) - **** 1/2
- Hard Rain (1976) - * 1/2
- Street Legal (1978) - ** 1/2
- Slow Train Coming (1979) - ***
- At Budokan (1979) - **
- Saved (1980) - *
- Shot of Love (1981) - **
- Infidels (1983) - *** 1/2
- Real Live (1984) - **
- Empire Burlesque (1985) - ** 1/2
- Biograph (1985) - *****
- Knocked Out Loaded (1986) - * 1/2
- Down in the Groove (1988) - * 1/2
- Dylan & the Dead (1989) - *
- Oh Mercy (1989) - *** 1/2
- Under the Red Sky (1990) - * 1/2
- Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 (1991) - **** 1/2
- 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) - ****
- Bootleg Series, Vol 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998) - *****
- Essential Bob Dylan (2000) - **** 1/2
- Love and Theft (2001) - ****
- Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue (2002) - ****
- Live: 1961-2000 (2001) - ***
- Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall (2004) - *** 1/2
- Masked & Anonymous (2003) - ** 1/2
- Live at the Gaslight 1962 (2005) - ** 1/2
- Bootleg Series, Vol. 7: No Direction Home, The Soundtrack (2005) - ****
- Modern Times (2006) - **** 1/2
Author Comments:
This appears just like my CC series, but there is one crucial distinction. This list is the combined opinions of me and the critics in the critical consensus series. My vote counted for one point just like the vote of each critic.
Essentially, this is simply an update of the CC series with my little voice tossed in as a drop in the critical pool.
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
do you count The Band's material on The Basement Tapes?
Yup, the album as legally released, Band, touch-ups, mono-ization, and all!
I'm still hoping one of the near-future installments of the Bootleg Series will be a more complete and accurate edition of this material...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs