NewCC0004: Bob Dylan

Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 04/27/2001 - 12:51
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  • The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (63): *****
  • Highway 61 Revisited (65): *****
  • Blonde on Blonde (66): *****
  • Blood on the Tracks (75): *****
  • Bringing It All Back Home (65): *****
  • Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966 - Royal Albert Concert (98): *****
  • The Times They Are A-Changin' (64): **** 1/2
  • Another Side of Bob Dylan (64): **** 1/2
  • Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (67): **** 1/2
  • The Basement Tapes (75): **** 1/2
  • Biograph (85): **** 1/2
  • John Wesley Harding (67): **** 1/2
  • Nashville Skyline (69): **** 1/2
  • Bootleg Series, Vols. 1 - 3: Rare & Unreleased, 1961 - 1991 (91): **** 1/2
  • Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (71): ****
  • Desire (76): ****
  • Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (94): ****
  • Time Out of Mind (97): ****
  • New Morning (70): *** 1/2
  • Planet Waves (74): *** 1/2
  • Before the Flood (74): *** 1/2
  • Slow Train Coming (79): *** 1/2
  • Infidels (83): *** 1/2
  • Empire Burlesque (85): *** 1/2
  • Oh Mercy (89): ***
  • Bob Dylan (62): ** 1/2
  • Street Legal (78): ** 1/2
  • Shot of Love (81): ** 1/2
  • Good as I Been to You (92): ** 1/2
  • World Gone Wrong (93): ** 1/2
  • Self Portrait (70): **
  • At Budokan (79): **
  • Real Live (84): **
  • Knocked Out Loaded (86): **
  • Down in the Groove (88): **
  • MTV Unplugged (95): **
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (73): * 1/2
  • Hard Rain (76): * 1/2
  • Saved (80): * 1/2
  • Dylan & the Dead (89): * 1/2
  • Under the Red Sky (90): * 1/2
  • Dylan (73): 1/2
Author Comments: 

This is a new entry in an up-dated series I'm calling the New Critical Consensus. 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. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is.
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