The Ultimate Guide to Bob Dylan
Submitted by lbangs on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:29
Tags:
- Bob Dylan: ***
- The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: *****
- The Times They Are A-Changin': **** 1/2
- Another Side of Bob Dylan: ****
- Bringing It All Back Home: *****
- Highway 61 Revisited: *****
- Blonde on Blonde: *****
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits: ** 1/2
- John Wesley Harding: *****
- Nashville Skyline: ****
- Self Portrait: *
- New Morning: ** 1/2
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: ** 1/2
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Soundtrack): ** 1/2
- Dylan: 1/2
- Planet Waves: * 1/2
- Before the Flood: * 1/2
- Blood on the Tracks: *****
- The Basement Tapes: ****
- Desire: **** 1/2
- Hard Rain: *
- Street Legal: ***
- Slow Train Coming: * 1/2
- Bob Dylan at Budokan: *
- Saved: *
- Shot of Love: *
- Infidels: * 1/2
- Real Live: * 1/2
- Biograph: ** 1/2
- Empire Burlesque: ** 1/2
- Knocked Out Loaded: *
- Down in the Groove: *
- Dylan & the Dead: 1/2
- Oh Mercy: ****
- Under the Red Sky: *
- The Bootleg Series: Vols. 1-3, 1961 - 1991: ****
- Good As I Been to You: * 1/2
- World Gone Wrong: * 1/2
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3: **
- MTV Unplugged: *
- Time Out of Mind: *** 1/2
- The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert - *****
Just out of interest, why have you given Bob Dylan's greatest hits **1/2 when it has some of the greatest songs ever written on it, i.e. Like A Rolling Stone, Just Like A Woman, Blowin' In The Wind, The Times They Are A-Changin, Mr Tambourine Man...shall I go on?
I admire all of your lists though, and have enjoyed reading them - check out some of mine.
Best wishes,
Ed Sames.
Sorry for the delay. I am not always the quickest responder.
I really need to update this list; the story behind how it came about is entirely too long to type up right now (in the few minutes before my work day begins). Dylan's Greatest Hits was rated lower than most of his work because of the nature of his work; the songs are terrific, but they certainly lose quite a bit ripped out of the context of his proper albums. Since this list was intended as a buyer's guide, I assumed people would buy up the higher rated albums and then have 9 of the 10 songs on the Greatest Hits already in their collection. The Greatest Hits albums would be a case of buying material they largely already had.
Well, there, not very coherent, but that's two reasons. I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for the comments!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs