Favorite Dylan Albums
I have a birthday coming up and I emailed two friends (and got information from a third friend's blog) on their top ten favorite Dylan albums. I am still a freshman in the school of Dylan and so I am relying on the wisdom of the upper classmen. The two friends I emailed gave me a top ten list with some bonus material. The third Dylanite posted a blog about Dylan albums for every mood. Anyway, here are their lists and my next five Dylan purchases. Do you have any suggestions? What are your favorite Dylan albums?
Brian's Top Ten Dylan Albums
1. Blood On The Tracks (1975)
2. Blonde On Blonde (1966)
3. Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
4. Time Out Of Mind (1997)
5. Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
6. Modern Times (2006)
7. Oh Mercy (1989)
8. Street Legal (1978)
9. Slow Train Coming (1979)
10. Desire (1976)
Bonus(suggested purchase order)
Blood On The Tracks
Live 75
Oh Mercy
Time Out Of Mind
Highway 61 Revisited
Desire
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Santosh's Top Ten Favorite Dylan Albums
1. Freewheelin'
2. Times are a changin'
3. Bringing it all back home
4. Blonde on Blonde
5. Highway 61 Revisited
6. Blood on the Tracks
7. Slow Train Coming
8. Saved
9. Infidels
10. Oh Mercy
Bonus (more favorites)
11. Time Out of Mind
12. Love and Theft
13.Modern Times
14. Live at the Gaslight
AND No Direction Home DVD -- directed by Scorcese
Ben's Dylan album for every mood
When you’re visiting the city: Highway 61 Revisited
When you’re visiting the country: Nashville Skyline
When you’ve just gotten married: Planet Waves
When you’ve just gotten divorced: Blood on the Tracks
When you’re feeling very youthful: The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
When you’re feeling very old: “Love and Theft”
When you’re in love with life: New Morning
When you’re sick of life: Time Out of Mind
When you’re dreaming of exotic romances: Desire
When you’ve renounced exotic romances: Down in the Groove
When you’re full of nostalgia: Modern Times
When you’re full of rage: Hard Rain
When you’ve just been born again: Saved
When you’ve just become a pagan: Street-Legal
When you’re feeling smooth: Oh Mercy
When you’re feeling rough and ragged: World Gone Wrong
When you’ve got all the answers: Slow Train Coming
When you’ve got none of the answers: Blonde on Blonde
Based on the recommendations of these three Dylanites, here are my next five Dylan purchases:
1) Blood on the Tracks
2) Bringing It All Back Home
3) Highway 61 Revisited
4) Blonde on Blonde
5) The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bonus:
Bob Dylan: Made Easy for Guitar (A songbook for hack guitar players like me that just want to play Mr. Tambourine Man for my boys to sing along!)
2 comments:
I think you'll be happy with your selections. Bringing it all back home has the song "It's alright Ma", which contains the line "Even the president of the united states sometimes has to stand naked", which I have always thought is a very interesting line. What is he saying - we are all human? powerful people are also vulnerable?
I will be adding these to the iPod (via CDs) this summer. There are too many Dylan lines for me to quote. It seems like every song has at least one really good line.
I don't know if I have a favorite Dylan line. It just depends on what I am listening to that day.
Today i was listening to:
"I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand." Dylan (1981)
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