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More spotifying. This time Bob Dylan's 'Desire'

I have never listened to a Dylan album in my life before, and it's excellent!

 

Never listened to a Dylan album? Wow. Desire isn't even his best.

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More spotifying. This time Bob Dylan's 'Desire'

I have never listened to a Dylan album in my life before, and it's excellent!

 

Never listened to a Dylan album? Wow. Desire isn't even his best.

Recommendation on the best would be most welcome!

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More spotifying. This time Bob Dylan's 'Desire'

I have never listened to a Dylan album in my life before, and it's excellent!

 

Never listened to a Dylan album? Wow. Desire isn't even his best.

Recommendation on the best would be most welcome!

 

Blood on the Tracks and The Freewheelin' for me. Of his more contemporary work, I liked Modern Times.

 

Nashville Skyline is worth checking out too, just a couple of notches under his best.

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More spotifying. This time Bob Dylan's 'Desire'

I have never listened to a Dylan album in my life before, and it's excellent!

 

Never listened to a Dylan album? Wow. Desire isn't even his best.

Recommendation on the best would be most welcome!

 

Blood on the Tracks and The Freewheelin' for me. Of his more contemporary work, I liked Modern Times.

 

Nashville Skyline is worth checking out too, just a couple of notches under his best.

 

Controversial choice that, Simon. Nashville Skyline is usually well down the critics' lists as being too bland and corny (although personalIy I like it).

 

The thing with Dylan is that he's had a long career, and (like Bowie) reinvented himself several times.

 

My recommendations for each 'phase' would be:

 

Early folk/protest era:

 

"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" (1963)

 

Electric rock era:

 

This is my favorite Bob era, and I can't get it down to one album. I really think you need all four of:

 

"Bringing It All Back Home" (1965)

"Highway 61 Revisited" (1965)

"Blonde On Blonde" (1966)

"Live 1966" (the so-called 'Albert Hall' bootleg, actually recorded in Manchester. Now legally available)

 

Back to acoustic:

 

"John Wesley Harding" (1967)

 

The great renaissance divorce album:

 

"Blood On The Tracks" (1974)

 

The Daniel Lanois blues project:

 

"Time Out Of Mind" (1997)

 

The latest one:

 

"Tempest" (2012)

 

As you can see, my antipathy to the music of the 1980s extends to Dylan - he was mostly as awful as everybody else during those years. But as a card-carrying Bobcat, I do own virtually everything he's ever done.

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