Bob Dylan

happypig

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I've recently bought the Best of Bob Dylan and really like it so looking to get a bit more.

Which albums would NSC's resident Dylan experts recommend to get started with ?

 

bernster

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• Oct 30, 2013

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happypig said:

I've recently bought the Best of Bob Dylan and really like it so looking to get a bit more.

Which albums would NSC's resident Dylan experts recommend to get started with ?

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i only became interested in Dylan a few years ago. i have a friend who is a fanatic and he set me on my way with the following three classics
highway 61 revisited
blonde on blonde
blood on the tracks
these will give you a good start then go where the flow takes you

 

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Knocker15

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Blonde in Blonde, Desire, Highway 61 Revisited, Times they are a changing, Free Wheeling, all fantastic

 

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Knocker15

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Ooooh forgot Brining it all back home

 

DavidinSouthampton

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An Album originally called "Bringing it all back Home", which I think might have come out with another title. I bought it in the mid (?) 1960's, with tracks like Mr tambourine Man, It's all Over Now, Baby Blue, Maggie's farm, She Belongs to me. Fantastic

 

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theboybilly

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Modern Times is my favourite, but I also enjoyed Slow Train Coming, and Blood on the Tracks

 

smillie's garden

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Give The Basement Tapes a listen. Dylan recorded this with The Band; fantastic stuff. Greil Marcus wrote The Old, Weird America (previously titled Invisible Republic) about these bootleg recordings: a great, if geeky,read.

 

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Country Seagull

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Time Out of Mind is another gooden

 

albionalbino

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Blood On the Tracks. One of my favourite albums of all time.

 

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blue'n'white

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Blood on the tracks and Street legal

 

VAL1850

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"Desire" - From the mid seventies takes a lot of beating

 

Tony Le Mesmer

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So many to choose from..... Oh Mercy is a classic in more recent years. Blood on the tracks is a timeless album as are the basement tapes. Quite partial to Slow train coming....

 

Tarpon

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Even the worst Dylan albums have one or two great tracks and frankly his mediocre stuff makes most everyone else look a bit silly. If you are really getting a taste for the man the issue won't be what you buy so much as what order you buy it in. I envy you the journey ahead and if I had the opportunity again I would buy and listen to them in chronological order...they're cheap and birthdays and Christmas come every year...the challenge will be not to rush. Enjoy the ride.

 

Icy Gull

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Most of my favourites have been mentioned so I'll just suggest Bob Dylan and The Band - Before the Flood, a live album with tracks by Dylan with the Band and a few with just the Band.

http://theband.hiof.no/albums/before_the_flood.html

 

happypig

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Cheers, Just ordered Blonde On Blonde,Bringing It All Back Home,The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan & Highway 61 Revisited

 

Lord Bracknell

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Highway 61 Revisited - to check out whether you get 'Desolation Row'. If you don't, you should maybe rethink.

 

Icy Gull

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happypig said:

Cheers, Just ordered Blonde On Blonde,Bringing It All Back Home,The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan & Highway 61 Revisited

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You will love them all, may need a few listens but you will love them. You do need to add Desire to that list though.

After these give Nashville Skyline a listen. Dylan goes country, excellent album and very different to his early stuff. It was about then that his voice changed after a motorbike accident and a long layoff,

 

happypig

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Lord Bracknell said:

Highway 61 Revisited - to check out whether you get 'Desolation Row'. If you don't, you should maybe rethink.

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It does Lord B, it does indeed.

I'm looking forward to all these. Funny how your music tastes broaden with age, 30 years ago I would have (and probably did) write Dylan off as a "whining hippy".

 

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Don't get Self-Portrait ! I did, a long time ago....big mistake.