Expecting Rain

YEP, GIVE THE MAN A CIGAR !

Working backwards chronologically:

Hard Rain - remaster
Desire - quad mix
Blood On The Tracks - half-speed remaster
John Wesley Harding - mono
Blonde On Blonde - SACD remaster / mono
Highway 61 Revisited - DCC remaster
Bringing It All Back Home - mono
Times They Are A-Changin' - mono
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - mono
Bob Dylan - mono

Put those in your backpack and off you go.

So, BoB is worth having in stereo and mono, h61 stereo, and BIABH mono? These are the ones I've considered pursuing both types....

Without talking about live cd and bootleg series.

Blood on the tracks,
Blonde on blonde,
The freewheelin' Bob Dylan,
The times they are a-changin'
Another side of Bob Dylan,
Bringing it all back home,
Desire,
Highway 61 revisited,
Modern times,
Bob Dylan (1962),

Can someone please not pm me a link to the BoB SACD, I really haven't been dying to hear it or anything. Benny's post brings up a lot of points about which version you need to hear for each album. The mono BiaBH is overall the best but there are a few tracks that benefit from the recent stereo remix. While the quad/half speed upgrades of BoTT and Desire are good, there's nothing particularly wrong with the original releases to me. Anyway, here's my list.

1. ''Love & Theft"
2. Blood On The Tracks
3. Tell Tale Signs
4. Live 1975
5. Blonde On Blonde
6. Time Out of Mind
7. Bringing It All Back Home
8. Live 1966
9. Highway 61 Revisted
10. Street Legal

The last three are sort of superfluous because at that stage it's really just a cavalcade of albums I love. Freewheeling, Times, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, Desire, Hard Rain, Slow Train, Infidels, Oh Mercy, Modern Times could all be on there but I had to limit my choices. After that we enter the pleasant but not mind blowing tier and then the 'oh dear he's lost it tear' followed by the 'if it wasn't for Brownsville Girl I'd shoot you' tier.

Studio Albums:

01. HW61
02. Desire
03. Blonde on Blonde
04. Blood on the Tracks
05. Another Side
06. Times..
07. Bringing it all back Home
08. JWH
09. Street Legal
10. Planet Waves

Again I need to change this!

1. Blonde On Blonde
2. Blood On The Tracks
3. John Wesley Harding
4. Street Legal
5. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
6. Love & Theft
7. Bootleg Series Vol 5; Live 1975
8. Bringing It All Back Home
9. Hard Rain / At Budokan
10. New Morning / Planet Waves

That has too be the best list ever?

I hate making TOP lists and ranking things but I'll give it a shot (studio albums):

1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Street-Legal
3. Blood on the Tracks
4. Desire
5. Planet Waves
6. John Wesley Harding
7. Bringing It All Back Home
8. Another Side of
9. Highway 61 Revisited
10. Knocked Out Loaded

I guess you could change the order of the last 4 and it wouldn't matter. I really thought about including "Infidels". Guess that would be at 11. position or so. And a part of me wanted to rank "Highway 61" higher but... I dunno, something crucial is missing from it even though I've always loved it, maybe it's the lack of love songs.

I am not a huge list person but I'll take a stab at it too (purposefully not including the official Bootleg series):

1. Bob Dylan
2. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. The Times They Are A-changin’
5. Highway 61 Revisited
6. Blood on the Tracks
7. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
8. Blonde on Blonde
9. John Wesley Harding
10. The Basement Tapes

After I do 5, it becomes a jumbled mess of ties.
So,
1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Blood on the Tracks
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Bringing it All Back Home
5. Freewheelin (Could be anything here, really)

My dad's top 10;

1. Modern Times
2. Blonde On Blonde
3. Blood on the Tracks
4. Infidels
5. Desire
6. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
7. Bringing It All Back Home
8. New Morning
9. Nashville Skyline
10. Another Side of Bob Dylan

Sorry Blood on the Tracks, but John Wesley Harding is second now.

As of now..

1. Highway 61 Revisited
2. Love & Theft
3. Blood On The Tracks
4. Blonde On Blonde
5. Desire
6. Bringing It All Back Home
7. Modern Times
8. MTV Unplugged
9. Good As I Been To You
10. John Wesley Harding

*2-10 changes, H61R is always on top.

Excluding live albums, compilations or Bootleg Series-type things:

1. BLOOD
2. BLONDE
3. JOHN
4. BRINGING
5. HIGHWAY
6. TIMES
7. SLOW
8. STREET
9. SAVED
10. DESIRE

Bringing it All Back Home
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
John Wesley Harding
Highway 61
Freewheelin'
"Love & Theft"
Hard Rain
The Times
Time Out of Mind

Blonde on Blonde
Bringing It All Back Home
The Times They Are A-Changing
Freewheeling
Blood On The Tracks
Highway 61
Modern Times
Nashville Skyline
Time Out Of Mind
Desire or Street Legal

1. Highway 61 Revisited
2. Blonde On Blonde
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. Blood On The Tracks
5. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
6. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
7. The Basement Tapes
8. Live 1966
9. Desire
10. John Wesley Harding

Mind you, I still have not heard ALL of the albums, just the majority!

Like in the top 12 songs, bored again so i'm gonna do my top 20 like in that thread, Only limiting myself to Bootleg Series,

1. Blonde On Blonde
2. John Wesley Harding
3. Blood On The Tracks
4. Street Legal
5. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
6. Love & Theft
7. Bootleg Series Vol 5; Live 1975
8. Bringing It All Back Home
9. Planet Waves
10. Hard Rain / At Budokan
11. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
12. Highway 61 Revisited
13. Desire
14. Time Out Of Mind
15. New Morning
16. Modern Times
17. Together Through Life
18. Nashville Skyline
19. The Times They Are A-Changing
20. Infidels / Slow Train Coming


Of course the Rolling Thunder is the best music and tour ever created, but Blonde on Blonde needs to go number 1, because in terms of albums and songs it'll never beaten. But The Rolling Thunder Revue only fit there.

What's the point? What's the best album, country, sports team, film, book etc. Name the best 250 countries in the world, the top ten numbers, letters, the best holiday destinations. This stuff is usually put out to sell stuff. So, are we delighted when others agree with us? If they don't they just don't understand, do they? Us and Them. It's al right, ma....

1. Blonde On Blonde
2. Bringing It All Back Home
3. Highway 61
4. Blood On The Tracks
5. Desire
6. Another Side
7. Times They Are A-Changin
8. Freewheelin
9. John Wesley Harding
10. Time Out Of Mind

In a sort of rough order, holistically, and including only studio albums (no live albums of bootlegs)

Freewheelin (just because I sit there, listen to the whole thing and curse, asking why the hell can't I write something this good? - because he was no older than 21 when he wrote these songs (how can you be 21 and write Hard Rain? How?))
Love and Theft
Blonde on Blonde
JWH
Blood on the Tracks
Desire
H61
Oh Mercy
Time Out of Mind
Bringing It All Back Home

(But there's something on every album)

I've decided to check my iPod stats and here are the TOP 10 Dylan albums I've listen more in the last 3 years (when I bought the damned device):

1. Saved
2. Street Legal
3. Modern Times
4. Blonde on Blonde
5. Love and Theft
6. Freewheelin'
7. Basement Tapes
8. Blood on the Tracks
9. Bootleg Series vol. 1-3
10. John Wesley Harding

15 is as little as I could condense it down to. And I refuse to even try putting it in order so I stuck to chronological.

1. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
2. The Times They Are A-Changin'
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. Highway 61 Revisited
5. Blonde on Blonde
6. Bootleg Series Vol. 4, Live 1966
7. John Wesley Harding
8. Nashville Skyline (I actually love this album)
9. Blood on the Tracks
10. Bootleg Series Vol. 5, Live 1975
11. Desire
12. Street Legal
13. Time Out Of Mind
14. Modern Times
15. Hop Farm 2012 Bootleg (simply because I was there for my first Dylan show makes it one of my favourites )

With the release of Tempest, it needs to changed!


1. Blonde On Blonde
2. John Wesley Harding
3. Blood On The Tracks
4. Street Legal
5. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
6. Tempest
7. Love & Theft
8. Bootleg Series Live 1975
9. Bringing It All Back Home
10. Planet Waves
11. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
12. Hard Rain
13. Desire
14. Highway 61 Revisted
15. New Morning
16. Modern Times
17. Together Through Life
18. Time Out Of Mind
19. Nashville Skyline
20. Infidels

Blonde On Blonde
Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing It All Back Home
Bootleg Series 4: Live 1966
Time Out Of Mind
Tempest
Love And Theft
Blood On The Tracks
Desire
Planet Waves