Expecting Rain

Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde On Blonde

never!

Just because they're written up as the holy trinity of 60s albums doesn't mean it's true. HWY61 and BOB have just as many "blues fillers" as MT and TTL.

such as?

It Takes A Lot To Laugh
From A Buick 6
RDW
Pledging My Time
LSPBH
Temporary Like Achilles
Obviously 5 Believers....

I love Blonde on Blonde strictly because of these filler tracks.

are you serious? i can see you making a case for the others (even though a. i disagree and b. i love "blues filler") but it takes a lot to laugh and leopard skin are both top-shelf dylan.

PBH is just boring.

i don't even dislike ModBob, man


it's just really difficult to underestimate the awesomeness and the huge cultural impact of those mid 60s records.

PBH is not boring, it's hilarious

They can be awesome (I disagree) and important (open to discussion) and still be overrated. Same with TTTAAC. An incredibly dry record.

I'm no man, btw.

LSPBH is one of my favorite Dylan songs

Yes, and Standing In The Doorway is one of mine.

man is gender neutral, the way that i use it...

also you cannot seriously argue that the electric trilogy are not important in popular music. everybody from patti smith to george harrison to jimi hendrix would disagree with you!

yes but my favorite songs are selected by a high intellect and good taste... not like yours

Don't underestimate Bob's fun songs Jo. They're deeply melancholic , if you examine them closely.

i agree with this

^Tragos speaks truth

i also think one doesn't have to pick and choose between ModBob and Mid Sixties Bob...i love both

So yea, he opened the way for other people to write nonsense lyrics who weren't even half as good at it as he was. Great, thanks, Bob....

@topu: We're not discussing taste here. The question was what's overrated, and there's nothing more overrated in Bob's career than these albums, except perhaps Self Portrait, which isn't as bad as people propagate it to be.

no but you see, overrated actually does involve taste.

you think those records are overrated because they have "nonsense lyrics" and basically aren't very good, but people go on neverendingly (and my, my do they go on) about how great they are.

whereas i think you couldn't say ENOUGH how fantastic Blonde on Blonde is, because I love it so much.


also i fire your "you don't get it" attitude that you told me about R and C right back at you..."nonsense lyrics"....nonsense! you're just not listening properly

That's irrelevant. The songs are still great . Can't you tell?





Exactly. After all , it is the same guy we're talking about , remember?

Blood on the tracks and Blonde on Blonde can never be overrated. When something is really good you get so much from it that it is not exagerated to describe it as holy

That would include a song like "not dark yet" for me also

oh i'd say the same thing about love and theft for sure

Pretending to say something by sprouting chains of nothingness.... the thing is people have been told for so long how great these things are that they actually believe these songs are saying something. What I don't get is why you can't say that not all of his mid-60s stuff is equally great - it's not.

i.e. ModBob verses Mod Bob.