Highway 61, blood on the tracks, blonde on blonde and throw in live at the Budokan
Christmas in the Heart is the one I play every year at least once.
I don’t think it has been mentioned before.
Well, one truly madcap but great song. The rest is largely unlistenable
Wow thanks for the input I think I’ll start with
Freewheelin ,Highway 61 Revisited and Time Out of Mind this month. Digest and the get Blonde on Blonde and Blood on the Tracks next month. That should be a good start. Only so much time to listen in a day.
Thank you all for your recriminations!
That’s the key word. Don’t rush. The first two albums you mention might take at least a month to digest.
Have emergency crews standing by for when your brain explodes.
Great thread- it has lead me to listen to some of my Dylan albums and buy Time out of mind on vinyl- previously I have just streamed it.
Can I re suggest Modern Times as your next album?
Listened last night and it’s great.
Of the many Dylan LPs that I bough in the day and throughout time and most recently Nashville Skyline, I do agree with your view and would place it number one of the top five but then, are other close runner ups of one to five picks as seen in my previous reply to a picture in time.
Pleased to report the mono box set arrived in good condition.
That’s great news, mine arrived today as well, just downloading to Melco as I type, not had chance to listen yet, how about you.
Spent the afternoon at the ballet. Will rip them while watching basketball this evening.
Blood on the tracks and Oh mercy are probably my favourites….
Gary
John Wesley Harding.
New Morning.
Self Portrait.
I would start with:
Infidels - produced by Mark Knopfler. Sly and Robbie laying down the rhythm. This one sounds great and the songs are excellent
Blonde on Blonde - basically a masterpiece
Blood on the Tracks - there’s a reason why this is often cited. Incredible songs, straightforward presentation.
Enjoy…
Blimey. Those posts show how either we Dylan fans have a bleak sense of humour or get very different things out of music. Recommending Infidels, New Morning and especially Self Portrait, an album widely recognised as one of self sabotage, is somewhere between interesting - I mean come on, justify these - or just wilful perversity. None of them address the OPs desire for a way in and I cannot for the life of my imagine anyone saying “Well Self-Portrait and Infidels opened the door for me.”
I don’t really get the “and it sounds very good” argument. That’s partly because, er, it doesn’t. It sounds congested, cluttered, shockingly badly arranged and sung by a man in the deepest throes of a very bad cold which even for Dylan sounds odd.
Similarly with the Knopfler thing. He basically takes over the album and makes it sounds like a Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler album with guest vocalist Bob Dylan. I never saw the point. It’s like Jeff Lynne productions. Every one sounds like an ELO record with a guest vocalist.
There are no shortage of great and very different Dylan albums representing different approaches and eras but these 3 coming up is inexplicable to me.
Tend to agree, the classics are the classics and a good entry point into his work. That said I can make a case for some what I refer to as “ some dirty Dylan albums” but it took me a while to appreciate those for what they are and they are certainly not an entry point!
I think you need to start with a couple of early acoustic classics from the 60’s and a couple of his albums from the 70’s.
Gary
This is the sixth time I’ve bought “Blonde on Blonde” in a digital format. That’s a record for me.
I also had it on vinyl back when I had a turntable.
Freewheeling. (Folk)
Blonde on Blonde. (Electric)
Nashville skyline (Country)
Then take it from there.
My late wife hated Dylan so never listened to him much. My current wife is a big Dylan fan, so about five years ago I bought her the three albums she like most. Nashville Skyline, Blood on the Tracks and Desire. I now have every Dylan studio album, all the official live albums and a good few of the bootleg series.
Enjoy, it will be a nice journey of discovery!, just take your time as some albums need a few listens.
Gary
There’s this moment on Tracks “little rooster’s crowing, must have something on his mind”!