Bob Dylan Essentials

[Maximo]

Whats in your BD collection?

Highway 61 Revisited
Nashville Skyline
New Morning
John Wesley Harding


I dunno what else to get, I want the actual albums not compilations.

[Maximo]

Forgot to add, I know I need:

- The Times They Are A Changin
- Blonde On Blonde

[TheSadDebaser]

I have those and a few others.

Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks
Slow Train Comin'
Dylan and the Dead (still haven't listened to this)
Time Out of Mind

[Wallerton]

Originally posted by Maximo
I dunno what else to get, I want the actual albums not compilations.

Sixties: Don't forget Bringing It All Back Home. IMHO, Another Side of Bob Dylan has aged better than Times... Changin'. You might also want to pick up Greatest Hits (even though it's a compilation!) for "Positively 4th Street."

I think Blood on the Tracks is probably his best album from the seventies, though Desire also has some strong moments.

From the eighties, check out Empire Burlesque, if only for "Dark Eyes," the last song on side two. Oh Mercy is good. And I could listen to "Jokerman," the first track on Infidels over and over and over and over...

As far as his most recent stuff goes, I think Love and Theft and Time out of Mind are both worthy efforts.

(My collection includes these titles and many, many more! I guess I'm a bigger Dylan fan than I thought.)

[Thor]

You need Bringing it All Back Home from 65, his first electric/acoustic album and in my opinion his best.

[S M @]

Originally posted by Thor
You need Bringing it All Back Home from 65, his first electric/acoustic album and in my opinion his best.

Seconded.

[winterversion]

I really liked Bob Dylan and the Band's "Basement Tapes."

[p.a. beaumonty]

I went Dylan-crazy about 8 years ago while working at a record store. I ended up buying every one of his proper albums from the debut through Desire (save for '73's Dylan which is apparently shoddy outtakes from the bizarre and oft maligned Self Portrait ). At the risk of being all canonical and what not, I think they're all must-haves. I've always wanted to delve into some of the 80's stuff but was chicken. I'm open to suggestions (Empire Burlesque noted)

Some personal favorites that tend to get lost in the shuffle:
s/t
Another Side... -not as protest-y as its predeccesors
New Morning
Pat Garret & Billy the Kid soundtrack -mostly instrumental, but absolutely gorgeous
Planet Waves -the "other" one w/ The Band. Not as much fun as the Basement tapes, but some classic songs nonetheless

and though they may fall under compilations, the first two volumes of the Bootleg Series have some indispensable alternate takes and unreleased tunes every bit as good as the album stuff. Mostly pulled from '62-'75.

[the Pawnbroker]

Mr. Beaumonty: Ah, a kindred soul:

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Times They Are a Changin'
Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Live 1964
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing it All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde (SACD)
Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966
The Basement Tapes (2CD Official Release)
The Genuine Basement Tapes (5CD Bootleg)
John Wesley Harding
Nashville Skyline
Planet Waves (SACD)
Blood on the Tracks
Blood on the Tapes (Bootleg NY Sessions) (CD)
Desire
Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975
Street Legal
Infidels
World Gone Wrong
Time Out of Mind
Love & Theft
Best of Volume 2
Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3

Everything he recorded in the 60s is an absolute stone classic. Everything else is merely required.
OK, I'll shut up.

[c. leo]

That is perverse. Do not tell anyone you don't own fucking "Blonde on Blonde." It's gonna be OK.

[llamabones]

i listen bootleg series' vols. 4&5 more than the studio records. both incredible documents from two of the most important parts of his career. also, without question, his two best touring bands, The Band in 1966 and the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.