TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.9101
Bob Dylan Album Rankings
1
Everybody likes to pick on Bob Dylan thanks to his style of singing that more resembles mumbling.
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Bruce Springsteen has described the beginning of "Like a Rolling Stone," the opening song on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, as the "snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to y
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Artists who are predominantly political get unfairly pegged by apathetic couch potatoes and activists as well. The couch potato just wants the artist to shut their piehole(s) and stick to rocking out.
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4
With his fifth album,Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan alienated a lot of his fans. He dared to do the unthinkable with his music - he introduced electric guitars to the mix.
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So, there is this semi-recognizable cat on the front of the album out there in the woods, looking like some friend of Baudelaire, way back in 1844 in "Le Vieux Quartier" of Paris with a few friends fr
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6
Nothing that I say about Bob Dylan hasn't been said before. For significance, Dylan ranks slightly below the Beatles when it comes to importance.
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7
In 1962, Bob Dylan burst forth onto the music scene with an album comprised mostly of covers and two originals.
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8
The other side of Bob Dylan referred to in the title is presumably his romantic, absurdist, and whimsical one -- anything that wasn't featured on the staunchly folky, protest-heavyTimes They Are a-Cha
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9
The entire construction is a thing of grace -- conservative, and new under the sun.
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10
The remarkable achievement of Love and Theft is that Dylan makes the past sound as strange, haunted and alluring as the future...
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11
Knowing the wide range of readership we have out there in cyberspace, there has to be someone out there who knows Bob Dylan.
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12
To celebrate Bob Dylan's twenty-fourth year on record, Columbia has releasedBiograph, a five-record set that is not only a major retrospective but also a reassuring, sometimes startling, overview of D
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13
John Wesley Hardingsuggested country with its textures and structures, butNashville Skylinewas a full-fledged country album, complete with steel guitars and brief, direct songs.
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By the time that Bob Dylan recordedThe Times They Are A-Changin'in 1964, the young folksinger was quickly becoming the spokesperson for protest songs -- whether he planned this or not.
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Dylan rushed outNew Morningin the wake of the commercial and critical disasterSelf Portrait, and the difference between the two albums suggests that its legendary failed predecessor was intentionally
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16
A few months ago, when I reviewed Bob Dylan'sTime Out Of Mind, I got some wonderful letters from Dylan fans who made some suggestions as to which album I should review next.
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17
Where Dylan's firstGreatest Hitstook its title literally,Greatest Hits, Vol. 2is a greatest-hits album only in the loosest sense of the term.
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If your memory serves you well, you will recall that Bob Dylan was unplugged decades before MTV made it hip to be musically square again.
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19
Nothing reinvigorates Sixties icons like having something to prove. In the past few years the reverence typically shown both the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan has worn perilously thin.
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Track listing: 1) Tombstone Blues ; 2) Shooting Star; 3) All Along The Watchtower; 4) The Times They Are A-Changin' ; 5) John Brown ; 6) Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35; 7) Desolation Row; 8) Dignity; 9
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Like GAIBTY , this is an all-acoustic covers album, but there are significant differences.
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Track listing: 1) Highway 61 Revisited; 2) Maggie's Farm; 3) I And I; 4) License To Kill ; 5) It Ain't Me Babe; 6) Tangled Up In Blue; 7) Masters Of War ; 8) Ballad Of A Thin Man ; 9) Girl From The No
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Say what you want aboutEmpire Burlesque-- at the very least, it's the most consistent record Bob Dylan has made sinceBlood on the , even if it isn't quite as interesting asDesire.
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24
Bob was hardly in a fine mental state all through 77 and 78 following the breakup of his marriage. That small gesture of a silver cross, which he picked up from the stage got Bob thinking.
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25
Bob had the album almost done. He had a couple of fantastic songs 'Foot Of Pride' and 'Blind Willie McTell'.
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The quickly recorded 'Saved' album had followed 'Slow Train Coming' and didn't meet with a particularly positive response due to it's relentess 'in your face' brand of preaching.
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Track listing: 1) Mr Tambourine Man ; 2) Shelter From The Storm; 3) Love Minus Zero/No Limit ; 4) Ballad Of A Thin Man; 5) Don't Think Twice It's Alright; 6) Maggie's Farm ; 7) One More Cup Of Coffee;
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28
Track listing: 1) On A Night Like This ; 2) Going Going Gone ; 3) Tough Mama; 4) Hazel; 5) Something There Is About You; 6) Forever Young (version 1) ; 7) Forever Young (version 2) ; 8) Dirge; 9) You
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A double-disc set released for the holiday season of 2000,The Essential Bob Dylanis a fine choice for the casual listener that just wants all the songs they know on one collection -- it's Dylan's equi
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30
Track listing: 1) Maggie's Farm; 2) One Too Many Mornings; 3) Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ; 4) Oh Sister; 5) Lay Lady Lay; 6) Shelter From The Storm; 7) You're A Big Girl Now;
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31
As with everything else in life, there are two ways to look at it.
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32
The group of musicians surrounding Bob for 'Desire' had gone. The brief period of reconcilliation between Bob and his Wife around the period of 'Desire' had gone.
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33
Track listing: 1) Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine; 2) Lay Lady Lay; 3) Rainy Day Women #12 & #35; 4) Knockin' On Heaven's Door ; 5) It Ain't Me Babe ; 6) Ballad Of A Thin Man; 7) Up O
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34
Track listing: 1) Main Title Theme (Billy); 2) Cantina Theme (Working For The Law); 3) Billy 1 ; 4) Bunkhouse Theme; 5) River Theme; 6) Turkey Chase ; 7) Knockin' On Heaven's Door ; 8) Final Theme ; 9
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35
The planet that Bob Dylan has chronicled in 46 years’ worth of music has dissected him like no other poet/writer.
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36
Track listing: 1) Wiggle Wiggle; 2) Under The Red Sky ; 3) Unbelievable; 4) Born In Time; 5) T.V. Talkin' Song; 6) 10,000 Men; 7) 2 X 2; 8) God Knows; 9) Handy Dandy; 10) Cat's In The Well.
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Track listing: 1) Let's Stick Together; 2) When Did You Leave Heaven; 3) Sally Sue Brown; 4) Death Is Not The End ; 5) Had A Dream About You Baby; 6) Ugliest Girl In The World; 7) Silvio; 8) Ninety Mi
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38
Well, well, well. Your eyes may be popping out of your head in disbelief at the rating I've given this. Especially if you are at all familiar with the story behind this record.
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39
Of all Bob Dylan's public personae over the past nineteen years, none has more confounded his long-time admirers than his latest incarnation as a born-again Christian.
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40
Arguably, this is the quintessential 80's Dylan album; inarguably, that fact means it can't help but suck.
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