Your top 10 Dylan albums

Well now, Love and Theft has to go in there, and Oh Mercy too. I think that Pat Garrett could come out, and maybe Planet Waves. But, I would want room for Desire as well. I think restriction to 10 is impossible. And what about The Freewheelin........?

I think I would have to promote "Blood on the Tracks" to no 1, since possibly 2 all time favourite Dylan tracks are on the album ("Tangled up in Blue" and "Simple twist of fate"). I would probably have "Blonde on Blonde" as no 2, but "Another side of" would have to be right up there as well ("To Ramona") being another particular stand-out favourite track of mine.

I would also have to find room for a few other more recent albums in the top 10 as well:

"Desire", Slow Train Coming" and "Modern Times".

Just not sure which albums I would leave out for them.

Circa 1974 Dylan moves to Aslyum (Island Records in the UK) and releases two albums the underrated/ overlooked Planet Waves and the amazing live album Before the Flood. Agree Desire would have to be in there and I really like New Morning so I'd have to include that as well.

I'm also a big fan he and The Band have their own section and I've bought many of the 180 reissues. 

I hadn't had Desire before and really like that. B on B gets a lot of play.  I'm really enjoying his latest stuff Theft, Modern Times, and Together thru Life, he really knows how to make his songs seem like Keroac writing off the cuff and personal history/views. 

Oh I forgot Tell Tale Signs, Basement tapes Vol 8, have to start early because I have to hear all 4 of them.

I went to CNN website to review their car reviews, the first ad for IBM was a stark room, Bob walks on with his guitar and sits on the couch.  Their computer asks him questions and  then one last stupid one and he gets up and walks away.  Very funny and unusual, wonder what kind of check he got for that?

I'm also a big fan he and The Band have their own section and I've bought many of the 180 reissues. 

I hadn't had Desire before and really like that. B on B gets a lot of play.  I'm really enjoying his latest stuff Theft, Modern Times, and Together thru Life, he really knows how to make his songs seem like Keroac writing off the cuff and personal history/views. 

Oh I forgot Tell Tale Signs, Basement tapes Vol 8, have to start early because I have to hear all 4 of them.

I went to CNN website to review their car reviews, the first ad for IBM was a stark room, Bob walks on with his guitar and sits on the couch.  Their computer asks him questions and  then one last stupid one and he gets up and walks away.  Very funny and unusual, wonder what kind of check he got for that?

What about The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan? It was a turning point for music, culture and society. Oh, and it's brilliant, even if Blowin' in the Wind has lost some of its original power.

Keith

I'm with you there. Can't stand that acoustic-troubador-voice-of-a-generation crap like "Blowin' In the Wind", "The Times They Are..." etc, it's aged very badly.

Mine would be:

1. Blood on the Tracks
2. Highway 61
3. Blonde on Blonde
4. Bringing it All Back Home
5. Before the Flood
6. Nashville Skyline
7. Desire
8. Tempest
9. Basement Tapes
10. Time out of Mind

Agreed. 'Oxford Town' is brilliant in its use of slipped diction..'...f'we come from...'.

My first and still favourite Dylan album.  All the others listed are top ten material of course.

G