Blonde On Blonde

Bob is a legend and I enjoy his music, but I can only take so much lol This album was good but nothing really caught my ear to go back to later.

Oh jeez. Not another Bob Dylan one... That said, this is much better than the others recommended so far: Highway 61 Revisited and the live one at the Royal Albert Hall. He has a tendency to go on too long in songs: One of Us Must Know and Johanna, for example, and his wailing, stoned sound can wrankle - but these are good songs and well delivered. Better than most Dylan, for me. I Want You and Rainy Day Women are particularly good.

Munspelet

The style of this Bob Dylan not preferred

A few great tracks here on what is overall an okay album

It's a masterpiece. There's just no way around it. The writing is just incredible. I mean... I don't have words for how beautiful, nuanced, and balanced these lyrics are. I'm not as good a writer as Dylan is. The best I can do is give it 5 unqualified stars and hit repeat on the album.

Not my typical genre but enjoyed most of the album, especially a few songs. Just not sure how often I’m listening to this.

I really wasn't a fan at the beginning and thought this felt like an overrated artist. I hadn't really listened to Dylan prior to this. As it continued though I slowly grew to enjoy his voice and tune more. Another listen to the album could clarify if I just liked the second half of the album more or if his sound grew on me. As it is I don't see myself revisiting a ton of Dylan but it was a fun listen.

Ok so I know I said Neil Young felt like the heart of indie rock haha but damn haha hard to say this album wasn't the life spring of most things after it. Eh, comparing Neil Young and Bob Dylan is stupid. I'm just a huge fan. I'm on the Blonde On Blonde wagon forever. It's its own universe. A universe I want to live and die in. 100 stars.

Classics....

A blaring harmonica drowns out glimmers of hope.

Own this one. Lots of good ones here

I admit I never knew what the fuss was about. This proves it. One of his most popular albums gets a "meh" from me, mostly because of (1) his voice, and (2) his tendency to name songs stupid things that nothing to do with the lyrics (minus one star for giving Anton Newcombe the idea as well).

Great songwriting, landmark album for Dylan and for rock in general. Not easy to listen to, harmonica is always too high in the mix. Not an album you can really enjoy listening to without knowing the backstory and context.

I really don't want to give this a one star, because Bob is a great guitar player, and the harmonica work is excellent, but I absolutely hate his voice, and it kills everything for me. The intonation sucks. His vocal embellishments are cringy. The vocal strain is bad. It's just bad.

I listened twice to this record, but I found that all the songs sounded the same. There wasn't a single song that made me go "wow! Great song!". None of them sounded bad, but nothing was outstanding either.

Not my fav of BD.

Very folksy, good builds throughout each song.

It was alright. Bob Dylan is very talented but it felt like a lot of the same without variety. This album is lacking compared to others in my opinion, but it is a simple listen

great album to listen to when working

Judas and his newfangled electric guitars can really rock out. Who knew?!?

I didn't mind listening to this one. It got me in a relaxed mood, surprisingly.

Interesante, aunque siempre hay un punto en Dylan que no termina de conectar conmigo. 4/5.

I can appreciate, but I will just never be into Bob Dylan.

I just can’t get into it

After nearly 150 albums in since starting this project, I'm starting to think a little differently about how I approach things. I need to ask myself a few questions: What is this album's purpose? What is the artist's vision? And how does this album make me feel? This can then be broken down further based on the album or artist and honestly, I may not be able to answer those questions fully. Regarding Blonde On Blonde, it seems clear Bob Dylan, while taking some chances, was looking for the perfect backing band as a vehicle for his poetry. Poetic lyricism which never fully gives itself away and leaves an openess for discussion and wondering. Perhaps a mark of successful storytelling. This album is another slow burn for me where it is not immediately apparent of its depth. In an age of instant gratification and consumption, Blonde On Blonde calls the listener to really sit down and let it sink in slowly which is a challenge. I don't feel this album is built on the weight of any singles or favorite songs but rather to be slowly digested. Thankfully, it never feels completely overwhelming.

Gemütliches Dylan Album mit klaren asongs simplen Melodien. „Vision of Johanna“ und „Just Like a Woman“ sind gute Songs, aber auch nicht mehr. Auch die übrigen Songs passen sich konzeptionell an. Die Platte ist lang und sogar an machen Stellen auch weilig. Abstellen würde ich die Platte nich .. aber ganz oben auf der Playliste ist sie ebenso nicht.

Pues muy bueno, aunque debió ser un poco arrogante en sus comienzos de éxito y desde hace unos cuantos años ya.

Folksie-Rough-Rock

Classic bob Dylan

Love Dylan’s lyrics, but can only listen to several songs at a time. Had to listen in stages.

It's a classic. One of Bob's best. Highly influential.

First double album in rock history — earns the runtime. Poetic, capturing, and I even love how much my ears hurt from the harmonica

I still haven't forgiven him for picking up an electric guitar. Was something people said. Meanwhile, this dude got obsessed with the harmonica. This album sucks. And Bob Dylan is a shit poet, singer, and songwriter.

Grows on you? Can't really listen to the lyrics, which is what I understand to be the best thing about this album. Dylan's voice is hell funny. Oompah first song sucks though.

Great songwriting, but a little too much harmonica.

Headsplitting harmonicas, vivid lyrical imagery and god damn immortal songs. This project has made me a staunch Dylanite.

It's Dylan. Dude's got a Nobel Prize in Literature for his lyrics.

Yeah still can't stand his voice. I tried. Again.

I mostly listened to this in the car and, while I’m sure the lyrics are probably pretty good, all of Bob Dylan’s songs sound mostly the same. May need to give it a relisten when I can actually read the lyrics.

Pues muy bueno, aunque debió ser un poco arrogante en sus comienzos de éxito y desde hace unos cuantos años ya.

Bob Dylan is fine, but his style gets so cloying. I've had to listen to his songs done by the Byrds and the Fairport Convention, and it's always the same disjointed mess of lyrics. I'm a lyrics guy at heart, and there's just not enough here sung with meaning and purpose for me to enjoy.

Great stuff, special voice. Known already.

No ha estado mal. Aparte del "I want you" y de "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" no me he guardado otra. Esa foto borrosa de la portada sigue siendo tan rompedora en 2024 como en 1966. Grande.

Not my thing at all. Hate his voice. You can hear the conceit and cynicism

Lose about 30 minutes and you'd have a perfectly decent single album that I'd score at 4.

Very good music and musicians, but terrible voice. Rainy Day Woman (Everybody Must Get Stoned) I Want You Stuck Inside of Mobile Just Like a Woman

Pretty good but had some lows

The harmonica doesn't work for me, I have to be honest that it was a bit annoying listen to it in most of the song, even tho, I think that the leatrics an maybe de vocals helped this album a lot. Also, I think that this album doesn't sound like the 60's (the decade this was release) it sound a bit more like 70's, so that gives it one more star for me

Classic Dylan. Great front to back! Standout Tracks: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, I Want You, Just Like a Woman, Fourth Time Around

One of my favorites. One of his best. The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns Blow into my face with scorn But it’s not that way I wasn’t born to lose you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinkin’ from my broken cup And ask me to Open up the gate for you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you How all my fathers, they’ve gone down True love they’ve been without it But all their daughters put me down ’Cause I don’t think about it Well, I return to the Queen of Spades And talk with my chambermaid She knows that I’m not afraid to look at her She is good to me And there’s nothing she doesn’t see She knows where I’d like to be But it doesn’t matter I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you Now your dancing child with his Chinese suit He spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn’t very cute to him, was I? But I did it, though, because he lied Because he took you for a ride And because time was on his side And because I . . . I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you So. Damn. Good.

The most polished (musically) full album I’ve listened to from Bob Dylan thus far. Instead of leeching off the success of Highway 61, he dives even further into the absurdity. I love the Rock & Roll themes we see here in this record, and whilst it seems very easy to get lost in this one (thematically) it all comes back around to Bobby boy being a hopeless romantic.

Awful vocals that actually get better with every listen. The instrumentals and the word smithing is what shine here for my first bob Dylan record this one was amazing. I go out of my way to listen to my favorites and think it was well crafted

Great album. Lyrical and sounds great. Lots of confidence.

It’s obvious why Dylan is thought of as among the best. Great songs and great album. I just prefer when others perform his songs

Fürs Singer Songwriter Album

Never could get into Dylan. Always felt he was overrated. Too folksy for me. WAAYYY to much harmonica. We get it dude, you're deft with the jaw harp!

Bob Dylan is an excellent songwriter. I was willing to overlook his slightly grating vocal tone and enjoy this record wholeheartedly.

It’s just so f’ing easy to listen to…the musical equivalent of pancakes and maple syrup on a Sunday morning. Well, maybe not John’s pancakes my daughter said those suck…haha. No doubt one of the best songwriters of all time, kind of makes it embarrassing to listen to most music created today. “Sad eyed lady of the lowlands” is a really special song, and one from my childhood. I know Dylan wrote it, but check out the version by Joan Baez if you can it’s hypnotizing.

One of the most praised artists of all time, and one I simply never get. His singing is less grating on this record than most, but it's still a punch to my eardrums when listening for an extended period of time. All the songs sort of blend together for me, there isn't much change in cadence or speed. I don't understand much of the lyrics, so maybe that impacts my review...I don't hear story telling as much as rambling. Shrug emoji.

For 5+ decades we’ve been told that Dylan is an amazing artist and because of that we’re supposed to like him. Yes he is a great lyricist and songwriter. But a singer he is not, and listening to an album of his front to back proved that. His “style” is grating when you hear it for 60+ minutes. When EVery SOng HAs that SAme EMphasis ON EVery WOrd he SINGs. Nothing short of annoying and it takes away from the musical landscape of the song. Plus, settle down on the use of harmonica. I like that this is one of the three full band albums he made that gave the proverbial finger to all his folk purists, but it really only earns a 3-star for its influence on other artists.

Won’t be surprised to see some polarization with Bob. But to me he’s one of a select few of great American songwriters. B on B is probably the sweet spot for most listeners, where he’s expanded his sound beyond all acoustic but pre… whatever he turned into after this, which was at times unlistenable. A truly great album that I’ve heard countless times, but is missing a song that launches it into 5 territory for me.

I enjoyed it, but also started to realize there's a chance I might think I like Bod Dylan more than I actually do. The first song was my jam. I want to get stoned! The electric organ is also great and I love when modern rock bands throw that in. However, after a while it started to blend together and tough for me to do 72 min of BD straight. Regardless can’t deny Dylan’s greatness as a songwriter.

I like Bob Dylan. He has some great songs. But I never listen to his albums start to finish and B on B is a great example why. I think it’s too long and I hate to say his vocal style wore on me (and harmonica). Still a very good album, but I think all the praise it has received is a bit overdone. I pegged it at the 4.25/5 I gave Rubber Soul and added/deducted from there. At the end of the day I simply did not enjoy it nearly as much as RS. 3.5/5

Der nölige Gesang, stets im gleichen schmalen Frequenzbereich, die unangenehm durchdringende Mundharmonika, die schleppend langsamen Rhythmen - nein danke.

*Blonde On Blonde* is not only a work of genius. It's also an album filled with surprises. Oddly enough, this *long* record opens with what are probably the relatively "weakest" cuts in it ("Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "Pledging My Time" ). Guess Robert Zimmerman here personifies the jester that makes a sly joke on you right before offering a masterpiece whose scope is potentially infinite. Postmodernist, "carnival-like" art rarely gets better than this--intended "flaws" included. Besides, as "weak" as "Rainy Day Women" is compared to the myriads of stunning gems following it, it's still an instantly iconic opener for this double album, with its tongue-in-cheek, abrasive, free-flowing-harmonica-enhanced marching band shenanigans and its biblical/druggy double-entendre "Everybody must get stoned!", bellowed during the chorus. I wonder if this is where Cypress Hill got the idea for their song of the same name, by the way. Associating Bob Dylan and Cypress Hill in the same sentence gives me giggles, but with Dylan, unexpected connections will unavoidably surge, so vast is the scope of references and striking turns of phrase used in his songwriting, leaving an imprint in collective consciousness like very few artists ever did. I've only adressed the first song of this record as I'm writing this tentative review, and I've already penned two paragraphs. Quite odd when "Rainy Day Women" is not even my favorite song in the album, I have to say... No wonder so many authors produced mammoth essays, articles and books about Dylan. No wonder some university teachers can spend a year-long syllabus just talking about the man and artist. You see, the genius of Bob Dylan does not only lie in his stellar songwriting and performances--it also lies in the way he inspires others to write striking turns of phrase in their turn, and how his songwriting elicits so many interesting interpretations and memories. Take some of the 5-star reviews written for this app: "It's like a folk-rock *Ulysses* or something" says one reviewer. Also referencing James Joyce, and addressing Dylan's notoriously "difficult" and "unprofessional" singing, another reviewer wrote: "I really want to give this record 4 stars to punish it for having the vocals of an out of service oscilloscope, but fuck, it is too damn good. It would be like marking down a James Joyce novel because of his punctuation style." And concluding this comparison between *Blonde On Blonde* and Joyce's literary skills, one last reviewer tagged the record as a "poetic odyssey". Those comparisons involving Joyce are not only brilliant--they also sound legit, deserved, and totally heartfelt. The best homage you can give to the winner of a Nobel Literature Prize. Yet those raving reviews are not only about literary references, they also movigly evoke their writers' deep relationship with Dylan's body of work. As when this reviewer described a mystical, transcendent experience he went through as he listened to *Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands* while bed-ridden with the flu... Or when that other reviewer reminisced about once listening to the whole LP on a jukebox in New York and how such a mundane act might change your whole life... So rich is this album, so fecund, that it soon becomes a hall of mirrors where each and every listener can recognize their own soul being reflected in them. Truly "universal", in the first meaning of the word. Rather than "muttering small talk at the wall", I will abstain from attempting to describe how good *all* of those tunes are, and most especially *why* they're so good. Many reviewers using this app have already done so. You would have to pick one particular line, and say why it's so witty / hilarious / moving / interesting / mysterious / ominous / poetic / wonderful for another lengthy parargraph. You would have to compliment each excellent and effective guitar or organ or piano fill as played by Robbie Robertson, Al Kooper, Paul Griffin and all the other wonderful players in the album. You would have to praise the way in which Dylan uses certain arragements and smart chord changes in a large chunk of those compositions to make them go beyond their initial bues-rock / folk-rock templates, and this in a way that always enhances his vocals and lyrics. But as I said, other reviewers did this better than I could ever do it myself. All I can do is list the most legendary songs in this double-album (the first one ever in the histroy of "rock") and leave it for others to elaborate on them. It's true that the record only hits its *real* stride with the third track musing between the differences between impossible, ideal perfection and the all-too-human yet also "humane" frailty of life experiences--it's that simply terrific song "Visions of Johanna", with its incredible narrative arc (how striking are those lines from it singled out by another reviewer, by the way: "The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face / Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place"). But if the *first* real gem comes up on track number three only, it's neverending fireworks after it: there's "One of Us Must Know"--probably one of my favorites Dylan tunes ever--, but also "I Want You", "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again", "Just Like a Woman", "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine", "4th Time Around" and "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowland"... And the songs I haven't quoted here are excellent as well anyway. Even "Rainy Day Women". As I said earlier, this review is tentative at best. It's hard to put into words what this record does, and this with *both* words and music. You can return to *Blonde On Blonde* for years and find new things to admire in it each time. Others have pointed this out elsewhere, but the cover of this LP nicely sums up how you can only approach this behemoth of an album through the most "oblique" ways. Just like that picture of Bob, sightly unfocused, everytime you think you're nailing what makes the record great, something else turns up, and the picture becomes slightly muddled again. Yet you can't help look at it, as mundane as the picture is--just like some of the music on it may seem mundane at first glance, only to reveal its treasures during the hundreds of subsequent listens that will inevitably follow. 5/5, what else? Number of albums left to review: 295 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 311 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 169 Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 228

So now I’m a record on repeat: Great poet and lyricist Not a great singer I’m a fan of a harmonica (luckily or I might have struggled) Goes on a bit - always hits a 3.5 for me so what side shall I err on this time?

It's hard to find words to describe how discomforting this music is to me. I cannot imagine — like I literally cannot comprehend — how Marianne hears this and feels drawn in and turned on. I listen and try to hear it, catch what I've missed before, and it just makes things worse. And the one-star rating isn't posturing, I'm genuinely aggravated when this is playing.

There are a couple of good songs on here, but damn, the ones that irk me drive me up the fucking wall. Rainy Day Women makes me want to choose violence.

Picking your favorite Dylan for a Dylan head is a Sophie's choice conundrum. But I can definitively say that this was my favorite Dylan in college circa 1987 to 1989---Rainy Day Women, Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, Visions of Johanna, I Want You, Obviously Five Believers. Each song on this album deserves and academic paper (and likely there are some out there) to explore its depth both in terms of sound and lyrics. Let's dig in... Rainy Day Women While obviously an homage to verdant Elizabeth I also remember an interview with Dylan in which he said something like, "no man, it's the business man, corporations." So I started to hear it as an anti-capitalistic rallying song at some point. Fuck you Coca Cola and McDonalds and Monsanto..."They'll stone you and then they'll say good luck." Pledging My Time Good god play that harmonica like it's your last time, Bobby. I love that it's on top of the mix and rises above the other instruments. Visions of Johanna "We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it" And the story begins. Like other classic Dylan he paints a picture of characters navigating universal struggles that feel so personal, specific, and unique. Let's consider the guitar and electric piano...perfect punctuation that helps you understand this story of longing juxtaposed with reality! Ask me what line perfectly encapsulates Dylan's poetic prowess and I'll answer "Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial." I Want You I don't know this to be true but I've always heard these lyrics as something that just poured out of Dylan in one setting. Perhaps that's the one question I'll ask in my fantasy conversation should I ever have the honor. Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat This is my kind of love song. I've said it on another Dylan review but I think the line, "If you wanna see the sunrise, Honey, I know where. We'll go out and see it sometime, we'll both just sit there and stare" is just so damn sexy. Those little guitar interjections throughout add another layer of lyricism and brilliance to this song. Obviously Five Believers Upon this listen I had a real "duh" moment. This album is chockfull of love songs and yearning. And in this one our protagonist struggles with his depression (black dog barking) and longing. The tempo tries to be upbeat and demonstrate his commitment, he's a true believer but man oh man it's just tough. Sad-Eye Lady of the Lowlands You should wait, Bob! ----------------- The album cover I always loved the blurred portrait. I assumed it was intentional and from what I read it kind of is....The photographer was taking shots of Bob in the West Village and it was cold that day and he (photographer Jerry Schatzberg was shivering) . There were other photos taken in which he was in focus but Bob liked this one. ----------------- My fantasy Dylan dinner party in which people come as their favorite character. I started playing with our group and assigning each of us a character. I had so much fun with this album (as I always do!) Andre: Narrator from Sad-Eyed Lady (warehouse eyes & Arabian drums) Nicole: The woman in the leopard-skin pillbox hat (fashionable Londoner) Jen: Ruthie from Stuck Inside of Mobile in her honky-tonk lagoon who knows what you need Andy: The Ragman drawing circles up and down the block Scott: protagonist Fourth Time Around who would give you his very last stick of gum Marianne: Johanna in her ethereal dress

Ya lo había escuchado, me gusta mucho el sonido, es un discazo.

i don’t think he’s that good a singer lol and a woman would have never gotten away with that kind of performance

not my fav bob dylan but man’s a poet

I am a big fan of Bob Dylan's hit songs, none of which were in this album. This album was honestly quite boring and I felt like it dragged on for too long. Maybe its just me, but I felt that the music was a bit too wordy and his singing voice started to become irritating about halfway. I recommend a listen only to those who are fans of his or folk rock in general. Favorite Song(s): N/A

Dylan still isn't for me, but I found his album a lot more listenable than Blood On The Tracks. I have a lot of nostalgia for Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, heard that track a lot growing up. Not bad, still not really something I would listen to regularly.

Sooo much harmonica and way too much organ. I don't enjoy his vocals. What else can I say?

Classic songs on here, but I find Dylan's rhythm and tone difficult to listen to.

Really cool album, really screams USA. Kind of a Lou Reed vibe at points. This won't be missing in my US road trip playlist when we set out on a journey again. 8/10

I played it in the background and liked it. Should probably listen more to get a better feel for it

I like a lot of Dylan's work, but this album is too much of the stuff I'm not as interested in.

It’s cool that his songs are long, but there isn’t wasted space. He’s got lots to say about love and other random things he’s observed. Weird intonation that takes getting used to.

First listen all the way through.

Great album, not my favorite Bob record though, bit too bluesy for me

Muy del chill. Está bien.

Classic Dylan

Dylan.

Min dylanfavoritt, tror jeg. Et av tidenes beste albumer

Figured out that I actually like Bob Dylan

I've already gushed about Bob a few times here, so I'm not going to chew my cabbage twice or thrice, or even quatrice. I love this man, I love his music, I love his poetry. So many of the songs on this record are staples in his prolific catalogue. He's a genius, simply put. He's a 5-star man.

Enjoyed the harmonica, but not very memorable

A terrific album, but not something I go to often.

Bob Dylan sucks. And why would they cram that suckiness into two 7 minuter and an 11 minuter? This album does have a couple of recognizable songs though

Coulda skipped Sad Eyed Lady, Bob.

Bob Dylan is great. I’m more into the rock albums than the folk ones but this is good

Jag älskar Tom Waits och jag gillar Bruce Springsteen. Rimligen borde jag också tycka om Bob. Men oavsett hur många gng jag försöker så orkar jag inte. Han har helt klart gjort kanonlåtar. Tex Boots of Spanish leather i Nanci Griffths version är ju hur bra som helst. Och även Joan Baez har bitvis gjort ok versioner. Fler av denna skivas låtar är ju mkt bra. Klassiker skulle väl många säga. Men det där jävla vidriga munspelet alltså. Han kan ju fy fan inte spela munspel. Nån idiot har gett ett av mina barn ett. Det låter fan lika illa när de går loss som när Bob blåser på. Och hans sjuka betoningar när han sjunger... Nej, Bob Dylans musik ska helst framföras av andra artister.

Bob Dylan ÄR ju bra. Vi får se om detta album visar det. (Jag blev lite besviken) Hans röst och hur han sjunger är verkligen en parodi på sig själv. Musikaliskt är låtarna rätt lika. Det är inga melodier som klingar på. Det är Dylans sång som driver låtarna. Musiken är som en våg Dylan rider på, utan att han bli särskilt blöt. Den tar inte över, broderar ut. Förutom munspelet, som inte är jättelattjo. Samma sätt att sjunga på gör det hela rätt repetitivt. Känns som mycket av musiken är typ "traditionell". Alltså slingor som existerar i det gemensamma som Dylan inte själv komponerat. Som i Achilles... Texterna då? Han fick Nobelpriset i litteratur. Jag är inte superimponerad. De är "svåra" men utan finess, dvs sådana som folk kan tolka skiten ur. Nonsenstexter som ibland är fina men som varje person kan göra till sin egen. #1 sådär #2 mycket munspel #3 bättre - mer känslan av hans bra låtar. Låtskrivandet på topp, "sneeze, jeez cant find my knees". Han fick väl Nobelpriset i litteratur?. Lång också (lite väl lång) #4 också helt ok #5 #6 Ok, lång låt. Han gillar långa låtar som tuffar på.... #7 nej tack #8 texten är världsklass... Not Orkar/hinner inte skriva enskilt om resten. Svårt att betygsätta.

Bob är ju sannerligen acquired taste och jag har försökt vid flera tillfällen, men inte kommit så mycket längre än att uppskatta enskilda låtar snarare än allt han gjort. Lyssnat på denna tidigare och ett par gånger nu. Tycker det bitvis är riktigt bra, men som helhet fortfarande inte så fantastiskt som vissa framhåller.

Well written, genius, and a sexy name. What more can you want

Boozy Rainy Day, a bluesy Pledge, beautifully worded Johanna, a mattress on a bottle of wine... I've always dug the lyrics and the music.

Hugely important album. It is timeless, like a Beatles album. Nothing in music was the same after it came out. I’ve owned a clean vinyl copy of Blond On Blond since it first came out.

All time

צריכה עוד זמן עם האלבום ובוב. עוד לא הגיע ללב שלי

Over rated. I don't get it

It’s Bobby D

I like a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff but this album is incredibly annoying for some reason. I've always been cool with the fact that he had a terrible singing voice - that's just part of the package. This album, though... I don't know if it's how it was recorded or if he was just pushing his voice even harder than usual, but it's incredibly grating. I prefer the Dylan of yore (Freewheelin', The Times, Bringing it all back home, Highway 61.)

Amazing folk rock, kinda melancholic and happy at times and cryptic which I like

opening song about how women are in danger kinda anywhere plus sick ass harmonica, sign me up

There was a time I considered myself ‘deeply’ into music. I would listen to an album scores, if not hundreds, of times. I would pore over lyrics, obsess over phrasing, dissect every note, all in an effort to understand the ‘truth’ the artist was trying to impart. Sadly, those days are long behind me. Now, I use music to ‘soundtrack’ my life. So music is always playing, but in the background, usually to set a mood. I really don’t have the time or inclination to approach it any differently at this point. So viewed in this context, I liked this album fine. I’ve always enjoyed Dylan’s crazy voice & weird phrasing & fun & cool lyrics & wordplay. But its historical impact was lost on me. I enjoyed it & it was a fun listen, but that’s about all. I get that an artist wants you to be moved in some way by their art, but saying it was ‘fun’ is a damn sight better than saying you hated it, in my book. But possibly not from the artists view.

I recognize the place this album holds in the pantheon of great music in the 20th century. Lyrically it’s Dylan further cementing his legend, and musically, when taken in the context of the time period it was released, it’s a rollicking ride. That said, I’m just not a big Dylan fan. I can totally respect it, but I’m not going to seek this out again.

Found some songs I've never heard but liked which surprised me. His voice does keep me from ranking it a full 5 stars, but overall pretty solid album. Happy with this surprise today. 4/5

Always worth spending time listening to Dylan

It's a classic

Slaps

I just hate Dylan....

Better than other Dylan records I have had on here. Nice bluesy sound to some of the tracks.

Other than some track lengths, this was pretty good! Many people don’t like Bob’s voice but I think it’s great here. Great lyricism in every track, every single one is stacked. The backing tracks were amazing as well with the tone and mood they brought to the table. I liked this a lot!

This could possibly be my favourite album of all time. It’s definitely the best double album in my opinion. Opening with Rainy Days Woman and ending with Sad Eyes Lady of the Lowlands the record is sprawling with classic Dylan masterpieces such as Visions of Johanna, Just Like a Woman, Stuck Inside a Mobile and Fourth Time Around and I Want You. My favourite track on the album is Visions of Johanna.

Iconic lyrics for sure but the folksy whine seems to have crept back in - worth a more comprehensive examination of the poetry in motion with the harmonica muted, methinks.

Bob Dylan maakt nooit wat mee. Nee, de hoofdpersoon van zijn liedjes dat ben JIJ. 'How does it feel to be on your own, like a rolling stone?' 'They'll stone you when you're trying to be so good...' Etcetera. En bovendien dacht je dat je wist wat iets was, MAAR het is iets anders. Als je erop let, hoor je hetzelfde mechanisme steeds terugkomen. Al met al trek ik deze muziek beter dan ik had verwacht, ik vind de begeleiding en de harmonica heel sfeervol, en de liedjes zelf zijn ook niet onaardig. Maar die stem, man die stem. Die ben je op een gegeven moment wel zat. Daarom zal dit nooit een 5 worden.

Deze man weet heel veel fijne muziek te verpesten met zijn gelal. Halverwege moest ik even pauze nemen. De stem past enkel en alleen in blues-/jazz-achtige muziek. Bij Obviously Five Believers veer ik dan ook ineens op en overweeg een tweede ster. Maar dan de nuchtere Frans Bauer test. Zou ik liever naar een album Frans Bauer luisteren? Ja, heel graag!

Ik heb wel eens een boxset gehad, waar artiesten van allerlei pluimage covers deden van Dylan en die set heb ik vrij veel gedraaid in de auto. Ik kan hier zelfs meerdere uren van achter elkaar luisteren zonder dat het verveelt. Qua albums heeft die man zoveel gemaakt, dat ik eigenlijk geen albums van hem ken, maar altijd compilaties heb geluisterd. En daarmee heb je al genoeg materiaal om een paar dagen door te komen over het algemeen. De behoefte om een beroemde plaat als Blonde on Blonde op te zetten, heb ik daardoor nooit gehad. En ik heb ook niet het idee dat het uitmaakt, want alle albums klinken als een greatest hits. Dit album klinkt gewoon als een klassieke Dylan: folky blues of bluesy folk. Dylan die er jengelend doorheen zingpraat. De standaard Dylan ingredienten. Het is misschien voor sommigen even wennen, maar ik kan dit zeker op een maandagochtend prima hebben.

Great music and songs that will stay forever in my head (and heart).

Sometimes annoying

not a Bob Dylan fan. Too much harmonica.

Hate bob dylans voice. Good lyricist though.

I got really stoned and coded a discord bot.

Der Junge mit der Mundharmonika. *Schnarch*

Empieza con pandereta, ¡mola!

El álbum m'agrada prou, però les primeres cançons que eren més estilo country no me han molat tant però les últimes són una locura

Lots of harmonica, speak singing, but perhaps that's how folk music is like. Great lyrics, super country like.

Not for me but I appreciate what it was

Admittedly not a huge Dylan fan, I kept an open mind going into listening. While I already knew about half of the songs, in the context of this double album they took on a new life and I was pleasantly surprised. Won’t be the last time I listen to this album beginning to end for sure. I feel I’ll come to appreciate it even more with repeated listenings.

Wikis on other albums often have things like 'they wrote too many verses and struggled knowing which ones to cut out.' Bob Dylan has avoided this problem by never ever cutting out a verse.

Tune after tune

quite enjoyed the harmonica, its a lovely instrument i dont hear very often in songs so it was a nice part of the album.

Luckily it was a short album. Not a big fan of Dylan. Some of the music I recognized so that helped overall.

Early work of Dylan. Okay.

i've listened multiple times always a great album

I thought it was quite relaxing and was enjoyable to listen to as I was doing my homework. Bob Dylan, as always, is an amazing lyricist. I didn’t know that he had a lot of blues influence, and the prevalence of the harmonica surprised me.

Brilliant, not a bad song on it. Probably one of my favourite Dylan albums.

Probably my favorite Bob Dylan record. Really beautiful instrumentation and mysterious lyrics. A very appropriate follow up to Highway 61 as it still has a lot of lush instrumentation but lays off the electric sound. Kind of combining the best aspects of all his music from that point to the blues influences, the guthrie folk and his generally nasally voice. A definitive work.

Not my favorite Dylan album but still great

Damn. I saw that album cover and for a moment I thought Tom Baker had made a record. But no, it's Dylan again, the man with the most irritating voice in music. That long, piercing harmonica on Pledging My Time all but guaranteed a one-star review before I'd even heard the rest. Having said that, I'd like this album a lot more if you could cut out Dylan's vocals and that flipping mouth organ of his. Let's pretend any of this matters at all and add an extra star to the review, for the band.

Not a Dylan fan

Does not age well. The harmonica is over the top.

It was fine. I can't stand the sound of Bob Dylan's voice. I understand his cultural significance, but his music is just not enjoyable to listen to and sounds all very similar. This album is too long and repetitive.

Fun psychedelic acoustic hippie vibes. Band sounds great, but imbalanced production with vocals being a little too hot. Some songs really dragged on for a long time. Some great folksy tracks sprinkled in. Harmonica kind of made me wanna hurt myself. Really talented guitar. I can see how, with the help of some psychedelic enhancements, this album lead the mid 60’s

Feel like I need to preface this with stating that I have no musical talent. I'm not even going to attempt to speak to anything technical. On the surface, Dylan's lyrics seem very simple, but not in a negative way. I feel it makes the album approachable, easy to listen to and understand. It was a relaxing listen, definitely worth revisiting.

I think in the context of his career, this is probably an interesting document. But here I am two songs in already wondering how much more I have to go. The classic "Rainy Day Women" is a great listen, but I don't particularly like standard blues stuff, which is where he goes right after that. There's a lot of "sameness" to Dylan according to my modern ears. "Visions of Johanna" reminds me of North Country Fair with more rock instrumentation. Yeah, I'm only on track 4 and I'm pretty bored. I like the playful instrumentation of I Want You. This is the mode of Dylan I like -- pop songwriter. Overall, I think "I had to be there" -- it's hard to listen to Dylan for the first time and not hear all of the impressions and imitations.

He is a legend. There isn't any other way to put it.

He doesn’t so much sing as he just talks with cadence.

Dylan is always great

A classic. One thing about Blonde on Blonde that strikes me is the sense of fun - he literally almost laughs out loud on the first track and songs like "I Want You" and "Absolutely Sweet Marie" have a jolly vibe I don't associate with a lot of Dylan's work. On the flip side though, it's hard to imagine another artist could conceive this album, the rambling storytelling of "Visions of Johanna" to me is archetypal of some of his tropes (I mean that as a compliment). Easy 5 stars

A nice relaxing album, I liked Pledging My Time and Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands the most.

I like the sound of his music but I never really enjoyed his voice. I understand why he’s popular just not really it for me.

Having been born in 1966, obviously heard the name Bob Dylan but didn’t realize that over the years that I had heard some of his music, two on this album to be exact. Listening from start to finish gives you a little story, poetically written, again never realized how beautiful some of his lyrics are. Couldn’t help but giggle at the drug references dropped in here and there, probably more blatant to most listeners now. Overall I’d give it a solid 4.

I enjoyed the album. Hadn't heard or thought about it in a long time.

Not to my taste

Unlistenable.

He kept the same sounds throughout and it had Woodstock vibes

Wildly overrated everything made it seem like it was supposed to be some deeply profound work the songwriting is mid at best and good lord his voice is agonising to listen to for more than 15 seconds.

like the harmonica, guitar, and piano.....just not his voice. or his lyrics. or the 11 minute long song at end of album

This album is a notable step from Bringing It All Back Home thanks to the boys from the Hawks and shows Bob's movement towards the sound he would cultivate in the late 60's and 70's. Always poetic and well spoken, I was not as familiar with this one, but glad to get the chance to listen to one of the early modern double albums

Solid album. Typical voice and singing style from Bob Dylan. Wouldn‘t buy it but like to listen to him once in a while.

Bob Dylan being Bob Dylan, there's a whole lot of spoken word lyrics, folk, blues-y/country rock type of sound. This style of music isn't really my favourite, however I can appreciate what he has done for music. I still can't get out of my head Zap Brannigan's singing to Leela when I hear anything by Dylan. Best: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Worst: Just Like A Woman

Boring and long.

Pas de surprise

короче послушал я первый двойной альбом Боба Дилана. честно говоря подзаебался. сука, в каком состоянии Дилану и Джонстану показалось что пихать ебаную губную гармошку в каждый трек это охуенная идея?? ну это просто неприятно, неуместно звучит. вот убери эту писклявую хуйню станет куда лучше. я люблю Боба Дилана, он супер харизматичен, его музыка всегда приятная, но блядь гармошка... короче приятно, но чуток подзадушился. есть у него какой то вайб такого городского повесы, интеллигента одиночки, который романтично поёт о жизни, гуляя по набережной какой нибудь шотландской реки. и I Want You и Just Like a Woman не просто так самые прослушиваемые треки в спотифае, мне они реально больше всего зашли. приятненько в целом, но душновато. короче понятно оценка - 6,5/10

I like Bob Dylan, but oddly enough have never listened to Blonde On Blonde. It’s quite poppy, isn’t it? More swinging 60s than the two preceding albums, a bit more continental sounding.

Another classical Bob Dylan album. I appreciate the serious efforts but still can't say I'm a big fan of his music.

A legendary album at a formative moment in rock, quality songwriting in Dylan's top form. Interesting to know that there was an entire failed session in New York before trying again in Nashville.

We haven't done this one already? I coulda sworn... Well, first off, you know I love Bob Dylan, and this is, of course, a landmark album. He's using The Hawks in the studio for the final installment of his rock trilogy. The stuff of legends, right? But it's almost like he's trying to get that out of his system here, and get on to the next thing. I enjoy this album and all, but I feel like it's the weakest of the trilogy. I've never been able to connect with it in the same way as "Bringing It All Back Home" or "Highway 61 Revisited," which are absolute lightning rods. This just doesn't have the same sense of urgency that those other two records do. The formula seems like it might be wearing out a bit at this point. Then there's the fact that it's a double album, with some fairly indulgent songs to boot. It's pretty much the classic example of something that could've been edited into a fantastic single album. For example, I think "Sad Eyed Lady Lady of the Lowlands" could have made for an absolutely legendary outtake that people sought after, talked about in hushed tones, and collectively orgasm over when it would be officially released years later as a bonus track on a boxed set or something - but it doesn't necessarily serve the album as a whole. I actually have solution to trimming it up. Just chop off the first two tracks and the last two tracks. Then move "Visions of Johanna" to the end so it runs "One of Us Must Know" through "Fourth Time Around" with "Visions of Johanna" tacked on the end for your long ballad outro, and I find I enjoy listening to it much more. It would run about 48 1/2 minutes this way, so in between the lengths of his previous 2 albums in the trilogy. Try it out, see what you think. The Jonny Cut. The main thing that holds this back from being a 5 for me is that I don't feel there are any individual tracks that just completely knock me out like "Subterranean Homesick Blues" or "Like a Rolling Stone." And perhaps it's just the process of wading through the sheer bulk of the album that wears on you until you're sort of desensitized. I don't know. In some ways I feel like it's a transitional album. Something made to satisfy demand while internally he was searching for his new direction. And you know by this point he was surrounded by yes men just to complicate things. Not to mention the exhaustion from touring, and of course the drugs that go with that. Just look at that album cover. He's a little blurry. Says it all.

I think we basically listened to a live album version of this, but overall this is a pretty strong Dylan album. Granted, I am very reluctant to listen to Dylan deliberately so it's not in my rotation, but I can rate it as credit is due.

His singing style, word emphasis, here is irritating and the harmonica hurts my brain but I liked the album regardless.

This is Dylan at his best. Mixing folk and electric blues in a genuine way, it has style, it has melancholy, it has deep confidence

With a voice like sand and glue...and a blurry cover of the album too. Yeah, I know Blonde On Blonde is a must listen. And yet the Bob Dylan of this album has never been my vibe and I don't (solely) blame the harmonica. I have friends who stan for Bob Dylan in ways inconceivable to me who would rush to the defense of him and this record. And yet, I say give me the Dylan of Masters of War and the Dylan of Hurricane you can leave this record at home.

Old but good

Ugh more Dylan F

I suppose it’s a good album but I’m done with Dylan now.

Dylan ist gewöhnungsbedürftig, als einer der nicht auf Texte hört, sondern auf den Klang, eher uninteressant

Bra album, kräver en till lyssning

One of his best. Proper good goof demanded it be 5 stars. Stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis blues again is a jam.

Ta de la vrg no me gustó

Utálom. A. Szájharmonikát. . . . Ostoba vagyok, és azt hittem, a leopard-skin pill-box hat……… OG death grips

Rating: 10/10 Classic album, possibly Bob Dylan's best. Instrumentally this album is absolutely fantastic, nice blend of folk, blues, and rock. Production and mixing sound amazing as well, each song has a warm feeling to it which makes this album a pleasure to listen to. And of course Bob Dylan's lyrics are fantastic, the storytelling on this album is phenomenal. Favorite songs: Pretty much all of them. Least favorite songs: Temporary Like Achilles, Fourth Time Around.

This is a great album. Some classic Dylan on here.

It's such a shame Bob Dylan can't sing. Allegedly, his lyrics are quite good. I can't make out a word he's "singing".

First time on this, but I'm a civilised man, I can tell a masterpiece, pick up the presence of other greats behind the man, and again over this run have challenged my murmuring prejudice that Dylan's all about mystic words rather than music. Today I feel that Dylan's songs are mostly set in a sort of medieval Hell; there's a grotesquerie to his images, a laconic callousness to his conversational declarations about love and other big things, and a sarcasm to how he deploys the instruments, whether cheerful or sad. I like this, and I like how his harmonica interrupts bands like a UFO swooping in over a highway.

In which 24-year old Bob invents the double album and secures his future Nobel prize in Literature. More than any other album, this is the one I wish I was born 30 years earlier to experience in real time. Two brief anecdotes: i) I once met a Hollywood hipster who told me "Visions of Johanna" was written about his mum. Such an audacious fib, perhaps it was true? ii) I put both "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" on a road trip mixtape once, in full, to initial objections from my fellow passengers, followed by grudging acceptance of their endless verses making a great accompaniment for the endless Mojave desert Pro tip: start your version of Blonde on Blonde with "Positively 4th Street", then you can skip "Rainy Day Women" (Dylan's "Yellow Submarine" but worse; probably the only song of his I wish would just fucking end already) and realize the perfect album So ahead of the game in 1966. Magnificent

I didn't enjoy the first Bob Dylan album suggested to me by this list and I didn't enjoy this one either. I guess Bob Dylan just isn't for me.

Ugh. I don't like Bob Dylan. The best I can say about this record is it's inoffensive. I won't give it a 1 as it doesn't completely ruin my day but I don't like it.

fav song: one of us must know

Pick a note and sing it.

Call me young and foolish, but Bob Dylan just bores me. Where’s Jimi’s version?

Some absolute amazing tracks. A bit slow in the back half but I get why it's considered a classic.

9/10 honestly felt some trepidation about listening to dylan for an hour straight but you get used to the voice and the songwriting is fun and mostly varied

I honestly think the amount of comical takes on Dylan have ruined any chance that I would like his music. He sounds like a muppet and every time the harmonica starts in it triggers my fight or flight, I can’t stand it.

10/10

Not as good as blood on the tracks Better than highway 4

It's between this and Blood on the Tracks for the crown of best Dylan album. Either way, they're both stone-cold classics.

This is not my favorite Dylan album, yet it's probably top three. It runs a little long for me - I like albums generally under 45 minutes. Idk, that's just what works for me. It's hard for me to schedule over an hour to listen to an album. However, this is clearly Bob Dylan at his peak.

BD Was never someone I liked.

Not bad. Bluesy rock. Classic Dylan, when you could understand him.

Droning on and on

3/5 Dylan is a wonderful poet whose music serves as a tenuously beneficial medium for that poetry. It is difficult for me to rate an album higher than 3 on strength of the lyrics alone.

Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde, probably one of the best albums of the folk rock genre ever made. The classic Rainy Day Woman, to the epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. It's lyrically great, musically great. Classic

I never understood why this album was so popular. I love Dylan, but some of the “radio” hits on this album like “I want you” and “just like a woman” don’t hit the same way they did when I was younger. I actually find some of the longer tracks (sad eyed lady/ stuck inside of mobile) to be great classic long form Dylan, but the rest of the album feels like long form rambling. Skip this one and go straight to John Wesley Harding.

This album is distilled Bob Dylan. Each song is distinctly in his voice, a bit too much to my taste. I found the tone of the album on a whole to be really monotonous and uninteresting. I can appreciate the songwriting talent, with a colloquial and rhythmic playfulness throughout, on display, but this was not for me.

Für Weinachten als Hintergrund gut genügen Blues Rock

I don't care much for Bob Dylan's voice or music. His lyrics are good, but I can't listen to his music. 3

nice cool, sad cowboy ahh music

There is a 5 star album in here. Many great songs including Sad Eyed Lady…. Just noticing the chord progression from it that Foxygen ripped off. But there are some songs I have zero attachment to. It’s one of 2 Dylan albums I owned and I still love what I like be on it even more.

The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face. Where these visions of Johanna, have now taken my place.

Classic

Hard for me to get over HOW he sings what he sings... but I get it. I appreciate it. IDK, maybe I need to be locked in a room with this on repeat in some twisted attempt to indoctrinate me to his random word emphasis.

just can't get a along with his voice, DNF

Voice was grating.

I know he's a legend but I've always found Dylan repetitive and eye-stabby

Never listened to bob dylan before, was alright, got tired of his voice by the end

Classic! 4/5

Pretty good BD album

Known before: Artist Standouts: 04. One of us must know (sooner or later) Rating: 6.0

Known Before: Artist Standouts: No 4.5

Deffinetly enjoyed the music more than the singing. Lyrics were good but there was just something about his delivery that wasn't as compelling as the music around him.

A dapper looking Dylan stares at you, practically through you, suggesting somehow that he knows that you know that he knows that he is funnier than you, more interesting than you, probably smarter than you, and most definitely wittier than you. The blurriness indicates the wall between your world and his, the hazy boundary between a normal life and Dylan's extraordinarily mythic one. His eyes are bleary, another night of partying and playing music with a cast of weird and legendary characters of the day, not to mention world-class musicians and sometimes even the damn Beatles, all while you sleep somewhere down the street, knowing even in your dreams that you must wake and go to that job you hate. Your feelings improve though as soon as the needle hits the record and those first notes of controlled chaos ring out. So what if you can't play like Dylan, can't sing like Dylan, and sure as heck can't write like Dylan. You fix yourself up, and say proudly, 'Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.'

I have immense guilt for ranking Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" as a 3 stars. It should have been 4, but I can't figure out a way to update my ranking. As for Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde," this was a particularly underwhelming album. For the famous American singer-songwriter, this folk rock album missed the mark and was not Dylan’s greatest work. This album was slow, long, and boring. If anything, this reminded me of the lazy vocals of Randy Newman with loud harmonica.

Decent but dated

Not my cup of tea, felt like the entire album sounded the same and didn't feel like this was Dylan's best work

Just straight up painful. Every song sounds the same, every next minute sounds exactly like the last one. Jesus Christ this is depressing to listen to. Bob Dylan? More like Bob Skyplan cause I want to skip every song after 15 seconds. Significant 17/44 Liked 7/44 Added 1/44 *a long, howling scream*

I’m not a fan of Bob Dylan, and this didn’t change that. Musically well put together but just not for me.

Pas un chanteur qui m’interpelle personnellement, mais je reconnais son influence, entre autres sur Tom Waits.

Bob Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde," released in 1966, is a magnum opus of folk-rock and lyricism. This double album is a poetic odyssey, featuring tracks like "Visions of Johanna" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again," where Dylan's abstract yet vivid storytelling shines. The music, influenced by blues and rock, complements his lyrical complexity. "Blonde on Blonde" captures a moment of transformation in both Dylan's personal and musical journey. With its timeless relevance and intricate compositions, the album deserves an unequivocal 5/5, standing as a pinnacle in the evolution of both folk and rock music.

Not the biggest fan of Bob Dylan. Obviously a legend and his songwriting chops are commendable. I do feel like his songs are a bit formulaic and his vocals are quite frankly bad. Not much of a knock but when evaluating this album it needs consideration. Solid 4 stars.

Yeah I think this is pretty amazing. I want you what a brilliant song, great imagery. Just like a woman not sure if this is patronising to women but still feels like a classic song.

Not a huge fan but a few of the songs made me realise how he has achieved such success. I enjoyed the start of the album more and liked it less as it went on - maybe fatigue caused by his voice, although he was still young enough to not have turned into a caricature of himself at this point.

loved it

Literally one of the most overrated acts in history. Bob Dylan may have inspired some talented artists, but man...

Not a Bob Dylan fan, this is probably one his most tolerable albums :) Standouts: Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35, Just Like a Woman, I Want You, Others: Pledging My Time, Visions of Johanna, 4th Time Around, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 4/5

Ehm. Nie je to také zlé. Len to nepotrebujem.

Pretty good. Can definitely tell the folksy influence, and see why Dylan's songwriting is heralded as one of the best in the bizness.

Great album. Classic Dylan. Unique sound and lyrics.

It’s Bob Dylan. Folk-y, very stylized.

Part of the background sound of western society. At least a three.

Just a couple shades below his best work.

Not super for me but solid, I get it

This is still the era of Bob Dylan that I like but goddamn it really felt like it dragged on. None of it was bad, I just got sick of it like halfway through the 70 minute runtime. Highway 61 was just under an hour and that felt like it flew by but something about this one made it feel 2 hours long. I don't know if it's just this album or it's because I'm getting sick of Bob Dylan albums on this list like I was with the Who. Stuck inside of mobile was my favorite and everything else I already barely remember.

Eh

8.5/10 Lyrical wordsmith Very bluesy

Nou Bob Dylan, ben benieuwd I guess? Nog zo'n artiest die altijd bovenin de top staat wat betreft muziek/albums gemaakt maar ik denk niet dat ik veel van hem heb gehoord. Rainy Day Women#12 & 35 vind ik echt herrie. Wat een naar nummer, de mondharmonica is echt zeer irritant aanwezig zeg. Sowieso ga ik niet echt lekker op het stemgeluid van meneer Dylan. Het is een beetje een zeikerig geluid voor mij. Tot noch toe is er niet een nummer dat er uit springt en die mondharmonica is op letterlijk elk nummer stevig aanwezig. Ik weet niet man, dit is gewoon echt niet mijn muziek, ik snap dat hij een nobelprijs voor de literatuur heeft gekregen enzo, maar dan had ie maar voor anderen moeten schrijven en niet zelf moeten zingen. Hij heeft geen goede zangstem en de muziek is constant overschaduwt door die klote mondharmonica. Ik geef het 2 sterren omdat de teksten wel zeer sterk zijn en ik toch wel respect voor de beste man heb.

Have already heard and appreciated. Solid folk tunes from one of the greats. A couple blues numbers I could do without, but some of his best are on here: Visions of Johanna and One of Must Know.

I really really didn't like the harmonica, I didn't even finish the album.

Very fun will revisit so that I can discover more of the meaning within the lyrics.

Yep

It’s not really my thing.

Essential Tracks: One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Visions of Johanna

Not a Dylan fan, tried so much to make it work but I can’t. Sorry

At times a bit whiny but overall excellent. I can see why Bob Dylan is considered so influential.

I feel like there's something wrong with me while listening to this, because it's Dylan, and I should like it, right?! Well, I don't. I guess I'll just have to stick with some of his other albums. But don't worry, it's not him, it's me. The recording is of fair quality, but the rawness of the performance makes me wonder if this would land better as a live album. It's almost as if I can hear the shape of the music coming from inside a club, but I can't feel it while I'm on the outside of the foggy window trying to look in. I picture the people inside having fun. I imagine their laughing and clapping. I get a sense that there's a strong exchange of energy between the audience and the band, and yet I remain outside—experiencing it for myself remains out of reach. Thinking of it another way, the album strikes me as something I might feign liking, to impress a woman, timing the playback for while I'm doing dishes right before she comes in the door. I think the music probably deserves at least a three, but a two in my scale indicates, “not for me, likey won't listen again,” so that's what I'll give it.

I wanted to like this more. Love the harmonica (which I hardly ever hear anymore), love the piano, love the whole folk vibe. The sound of Bob Dylan's voice, though...it's almost a caricature of himself. I made a joke a Christmas or two ago that the guy playing Hans Gruber in Die Hard was trying a little too hard to be like Alan Rickman, and I feel like the vocalist here is trying a little too hard to sound like Bob Dylan--as if it's part of an SNL sketch or something. I fully realize the hypocrisy of criticizing vocals given the vast quantity of emo in my music collection, but I have not acquired a taste for Dylan's voice. Good music otherwise, though.

Part of me wants to like Bob Dylan because he is legendary as a lyricist, everyman poet, etc. I just really did not like anything about this, the instrumentation, his voice. Some of the lyrics were striking, but that’s it.

A damn near perfect record. Instrumentally it was perfect. Lyrically it was perfect. Vocally it was trying to play basketball but each bounce changed the psi by a random level so you can never really get good at dribbling. I would love to see actual notation of his vocals then have an opera singer, who never heard Dylan sing, perform one of his songs. I really want to give this record 4 stars to punish it for having the vocals of an out of service oscilloscope, but fuck, it is too damn good. It would be like marking down a James Joyce novel because of his punctuation style.

Bob Dylan is just not for me apparently

It was ok for a bob dylan album. Got to cultivate my music taste a bit more for me to really understand the depth of it

My parents were right about his voice, he sounds like Mr. Burns. Can't imagine seeing him in concert now that he's 80-something. Didn't like the more whimsical stuff but might be easier on a second listen. Too dense with metaphors. Album really picked up at song 3. I identified at least to a point with most songs, esp. 3-8, but Just Like A Woman feels so much like me and Kitty. I Want You feels like me and Violet. Album got a little weaker after track 8 for me but still alright. Like the ending track (14). How the hell was THIS too hard rock for people, folk fans were WIMPS

I'm just not a harmonica person. Or a slow-guitar person. Or a Bob Dylan person.

Album 217 of 1001 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Rating : 4 / 5 Love it when I get to start my day with an album like this. Dylan is near the top of my favorites, though this album is one I've listened to less than most others. Hearing some songs I haven't heard in many years was like hearing them for the first time. Great stuff here. A true wordsmith. Was a pleasure to listen.

Dylan!

:/ not for me

This dylan guy is going somewhere

I’m gonna be honest this is not my favorite bob dylan album (actually it’s probably like #5 or 6) BUT it’s does have visions of Johanna which i quite like and it is bob dylan season sooo.. 3.5/5

Pretty cool album

vaut pas blowin in the wind

Outrageously great.

Exceptional album, with Standouts in Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Pledging My Time, Visions Of Johanna, I Want You, Stuck Inside A Mobile..., Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat, Most Likely You Go Your Way, Fourth Time Around, Obviously Five Believers, and Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.

Perfect for a road trip. Great voice, great sounds. Wish I knew the words. 4 of 5

Dylan nunca é ruim... Dito isso, 5 estrelas!

this album got me into Dylan and it is my favourite of his. Every song here is perfect. For me this might be the best folk album EVER. Perfect. Nothing more to say. favourites: Rainy Day Women, Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know, I Want You, Stuck Inside a Mobile, Just Like a Woman, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Frownlands least favs: NONE Rating: decent 10

Of all the Dylan albums I've gotten, this is just the most meh of the 60s stuff. You get the point halfway through and it never really has that banger that makes the album great.

Dull…….

An album my dad loves, great music and song lyrics. Bob is giving early autumn vibes of a late August evening that's kind of dusty (could just be his voice). Serious porch songs. Favs: "Just like a woman", "Most Likely To Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)", "Fourth Time Around" & "Sad Eyed Lady of the Low Lands".

It’s a bit of a mess and all over the place but the highlights (Johanna and Memphis) are some of his best songs. Of course, Rainy Day Women is his worst.

You know, I was prepared to give this one 2 stars and concede Dylan is not for me. This son of a bitch has a record that can’t be hated though.

Губной гармошки очень много, раздражали эти вставки под конец

If you listen to each song as a single, they are great by themselves, but when taken as a whole album, they get repetitive (musically and lyrically). It is full of Harmonica, blues, jangle pop, and New Orleans-style piano and is fun for the first half of the album, but then. Dylan is a great storyteller, but how many stories can you tell about the man, bad/failed relationships, and not even realizing/admitting you are the cause of all the trouble? And, of course, Dylan has a unique voice and singing style that is all his own. There is no denying that so many little pieces of this album influenced many who came after it, but the album leaves me saying, "meh."

I’ve never been a Bob Dylan fan.

Me parece difícil apreciar del todo este álbum si no entiendes las letras, y no he entendido nada. Entiendo que son muy buenas (tiene un nobel de literatura) pero tendría que darle otra oportunidad en otro momento para intentar entender de qué habla. Aún así es bastante disfrutable. Favoritas: Visions of Johanna, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

I could see this hitting at a bar but nah

boring af lots of harmonicas

I enjoyed it, not the biggest Dylan fan tho. But I can understand why people loved him back in his heyday.

Oof. Clearly the instrumentals are great here. I just cannot vibe with his singing at all. What an incredibly annoying flair, he gives to his notes. And some texts that I dare say come way too close to sexist. You could say that it's a product of its time, but then I say, well, that was a shitty time. All in all, not gonna listen to this album again.

I don’t fawn over Dylan like some as his thin sing-talk voice and excessive use of harmonica aren’t easy on my ears, but I can’t deny his songwriting brilliance. Best lyricist of a generation. I prefer Dylan covers (Hendrix, Clapton, etc.) to the songwriter himself, but he still gets 5 stars.

meh

Such a classic. Nice to hear some of the history behind the making of the album.

The only double album I approve of.

This is not the best Dylan album of the era. . . which is highway 61 revisited

Pretty good stuff, a bit too much harmonica for my modern tastes though. 7/10

Incredibly easy five stars. Almost no missteps (not a huge fan of Obviously Five Believers).

this is in my top 5 albums of all time

Memorable line: 'Everybody must get stoned' I actually enjoyed this album, best album of the day so far.

Bob Dylan, often considered one of the most influential figures in the history of music, has a unique ability to convey powerful messages through his work. "Blonde on Blonde" is another testament to his lyrical brilliance and enduring impact on the world of music. As I delved into this iconic album, I couldn't help but appreciate the depth of his songwriting. Dylan's ability to capture the spirit of his era and convey thought-provoking narratives is truly impressive. It's clear why he's often referred to as a poet in addition to being a musician. However, despite the undeniable importance of Dylan's music, I found myself hitting a saturation point after the first few songs. The album's length and the somewhat repetitive musical style started to feel a bit overwhelming. While each song individually is a work of art, the cumulative effect left me yearning for a change of pace. "Blonde on Blonde" undoubtedly showcases Dylan's genius, but it might be an album best savored in smaller doses, allowing each track to shine on its own. Regardless, it's impossible to deny the profound influence of Bob Dylan on the music industry and his ability to convey vital messages through his songs.