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One of the top Dylan albums showcasing his move into mainstream rock n roll blues. Catchy songs and lots of fun. An easy listen and definitely one of the important albums of the mid ‘60s.
Sing it, Bob. One of my favorite songs of all time is Visions of Johanna... can never get enough of this album.
Immer das gleiche Gequäke. Außerdem viel zu lang. Wenn er bloß darauf verzichten würde, selbst zu singen, Gitarre und Mundharmonika zu spielen, wäre der Welt ein großer Dienst erwiesen.
This doesn't blow me away with my current tastes but this is clearly very skilfully made and has some songs I like a lot.
This is the most tolerable Bob Dylan has been for me. I even kind of enjoyed a few songs. Gasp.
He learned how to hold long notes on the harmonica! But really, this is a better Dylan album with less of the vocal annoyance, and more of the blues.
MMMMMM L'unica che mi prende è 'Obviously Five Believers'
Not only my personal favourite Dylan album, but one of my favourite double albums. An absolute masterpiece.
Ik had heel veel moeite om dit een uur en 10 minuten lang aan te horen. Een keer een los Dylan liedje is wel te pruimen, maar een heel album achter elkaar van een soort toondove meneer die klinkt alsof ie na een biertje teveel heeft bedacht dat ie kan zingen is teveel. En dan ook echt elk liedje op precies dezelfde manier zingen: dat gewauwel met die lelijke, stevige, vanuit z'n buik aangezette uitschieters de hoogte in, die klinken alsof z'n maag leeg is maar z'n lichaam desondanks blijft overgeven. Niet voor mij gemaakt dit. Mondharmonica en orgeltje zijn altijd leuk, muzikaal dus wel prima. 2 sterren
Meh
Ugh. All the songs sound the same. Sure he's got a way with words, and has some great songs - Hurricane comes to mind. But generally my favourite Dylan songs are ones performed by other bands - and they won't be on this album.
Whiney...
ive not spent a lot of time listening particularly to Bob Dylan. Listening to him makes me feel like a nubile young female in thrall to a wine-soaked, nicotine-infused older french guy.
"Blonde on Blonde" is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was the first double album in rock history and also completed his trilogy of rock albums after "Bring It All Back Home" and "Highway 61 Revisted." Numerous backup musicians contributed including members of The Hawks (soon to become The Band). The writing and recording started in New York City which was unsuccessful and eventually moved to complete in Nashville. "Blonde on Blonde" is widely considered one of the best albums of all time. The wacky and wonderful "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" kicks things off. A demented marching band with the drums, trumpet, harmonica and people yelling in the background. A brilliant dual pun in "Everyone must get stoned," of getting high and actually persecuted. Dylan and the musicians had trouble getting "Visions of Johanna" on tape. 14 takes. They nailed it eventually. It's about two women, carnal Louise and unattainable Johanna, and about attaining perfection. The piano just builds in the first single "One of Us Most Know (Sooner or Later)." Failing relationship and failing to admit abuse. And then we come to the second side. Woah. Just woah. An outstanding musical chorus drives "I Want You." Very happy sounding with the guitar, organ and piano. The lyrical tension between the repeated "I Want You" and the host of complex characters Dylan rambles on about. One of my favorite Dylan songs is "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." I love the way the musicians are following the tone and pace of the lyrics. Your debutante (girl) knows what you need; you know what you want. The second Chicago Blues style song in "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat." Two searing Robbie Robertson guitar solos. Great acoustic guitar picking in "Just Like A Woman." Lilting melody. Dylan was criticized for sexism and misogyny. Is it about Edie Segwick? Joan Baez? A highlight of side three is "Temporary Like Achilles." Another Blues number. Double-barrel piano. Harmonica. Organ. He's spurned by his lover for another guy who is ending up just like him. Dylan goes uptempo Memphis Blues in "Absolutely Sweet Marie." More pop. A great melody. The entirety of side four is the epic 11-minute poem "Sad Eyes of the Lowlands." Apparrently a wedding song for his bride Sara Lownds. Great organ by Al Kooper and drumming by Kenny Buttrey. What can you say about about this classic. One of the best album sides ever in side two. The mix of several different types of blues styles, rock, pop and a waltz. His lyrics. One of the few albums wear you actually can hear the musicians trying to match the singing and lyrics and achieving it. Fantastic.
cool
Old sound, most of the songs are forgettable but some stick out musically. Great lyrics though!
It’s fine I like I want you But just find it does nothing that makes me want to return to it
Side 1: maybe my favourite collection of Dylan songs on any album Side 2: chiller, has the nice bit of pop, “I Want You” Side 3: Never knew about the Norwegian Wood response; “Most Likely” is a good tune I’m hearing about for the 1st time Side 4: Though my favourite long, long B.D. song is “Desolation Row”, “Sad-Eyed Lady” is beautiful enough. This might be my 1st listen through the entire 70 minute record, but Blonde on Blonde is my favourite of Bob Dylan’s (and somehow I had that feeling based only on songs like “Rainy Day” & “Just Like a Woman”) Meanwhile Freewheelin’ & Highway 61 fight for 2nd place. January 23, 2023
Great Bob Dylan album and for being a double album it's good from start to finish without ever feeling drawn out. Probably my favorite Dylan album.
This dudes a terrible singer lmaoo. “Spiders in my dreams, I think I love you” sounding ass
A much better Dylan album
its very bob Dylan possibly the most bob Dylan it wasn't bad but it felt really long
An album that as such a great reputation, but not one I particularly appreciated. He's not a great singer, obviously, and I'm not sure his songwriting is as good as it is often said to be. A couple of clever lines here and there, but sounds dated and boring, and I'm not sure it would be held in such high regard if it came out now.
Top record!
Never really understand the mystique behind Bob Dylan. Perhaps as a lyricist, he finds ways to resound with listeners but musically and vocally, he leaves a lot to be desired for that complete experience.
Honestly did not like this album very much but it wouldn’t be the worst thing to have on in the background.
Ok
Haven't listened to Bobby D in a while but it still holds up
It was pretty good I guess. His voice is a big annoying and the songs were really long. But still good for it’s time.
Yes. It’s Dylan at his best which makes it pretty much perfect.
Fuck Bob Dylan. This was just awful. For an hour and 12 minutes ffs. 1/5.
Good lyrics, but not much else. Very surprised I didn't love Bob Dylan but may just not be for me
Having gone electric the previous year, Dylan further expands his sound and lyrical prowess. The musicians are sharp, the words sharper, the experience thrilling.
I just can't take Dylan sincerely.
Wow. Absolutely blown away by how good this was. I tried Highway 61 before and only really liked Like a Rolling Stone, but this album is just incredible throughout. I'm starting to recognize the genius of Dylan.
It’s classic Dylan.
Not a fan. Couple good - classic - songs and a lot of typical Bob Dylan in between.
Ok
My god do I hate Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. Beyond that, this is the Bob I remember hearing as a child and _not getting_. A lot of chunka-chunka-chunka-chunka rhythms and whiny (so nasal!!!) voice. I definitely have a higher tolerance for the sound today. Four stars for being so Bob seven albums in. Not many folks can make this many albums and have #7 have such an iconic sound.
Great when it works ('Stuck Inside of Mobile', 'Sad-Eyed Lady'). Terrible when it doesn't ('Rainy Day Women', 'Leopard-Print'). A solid 2.5
Some brilliant beautiful lyrical standouts and some glorious blues throughbacks. Great album.
i expected him to have a MUCH worse voice. overall pretty good
Skrrt skrrt
I just don't love Bob Dylan
El final de la trilogia màgica de Dylan i la seva cúspide creativa. Un disc on perdre't, com un llibre amb pàgines infinites, el "llibre de sorra" de Borges fet música
This … or Blood on the tracks … is my favourite Dylan album … depends when tou ask me … favourite sets of Dylan lyrics
A great one, though I think at length there is something of a monotony of tone, and Dylan’s vocals are mostly near their most obstinately Dylan-y. Still an album I’m happy to give a listen pretty much any time.
Nice album, not one I’ve listened to a lot.
What an insane run Zimmerman was on in 1965-66. He follows up Highway 61 Revisited less than a year later with this double album. It contains a good chunk of my favorite Dylan songs. This surely inspired (too) many future artists to release double albums, not many of which come close to capturing the magic Dylan laid down over a few months in 1966.
God, man. I think that a lot of my issue with this has the potential to be the Seinfeld Syndrome. A lot of jokes on that show seem cliche and dumb to a first viewer now because they established so many of those cliches. Maybe because Bob Dylan pioneered so much, maybe it sounds shitty and derivative on a first listen in 2022. Maybe I’ve always hated Dylan’s voice and no matter what I do I can’t get past it. There are other vocalists worse than him that I can listen to…there’s something about him that just really gets me. Look some of these songs are certainly written very well, but some of the rhyme schemes on this album feel like My First Singer-Songwriter Record. The intro track has one of the worst sprees of simple one syllable rhymes I’ve ever heard. Maybe we’ll get another later Dylan record on this and he can redeem himself in my eyes, but until then I’m happy to shelve this one.
what a silly opening to an insightful and gorgeous masterpiece of a record bob dylan is, obviously, one of the greatest talents the world of music the world has ever seen, despite sounding very silly most of the time. there is a reason why he's allowed to sing that way - he is the greatest lyricist to ever exist. we start with a silly opening in rainy day women, followed by a traditional blues track in pledging my time. the first traditional "dylan-y" track is visions of johanna. it's got a soulful organ and understated guitar, and paints a beautiful lyrical picture (with some real silly shit in there too) one of us must know is one of my favorite songs ever - it is quintessential dylan. it wraps you in a warm sound hug while making you shed a tear with what it's saying to you. i fucking love bob dylan man. this album has a couple of REALLY popular dylan songs on it - i want you and just like a woman. i want you is catchy as all hell. just like a woman is sad as hell. they are both amazing. i could list out every song and why i love it but i don't really want to. i'm just gonna listen to one of us must know over and over again for the next few days. he's BELTING that chorus. the words he writes mean so much to him, and you can really tell. love you bob
Apparently, it doesn't really matter whether the album comes from some obscure, niche band I've never heard of, or from Bob Dylan. This genre of music is just insanely boring.
While I appreciate the blues roots this album takes its inspiration from, three nonsensical verses tied together by a chorus repeating the same sentence does not a song make.
It's Dylan
this was a good one!
I only hate his voice and his harmonica... So...
not a bad album imo
gorgeous album!!! loved the instrumentation. insane closer track
Really can’t get on with his nasal whinging
The first folk album that blew my mind. I know that folk artists are basically poets, but here Bob Dylan is on another level. I love the images and narratives that he conjure with the lyrics, and I regretted not focusing on them much. Maybe next time when I am not too busy. As for the sound, we got some delicious harmonica fiddling. Some tracks are bluesy and some have rock elements. I enjoyed it a lot and I know that this is something special. So while it tend to be boring sometimes, I think it will grow on me after a few re-listens.
I wasn't sure what I was going to get with this one. I like Dylan well enough, but we got his "Live 1966" album recently and it wasn't great—a lethargic performance that was so nasal it was like he was doing a bad impersonation of himself. But this was the Bob Dylan I was looking for, far more lively than "Live 1966," with a healthy helping of blues. "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" is deliciously bluesy, and "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is a classic bit of silliness that's probably familiar to anyone who's ever been within 20 feet of a stoner. Then we've got Dylan staples like "Visions of Johanna," "I Want You," and "Just Like a Woman." I love me some harmonica, but he hits it a *little* hard on this album, especially on "Pledging My Time." Other than that, the only complaint I have is that it's a little long at 72+ minutes. As good as he can be, I prefer Dylan in smaller doses.
I prefer the blues-rock version of Dylan, but there was still too much harmonica folk happening here. It grinded my nerves so much, I had to listen in two parts. It was ok. I'll never fully get into Dylan.
Classic! Great shit.
Mesterværk.
The follow up to Highway 61 Revisited. Plugged in but traditionally folky for the most part. Vocally, this is in the sweet spot on the 'mumbling -> straining for a poo' continuum. Dylan can't hold a note, but appears to know it and accepts his limitations here, so and at least it's easy to hear the words. However, for a double album so frequently praised for its poetic lyrics, the words and themes of the album didn't strike me as particularly interesting. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Visions of Johanna Date listened: 19/11/22
Never listened to this album before. While there are definitely some Dylan songs I really like, I did not like all on here.
Ok I count myself as a non-fan of Bob Dylan - nasal voice, too derivative from his influences in folk of the time and well I probably (misguidedly) think he is overrated. This record though is the one that I warmed up to most of his - and after listening through the hundreds of albums so far - you start feeling the records with secret sauce - and this one is one of those.
lyrically p cool but soundwise quite repetitive. is a classic tho! one of us must know, just like a woman, rainy day still stand out ones. sad eyed lady was... long.
Might be my favorite Bob Dylan album, which says a lot because he has so many classic, influential albums. It really does have a loose unique feel to it, and while it's long, that looseness makes it a great hang out album. Even if you put it on in the background, every now and then some lyrics will just jump out and hit you at the right moment. Truly an album that I would recommend everyone listen to before they die.
Sad eyed lady of the lowlands..I want you… Just like a woman…Songs for the eternity. Still they make me wanna cry, wanna laugh and wanna sing out loud all at once in the same moment.
The fifth Bob Dylan album we've had so far. Not as good as Highway 61 Revisited, but still a nice album with a couple of very good tracks such as Visions Of Johanna.
This is another Dylan album that I didn't really listen to back when I got into Dylan, but playing it through it was clear it would have become a firm favorite if I had've. Actually, enough of the songs really chimed with me on the second listen that I put off scoring it until after a third, and that play through has persuaded me to bump this up to a five - cracking stuff! Fave track - "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is probably the tune I was familiar with most before theses listens, and it's still great. Other standouts are "I Want You" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again"...
efter lite mer noggrann så framstår det ju tydligt att det här albumet är som ett astrakanäpple under höger skulderblad
I don't get all the fuss, in all honesty
4.5
To be honest, it was the first Bob Dylan’a album that I have ever heard and I loved it! He has such a unique style. Is voice and his way of singing are absolutely unmistakable. You can really hear the influence that folk music has on his music. It’s brilliant! My favourite musics are: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 Pledging My Time Visions of Johanna Just Like a Woman A masterpiece!
It's always the same with Dylan for me. I don't know what to say. The craft is impeccable and everything has been said already. His music fills me with calm and warmth. It's truly comforting on the outside but below the surface there's an ocean of depth with the lyrical work. Lovely album!
I know it is a classic but I'd say a third of the songs are lesser Dylan songs in my book. Visions of Johanna is a favorite. Also Stuck Inside Mobile... it is really good but not my favorite byba long shot.
Probably the first Dylan album I've immediately thought I would listen to again at some point in the near future. Having some ace session musicians and members of the Band backing him up probably helps a lot - the screeching harmonica isn't doing a lot of heavy lifting this time around.
Classic album
Ok singer songwriter album, not my favourite Bob Dylan but he knows how to write a song
A couple of the songs were recognizable. I wasn't completely annoyed the entire time listening to this album. It was better than some of his other ones. I will round up but it was a close call.
You can keep “Rainy Day Woman” and one only sorta likes “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat” for reasons of snark, but so many classics. Even “Mobile-Memphis Blues” is way better now than it was in one's high-school/college/angry-anxious young man era. “Visions of Johanna” is top drawer, so too “Sooner or Later” (underestimated classic) and “I Want You” -- an embarrassment of riches. “Sad-Eyed Lady” is a prayer. And where has “Fourth Time Around” been hiding all these years; one has no recollection of this liltingly urgent track from all the years of listening (which were, admittedly, mostly three decades ago). Not quite "Blood on the Tracks" and perhaps just slightly overlong, but still damn close to as good as it gets.
Since great songs and some not so great
Not a fan of Bob Dylan but like a woman is good. Preferred the second half of album. Voice is annoying.
Day 1! October 24th 2022. Very nice! First Dylan album I listened to in its entirety. Some songs were a drag, but most of them were really nice. I'm surprised by how bluesy it was, felt like every other song employed the 12-bar blues. Will listen again and add a few of the songs to my playlist. Didn't get into the lyrics for this listen-through, but will have to do so on future ones!
Bob Dylan double album. This will test your tolerance for his voice. There was never any doubt that Dylan is a fantastic songwriter. It's incredible. They're so unique and memorable. The best part is I can stand his voice on this one. I wish I had more thoughtful things to say but I have a cold. This is good, check it out.
This album is perfect
Good album. Is a little bit the same, but still one of the greats
I didn’t expect to enjoy this one, at first I thought his style was too monotonous but I really vibed out with this one
Most artists would place their dopey goofin around track half-way through side 2. Not here, it's the first track. Betraying a supreme confidence of peak Bob, more confident in his genius than perhaps anyone ever has been. Sad Eyed Lady.. might just be my new favourite ever Bob track.
Really good fall album
He's a legend and all but this album is a tough listen.
Blonde on blonde
FODA FODA FODA FODA.
A true classic that I never get tired of hearing.
I don't like the way Dylan sings, it is tiring. I also don't really love the music, like boring blues. Maybe I'll love another Dylan album
Beautifull storytelling and mood building. Not my favourite Dylan but it's up there.
Blonde on Blonde is the 7th album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and it's a folk rock double album. It is considered one of the finest folk rock albums of all time, and it has been certified double platinum, as well as being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. This album was a joy to listen to and I can see why it's received universal acclaim. Bob Dylan makes some great music and this may be his best album. However, folk rock has never really been my thing since I feel it can be a bit slow at times, and for that reason, I can't rate this album as highly.
Not my favorite Dylan (but at this point I am not sure I have a favorite Dylan...it all may just be meh to me). 2/5
Dylan being Dylan
Too much harmonica.
Calming nice album
Dylan's Magnum Opus, a steady string of folk masterpieces including Visions of Johanna, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Just Like a Woman. Oft imitated never bettered.
More upbeat than I was expecting
Bob Dylan was out-dylaning himself
sonzeira, grande mestre
It's established canon (by the gatekeepers) and has been for the whole of my lifespan and yet it's nowhere near my favourite Dylan album. Don't know what it is, it has some of his best individual songs but never gels. To many songs? Too long (overall)? It's no 'Highway 61 Revisited' or 'Bringing It Back Home' or 'Blood On The Tracks' and maybe that's the only thing that's really wrong with it.
A lot more varied than I'd remembered.
This is an interesting album. On the one hand, it's not my favorite album in terms of the overall style of the music and lyrics. On the other hand, I recognize almost every one of these songs from either the radio or from appearances in movies and TV. I think it's good overall, though I'm not sure why this album gets so much praise relative to a lot of other Dylan albums made in this period. Blonde on Blonde is commonly held up as the pinnacle of Dylan. It's good, but I feel like it's substantially similar in terms of quality to a lot of his other albums. To be fair though, I've never been the biggest Dylan fan. He's good, but not really my thing 4/5
God, what a fantastic poet. Same cant be said for his singing
More overrated Dylan, hurray. I’d rather blend neon blood into my food
Cut the harmonica and you have a 1 hour 5/5 album. Bob is very comforting. When everything is balanced he is best. Some of it is too long. 90s bobs voice goes funny like he’s trying to sound like himself a little. Would listen again.
4.5 STARS. One of my favourite all time albums. If I was scoring based purely on lyricism it would 5 stars flat. What a storyteller! Favs include visions of Johanna and absolutely sweet Marie. Who else can rock a harmonica like Bobby D?
Proper classic
Wierd start
A truly great album
One of my favourite albums of all time.
Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Visions of Johanna, I want you, Just like a woman
Not my style. I can see why it's so appreciated, but it's simply not my kind of music.
Just not a Dylan fan.
Too one-sided and too much harmonica
Better Dylan than most albums, but still not super interesting.
Listened to most of it. Have known a few of the tracks for some time. Very weird yet accessible for him. Rick Danko is on some bass, quite good. Fav Track: Fourth Time Around
I was pleasantly suprised by the varied instrumentation, especially the guitar and organ work. Still, Dylan is Dylan, and his lyrics are DUMB sometimes. 7/10
Couldn't finished, didn't like the "melody"
Can’t get past his voice.
Identifying Dylan : It’s Dylan
All Bob Dylan sounds more or less exactly the same to me. It's all fine, but I think you have to be a boomer to pop a tent over it
Feeling blue, experienced loss recently, remembering lost ones, celebrating the passage of time. The songs will ease the pain and ills of the soul🥰😔
Maybe it was growing up to him on the warm sound of spinning vinyls. Maybe it was people spontaneously singing the lyrics around me. I'll always have a home for the too often reviled Dylan. This album is a masterwork. A lullaby by its end and so many of the greatest hits are on it. Dylan is indeed a prince and an American icon. That said, I finally went to see him at Jazzfest one year. The swamp was so hot that I ended up 10,000 miles away from the jumbotron smashed between de-shirted frat bros, and it made me reconsider. All of those images were in my head as I enjoyed some of the lesser known tracks. Stellar artist and a great example.
Rainy day women is about my mom and her intrusive sister when they used to raid my room looking for my stash... Ha! I laugh at you... trying to rain on my parade. You two are clowns, every kid knows that the best place to keep your doobage is in the locker at school and guarded by a guillotine. Very convenient for those early morning detention sessions with Claire and the other fools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUIAlHjdFGE
The “everybody must get stoned” song is called “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35!?” It’s probably my favorite Bob Dylan song, and I apparently would have had a bit of trouble finding it on my own. Who are these women? Are they the ones doing the stoning? And what about Rainy Day Women #1-11 and 13-34? What do they have to say about all this rock throwing? Sometimes I like the way Dylan uses his voice. And sometimes I can’t stand it. He’s a great songwriter, both lyrically and musically, but the vocals are sometimes a parody of themselves. Weird to make a serious career out of a voice gimmick that tries to sound like a drunk karaoke singer.
Sorry guys, I like the music (why don’t people use a harmonica anymore!), but I just can’t with his voice.
Bob Dylan writes some absolutely beautiful songs. And cannot sing.
Bob Dylan is a prolific song writer as evidenced by this album. He is the most covered artist of all time in terms of the number of his songs that have been covered [4th most in terms of total number of cover versions of his songs]. https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/12/08/most-covered-artists/11/ His voice isn’t the best, well not close, but it is an acquired taste of mine. I think this stands out the most of Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands. Still a good song but his voice is strained in the beginning and it gets better throughout. If I were to be allowed to only listen to one song for the rest of time, it might be Visions Of Johanna. I can’t get enough of this song. Even though it’s 7+ minutes, I am always disappointed when it’s over. I love so many other songs on this album, too many to name. This album is a masterpiece. Of the 350+ albums we’ve had so far, Led Zeppelin’s II is the only one I would put ahead of this and it’s verrrry close. And this isn’t even my favorite Dylan album.
Demasiada armónica, ¿no?
Not a massive Dylan fan. I saw him at Glastonbury '98 and commented loudly that "He's not that good live". Oh, the looks I got from the Dylan acolytes. It was like a scene from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. But this, this I enjoyed.
Is ok
Why do people pretend that they enjoy Bob Dylan's music? Just droning on and on with his horrible voice and ear piercing harmonica. Who cares? 3/10.
I'll never understand the love or acclaim for Bob Dylan. This is maybe the fifth Dylan album on this list I've endured. It's fine. Musically, I enjoy this more than the others, but Bob Dylan is still providing the vocals, unfortunately.
Not a big fan of some of the early songs, but the farther I got into the album the more I enhpyed it
I appreciate the fact that the harmonica isn't on EVERY song, Bob you fucking crusty-lipped dickhead. This is a hard album to rate, because I have to take many factors into consideration, both good and bad. The singing, the lyrics, the rusty ass harmonica, the headache I had once the album ended (something about causation and correlation, no clue) and also Bob's magnificent hair. I usually really don't like folk rock, but songs like "Visions of Johanna", "Stuck Inside Of Mobile" and "Just Like A Woman" tickle me fancy. On the other hand, there's also shit like "Pledging My Time", which is the world's first noise rock song. Imitating the sound of the white bellbird usually does not make for good music, Robert.
trop d'harmonica :( déso bob
Interesting lyrics and good band but just can’t stand his voice and harmonica playing
First of all, why is it called rainy day woman? I like how it feels like it was recorded all together. Maybe I don’t like harmonica anymore? Oof these songs are long. I know his lyrics are meaningful and sometimes political but I have a hard time following the story. He sounds like he has a crazy speaking accent who even says the vowel a like that? Stuck inside of mobile is my favorite. This whole exercise sucked. Next album please
Don't let the absolutely horrible album cover deceive you, the music here is prime Dylan, that is to say, top notch Americana folk-rock. Considering there are 7 total Bob Dylan albums in this book, the fairest way to rate this, is relative to all of the other Dylan albums. Which makes it a solid, middle of the road 3. Best song; Memphis Blues.
I found it pretty good. I often struggle to get into Bob’s music but the instrumentals are pretty lavish and fun on here so that kept me interested. I still gotta listen again to figure out the cryptic lyrics but looking for ward to that. 7/10
Bob Dylan just has one of those voices where it works for some songs and it doesn't for others. It worked for like half the album.
The thin, wild mercury sound.... the culmination of a year and a half that changed not just Bob Dylan's trajectory but the face of rock music. Never has it become so literary, so surreal, so grounded in it's New York meets Nashville trek. A undeniable peak on a mountain that would contain many peaks, Blonde on Blonde is one of the few descriptors of the year 1966 that can be seen as accurate; such was the sprawling scenes shown in the songs that felt lived in from the moment it was heard. Bob may have been hopped up on whatever poppers that came his way but even that version of Bob was miles and leagues ahead of almost anybody in the ever changing rock and roll landscape. I hate to say that it was a good thing that he crashed his motorcycle and retreated into the radical world of homespun sparseness because, if he hadn't, we would have been treated to a world of diminishing returns in the follow-up to Blonde on Blonde. Change was imminent but nobody knew it at the time, not even Bob, which was why he gave us his then-best. Nearly sixty years and we remain in awe. Everybody must get stoned!
lotsa harmonica, i’m not a huge fan of that or of his singing tbh. i know he’s iconic but just not really for me. by the end of the album i hated it a little less
I mean, it's Dylan. Can't go wrong with this one.
6/10
Importante, mas não convence para querer escutar mais.
It was a great album , just not my type of music.
Not bad. Favorite songs were Just like a Woman and Rainy Day Women.
Some good parts
It's Blonde on Blonde.
Very good album by bob dylan. This album has a lot of folk and various other instrumental sounds that make this a well produced album. He does a good job as always lyrically with rhyming and telling anecdotes via song. Felt like this album didn’t have any major hits but it’s a great example of a consistent album. 7.5/10
5/14, 36%
Bob Dylan might be another case of I Gotta Sit Down With The Lyrics, bc on first listen I just found him kind of grating.
I am more of a casual fan when it comes to Bob Dylan and this album is in my opinion one of his finest.
An all-time classic album. Interesting to read about how it was made too.
Singing style/voice grating to me.
3.5/5. It’s Bob Dylan. So it’s pretty good, but not as good as people seem to make it.
Eh, I didn't care much for the first song. I'm not a fan of Dylan's mumbley vocal style. The music itself is cool but his voice is just distracting. Sorry Bob, I'm not much of a fan besides maybe some of your biggest hits.
Filled with folk/blues songs. I liked some of these songs, but would this be an album that I need in my collection? No....
The best Dylan album.
Bob Dylan is great. I can understand why people love him. Just not for me so much.
Working both sides of the veil with loosey goosey rhymes drawled through a mouth coated in rubber, and flanked by a band that whips around like a 240 volt cable gone wrong, this is a spectacular mess of barely contained chaos magic. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Dylan = Vinilo
Pues muy bueno, aunque debió ser un poco arrogante en sus comienzos de éxito y desde hace unos cuantos años ya.
Not a very big fan. I just don’t understand Bob D.
probably just wasn't in the mood for Bob this day
I appreciate the songwriting and the musicianship, but I can't get over Dylan's singing style. The annunciation just ruins it for me, and I really can't take him serious. These would be better received by me if someone else sang it.
A Top 5 all time album ever for me. Consistently in critics "greatest all time" lists. The man won a damn Noble Prize, mainly for the writing on this album. This is Degas In a Cafe, this is Le Dolce vita, this is Rimbaud. Favorite songs: Visions and I Want You
I have this LP, so this is the first album that I have already listened to from start to finished prior to this listening project.
I appreciate Bob Dylan as an artist but his style has never really connected me. As an artist I appreciate what he was doing but to me it felt like he was trying to not try. If I was living in NYC in 1960 my perception would be different.
Like with my previous album suggestion (Heroes by David Bowie), this is another album that I wanted to like a lot more than I actually did. Bob Dylan's craft is clearly immense but it just doesn't tick the boxes for me. Sorry Bob
Obviously he invented a lot of ideas around lyrics, so a lot of credit due. Haven't listened to this before and the only songs I knew were Rainy Day Women (bizarre title) and Just Like a Women. Band is blues influenced/folk rock with prominent keys. Similar arrangements on most songs. Some songs much better than others IMO. I am not a fan of his singing. Like the rhythm of the delivery on some songs though. A lot of the music sounds a bit disconnected, more like an accompaniment than a coherent song, and rather samey. Don't like the harmonica. I don't think I'll ever want to listen to a whole album of this. Fourth Time Around sounds like Norwegian Wood. Probably on purpose - apparently the Beatles song was first.
Undeniably classic and genre defining, it is still hard for me to get into unfortunately.
It’s bob dylan
I was only familiar with two or three songs from Blonde On Blonde, eventhough I know that this is one of Bob Dylan's albums that is frequently recommended by his fans. I like Dylan, but it takes a bit of proding for me to explore more of his work. This album sounds like a Bob Dylan album, and is even a source for paradies of Dylan. (Brak from Space Ghost, Coast to Coast included). Blonde On Blonde includes Dylan's iconic voice with his drawn out syllables to the point that the vocals are more spoken word than singing. I have a harder time with the drawn out slow delivery, but the combined whole of the tracks can be interesting. There are reasons to listen to this album. Particularly by the last four tracks ("Absolutely Sweet Marie", "4th Time Around", "Obviously 5 Believers", "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands") there is enough energy to the music and melody to the vocals that I can round up to a full four stars.
C’est bien. La façon d’écrire et d’articuler les paroles dans la musique est excellente. C’est plein de sarcasme. J’ai bien aimé Obviously five believers. Par contre, l’harmonica est franchement aggressante.
C'est mon époque préférée de Bob Dylan (époque qui débute avec Bringing It All Back Home). On est dans la chanson, mais on sent une énergie nouvelle, un goût de participer aux changements musicaux qui s'opèrent à ce moment. On le ressent dès la première chanson. Les pièces blues lui sied particulièrement bien. J'aime aussi comment ce n'est pas parfait. Je dois admettre par contre que certaines pièces sont longues, ce qui devient répétitif pour arriver à livrer tout le texte. Mais il y a aussi des pièces parfaite comme I Want You avec son rythme entrainant et sa formule plus près d'une chanson populaire. C'est un peu long comme album, mais c'est un album double. En vinyle, c'est parfait. Définitivement un album qui a sa place dans cette liste. Pièces préférées: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, I Want You, Just Like A Woman, Visions of Johanna, Most Likely You Go Your Way
Man so damn classic! Even if you don't like Dylan, the fact that pretty much everyone still knows these songs 50+ years later is insane. The guy could write a song about any random mundane part of life and it would still be a classic.
honestamente eu não sou muito fan do dylan, eu conheço pouco da carreira dele, mas o pouco que ja ouvi não me agradou. o que mais me incomoda é a voz dele, tem uma malandragem que me lembra outros cantores, como mick jagger, jimi hendrix e lou reed, mas a voz dele tem um certo tom e rasgado que me irrita. outro fator é o tamanho das musicas, esse album em especifico é duplo, e cada musica tem em media 5 minutos, algumas chegando a 7. normalmente isso não é um problema pra mim, minhas musicas favoritas tem 5-7 minutos, mas o bob dylan tem uma certa formula que me enjoa facil. bom, é o tipo de coisa que so se resolve com o costume, quem sabe com o tempo isso vai sumindo. eu cheguei agora em "i want you", é um pouco mais pop que as outras, a que eu mais gostei por enquanto. maldita gaita que aparece em todas musicas. eu gostei do album no final, meu problema é com o bobby mesmo
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I've always known the name Bob Dylan as well as some of his most famous songs, but listening to this album was my first foray into Dylan fandom. That is to say, I very much enjoyed this "side" of Dylan. I find his voice goofy and not particularly beautiful, but it somehow works, and the musicality of the songs themselves isn't in question, even if they come off as laidback and carefree. For me, the type of enjoyment was similar to that of listening to Randy Newman.
Classic album. Not quite as good as highway 61 but great nonetheless.
One of my favs of his for sure.
5/5. Probably my favorite Dylan. It’s got such a diverse set of songs, yet they also all feel so definitively and personally his.
I get that Dylan is an icon and a master storyteller. But his voice is like a cheese grater on my nerves.
A classic Bob Dylan album. One of his best and probably the one I listen to the most. It could be a greatest hits. It’s also the one I think gives the best sampling of his style and talents. It’s got everything: storytelling folk songs, more hard-rocking numbers, blues, harmonica solos, long drawn out vowels that he rhymes one after another. There’s a lot of lyrics that pack a major emotional punch. And an equal number of lyrics that make me go, “Wait, huh? What is this song about?” I love that. So many great songs but “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” is one of my all-time favorites. I love how the piano amps up the drama. And “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” is one of his funniest songs.
Ok, so I know he's a lyrical genius, but as someone who notices vocals first and foremost, Bob Dylan is not my favorite. Sorry, I know. I KNOWWW. I will say, I like the use of organs for a gospel sound in "One of Us Must Know" to kind of break away from the same blues/harmonica combo of many of the other tracks. And "Rainy Day Women" is a fun song overall, with the marching band feeling and tongue-in-cheek topic.
On Steve's bachelor party trip, on the van ride back to NJ there was a discussion about favorite Bob Dylan albums. I listened to him but never played through one of his albums from start to finish (blasphemous for a singer-songwriter). When I was asked, I think I responded with \"Highway 61\" because it was the one that had tracks on it that I actually knew and knew the names of. Someone had said \"Blonde On Blonde\" (Steve? Or was it Steve Fingerhut?) and so the next day or a few days later when I was at work I threw it on and loved it. It's a great album and a strong follow-up to Highway 61 Revisited. It feels fun and energetic compared to the common idea of what Bob Dylan sounds like. The only downside of this album is that it relies so heavy on the blues chord progression, and there's really only so much you can do with that in similar keys and instrumentation before the songs start to blur together and get a little predictable. It's still an amazing album but for someone who has drilled the blues progression a few hundred times, my mind can't help but drift when listening to it in an album format.
Blonde on Blonde integrates traditional blues material with modernist literary techniques to form a cache of songs which tread a fine line between surrealist and literal, earnest and flippant, delicate and course, and manage to teeter on the brink of lucidity, offering plenty of questions, but, unlike Dylan the Folkie, Dylan the Modernist gives no answer. By utilizing repetitive, craggily abstract compositions, blending blues, rock, country, and folk, driven by cutting guitars, honeyed organ, and crisp piano riffs, the music matches the inventiveness of the songs. A rich, careening, dense album of unending revelation driven by witty wordplay, a fusion of the literary and the conversational, at once vague and precise, filled with bizarre imagery and excellent music. Standout Tracks: Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Just Like a Woman, Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine), Absolutely Sweet Marie, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Truly one of the greatest albums
Great but meh
He’s the GOAT singer writer for a reason
Dylan winds in and out of folk, a choice which elevates this work above the shorter and more straightforward layouts of the previous two albums. Less straightforward comes with a huge caveat: The lyrics, of course. On Blonde On Blonde there is still plenty of ambiguity, but the songs often extend their roots into familiar ground. The result is a set of songs romantic, wistful, at times bacchanalian, and with a killer set of closers. I'm still a bit cool on Dylan, I think because of his voice, but this is a prima facie masterpiece of his style.
Wailing harmonica and Bob Dylan's voice. If only you could add some bagpipes and an accordion to round out the horror. What a horrid combination of sounds. If perhaps he just read out his lyrics I could appreciate this. Instead I have to sit through this sonic assault.
J’adore dylan et c’est dans ses meilleures. Mon prefere jusqua aujourd’hui avec hihway et blood ont racks. 5
listened to again man this is an absolute classic and a must listen
5 stars. This album is so fucking good. It's witty, it's poignant, it's just perfect.
Some of these songs sounded like some of Bob's other songs. If you like it you like it I guess. It made for a low key drive to work.
This is one of the most inspired and inspiring slabs of vinyl ever dreamed up by a human. Incredible from start to finish. Can I give it a 6?
The only benefit I got out of listening to this album is figuring out where that one Death Grips song title comes from
No.
A strange ramshackle glorious affair. Dylan's stream of consciousness lyrics are a wonder to behold.
I get why people like him and can appreciate the music but his iconic voice is a bit much after an hour straight. The music changes but every song the vocals sound too similar
Bob Dylan. Siempre bueno, pero nada espectacular
This is probably the Dylan album I already knew the most tracks off, from various greatest hits compilations, covers and whatnot. Happy memories of many childhood evenings listening to the likes of Just Like a Woman and I Want You while playing Lemmings... I think the lush production and poppier structures of these songs really suits him, and was happy to discover a couple more that fit this mould, like Stuck Inside of Mobile. You could squish this into a 9-10 track single album and it'd be a legit 5 stars - no rounding necessary - but it loses a bit of momentum towards the end. 4.5.
One of the best folk albums out there. Peak Bob Dylan, incredible songwriting and storytelling. Nothing else to say. Fave songs: Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35, Visions of Johanna, I Want You
What is there to say about Bob that hasn't already been said. His songwriting and lyricism is unparalleled, and this is probably among his best albums, competing with Blood on the Tracks. Each of his songs evoke the feeling of reading an entire novel to me, they are absolutely jam packed with story. Fav Tracks: Rainy Day Woman, I Want You, Obviously Five Believers
Great Dylan album.
Usually, Dylan's music passes right by me. I think this album is the main exception: it's musical enough for me, and it includes several tracks that really penetrate.
One of the best albums of all time. Like poetry.
Suppose this is the Bob Dylan experience. Loved a few of the songs and found a few covers that were awesome as well. Loved “I want you” and “stuck inside mobile” but still didn’t necessarily find the whole thing to be the most listenable. Seems about right!
Whiny, nasal, overrated
Sorry, Bob Dylan, I just can't get into your music...got halfway through the album and couldn't continue because of how boring the album is to me.
While my favorite band has always been, and remains, the Beatles, my favorite solitary artist is, and always will be, Bob Dylan. Some of my earliest childhood musical memories are of my parents playing Dylan’s second LP, 'The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,' released right before my fourth birthday. My dad had a mahogany colored Gibson acoustic guitar and would strum along while singing these folk masterpieces. Later in college, my roommate turned me on to the outstanding 'Blood on the Tracks,' recently released. And before and after those two, there was the brand new electric sound of 'Bringing It All Back Home' and 'Highway 61 Revisited' in the 1960s, then at the end of that same decade the new country sound (and very new voice, literally) of 'Nashville Skyline,' the mid 70s Americana collaborations with The Band, the end of 70s/early 80s born-again Christian LPs, followed by the very un-Christian titled, 'Infidels,' and so on and so on. If you want to ride or die with Dylan, you better put on a helmet first. But 'Blonde On Blonde' is possibly my very favorite of the lot, partly due to an unexplainable experience I had while listening to its final track. I believe it must have been the winter of 2004, and I was sick with the flu. I don’t get sick, much, but when I do, it makes up for lost time. So there I lay in bed with a fever, aching all over, burning up one moment, freezing the next, dark yellowy green snot dripping out of my nose, dark yellowy green vomit projecting out of my mouth and, yes, dark yellowy green shit flying out of my ass. My ears were the only healthy functioning, dry orifice remaining on my body. I was ingesting some over the counter meds, but nothing that rendered me in an especially altered state of consciousness. I had the state of mind to drive myself to the hospital, if it had come to that, as long as there were plastic sheets covering the seat. Anyway, I had recently purchased a copy of 'Blonde On Blonde' on CD, already familiar with several of the songs, but having never listened to it in its entirety (the way LPs used to be formatted.) So, engulfed in blankets like a human burrito, I popped the CD into my Sony Discman and pushed play. I don’t really remember anything until the final song, 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,' which I very much recall with the clarity of John on the island of Patmos receiving what we now refer to as 'The Revelation,' coincidentally (providentially?) also the final track of the New Testament. I was transported for the next eleven minutes into some other plane of existence. I was in a near dream-like state of consciousness, yet not unconscious; totally unaware of any feeling in my body, while at the same time completely aware of the lyrics and music I was hearing. It was not so much an out of body experience as it was a kind of spiritual transcendence. After the song concluded, everything returned to normal like Jesus’ disciples own experience on the mountain following his transfiguration as witnessed in the gospels. I immediately replayed the song, but nothing happened. And I’ve never been able to duplicate the moment, although I’ve played that song and this LP countless numbers of times over the almost two decades since. Quantum physics is confirming the claims that mystics and shamans from all the religious traditions have been making for eons: the existence of a universal consciousness or ‘field’ from which anyone may access wisdom, guidance, and inspiration concerning things as varied as the invention of mechanical instruments to the composition of a song. I believe this is what I tapped into on my sick day, as well as what Dylan tapped into when he wrote his songs. I know this somewhat through my limited understanding, but much more so from my own personal experience. All my good ideas come from elsewhere, beyond me, when I get out of the way. The only shitty ideas are the ones that my own mind constructs independent of inspiration. Watch some of these documentaries featuring Dylan’s early years and observe how he sits and taps away on a typewriter composing lyrics while people are partying all around him, sometimes even playing their own songs! It’s incredible. He’s not thinking. He’s channeling. The thinking part comes later during the editing process, when the mind serves its rightful purpose. But the mind needs to be corralled for the initial inspiration. I know this to be absolutely true. And Dylan has said as much himself in interviews, if you can decipher his evasive, contradictory answers from one interview to the next, often accompanied with a gleam in his eye and a slight grin, as if to echo Jesus’ equally ambiguous remark ‘let those who have ears, hear.’ Now, its one thing to have this gift (but by that I don’t mean to suggest that its only available to the few- it’s yours for the receiving, too); but, its another thing altogether to be able to then communicate it musically in an enjoyable, accessible way, solo, or in a band. Once Dylan decided he wanted other players, he would simply go from one to another, inviting those who were in current communion with the muse and dismissing those who had temporarily fallen out. Didn’t matter so much how well one played necessarily; rather, how well one’s vibrational frequency was in alignment with his own, which in turn was in constant fine tuning to the Field’s. Therefore, sometimes you get Al Cooper’s uniquely organ work, the little fills throughout ‘I Want You.’ That’s a very popular and easily recitable song. But have you ever been aware of how important Cooper’s part is in the overall sound? One minute Hargus ‘Pig’ Robbins is tinkling some blues piano Fats Domino shit (and I’m using that to indicate high respect) in the background of ‘Pledging My Time,’ or ‘Temporarily Like Achilles,’ then, out of the blue, on ‘One of Us Must Know,’ Paul Griffin is now doing all these Gershwin-esque fills. Lead guitarist, Robbie Robertson shares his thin, wild, searing blues guitar solos on ‘Obviously 5 Believers’ and especially ‘Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat,’ only to find Dylan himself, in a response to John Lennon’s ‘Norwegian Wood,’ just softly finger picks his way through ‘4th Time Around,’ while Robbie takes five for a cigarette. Too much thinking and overdub guitar-ing would have killed that song. And was Dylan’s voice ever more beautiful than on this LP, soaring on ‘One of Us Must Know,’ then softly lamenting, longing on ‘Visions of Johanna.’ Filled to the brim with mirth, he can’t help but chuckles occasionally at the double (at least) entendre, not to mention the general hilarity of the party encircling him, on ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35.’ If anyone ever tells you Dylan can’t sing, crack ‘em over the head with your copy of 'Blonde On Blonde.' No, on second thought, save that to play. Hit ‘em instead with one of those awful Britpop records. Dylan purposefully slides up and down one note to the next, and purposefully changes the cadence to fit where the lyrics have taken him. He’s not in the least concerned about making verse number three longer than the preceding two, if that’s where the muse has traveled. ‘Visions of Johanna’ is one of many examples of this. The only genre of music that’s more liberated then Dylan’s is ‘free’ jazz. Finally, the lyrics. There’s a reason why he was awarded the 2016 Noble Prize in Literature. This review is already way too long, so I’m not about to start quoting the wonder captured in every single song on this LP from ‘balancing a mattress on a bottle of wine’ to ‘Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles’ to the famous and oft quoted, ‘to live outside the law you must be honest.’ His gift for pictures, scenes that are first heard through the ears and then painted across the inner eyes are absolutely stunning. And unbelievable contemporary. The rhymes on the bridge of ‘Just Like a Woman’ read with a cadence to rival any modern hip-hop master. Remember, now, this is the year 1966! (By the way, it’s very helpful to see these lyrics printed, so one may catch the nuance of his referring to the subject of ‘Just Like a Woman,’ as Baby with a capital ‘B’ rather than baby. The latter is a term of endearment. I think the capital ‘B’ Baby is something else entirely.) Sagacious, tender, and viciously hilarious, like my favorite of the bunch from ‘Absolutely Sweet Marie’: ‘Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously. But then, now again, not too many can be like you… fortunately.’ That one lyric alone is worth the cost of the whole thing, at least as far as I’m concerned. But in addition to its figurative meaning, I also hear this quite literally. Anybody can be just like Dylan, obviously. I mean, he is just a human, like you and I, and thus just a drop in the universal ocean, also like you and I, obviously. But then, now again, as the 13th century Persian poet Rumi also expressed to the contrary: maybe we’re not really just a drop in the ocean, you and I, and Bob Dylan, but instead are the entire ocean in one drop. The fact that so many are caught in the delusion of their perceived differentiation is rather 'un'fortunate.
This deserved every lick of hype it gets. Excellence, through and through.
Now that is the foundational Bob Dylan that I was expecting. Great folksy sound, really does have a populi feel.
This is the first "classic" album on this generator so far I didn't enjoy too well. Half I enjoyed a lot, the other I couldn't stand. It may be due to the fact I don't like Bob Dylan's rock n roll and blues material and that dominates at least half of this. Also his voice can get incredibly annoying during those songs. Thank goodness Blonde on Blonde has his more slow, calm and soothing folk acoustic songs to balance it out. Favourite songs were Visions of Johanna, Just Like A Woman, I Want You, Fourth Time Around and Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
Its a sad testament to the state of modern music that Dylans voice just would not past muster if he were starting out today. Autotune and access to better resources would have minimized his career or damaged the "authenticity" of his music.
Lots of funny words and sentences.
Every song sounds like dylan. Almost every song with the same type of singing, harmonica. Good lyrics.
Excellent
Well over two decades ago was the night that caused my hearing problems. There was a fabulous show upstairs at the El Mocambo that evening. My ears were rInging for two weeks after that show and the moment when they started ringing was during the song Absolutely Sweet Marie and more specifically when the lyrics "to live outside the law you must be honest - Dawlin!" were whaled into the mic and the inbred drummer thrashed the cymbal with superhuman strength - he was trying to show his manliness since he was quite obviously sweet on my friend Julie - a fact which her husband found more entertaining than the concert. No it wasn't a Dylan concert. It also wasn't George Harrison's much better known but painfully boring cover version. It was none other than Jason and the Scorchers. My brother probably doesn't remember sending me a tape of Jason's music during university and probably hasn't thought about that band for decades. I, on the other hand, think of the band every time I say "pardon". If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change a thing We've had so many Dylan albums I really didn't think I had a five left for him, but I dug one up thanks to Jason, Warner and the inbred drummer.
It's hard to believe "Rainy Day Women" was a smash radio hit back in '66. I don't remember hearing it in Sudbury. I like the story that Bob sent someone out to round up a brass section and vocalists (shouters) in the 2 in the morning and he insisted that they all must be intoxicated. That explains a lot. He dabbles with a bluesier sound on this LP here with songs like "Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "Pledging My Time". The album is like his version of "Rubber Soul", introducing a different styles and longer songs. I've always been a fan of "Stuck inside of Mobile, and of course "I Want you" and "Just Like a Woman" are the signature tracks. "Visions of Johanna" I have never been as crazy about as the critics.
There's a reason he won the Nobel prize.
Swag…. Han sjunger episkt…
The increased musical variety courtesy of being a double album is… cheeelin
Respekt till Bob Dylan.... älskar hur han sjunger.
Harmonica.
I listened to this some time ago and was happy to get reacquainted with some of the lesser-known tracks like "Visions of Johanna" and "Obviously Five Believers". It's still "Just like a Woman" for me, such a complex, emotional, and probably biographical song suffused with real love.
Very nice. Dylan always takes a couple of listens for me, but this was different. More focused.
Surprised myself but I really didn't feel this one at all. Can't put a finger on why, but nonetheless on this morning it was not the one.
Tähän mennessä selvästi parasta Dylania listalla. Levyn kahden ensimmäisen tylsän bluesjurnuttelun jälkeen päästiin eteenpäin vähän seesteisimmissä tunnelmissa. En ennakkoon tuntenut yhtäkään levyn kappaleista, mutta varsikin peräkkäinen kolmikko One of Us Must Know, I Want You ja Stuck Inside plaaplaa on todella kovaa tykitystä. Levyn loppupuoli tarjoili muutakin rauhallisen tyylikästä Dylania. Hieno levy, joka kohensi reippaasti omaa mielipidettäni Dylanista. Parhaimmillaan vitosen arvoisia veivauksia, mutta ehkä nuo bluesfiilistelyt pudottaa arvosanan vahvaksi neloseksi.
Vägrar lyssna på den här clownen.
Didn’t hate it but pretty boring. No reason this had to be 72 minutes, get it together Bob.
Dylan is great, but I do start to feel like the songs blend together
Very Bob Dylan , but that’s not always the best since I am not the biggest fan
Very good! It's a little bit of a mixed bag at times, and maybe a couple of songs could have been cut, but the songs that are good are excellent. And even the ones that I don't like as much aren't really bad, it's just that the album is long enough that you could cut a song or two and nobody would be complaining. I'd give it a 4.5 if I could.
Kid's got a future.
Oh, I was wondering when Bob Dylan was going to show up on this list. Off the top of my head I don’t quite remember what’s on this- Will definitely give it a few spins today. OK, this is definitely one of Bob’s better albums. Memphis Blues, Visions of Johanna, Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat, Just like a Woman and then the opener, the ubiquitous Rainy Day Women #12 and 35.
Couple of songs were good… trash the rest!
Of the Dylan albums we have listened too this was my least favorite
I'm always game for some vintage Dylan. This one is one of his greats, and I'm not sure I'd heard it all the way through. Some great tracks, especially "Visions of Johanna," but overall it didn't grab me like Highway 61 Revisited or (my personal favorite) The Times They Are A-Changing. Plenty on here that I don't feel I want or need to revisit. Still, a decent Dylan album is quite good. Favorite tracks: Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know, Stuck Inside of Mobile, Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat. Album art: Iconic for sure, I'd recognize this one a mile out. Slightly blurry Bob, perhaps a distant ancestor to Earl Sweatshirt's Some Rap Songs cover? 3.5/5
Genre: Folk Rock 3/5 My second Bob Dylan album of the book, and guess what: it's fuckin' Bob Dylan. Unlike Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a much more "folk" album than this one here, and the other Bob Dylan album I've listened to for this exercise, he makes the decision to use session musicians here. The result doesn't make the music much better in my opinion, but it certainly gave him more freedom to record a whole bunch of new shit. We get drums, organs, pianos, oh my! It certainly makes these songs have a lot more oomph and energy, but it's Bob Dylan. It doesn't go beyond that. Blonde on Blonde is a double album, 75 minutes of what could be mistaken as the same song for the wide majority of its length. I illustrated this in the last album's review, this guy is a phony, and is not actually a poor man singin' the blues. He's the ultimate canned version of it, and it's amazing to watch how some white people eat his shit up. I've heard rock albums that sound like this made by guys like Bo Diddley 8 years before this was made, and I don't witness the same shock and awe as with albums such as these. Does that make this album bad? No, not necessarily. Does it mean that Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat is a song worthy of my time? No. I'm sure the Dylanites eat this shit up with just as much relish as any of his other albums, but to me, this is milquetoast folk pop at its milquetoastiest. And his voice sucks.
I really want to love Bob Dylan but aside from a few songs his music just doesn't really do anything for me.
Perfect album. So many great moments. Probably the best Dylan album of all time.
Parts of this I love, like when it gets bluesy on ‘Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat’, or full New Orleans on ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’. ‘Obviously Five Believers’ is another highlight as is ‘Visions of Johanna’. Ultimately though, a double album of Dylan is a bit much to take in over a single sitting for my ears as his voice grates after a while, and this makes the album feel much longer than it actually is.
My second favorite Dylan album.
Music is great but all these years have passed, and Dylan's voice is still grating. I'd rather listen to cover versions. Didn't add.
I just wasn't very into this one. it's like it's all the Dylan stereotypes- the nasal singsong between two notes, really grating and repetitive. And I love so many Dylan songs and have an album called Lullabye Dylan for goodness sake. This one just wasn't for me. Still I'd listen it to it over some of these in the past 100, so it still gets a 2.
Esse aqui eu já deixei até salvo o comentário antes de reescutar pela milésima vez Vai tomar no cu, discao do caraio Bob Dylan é pica demais e é muito bonito tbm
Classic Dylan
I just like him so much better as a lyricist and songwriter than performer
7'5
There are three Dylan albums that are in my all time favorite albums. This is one of them. Granted, it’s the third out of three, but it’s a masterpiece. Besides the obvious hits here, “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” and “Visions of Joanna” are hidden gems. Love this one.
I’m not as big of a Dylan fan as I would like to be but I really like this album!
It was fine.
Honestly I can't really stand Bob Dylan, his music, and his voice.
One of the most culturally significant albums. He's a poet and a storyteller. By most accounts the guy can't sing, but it really doesn't matter. His music and this album illuminates in such a deep inexplicable way that surpasses judgement of conventional skill.
Bit bored of Bob these days.
I like some Bob Dylan from time to time, but I prefer to hear individual songs over entire albums. Although not my favorite Dylan record, it is certainly one of his best.
Ok
Ну, вроде прикольно, но ничего нового я для себя не нашёл. Хотелось услышать хоть что-то необычное. Но нет.
The first one I already love. Will listen today with special attention
02/07/2022 Lol, no. I can't stand this guy's voice and wow, harmonicas sure are annoying, too! Happy for those that like it, though.
Say what you will about his singing, but Bob Dylan knows how to write songs. This is a very good listen.
The surreal nature of Dylan lyrics always surprises me - they approach a feeling of laziness in how simple they are, but so much colour and fantastical imagery is evoked that it's hard to believe they just came outta nowhere. The musicality in this record is surprisingly diverse, from raucous blues stompers like Rainy Day Women, and Most Likely You Go Your Way, which is still a staple in his live shows over 50 years later, to the Norwegian Wood 'homage' of 4th Time Around. It's fun, it's sad, it's whimsical and a little bit magical.
The master at his best, whimsical, fun and musically varied.
Lyrics are brilliant, but his voice (and the harmonica) does get a bit annoying
The least accessible Dylan album but most rewarding. By the time I'm leaving this review, this is only the 4th time listening to this album, and it hasn't quite clicked like his other albums. This is the last of his golden age, with his next masterpiece not appearing for nearly a decade with Blood on the Tracks. At this point, he has matured his sound, knowing what he's capable of and delivering exactly that... I believe he called it the "wild mercury sound" whatever the hell that means. Very strong tracks, some bluesy, some just plain romantic in acoustics. It's all beautifully arranged, not once did I feel any segment was off or excessive, which has happened for previous albums. I say this is his most inaccessible because the songwriting is arguably his best. There's just a significant shift from the instrumental focus of his previous albums to his lyrical genius. I mean obviously, his sound is perfected here, each track is colorful and full of personality, but it's not as flashy as before, and you really need to pay attention to this one. With its double-length, it's really difficult to "get it" in just a few plays, you really need to break it down and digest it all. But I was thoroughly impressed by the insane imagery he plays in many of these tracks. Some songs you have full humour ("Rainy Day Women"), seriousness ("Sad-Eyed Lady"), but more often than not a fair mix in between. I hope to appreciate this one more over time.
no more bob dylan
I've always felt Bob Dylan is best as a poet, sometimes his voice just grates on my nerves. But I have respect & there are some fine tunes on here, & enjoy the harmonica. Sidenote we got this album on the day it was announced Bob sold master rights to his recorded catalog to Sony. It's a Bob Dylan kind of day.
This is the best Dylan that I got here at this project until now, but I'm wondering that, at the end of the day, I don't like so much of Bob Dylan as I thought. I know that probably is some kind of a crime somewhere in the world, but I prefer his "rock" songs (like some in this album) over his "folk" ones, that is the majority of his work. Maybe, listening to it some other times brings to me new perspectives and I change my mind, but I like this very much of this Dylan album exactly because it sounds less like Bob Dylan for me.
Not my favourite Dylan album but it is still excellent.
This is one of 3-4 Dylan records that I listen to with some regularity. I like the sound of the record. The shrill and clanky guitars, the long, piercing harmonica notes, and Dylan's songwriting, of course. I know this is probably one of his most heralded records. It deserves the accolades. "Rainy day women..." is a brilliantly subversive song. That being said, I'll reserve the 5/5 for "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Bringing it All Back Home."
This list is kind of making me a Bob Dylan fan. I never really was one before this - not sure why exactly. I get it, okay? I get it.
Side C kinda drags, but “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” has me crying and throwing up at work; let’s call it even.
Not my favourite Dylan album but some really good songs on here
Yes, yes, yes…was a little unsure on track one but it just grew with soul, and lyrical genius, and something I can only describe as “oomph”, into signature Dylan and it’s marvelous.
I could listen to Dylan forever and never quite grasp the meaning of his lyrics. Perhaps the elusiveness is deliberate; maybe we will never get it but the intrigue keeps us returning. On Blonde on Blonde, there are times when Dylan seems to push the listener away - Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 is an irritating in-joke amongst the band; harmonica solos blast the ear drums; Dylan’s voice lacks any gravitas. But then tracks such as Visions of Johanna, I Want You, Stuck Inside of Mobile… and Just Like a Woman make you reconsider; beautifully performed, produced exquisitely and rewarding on repeat listening. So keep listening forever and try and fail and fail better to understand the twentieth century’s most elusive musician.
I dont like country but this wasnt horrible
better than the rock shit you have been recommending me but anyone who plays the harmonica should be put in a cage and have boiling oil thrown at them. No harmonica -4 with harmonica -2
WAHOO
one of the best!
It just sounds like good folk music. So it's good.
Good music, incomprehensible vocals; pretty standard Dylan
Has some classic songs but some do drag on a bit too long. It’s raw, live and has that classic Dylan feel.
Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan (1966) I suppose that a young listener hearing this recording for the first time might wonder what all the fuss is about, included as it is on nearly every list of the greatest albums of all time. I can suggest two reasons for this perplexity: (1) Many of Dylan’s creative innovations have become so standard that they now seem routine, and (2) Twenty-first century ears have not yet caught up with twentieth-century poetry. However, surely everyone agrees that at least until the boomer generation (i.e., mine) completely dies out, this double LP will be regarded as one of the greatest albums ever produced (but see below). What makes this music great is that it consists of a first-rate synthesis of first-rate poetry with first-rate rhythmic and melodic construction. These three elements combine exponentially in Blonde on Blonde. Bob Dylan’s music blows rather than sucks (please, dear reader, try to avoid profane associations with this image). Most popular music sucks. That is to say, it inhales from its musical culture those elements that have proved successful—mixing, arranging, and elaborating on them in interesting and entertaining ways. Dylan’s music, on the other hand, blows. It exhales into its musical culture a spirit/wind/breath of substance—vivifying, enlightening, and nourishing the soul of the listener. Where pop music takes (symbiotically or even parasitically), Dylan’s music gives. It evokes passion in the listener by rendering him or her passive. The listener gasps. The listener receives. The listener learns. The listener grows. If one wants to begin accessing Dylan’s poetry in Blonde on Blonde, I might suggest starting with track #5 “I Want You” and focus on everything he says other than “I Want You”. Nothing is here by accident. And it isn’t until the last line of the final verse that we discover that his desire for his woman is the cause of all these deceptively random and seemingly nonsensical reflections. Throughout this album, from the reassuring observation that undeserved suffering is the common lot of humanity (via the playfully paronomastic “Everybody must get stoned” in “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35”) to the insight that “She says ‘your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want’” (“Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”), we hear such lyrical delights as oxymoron raised to an art (“Temporary Like Achilles”) and the hymnic encomium of “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”. We weep more than once. In terms of images, can we not exult in picturing the “jelly faced woman with the mustache say ‘Jeez, I can’t find my knees’” (“Visions of Johanna”)? And surely there’s no more inventive lament than this: “And here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice” Please note the exquisite yet subtle change in the final chorus of “Just Like a Woman”, after he has said to his ex-lover, “I believe it's time for us to quit, but when we meet again, introduced as friends, please don't let on that you knew me when I was hungry and it was your world . . . “. Now after all this praise, I hope the reader will not be disappointed or stunned when I say that this is not Dylan’s best. He stumbles over his own poetry at least twice, and the studio musicians appear to just be along for the ride, especially Al Kooper on keyboards (overrated at this stage of his career). Much better albums by Dylan both before and after Blonde on Blonde include The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Blood on the Tracks (1975), Desire (1976), and Time Out of Mind (1997). I don’t think it’s just a matter of taste. But this album is worth a serious listen, time and again. 4/5
Songs too long-winded for my liking. The lyrics are good but not sure I need quite so many verses per song.
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It's good, just a bit overrated. His voice can sound annoying at times.
it wasn't bad but i dont think id ever listen to it again when i could just listen to leonard cohen instead
these are great songs that i would like a lot better if someone else was singing them. i prefer the slower cuts to the more blues-y ones, the orchestrations and arrangements are beautiful on those. but to be fair a lot of my favorite bands have singers whose voices i once couldnt stand, so maybe i just need to give bob more time...