Blonde On Blonde

I can't imagine a much better intro to Bob Dylan than this. I was skeptical of being able to handle an entire album of his vocals, but I have to say I should have never doubted his reputation. Lyrically masterful and audibly varied throughout, Bob Dylan and his supporting cast are put on full display on Blonde on Blonde and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't bummed I hadn't heard it sooner. Edit: Upon a re-listen, I think I missed the mark a bit here, or my eyes are a little more open now. Most of the songs here are good. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) should've definitely had a mention as a standout. But the rest is arguably more of a background to the three outstanding songs. Still, those three songs are unbelievable, with Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands being my top Bob Dylan song at the moment. I'll undoubtedly listen again, can't wait to see how it continues to hold up. High Point: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again Low Point: n/a Surprise Hit: Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Fantastic Favourite tracks: Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know, I Want You, Stuck Inside of Mobile, Just Like a Woman, Sad-Eyed Lady

Bob's best album that's not called Blood on the Tracks.

In my early 20s I would have probably called this my favourite, or at least one of my 5-6 favourite albums. I’m nearly 40 now and my love of Dylan has dimmed slightly - I actually think the brilliance of his lyrics is slightly overstated and his musical output isn’t consistent - but I still love this record. The best songs on here , for me I Want You, Just Like, Sooner Or Later, Sad Eyed Lady… Look I mean I’m a massive softy and make no apologies…are all just tremendous. Subjective opinion: It’s not quite as good an album as Blood on the Tracks, which is just about perfect in terms of song crafting. It’s a 4.75 album for incredible moments and overall good consistency level.

Dit is normaal gesproken niet mijn genre, maar Bob Dylan blijft geweldig, en dit is helemaal goed. Zulke lekkere nummers

Highlights are Visions, Most Likely, I Want You, 4th… 10/10

Missing a big single, but overall just a consistent album. I really enjoyed the journey, and surprisingly Bob’s voice did not get on my nerves

I've been a big Dylan fan since I first heard him and this one is a classic. I listen to this one a lot on my own. It's just great, incredibly songwriting throughout and such a great quality to the production. It's got to be a 5/5. Standout Tracks: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Pledging My Time, Visions of Johanna, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), I Want You, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Just Like a Woman, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine, Temporary Like Achilles, Absolutely Sweet Marie, 4th Time Around, Obviously 5 Believers, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Dylan = Vinilo

One of his best for sure.

Another Dylan banger

Many call this his greatest album. While I agree its great, it isn't his best in my opinion. Track By Track Review: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - A fun song to start with. Nothing amazing or awful. Very fun as I mentioned. Good humour. 7/10 Pledging My Time - Forgettable. I'm always surprised when this plays. It also feels like a chore to listen to. 5/10 Visions Of Johanna - A better Song than the other 2. It's vocally pleasing. Lyrically, it's quite intricateand amazing. 7.5/10 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - A favourite of mine. An absolute gem in the album. A classic 60's rock song. It is one of my favorite Dylan songs. 8/10 I Want You - Another one I forget about, but absolutely love listening to. It's a great song vocally and lyrically. I reccomend giving this a listen. 7.5/10 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - My favorite on the album. Lyrically it's extremely intricate and at times quite funny. This is another song I reccomend everyone listens to. This song will likely appear on my spotify wrapped. Very amazing song. It's near 10 minutes long but doesn't feel like it. 10/10 Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat - Dylan really uses humour here on this less than serious track. It's a fun song. There isn't much else to say. 7/10 Just Like A Woman - My Nan's favorite. This song is vocally pleasing. The instrumentals are beautiful. Possibly more drug references here (Verse 2.) A very good, well rounded song. No hate here. 7/10 Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) - It's alright. I like how Dylan uses his voice here. 6.5/10 Temporary Like Achilles - Again, it's aight. A bit worse than the previous and very forgettable. 6/10 Absolutely Sweet Marie - I like this one more. Quite interesting lyrically. It's sonically pleasing. 7.5/10 Fourth Time Around - A pattern has occurred. I do not remember this song. It's actually quite good. It's sonically pleasing. Lyrically great too. 7/10 Obviously Five Believers - Sounds like it'd be a better fit on Bringing It All Back Home. It isn't bad at all, but doesn't quite fit here. It's a nice enough song. I do like it. 6.5/10 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - A beautiful song dedicated to his then partner Sara Lownds. An 11 minute ballad that feels like a whole journey. It's a masterclass in not trading length for good writing. An amazing end to the album. 9.5/10 Final Thoughts: It's mostly really good. A few forgettable songs, but mostly amazing. The highs are high, and so are the lows. An overrated album for sure, but not a bad one. My overall ranking is: 7.3/10. Very Good.

Taken over 250 albums to get our first Dylan album, there must be many more on the list. Never heard this album, but knew the hits; rainy day woman, I want you, and just like a woman. Overall this was great, as I expected. However, very harmonica heavy, moreso than I was expecting. Visions of Johanna was the standout that I didn't know already. Suck inside a mobile with the Memphis blues again is also great, but I swear that is on another of his albums too. 4.5, as I think he has albums I prefer but it's getting 5 anyway. Poetry

Amongst my favorite Dylan's albums. This is an exquisite masterpiece of art in folk music. Very ambitious release for year 1966. The fanfare/bigband opener is so memorable, funny and remarquable for that style. In high contrast, the closer of this epic singer-songwriter journey is more of an introspective long poetic piece.

Before this album, I lumped Bob Dylan into that group of musicians that old-heads really liked, but were dull in a modern age. However, after living with this album in my life for almost a year now, it has become increasingly obvious how wrong I was. There are a couple duds on this album, yes, but almost every other track here is folk bliss, with Dylan's lyrics being so astounding that you get wrapped up in trying to translate them, only to come out of each song with a different connection than another may have had to the song, and only his vocals could make these songs sound as earnest as they are written. There's heartbreak and strife, playful whimsy, and everything in-between to rock your world with each new track, and you're still getting some of the best songs over an hour in; front loaded album, this is not. Hell, by your third or fourth time around (hehe) you'll start to take to even the lesser tracks, as they still outmatch all of Dylan's contemporaries, as does his harmonica, which is perhaps the only time where I don't find the instrument grating, rather I wanna pick one up myself. If you have to attach yourself to one double album, you'd be hard-pressed to find one better than this, and I'm just astounded that something like this can totally flip my beliefs on a musician and even a genre. Its that good. Final note, Dylan's voice is actually fantastic, and anytime I see a post online criticizing it I want to keel over and cry.

It’s my least listened to album of Dylan’s so called rock trilogy as it’s the longest entry, but not a single minute is wasted. Great record.

This dude has a Nobel Prize in Literature and it’s plainly obvious why when you listen to Blonde on Blonde. “Pledging My Time” is an all-time great blues song, and the desperation Bob seems to have in hoping that the listener can make it through life (without his help) is really touching (side note: this song is also a masterclass in harmonica). “Visions of Johanna” is one of the only songs on this album I’d heard before; this was the first time I’d ever really listened to the lyrics and they are pitifully sad, Louise gets absolutely shit on and I am once again extremely impressed by Dylan’s writing, no surprises there.

It’s rare for an artist’s “sound” or “persona” to be tied to one particular album when they are as influential as Bob Dylan. Is the definitive Beatles Sgt Pepper’s or Abbey Road? Is the definitive Stones Let It Bleed or Exile on Main Street? Is the definitive Springsteen Born to Run or Born in the USA? For none of these questions is the answer clear, if any of these questions has an answer at all. But for all the incredible albums Bob Dylan has given us, Blonde On Blonde is the definitive Bob Dylan, no questions asked. Highway 61 Revisited is whimsical at times, especially in its title track, but as soon as “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” kicks off, we can tell something is different from his previous work. The lines “When the jester sang for the king and queen / In a coat he borrowed from James Dean” from Don McLean’s “American Pie” may have been inspired by The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, but I could be convinced that his image as a jester comes from Blonde On Blonde’s opening track. “Visions of Johanna” takes a sharp turn toward the pace that Dylan’s greatest songs will always be known for with its five verses and slowly unwinding story arc, and makes clear that his immaculate songwriting of 1965 would not soon regress. “One of Us Must Know” is one of the most underrated songs in his catalog and one of my personal favorites of his, especially with its dance between the harmonica and the guitar and its battle between the piano and the organ. “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” is the record’s token tribute to his Mississippi River roots, and may be the most Dylan-esque song of the most Dylan-esque album. “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” is the intellectual’s musical interpretation of a monkey with cymbals doing backflips, and for some reason reminds me of my senior year driveway at the northeast corner of Kirby and Gramercy. I’ll give props to Professor Scott Derrick’s class focused solely on Bob Dylan for that one. “Fourth Time Around” almost sounds medieval (so maybe this one actually inspired McLean’s jester comparison?), and is one of the funniest, most bizarre love songs you’ll ever hear. You could be forgiven for claiming “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” is too long, but like “Desolation Row” from Highway 61 Revisited, the piece is one of the most well-written songs of all time. I will say there is one notable omission from the recording sessions that didn’t make it onto the final record. “I’ll Keep It with Mine,” which never made it on a studio album at all, is one of my personal Dylan favorites and one of his most heartfelt ballads. In contrast to his usual long-form poetic style, the lyrics get straight to the point with straightforward lines like “You will search, babe / At any cost / But how long, Babe / Can you search for what is not lost?” Maybe the song’s relative simplicity didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the album. While not quite to the extent of Highway 61 Revisited, the album is still reminiscent of the era’s Beatnik writers; some, if not most, of the tracks are nearly impossible to decipher if they’re intended to be decipherable at all. Either way, there are a select few records I could be convinced are the greatest ever. Without a doubt, Blonde On Blonde is one of them. I considered going to see Bob Dylan play when he was in Houston last year. While some artists age like fine wine (Exhibit A: The Rolling Stones), many others wilt like neglected flowers far before their day is done. By no fault of his own Bob Dylan is one of those “many others,” so I played hooky on my favorite solo artist to ever live. If I can trick myself into thinking he always has and always will sound like Blonde On Blonde, I think I made the right decision.

No joke this is how I was introduced to Bob Dylan's voice and style: https://youtu.be/31PyIgA6K94 I didn't even remember the reference until I heard this album. I had not listened to a Bob Dylan album before and I enjoyed what I heard. It can be tough for me to absorb the lyrics of an album my first time around but I appreciate his story telling ability. Great album.

Bob Dylan has never been more Bob Dylan than this: a bunch of long songs with weird lyrics crooned in an ugly nasal whiny voice. On paper that sounds kinda terrible, yet I really really like this album. For one thing I just think Dylan’s an excellent songwriter, winning a Nobel Prize for his craft for good reason. For another thing the instrumentation and arrangements are really expert stuff, thanks in no small part to the Nashville session musicians who worked on the album. And then the last track is, for my money, one of his greatest songs and worth all 11 minutes… though it is, you know, 11 minutes, so your mileage may vary. Best song: Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

A triumph of Dylan’s songwriting, exhibiting clever and poignant tracks one after another that continue to grow on me to this day. Fave track: Visions of Johanna

memfis bloos

Masterpiece.

Is this even a question?

autism be damned my boy absolutely rips on the harmonica. astronomically high high points and just meh low points, they aren't bad in any way, just not particularly interesting compared to the absolute doozies on this. fav songs: visions of johanna, i want you, stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again, just like a woman, absolutely sweet marie, fourth time around, sad eyed lady of the lowlands.

Perfect

His Bobness. You either like him or you don’t. I do. Rating the albums serves little purpose as they all form part of a journey.

5th Dylan album for me on 1001 albums, after 4 mediocre ones finally a 5* one, the songs, atmosphere, voice, lyrics, all is brilliant. My 1st Dylan album was the great Desire, where in Sara he sang about being in the Chelsea Hotel, "singing Sing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands: for you. Hope Desire will also be coming in the 1001 list.

This is in the all-time top 10 album, classic lyrics and songwriting.

Syön tämän ennen kuin saan levyn valmiiksi. Tämä on kauheaa. Minua tekee kipeää kuunnella. Jos haluaisin kuunnella Muppetia, katsoisin jotain Jim Hensonilta. Tämä on huono. Lisäksi olen yleensä huuliharppufani, mutta tällä albumilla on monia hetkiä, jotka näyttävät ärsyttävän minua loputtomasti. Kaveri, haluatko laulaa vai puhua? Tee päätös! En pitänyt siitä niin paljon, eikä musiikkikaan ollut mitään erikoista. 5/5 toiseksi paras bob album temporary like achilles

Ég er þeirrar skoðunar að þetta sé besta Dylan-platan, amk. er ég þeirrar skoðunar í dag. Og mér finnst það ennfremur mikið hrós.

what an amazing dylan record. one of my favs.

Now the preacher looked so baffled When I asked him why he dressed With twenty pounds of headlines Stapled to his chest But he cursed me when I proved it to him Then I whispered Not even you can hide You see, you’re just like me I hope you’re satisfied Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again Everybody must get stoned? I couldnt agree more. 5/5

5/5 The voice isn’t great, but these songs are something else. That it’s just one album, wow! Because for most artists this would be enough to make a career.

4.8 bob dylan er nice

Blonde on Blonde isn’t my favorite of his (still top 3) but it definitely feels like the closest he ever got to fulfilling his vision as an artist. It’s filled with surreal stories, circus like characters and instrumentals at times, a bright soulful sound, and underneath the layers of sarcasm some of his most tender songs like visions of Johanna. There’s some albums like this one that aren’t punk albums but embody that rebellious spirit and go against all expectations. At this point, Dylan was well into being hated by the folk community for going electric and rather than pulling back he doubles down on it and ditches New York all together for Nashville and writes a collection of even more long winded songs in a style that owes nothing to the New York folk scene. A lot of the songs are filled with sarcasm and take slight digs at the materialism and fake activism of the New York scene but they don’t come off as harsh as songs off of Highway 61. The humor of many songs sound more like Dylan accepting that severed tie rather than having as much anger towards it. I definitely appreciated this album more this time listening to it and enjoyed going deeper into the lyrics. Even without driving into the lyrics the album has a unique sound that has great musicianship but still sounds very loose. Also I read pats review first and totally disagree about the album opener. Rainy day women is awesome. 👍: visions of Johanna, just like a woman, one of us must know

It took me a bit of time to come around on this album. It's not that I didn't like the album, but I had heard "Blood on the Tracks" and a lot of his hits before I dove into "Blonde on Blonde." Eventually, I got used to the longer songs and realized this is an all-time classic. Would I trim it by a few songs to make a more concise album? Probably, though I know that is sacrilege. Mostly, this album deserves five stars for his hair on the cover that inspired every other rock star for the next 45 years who wanted "messy, but made up" hair.

The songwriting is amazing. The arrangements are amazing. The voice is not quite siren on a retired emergency vehicle yet. All this leads to an easy 5 star Bob Dylan album. Favorite tracks: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues, Absolutely Sweet Marie

I’ve listened to this album more than I can count. His voice is terrible, the harmonica is grating, yet it draws me back again and again with its lyrics and authenticity.

Obviously

Prob the greatest double album ever. Chock full of epic BD tunes at his peak. Brilliant.

Amazing!

Rock's first double album fuelled by ego, amphetamines, cheap red win and speedballs. Dylan's final album in the first of his many trilogy of albums. What a way to bow out of his electric trilogy. This album is fucking epic, Salvation Army songs winking about drugs, torch songs, epic poems, T.S. Eliot style imagery, blues, rock and of course that thin, wild mercury sound. This is as close as we're going to get to try and understand what was going through his Bobness's head at this point in time. After this he took some time off by breaking his neck in a motorcycle accident. If you don't like it or at least appreciate it then why are you even listening to music in the first place? Best Tracks: Visions of Johanna; One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later); I Want You

wouldnt change a thing about this album. perfect to listen to on an afternoon stroll

22nd March 2023 Listened on the way to and back from finding out we’re having a boy! First Rita show in the evening which was great. Can get a bit lost in the intricacies of Dylan’s lyricism but the no denying the guys genius.

Should have been called "The Best of Bob Dylan" - flawless.

One of Dylan’s best. Never really liked rainy day women but the rest is essential.

It's almost archetypical Dylan. It's the sounds you hear when you imagina a Dylan album. As you might imagine, it's really good, it is 50% guaranteed entries to his greatest hits, and 50% dense lyrical loveliness like Visions of Johanna.

Chido

The raw early sound has been replaced by a more mature and refined delivery, supported by a full band (some excellent session musicians). The songs on this double album are among his best and Dylan is as wry as ever. At times, it quite a mellow listen. An instant classic.

Great stuff, wish hed give up on the ol harmonica mind. Kinda ruins the songs as it sounds all weasly and suc. Lyrically hits the throat like a razor.

9/10 it had been wayyyyy too long since i listened to dylan.

9/10. Always glad to get a Bob Dylan album.

Far better listening to it 2nd time round.

5/5. Hard to rate this lower despite some of the misses on the album. As an overall experience, it feels like a storybook of ideas that hits just right wherever you start. A true album listening experience.

Elite level classic. Love this project for discovering new gems, but sometimes you see a familiar sight and it’s just wonderful. This album is, if not quite perfect, certainly as close as can be. Probably his best. ALL IMHO AND SUBJECTIVE OF COURSE

Sing it, Bob. One of my favorite songs of all time is Visions of Johanna... can never get enough of this album.

Not only my personal favourite Dylan album, but one of my favourite double albums. An absolute masterpiece.

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.

cool

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.

Top record!

Yes. It’s Dylan at his best which makes it pretty much perfect.

Having gone electric the previous year, Dylan further expands his sound and lyrical prowess. The musicians are sharp, the words sharper, the experience thrilling.

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.

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

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.

gorgeous album!!! loved the instrumentation. insane closer track

Classic! Great shit.

Mesterværk.

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.

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

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!

Classic album

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.

This album is perfect

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.

Blonde on blonde

FODA FODA FODA FODA.

A true classic that I never get tired of hearing.

Beautifull storytelling and mood building. Not my favourite Dylan but it's up there.

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.

sonzeira, grande mestre

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?

A truly great album

One of my favourite albums of all time.

Feeling blue, experienced loss recently, remembering lost ones, celebrating the passage of time. The songs will ease the pain and ills of the soul🥰😔

It's Blonde on Blonde.

An all-time classic album. Interesting to read about how it was made too.

Dylan = Vinilo

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

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

Favorit❤️

Classic album. Not quite as good as highway 61 but great nonetheless.

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.

Truly one of the greatest albums

He’s the GOAT singer writer for a reason

J’adore dylan et c’est dans ses meilleures. Mon prefere jusqua aujourd’hui avec hihway et blood ont racks. 5

5 stars. This album is so fucking good. It's witty, it's poignant, it's just perfect.

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

One of the best albums of all time. Like poetry.

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.

There's a reason he won the Nobel prize.

Very nice. Dylan always takes a couple of listens for me, but this was different. More focused.

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.

Perfect album. So many great moments. Probably the best Dylan album of all time.

My second favorite Dylan album.

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

Ok

The first one I already love. Will listen today with special attention

The master at his best, whimsical, fun and musically varied.

Side C kinda drags, but “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” has me crying and throwing up at work; let’s call it even.

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.

WAHOO

one of the best!

I mean, how can you not love this album. The lyrics are outstanding and there’s enough variety in the music to justify the longer songs and not making this a chore to listen to. Fave tracks: “Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues” “Rainy Day Woman #12 and 35” “Visions of Johanna”

Definitely growing on me, it has a whimsical charm.

Pretty likeable

What to say? One of the few 'best' + 'classic' albums that totally stands up to it's rep.

A classic, but Dylan's not my thing

10/10, that was a classic

EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED

The perfect Bob Dylan album

Really enjoyed it, and I can understand why this is considered one of the greatest albums. Visions of Johanna, Leopard-skin Pill-box Hat, and Stuck Inside of Mobile were among my favorites from the album.

Listen just in time. Missed this kind of music

Wow, I’ve always like Dylan in theory more than in practice. This is a great album. How did I miss it!

The best

Dylan at his best.

I mean, what can I say that hasn't been said already? Everything is pretty excellent; the writing is poignant, the melodies are tragic, the instrumentation is beautiful.

All time classic. One of the best ever.

One of his best albums. Still prefer Highway 61 Revisited and The Times They Are a-Changin', but this is great music.

Never really given Dylan a proper listen but absolutely loved this.

Well what can I say, it's bob! Bluesy white poetry

Another great album from Dilly

Love the jingle jangle!

Dosc dlugo bylo czekac, ale wreszcie pojawio sie granie Dylanowe i to od jakiego albumu, konczacego trylgogie wczesnej tworczosci, 2 lata 3 albumy, zmiana stylu z grajka folkowego countrowego na bardziej rokowe brzmienie, ale sam album to potezny kamien milowy nie tylko w karierze dylanowej, ale i ewolucji muzyki popularnej, jest to pierwszy podwojny albumik, wiec 4 strony wynylaka i godzina 12 wedrowania miedzy stylami i tematyka liryczki, w tej wedrowce dylanowi towarzyszy glownie the bang, znani takze jako the hawks, czyli kanadyska banda okolo rokowa, ktora znana z swych skillsow dopiero rozpoczynala wspolprace z bobem, do tego dochodzi jeszcze kilku muzykow, w tym joe south na gitarce, a jak to z nagrywaniem dlanowym, to robione w 3 studiach pol roku, a wiekszosc kawalkow dwa trzy tejki miala robiona jedynie, wiec calkowicie inna filozofia niz komercyjne szlifowanie danego tejka, zeby wyciagnac z niego co sie da ciaglym powtarzaniem go, doskonale slychac to na tej plycie, gdzie traki brzmia po prostu jak jamowanie, a nie material nagrywany na vynylaka, najbardziej to slychac na obviously 5 believers i deszczowo dniowej kobiecie, czy chocby na konczacym plyte i zajmujacy cala czwarta strone sad eyed lady, nie mozna tez zapominac o tym jak wygladaly sesje dylanowe, na ktorych niektore traki byly pisane w calosci, a potem jamowane i na plyte, lirycznie album oscyluje wokol najbardziej popularnego motywu w muzyce, wiec milosci, prawdopodobnie jego wieksza czesc jest poswiecona jednej z warholowej muz, ale nie zglebialem tematu, bo wystarczajaco przyjemne jest sluchanie kunsztu piora bez poznawania jego backstory, o ile to nie byl album ktory sklonil mnie do harmonijkowania, to jednak jest to jeden z najlepszych dylanowych harmonijkowych materialow, jest przepelniony trakami, ktore wplataja wstawki typowe dla dylana, albo tez na zakonczenie pojawia sie charakterystyczne brzmienie bluesowej harpy, traki jakich jeszcze nie mialem na plejce, a bym dodal po tym odsluchu to beda leopard skin pill box hat, temporary like achilles i stukowany w mobilku, ktore az dziwne ze wczesniej nie bylo dodane, nawet jesli nie jest to moj ulubiony dylanowy material, to i tak ocena topkowa, bo bobo = topo

Classic album. In my top 10 for sure.

This app is so weird - it throws up repetitive Afrobeat by some serial sex pest or completely anonymous Mitteleuropean electro-swing one moment and then - bam! - hits you with one of the most brilliant songwriters at the peak of his powers. Still, no complaints - any excuse to listen to this, albeit (whisper it) I actually prefer Dylan's post-millennium death rattle voice.

Classic

"4th Time Around" When the Beatles released their sixth studio album, Rubber Soul, in December 1965, John Lennon's song "Norwegian Wood" attracted attention for the way Lennon disguised his account of an illicit affair in cryptic, Dylanesque language.[88] Dylan sketched out a response to the song, also in 3/4 time, copying the tune and circular structure, but taking Lennon's tale in a darker direction.[88] Wilentz describes the result as sounding "like Bob Dylan impersonating John Lennon impersonating Bob Dylan".[27] Twelve years after its release, Dylan said: "The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up."[133] For critics, the double album was seen as the last installment in Dylan's trilogy of mid-1960s rock albums. As Janet Maslin wrote, "The three albums of this period—Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited both released in 1965, and Blonde on Blonde from 1966—used their electric instrumentation and rock arrangements to achieve a crashing exuberance Dylan hadn't approached before."[134] Mike Marqusee has described Dylan's output between late 1964 and the summer of 1966, when he recorded these three albums, as "a body of work that remains unique in popular music."[135] For Patrick Humphries, "Dylan's body of work during the 14-months period ... stands unequalled in rock's 30-year history. In substance, style, ambition and achievement, no one has even come close to matching Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde."[136] Dylan scholar Michael Gray wrote: "To have followed up one masterpiece with another was Dylan's history making achievement here ... Where Highway 61 Revisited has Dylan exposing and confronting like a laser beam in surgery, descending from outside the sickness, Blonde on Blonde offers a persona awash inside the chaos ... We're tossed from song to song ... The feel and the music are on a grand scale, and the language and delivery are a unique mixture of the visionary and the colloquial.

A classic of course. Actually not my favorite of his 1965/66 trilogy of amazing albums, but still a great one. 4.5 stars.

Lovely stuff

Me pensé mucho darle las 5 estrellas, pero es que incluso con lo quemadas que pueden estar las más conocidas de este disco, la verdad es que todas son unas joyas que no tienen falla: melodías que te llegan, armonías que están probadas, instrumentación limpia pero no por eso sencilla y letras que, aunque de pronto divagan muchísimo, siempre tienen alguna frase o verso que se te queda.

Judas!

I'm conscious of a certain pressure to "get" the Dyl man sometimes and at the start of this I just wasn't there. But after it settled in a really enjoyed it. Also been finding a new appreciation for the blues lately so this album was very relevant. Loved his response to Norwegian Wood as Fourth Time Round. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands was my easy highlight.

Perfect

Ok

great album, pretty high level all the way through

Meget lækker rå lyd på især trommer men også alle andre instrumenter. Mange blues sange

Honestly really liked this Bob Dylan album, especially compared to the other one. The vocals and lyrics were catchy and drew me in, especially as someone who didn’t consider themselves a fan of his music before.

Geralmente nao gosto de Bob Dylan. Mas ontem ao ouvir este álbum acho que fez click. Estarei a ficar velho?

Always loved his work with The Band, and this is reminiscent of that (unsurprising as Robbie and Rick played on it and Levon was involved at the start). I love this sound, but never really hear/listen to the lyrics (my relationship with Bob is different to most haha). There is something in this sound that makes you feel like you are in the room.

A couple classics

*76 Jeg kunne faktisk meget godt lide det.

Once I got into it, I actually really enjoyed it.

iconic songs delivered in a unique style

Actually banging. Packed with great tunes, was great to listen to. I Want You was my fav song and first listen of the album. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) and Visions of Johanna were my other highlights

RATING: 8.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: 4th Time Around LOWLIGHT: Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine

Ich muss das unbedingt nomal lose. Nöd so uf passt

I prefer Highway 61 Revisited. Beginning to end it's just more consistent, basically perfect. Blonde on Blonde goes a little further outside the rails and I think it's slightly lesser for it, even if some of those detours are genuinely great. Blood on the Tracks is my other 5. If you haven't spent time with that one, Tangled Up in Blue is the entry point but the whole record is extraordinary. This one though is still Dylan at the height of his powers, that mid-60s electric blues thing firing on almost all cylinders. Not where I'd start but absolutely where you end up.

my dad's favorite dylan album, i didn't realize how well i knew it till now.

Classic

8/10 It’s probably fair to start off by saying that, while I have always appreciated Bob Dylan as a songwriter, I have often found it a slight struggle to get into his work due to his vocal style and propensity to get a bit too untidy with his harmonica playing. But sometimes we need to sink ourselves into something to fully get a grip on it, so I was quite looking forward to this record. The first thing to note is how well balanced this album feels in terms of looking back and striding forward. It’s a melting pot of ideas and styles, bringing in blues, folk, country, rock and roll, and even a touch of rhythm and blues in places, but while there are moments that he allows the music to settle into those comfortable old shoes, the primary direction of travel here is forward. I’m not sure how often this is mentioned of this album, but it sounds very much ahead of its time, with the production sounding clean and coherent while the approach to style and songwriting echoing clearly into the 70s, 80s and beyond. It kind of goes without saying that Dylan is a master songwriter, and his compositions sound as fresh and engaging today as they did 60 years ago. There are some truly beautiful pieces of playing across the track list, with particular highlights from some of the lead guitar, organ and piano work, but every single performer comes together to create an album that shifts through sparse and stripped back moments through to dense, layered arrangements, all the while remaining coherent and well balanced. As previously mentioned, I do sometimes have issues with Dylan’s voice and there were times here, particularly on the cleaner and more melodically sharp tracks, where it did pull me a little out of the moment, however as the record progressed, I did find that, more often than not it did actually blend pretty well with the music, with the more bluesy and rocky numbers probably giving it its best stylistic accompaniment. I also largely got on board with the harmonica, which managed to sound more purposeful than I had been expecting. It was perhaps a touch overused, but I guess that’s just Dylan’s thing. As the album progressed, I did find myself settling deeper and deeper into the sonic world of Dylan’s writing and, certainly when listening in a more focused way, I got a great deal of enjoyment out of my time with it. For me, there are a few moments where things drag on too much, or Dylan’s vocal style jars just a a tiny bit, but those are minor quibbles and, while trimming this down by 1520 minutes might have tightened it up a little, the historical significance of this work and the quality of the songwriting makes it a very worthwhile repeat listen. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - This track kicks off in quite an erratic way, but settles into the vibe pretty well. It’s very tongue in cheek, and despite being fairly repetitive, there’s enough complexity snuck into the well constructed soundscaping that it actually becomes more than the sum of its parts. It’s got a decent groove, some good melodies and the playing is decent too. The harmonica didn’t actually annoy me either. A pretty good start. Pledging My Time - I’ve never really connected much with Dylan’s voice, but I think it works really well with this kind of slow blues jam. There’s a load of swagger to the playing and there’s actually a bit more nuance to the harmonica than I was expecting. It’s hardly Stevie Wonder, but it pulls through enough emotion to work well. It’s another with good vibe and solid, if unspectacular playing from the band. Visions Of Johanna - The first Dylan epic of the album. The songwriting is excellent, and there’s some really, really lovely playing, particularly from the electric guitar, but the band do a great job all round. The ebb and flow of the dynamic is lovely and, despite being pretty long, he does manage to drag you along with him without any problem. It has the slightly clichéd Dylan issue of the songwriting being of a phenomenal standard while his voice can be a little difficult to engage with and doesn’t provide the melodic clarity that I would prefer. But it’s really lovely work nonetheless. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) - The transition into the chorus on this track is excellent, with a solid change in vibe and urgency. The piano part is a highlight and, while this doesn’t feel as focused as the last track, I think there’s still a lot to like about this. The lead vocal isn’t fantastic, with a touch too much of Dylan’s large undulations of pitch, but it’s another well written and executed track. I also think the production up to this point has been full and excellent for an album from 1966. I Want You - You can hear so much influence on bands that would follow in this track, particularly in the 2000s indie scene. It sounds a long way ahead of its time. It’s really well written and executed, and the mix and production are superb. Structurally, there’s nothing complex about it, but the construction of rhythm, melody and harmony are first class. A lovely song. Memphis Blues Again - The swing to the groove here is great. As with Visions Of Johanna, there’s some really deft and well delivered moments of lead electric guitar, bouncing really nicely against the organ. The push and pull of the rhythmic pace is lovely through different sections. There’s so much going on across the instrumentation, but it doesn’t feel over-filled, it just feels perfectly put together. It’s possibly a touch long, but I’m enjoying myself and little bits of instrumental work keep popping out and grabbing me, so I think I’m probably just being churlish. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - It’s another bluesy effort that again works well with Dylan’s vocal. It’s fairly routine blues fare that leans towards a rock and roll vibe, but it’s very well executed and some of the guitar work is really good. It’s not spectacular, but it’s really well presented and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Just Like A Woman - A very, very well written ballad that does get let down by the Dylan vocal. Sometimes his voice works fine, but on a precise track like this that’s so clean and defined, his slightly aggressive cadence and loose, pulsing pitch butt up against the rest of the track just a little too much. It’s a beautiful composition though, with harmonic richness, a soulful rhythm and a lovely, lilting feel. Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine - There’s great pace and a solid pulse to this one and it’s almost got a bit of a Beatles feel to it. There are some lovely musical choices that take things in a slightly unexpected direction, but still feel really natural. It’s not one of the more complex song structures, but the layering of parts and the well balanced mix more than make up for that and there’s a lot there to enjoy. Temporary Like Achilles - A slower, swinging number now. There’s some beautiful piano and guitar work and the laid back swagger leans a bit more into a style that works with Dylan’s drawl. It’s not the most exciting of tracks, but the instrumental mix and counterpoint across the different parts is still pretty lush. Absolutely Sweet Marie - This is the most 60s sounding track on the album so far, which just makes me think about how ahead of its time this album sounds, with much of it foreshadowing work that would come along in the 70s and later. There are some more really lovely instrumental performances here again and the vibe and rhythmic flow are absorbing and pull the track forward with an infectious momentum. More nice stuff. 4th Time Around - This reminds me a lot of Norwegian Wood. Apparently there may have been some link, with Dylan responding to the Beatles showcasing nods to his work on Rubber Soul. It’s a lovely song and the counterpoint between the guitar lines is really pretty. This one actually works with his voice, probably because everything else is so harmonically rich that he kind of floats through the middle of it all in a dreamy way. A lovely little song. Obviously 5 Believers - This is great. It’s another with a bluesy rock and roll edge and drifts back into that more classic 60s sound. But that groove is so infectious, the layering of parts is delicious and there are loads of great melodic hooks in there that just pop up, do their thing and we roll on. The tempo and drive to this is absolutely bang on and Charlie McCoy’s harmonica part is sparingly used but utterly brilliant. What a great track. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - This one takes up the final side of the second record! It’s a slightly meandering stroll of a track, but it drifts so easily through its movements that it’s easy to just sink into the song and let it absorb you. The swells of dynamic are fairly subtle, but really effective as he builds up the instrumentation and drops it back out again. While I’m enjoying this, I think it probably does drag on a touch too much and could do with a bit more musical range for a track of this length. It’s still very pretty and mellow though.

Review - classic electric Dylan album. He's having some good fun and there's a bit more structure to it than his earliest electric albums which have great moments but a lot of under-rehearsed bumf. Some all time classics here, some lesser known bangers, and a few misses to round it out. Score - 8/10 Need to listen? YES

I loved this. Rainy Day Women #12 and #35 is one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs. Just Like a Woman is a beautiful song. Overall a wonderful listen and instrumentally well done.

Einu sinnk þótti mér Bob Dylan afskaplega leiðinlegur tónlistarmaður. Alltaf sama uppleggið. Syngur og síðasta orðið í hverri ljóðlínu er dregin út. Mér fannst hann syngja eins og Megas sem er líka með skrítinn söngstíl. Svo með tímanum lærði ég að fíla þetta og lögin hans. Bestu lögin eru ekki á þessari plötu en ég fíla hana samt

Bob Dylan is weird but good? Strange voice and I dont really get what he is going on about a lot of the time.

Bob Dylan certainly has a unique voice. And I can't explain why I enjoyed this so much, but he apparently gets a pass that I probably wouldn't give a lot of other singers with more unique voices.

I won't pretend I'm the best at listening to the lyrics of songs, but I don't live under a rock. I know Bob Dylan is a lyrical genius, even if it's lost on me. I still loved the album. The blues at the end was so good. Maybe not as much as I should.

Listened Before? N Ahh yeah, more Dylan. He's been pretty consistent over his massive career. I liked this one - especially the first song. Anyway, this list is getting long and I'm over it. Good album. See you tomorrow. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist; Rainy Day Women

# Playlist Track - I want You # Notes - Such a good album to get into Bob Dylan (if that's your thing!) - A Brazilian bank, Skank, which I listened A LOT as a teen recorded a cover of " I want you" that I really liked (called "Tanto"). I have vivid memories of listening to Dylan for the first time and completely blowing up my mind. - Rainy Day Woman and Just Like a Woman are also fantastic tracks

Lovely

I don't even especially like Dylan that much but dude's a legend for a damn reason.

This is a great album

excellent album, incredible songwriting. my only real issue is that there was a noticeable drop in quality on side C. luckily sad eye lady ends the album on such a high note

As I dive into Bob's lyrics I am not sure if he's a genius or so full of it. As part of a radio competition years ago I was trying to find just 2 lines of a song lyric that was the most clever or meaningful or something. I spent hours going through Dylan's lyrics to find just two lines of brilliance. I couldn't do it. Verses of brilliance sure no problem. Dylan uses lots of lyrics to tell a story and paint a scene but concise he isn't. And then there's his voice. Some of his songs have been bigger hits for other artists who can actually sing. Bob's voice is difficult and there are times when I just can't go there. Overall I can't quite give it a 5 despite the highs' being very high. I would like to see the alternative universe where he perhaps sang as well as Paul Simon can, and see how much he was appreciated then. If he sang as well as Art Garfunkel or Freddie Mercury then that might be too much talent in one body and he would probably spontaneously combust.

There is a five star album in here. Actually there may be two. However, this is just altogether too much Bob Dylan for me in one go.

Te amo bobby. Seguí sacando temazos

Bob is Bob

Great songwriting, a little long

A classic by many standards. It’s just weird to me how many critics would rank this as his best album, but the first two songs on the album are terrible.

Fantastic

Liking hom more as I get older.

GOOD! Voice. Nonsense. Way he ends words. Perfect listen for drive to Vass for reunion, because a drive to Vass is where I first listened to Bob.

Good one Bob

A Dylan classic.

A great album from Dylan at the height of his powers. A few sleepers and a few songs that have too much harmonica even by Dylan’s standards. Nonetheless, an enjoyable album that merits its runtime.

Things that this project have taught me that GenX Brits love: new wave/post punk/synth pop, mid-tempo generic pop-rock, Coldplay, prog rock, pompously smashing on American exceptionalism, and mediocrity. Things this project have taught me that GenX Brits hate: Bob Dylan, harmonicas, grunge, rap/hip hop. This arguably Bob Dylan's worst album, peaked at #3 on the UK charts, was certified platinum in the UK, and contains one of Dylan's most famous songs. And these buggars are still bashing it. Good grief, Dylan's a Nobel laureate for fuck's sake.

The voice and harmonica can be annoying at moments but honestly, many of the songs sucked me in and I ended up liking it for the most part.

I'm a mild Bob Dylan fan and this was my first full album of his. Overall the music was really good, but I feel like I could like this more on repeat listens by paying more attention to the lyrics. Favorite Track - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat Least Favorite Track - Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Preferred it to the other Dylan albums that have cropped up. 3.5/5. Raising to 4.

4.4/5

Strong 7 to a light 8. I enjoyed this quite a bit despite the rough start.

I love the songwriting, but... his voice, man. How is it so annoying

Ännu ett till riktigt bra Dylan-album!

this review marks my first foray into the Bob Dylan conversation. (I'd guess there's no less than billions of words which have been written about his work before.) I struggle to think of another artist in the world of popular music who elicits such divisive reactions as Dylan. for some, he's one of the great modern folk singers, and there's no doubt that he provided a major bridge from the world of folk to that of rock, a crossroads which Blonde on Blonde finds itself right in the middle of as the end of a sort of rock trilogy in his discography. famously, the move to performing his songs with a band, especially an electric band, was a cause for consternation among the folk set. but, by the time this album came out, enough people began to recognize that this wasn't Dylan selling out; this was truly how he wanted to make his music! for me, these are the exact right musical backdrops for Dylan's lyricism. a whole range of human emotions is depicted through his words, and his band (whether it's *the* Band or the Nashville session players) matches him so perfectly. the drunken romp of "Rainy Day Women", the spellbinding mystery of "Visions of Johanna", the detached despondence of "One of Us Must Know", the bitter sarcasm of "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat". the guitars (both acoustic and electric) shimmer gloriously, the piano even moreso! the way they build into the choruses of these songs is expertly done, every single time. yeah, Dylan's singing isn't great, nor is his dim view of women, but if you can stomach both, the high points are more than worth the trip. decent 8/10.

intstruments (hamonica) are awesome

Bob Dylan ist einfach auf einer anderen Welle. Man muss wirklich ein wesentlichen Teil seines Gehirns abschalten, um diese Musik durch und durch gut zu finden, aber wenn man das erstmal schafft, dann sorgt Dylans Stimme, sein Songwriting und die Instrumente, die er gezielt einsetzt, dafür, dass man emotional einfach richtig von seinen Songs mitgenommen ist. Es ist, als würden sie mehrere Schichten vom menschlichen Grundwesen zurückziehen und das Nervensystem stimulieren. Beispielsweise in songs wie 'Stuck Inside of Mobile's, wenn Dylans Stimme lauter wird und er fast anfängt zu schreien. Das ist einfach crazy gut. Trotzdem kann ich dem album keine 5 Sterne geben, weil eben Dinge wie die teilweise unausstehliche Mundharmonika Kopfschmerzen verursachen können.

4 1/2

actually like this more than the other album i listened to by him that’s more famous. it sounds more like bruce springsteen’s nebraska. more singing than talking and not so drawn out.

Who would have guessed Rainy Day Women is one of the worst tracks on this album.

That was a seriously long album. Which was unexpected! Especially for 1966! Some wonderful songs. Song beautiful story telling and some songs a little too long lol Type of album you would want as a record to through on and get lost in it for an hour and 15 mins

Loose and fun. Not his best for me, but still very good.

My biggest takeaway so far from doing this is how much I've ended up liking Bob Dylan. My fourth one and another solid record. Favorites: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Absolutely Sweet Marie Would I listen to it again: Yes

One of the better Dylan albums. Bluesy.

Enjoyed. Can’t take him everyday but his poetry is phenomenal.

Never made it through a whole Dylan album before. Wanna put it through a couple more listens to focus on the lyrics, but great instrumentation and pretty seamless album given the length.

Full of Dylan magic but even Bob shouldn’t break the 1 hour rule

Not my favourite of Bob's outings. And it would make a stellar single album. But it's still endlessly engaging and something any other artist would aspire to. A picky 4*

It’s good. Good vibe nice melody clean voice. Nothing to complain about.

probably my favorite Dylan album. this one didn't feel as "ramble-y" as other ones, even though i know that is kinda his thing.

"Everybody must get stoned" Also wow that's quite the accent

I love da funny voice

I love the harmonica!!!!!!!!

yeah bob dylan rocks what else do i say

I can't get past his voice most of the time, but he was certainly a poet. Best when its closest to the blues influence and when the music hits a good rhythm. Never really listened to more than one song of his at a time because his voice grates, but I can see why he's so beloved.

As always I love my Bobby Dylan he’s just great

Just a cool vibe that just oozes with character. I know nothing about Dylan but this feels like if someone else tried to sing these songs it jiat wouldn't be as good

I have this album. My favorite song on it is Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.

This is the most Bob Dylan of all Bob Dylan albums. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up to the listener. For me, it's mostly good with some of his very best songs and his typical mastery of cryptic but awe-inspiring lyricism. But this album feels endless and the preponderance of harmonica and samey blues-type songs gets old. "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a good song but did it need to be 11 plus minutes? Yes, he's got a great band on this. I just wish it was tighter, leaner, and just one album instead of a double.

I mean, it's Bob Dylan, of course a double-album collection of his songs was gonna be awesome. Once again his songwriting and storytelling chops are on full display, this time for two LPs worth of material, including the wonderful 11-minute closer "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands".

Bob, brother, your picture's out of focus!! As someone who enjoys Bob Dylan's music almost purely on vibes -- I can't seem to keep up with the stories without the lyrics up but can definitely feel the emotion behind them -- this has been my favorite album of his by far. Just a blast to listen to, his delivery is unique and the musicianship consistently impressive. As usual, I feel like I'm missing half the appeal by not delving deeper into the lyrics. I definitely plan to at some point in the future. Even then, this was thoroughly enjoyable and fully deserving of a 4! Standouts: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 • One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) • I Want You • Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues • Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) • Fourth Time Around

Undeniably brilliant lyrically and with song variety that benefits from the sensitivity of the Nashville vibe. For me it’s a little overhyped though - versus say the more ground breaking Highway 61 - and it doesn’t quite work its way into the pantheon. Impressive but a little overlong, and the often absurdist lyrics are starting to grate a little bit by this point.

oh i’ve heard this before too. went through a whole bob dylan deep dive a couple years ago. that was a LOT. i liked this one though. should not have started this with a headache. oh my god. taking another hour until my head goes back. i’m back. this is a genuinely insane way to open an album. i do like it, it’s just nuts. pledging my time is fine. visions of johanna is pretty. a little long, but i’m enjoying it. i want you is my favorite song so far. think it was when i listened to it the first time. never mind it’s definitely stuck inside of mobile. this song is awesome. i like just like a woman too. it’s very pretty. “absolutely sweet marie” and “obviously five believers” are such bob dylan titles. both are great songs too. weird. doesn’t feel over at the end. i liked this a lot. yayy. i don’t currently think it’s perfect, but i might at some point in my life.

Another Dylan album, just five days after getting my last (and noting in that review that it was already #3 from him in 348 suggestions). And this one is a double album lasting 72 and a half minutes?! I can easily admit I was completely prepared to be as unimpressed/annoyed by this one as I was by the others. But, finishing it now, I actually liked it a lot. I think the biggest positive for me on this album was the backing band/the music they made for the songs. Dylan is credited as the writer for all the tracks, but they really shined in bringing them to life. I think it was the energy they had and their bluesy sound that really drew me in. I was less distracted by Dylan's vocal performance and instead engaged by each track as a whole. It made the album a good listen that I never got annoyed by, which sets it apart from the other Dylan albums I've gotten (Blood on the Tracks, Time Out of Mind and Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). Of course, they could only do so much given the runtime. I don't think there's any way that I could listen to Dylan for 72+ minutes and not have him grate on me a little bit. There were definitely some weaker points on here. It also didn't help that the last track was an 11 minute epic that didn't have as lively of a feel as many of the others on the album. Even so, this one caught me by surprise. I enjoyed it a lot. Not sure what it says when the actual artist is my least favorite aspect of the album, but it still worked pretty well. I wouldn't call it great, but it was definitely very good. Overall: 4/5

3.5

Sadly, I am back to my old feeling about Bob not really affecting me emotionally. Perhaps because this is such a blues fuelled album and that is not my favourite genre, perhaps he is cockier here. This confidence works well with Rainy Day Women with a play on words rail against the Man but the rest, hmm. At the end though it started to go back to Bob’s singer songwriting roots with Fourth Time Around and the beautiful Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, those were worth the listen.

Day 20 Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan I’m a big Dylan fan, and I think with his records you really need a few listens to fully appreciate them. Especially the 70s stuff. I honestly think if I hadn’t heard this a few times before, I’d probably rate it lower. His harmonica can be a bit much at times, and his voice is about as nasal as it gets, but then again… you’re also getting some of the best songwriting of the 60s. That kind of balances everything out. It’s not my favourite Dylan album, but it’s still a damn good one. Wine pairing? A classic, slightly dusty red like a Bordeaux or an aged Rioja. Something traditional and a bit rough around the edges, but full of character. Food pairing? Slow-cooked comfort food. Beef stew, roast, something warm and old-school that takes time, just like the album. Favourite song? “I Want You”. Vinyl? Yeah, I’d want this one. Overall 4 out of 5.

8.5/10

Quite good. I hadn’t heard much by Dylan before.

I'm not a huge Dylan fan, but this is some of his best work. A lot of classic songs and this was his around his peak as a songwriter. A few tracks meander a little too much, but this was an enjoyable album to listen to. 4/5 Will listen again

An inconsistent effort that features the best and the boringest of Bob Dylan. But The line "The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face" is enough to lock this in at a four for me.

The run from Visions of Johanna through Stuck Inside of Mobile is unbelievably good. The band sounds great. I've listened to this one a lot.

This is about 2/3 great songs and about 1/3 kinda middling ones, plus Fourth Time Around, which just annoys me because it (I think?) is a snarky response to Norwegian Wood while being not nearly as good a song as NW is. Thus the 4. My favorites are Most Likely, One of Us Must Know, Stuck Inside of Mobile, and I Want You.

4/5 - It must have been something else to be in the orbit of Dylan and his music at this time. I'd be scared I'd end up a target in one of his songs. Look at him stare at you out of focus, unamused. I've probably listened to this album too many times at this point, so the shine has worn slightly. This time, I really listened closely to the backing band, and I just love the arrangements -- the stomping blue, the ragtime-y sound.

Bobby Dazzler

I have never been a big Dylan fan, so I was surprised by how much I liked this album. His vocal style still isn’t my thing, but I still really enjoyed these songs. I am giving it four surprising stars.

OK so it's a classic bob dylan album so it's good, but I did not personally love it. Rainy Day Women was kind of annoying, Just Like a Woman is sort of patronizing, imo, so is One of Us Must Know. I added Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again to the top 10 list tho.

discazo

always good, but not my favorite dylan album

A really nice album, but one I feel I'd need to be in a specific mood to listen to though. Will probably go back and listen again at some point.

No, this isn’t the best album of all time. It’s a good album, but it’s more that the songs are well written and performed than the quality of Dylan’s voice. Best songs: Visions of Johanna, Just Like a Woman and I Want You.

Listened to this twice. After the first listen I realized I didn’t give it enough attention. I put it on a speaker for the second listen and I got a better take on the album. I don’t always fully understand why Dylan is regarded so highly but at some level I can understand it.

It’s Bob Dylan; it’s great. A little long for my taste but enjoyable.

a classic folk album for a reason 4/5 favorites: one of us must know (sooner or later), most likely go your way (and i go mine), just like a woman, visions of johanna

This record is a difficult one for me, it goes on for way too long and feels pretty meandering. Still, after multiple re-listens this one started to make more sense. It listens like a victory lap, a man at the height of his creativity and expression. There's lots of fantastic songs here, " I want you ", "Visions of Johanna", "Stuck in Mobile" to name a few. It still remains as not one of my favorites from Mr. Dylan, but I can put it on casually or hear it in bursts and appreciate it for what it is.

Not a Bob Dylan fan, and this album is exactly what I think of when I think of Bob Dylan. So I don't like it, but I respect it's authenticity and understand why some folks are all about it.

A classic that is a bit too overhyped. Of course it has the legendary tunes, and some great lesser hits, but it runs too long and songs melt together stylistically on this long double album. While he writes a great song, Dulan needs to ‘kill his darlings’ on this one. He is at his best when the poetry is sparse, but here it is indulgent, with verse after verse of turgid metaphor. This is an important album and a good one, but it’s not without its faults.

Probably the best Dylan album this list has served me so far, his voice and songwriting work much better for me with a full band arrangements. 8/10.

The instrumentation feels very safe overall but the writing is really where Dylan has shined for me before and now. Favourite track: Visions of Johanna

8/10 Bob Dylan’s songwriting shines through here again, but I also prefer the more prominent presence of the instruments here, as I don’t think his voice alone (with minimal instrumentation) is enough to carry an entire album.

his voice can certainly get annoying, but a lot of these are damn catchy. who knew the harmonica could sound so good

He kinda built different Will I listen to again: 90%

Everybody must get stoned!

Bob Dylan should’ve been institutionalized

Overall a very very good album but not quite on the level of Blood on the Tracks. It does include multiple classics like Rainy Day Women, Stuck Inside of Mobile, Just Like a Woman and a coupler of others, this might have been even better as a single album. 4.5 if possible

Not my favorite from this period. I know it’s an iconic album but I don’t think it has as many strong songs as others of his from this time. In sure hearing it in 1966 was a much bigger deal (particularly the instrumentation choices) and it’s still bob Dylan in the 60s so it’s still very good. “Obviously Five Believers” sounds like it could be the Allman Bros.

Less harmonica! God's light shines upon us this day!

I almost skipped this album after having "been told" to listen to Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (which is a horrendous album). Blonde on Blonde redeemed my view of Dylan - this has much better songwriting and musicality, and while he still doesn't make the best lyrics they aren't the rambling jibberish heard on Highway 61.

I always gave Dylan a bad name because of how he sounded. Dude is quite the poet.

probably my favorite dylan if i had to choose. The run of songs on the first half is just so damn good.

Definitely a Bob Dylan album. Has all the characteristics of a Bob Dylan album.

Like with Bowie, I've preferred Dylan's singles over his albums--Live at Budokan is probably my top pick of his, for example. That said, I think this is his best studio album. At least it's my personal favourite of his.

Another record from Dylan which has some undeniably great songs on it but I struggle to really latch onto at times. Compared with other artists perhaps still exceptional but lacking, something somehow?

One of the greatest double albums of all time. I prefer Highway 61 and The Freewheelin' over this one but it is undoubtedly a masterpiece. 9/10 [KEEP]

Dylan is an incredible songwriter and that’s most true on this album. Some of his best songs and best writing is on display. Sure, not a big fan of his voice and often prefer when other artists sing his songs, but his voice isn’t bad at all on here. You can feel the personality in it and message in his words. It’s a classic for a reason! Top Songs: Visions of Johanna, I Want You, Just Like a Woman

better than the last one

Was torn between 4 and 5 stars… but there are BD albums that are true 5 stars… so I need to hold out for those

One of Bob’s classics that I never got around to until now, and boy I was not disappointed. From a musicality perspective, this might be his strongest 60s album. His voice actually sounds warm and strong and the band around him is playing gorgeous, interesting, and even at times ethereal arrangements. This was the band that people were upset about Dylan “going electric” with? How silly, they sound phenomenal. At the same time, Dylan exaggerates some of his more grating tropes here, such as the silly elongated vowels (“when the jelly-faced women sneeeeze hear the one with the mustache say jeeeeeze I can’t find my kneeees”). In those moment, it feels as if Dylan is starting to become a bit of a caricature of himself. Nonetheless, this is a classic that deserves every petal of its flowers. I will be returning to this one for a long time. Favorite songs: Most of them, truly.

I am still not his biggest fan but I preferred it to Highway 61.

I remembered this one being better, I think being a 2x LP doesn’t help it. Arrangements are samey (organ, got it) and several tracks could lose a verse.

Don't think twice, it's alright

Good

Very good. I like I did start feeling it's runtime drag on towards the end, but nevertheless a great album

The music makes up for Bob's whininess

The more I listen to him the more I appreciate just how great he was and this is another example, well done Bob!

very soft and good. sounds like something i'd listen to on a road trip

Seems like my favorite Dylan but might require a relisten

tenho uma conexão astral com o bob dylan

Familiar Dylan but guatariy

200+ albums in before I get my first Dylan album. Bob Dylan to me was this singer with the funny voice that sang rambling wordy songs. I still think that's pretty accurate. I think this is the first time I have listened to a full Dylan album, and it's a double. Yay. So first thought - yes, Bob Dylan has a whiny, nasally voice. I don't particularly like it. Second thought - the music and lyrics are very good. Third thought - too much harmonica. I mostly liked this album. I'm just not exactly sure why. Dylan's voice and the excessive harmonica ought to make me hate this (much like I have hated every Tom Waits album because of his voice). I think the blues rock (which I generally like) and the great songwriting overcome the bad singing (much like Leonard Cohen for me). It started dragging toward the end. I'm not sure if that is because the last 5 or so tracks are weaker, or if there is just so much I can take of Dylan's voice. 3.5, and I'll round up because it's more enjoyable than not.

This is a classic. Bolstered by The Band, Dylan was on a real creative tear at this point in his career.

Cool album

Rapaz, ele bebeu demais nessa primeira música, não foi? I Want You é bem famosinha. Clássica voz dele, estilo puro dele. Curto bastante, apesar dessas músicas não me tocarem. Nenhuma música foda Rank S, se não seria 5*, então vai com 4 por se manter no estilo que curto.

I can see why people love this album so much, even if it didn’t hit me at first listen. I could see this being an acquired taste.

This is the first Bob Dylan album where I genuinely enjoy the hype for him. Sure, there's still his dislikeable voice, but his harmonica, guitar, and the entire song in general was just so much better. None of the songs were great, but many were good, and all of them were at least "okay". I'm not gonna become a Bob Dylan superfan after this, but I'm certainly glad I got to listen to this side of him.

I love bob

I liked it a lot and have always meant to listen to this album. It didn't grab me as much as other albums. 3.5

Time to whip out the Dylan impression.

Wow! What a contrast from the Kanye 💩 on the last outing! Night and day. A true classic. Barring the wacky Rainy Day Women, which has some charm, the rest of the album is total class. Musically and lyrically hard to beat. 4.5

Funnily enough, when this popped I realized that I'd never actually listened to an entire album of Bob Dylan! And I like his stuff, so this was a real pleasure. So enjoyable that I listened to it a couple of times back-to-back :) Like my review for BB King, I'm not sure I can add anything substantial that hasn't already been said... For me, the voice, vibe and talent hits the mark. This will be one to add to my vinyl collection! Standout: Visions of Johanna 01-30-2026

Not a new album for me, but it had been awhile and I love Bob Dylan. Favorite songs: Visions of Johanna, I Want You