Blonde On Blonde

Still cannot get into his voice. Phil Ochs was better

Blonde on Blonde One of the albums I had on officially released MiniDisc, that I got alongside my minidisc player, and it still sometimes reminds me strongly of Christmas 1999, particularly the stellar Visions of Johanna. The bass on that song is absolutely superb, pushing and prodding the acoustic guitars and organ while Robbie Robertson’s fills sit in the gaps in the vocals brilliantly. It’s surely one of his greatest songs, and then it's followed by the superb One of us Must Know, a great song with an incredibly disdainful and uncaring lyric. I love the tune and tunefulness of I Want You, surely one of the patient zero’s for Dylan parodies with its organ grinders and undertakers and piercing harmonica. Stuck Inside of Mobile was probably my favourite song on here for a long while, and I still love it, the organ and guitar are great foils for each other and it’s another pariodable Dylan lyric with Grandads, gun-toting senators and Shakespeare. Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat and Rainy Day Women always felt cut from similar cloth to me, even though the former is more mean spirited than the silliness of the latter. Most Likely You Go Your Way and Absolutely Sweet Marie feel like cousins to Memphis, with a nice bluesy exuberance and a great hooks. The piano really is excellent on Temporary Like Achilles, giving the slow moving bluesiness an excellent atmosphere. I love that 4th Time Around is related to Norwegian Wood, and you can hear echoes of the former and not a little light derision and sarcasm to some of the lines - I’ve always thought the line ‘gallantly handed her my very last piece of gum’ was pointed at Lennon. Obviously 5 Believers is a nice bit of sequencing, a relatively throwaway bit of blues before the genuinely epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. I do love this song, but it sometimes depends on my mood how great I think the lyrics are. Maybe it’s because it was pretty groundbreaking in its imagery, similes and metaphors, but does a geranium smile actually mean anything? But does it have to mean anything other than being a literary device to conjure two ideas simultaneously? That’s the problem with doing these reviews about Dylan, you can easily come across as pseud, but equally you want to acknowledge the quality of the wordplay and imagery, even if ultimately it might not mean what you want it to mean. But anyhow this is obviously a 5, a superb album with some all time classics of western post war pop music. 👱👱👱👱👱 Playlist submission: Visions of Johanna

So when it comes to Bob Dylan, I’ve grown to really respect him and his music, but I don’t enjoy all of his albums the same. Some just don’t connect with me as much as others. Well, this is one album that I really do enjoy, and out of the ones I’ve heard, it’s one of his best. I love the warm, loose, and hazy sound, because it really has this late-night, maybe a little tipsy, feel to it. It makes me think of a smoky, dark lounge with people just enjoying the live music, while the band sounds loose and a little lazy, almost like they’re jamming. One of my favorite songs on this album is “Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine).” The instruments have this slightly playful and quirky sound to them.

I still don’t like his voice, but the album is amazing.

En av Dylan bästa. Här finns stora melodier, maffigt arrangemang, historieberättande. Det blir en 5a. Bäst är Visions of Johanna, I Want you, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Just like a woman

Both the harmonica and this blokes voice grate on these bore fest

I think it's overrated, even though it's still a 4 for me. Too much goes into the switch to electric but honestly, I like the poetic tales of the earlier albums more than those here.

Going to give this a four, more an accident of timing than a judgement of the music for which an argument can definitely be made that this is a five star album. Firstly, I mainly got into Bob through the Bootleg Series stuff dripped out around the turn of the millennium, and as such, the definitive version of some of the songs on here for me personally are other versions. I'm thinking Visions of Johanna at the Free Trade Hall and Stuck a Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again with more prominent harmonica on No Direction Home for example. Secondly the order in which I've got the albums from his 60s peak in this project also influence the score I feel inclined to give. I've already had the two preceding albums (Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61) and given them five stars and I feel both are a bit stronger than this and I also was more familiar with them earlier than Blonde on Blonde so there's not the same issue with thinking the recorded versions are not quite as strong as alternative takes. Its also a touch too long and a bit too trippy in places with Bob's a bit more raspy than before although nothing on what comes later. Had a got this as the first Dylan album out of the generator I would probably have gone straight five for the inclusion of songwriting like I Want You, Pill-box Hat and Just Like A Woman. However, as an album I do feel it's a rung below my top three all-time Dylan LPs - Blood on the Tracks, Highway and Bringing It All Back Home. it's not far behind though, alongside Time Out Of Mind, Oh Mercy, Slow Train Coming and the one with Mr Bojangles on it. Ok, one of those is not like the others, although I kind of don't mind it actually.

I mean it's Bob Dylan!!... at his best?? Pacing is just about perfect. Lyrically a game changer. Indebted to the blues no doubt but that's nothing new. Instrumentation is somehow loose and tight at the same time. No skips. Absolutely Sweet Marie!

Bob should have been a poet

As someone who loves folk music, people with weird singing voices, and even the much maligned harmonica, I fear I'm never going to enjoy the music of Bob Dylan, at least when he's the one performing it. like Phil Ochs if he sucked. he should have stuck to writing songs for Joan Baez.

this one is classic right?

Somehow didn't fully appreciate the harmonica on Pledging My Time. Wow. Other standouts during this listen: Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) Obviously Five Believers

Solid Bob but not the best Bob.

Love this album always have

I finished the first 4 songs and really enjoyed them they had good lyrical composition but the instrumentals left me lacking

Say whatever you want. Play whatever you want. Smash them together. What a pretty voice. What a poet. Fave song was fourth time around, second fave was sad eyed lady. Ill be back for more Bob Dylan; kinda sad i wasn't raised on him.

It seems like Bob Dylan goes electric with a whole lot of harmonica.

This might be sacrilege, but this would have been better if this were a single lp. Bob needed some editing on this one. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands doesn't need to be 11 minutes long.

ive listened to this one too already its pretty good

Bone fide classic. A lot of double albums outstay their welcome, not this one. Even though the final track covers an entire side of the record. The end of an era for Dylan, but what a way to finish it.

Would be better if a harmonica wasn’t violating you every song

I’ve tried to like Dylan but it’s just so unrelentingly repetitive!

I love everything about this album except for Rainy Day Women #12 & 35. I despise that song. I'm still going to give the album 5 stars but I have hated that song for years now

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This is an objectively great album. The impact at the time, its effect on fellow artists and its commercial success, mean it's often mentioned as one of the very best albums ever made. But the difference between objective truth and subjective reality is one of the interesting things about this exercise, and while I love some of the wonderful songs, I can't honestly say that it's an album I love, yet. My journey is still underway - I didn't grow up with Dylan, and I've not had a phase, so I'm still at level 1: basic, where Freewheelin' is still my favourite album. I dig Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home - I'm not shouting "Judas" at the electric guitar - but Blonde on Blonde just hasn't really kicked in for me. I don't want to be too contrary, but I have some bugbears with Blonde on Blonde - it starts really badly ("Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is surely a deeply unfunny joke?) and continues with the lumpen blues of "Pledging My Time". There's also lot of shrill harmonica which is not really up my musical alley. Of course, the band are great throughout, and some of the grooves are unbelievably sweet, but despite the famous "baffle ban" I'm not convinced of the musical chemistry between Dylan and his Nashville rent-a-band - they were working through a conduit (Al Kooper) rather than with old Bobbles himself, and I think it shows. The run of five songs from #3 to #7 is outstanding. But it's also where "the Dylan voice" starts to grate. He's decided to change his voice in this album: and while obviously that phrasing has been there before, when he says "Jeez, I can't find my knees" in "Visions of Johanna".... for me, he's gone full Dylan. It's as if he's doing a caricature of himself, and while it feels blasphemous to say it, but for me, it breaks the spell a bit. At 72 minutes, it also feels a bit long - but then again, I'm also aware that one day's listening is not enough for a record like this. I'm sure I'll come back to it, and maybe this will be a five-star review, one day.

At its best this is as good as music gets. It’s a swirling, magnificent album that in those places sounds timeless and fresh despite being made 60 years ago. But it would be better if 4 tracks were removed, including the weak opening track. 9/10

The hits from this album are a definite 5, the rest a bit lower. 4.5?!

Wow. I think my favorite Dylan album. So much depth. So many songs that can stand on their own. As a full work, stunning.

Great love songs, very "my mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun" – Dylan's femme fatales are treated with relatively fairness: cast as naive and a little silly, like him

No skips, a classic. His brazen attitude and swagger are on full display in every lyric and cord...it's part fuck-boy ballads, part soulful blues, part funk, and 100% 60s genius.

This was my first time really listening to a whole Dylan album. He's an artist that I like, but don't love like so many of his fans. That being said this was a very good album for me and I look forward to hearing more in the future.

Great album. Great combo of folk, rock and blues. I love all the instruments and interesting sounds as well as the genius lyrics.

As much as people like to poke at Dylan for his voice, the music and lyrics well make up for any singing deficit, if there even is one. I personally like the distinct sound and enjoyed another album from him.

Bob Dylan hit his stride with this album. It is mesmerizing and very insightful. requires a listen many times to absorb the beauty and artistry.

I’m just not a Dylan guy. I don’t like his voice, enough to make me want to bypass any of his lyrics.

Another Bob Dylan banger. This one in particular was recorded soon after he went electric, so there's a lot of pressure for this one to be good, and thankfully this ends up being one of his strongest. The storytelling is once again on point, the lyricism is sheer poetry, and I found myself unable to stop listening until it was over. That's a sign of a great album in my eyes, when I can just listen back to front without thinking about how much time has passed. Superb.

I wanted to dock it for its length, but man, what a masterpiece! What songs, what scope, what ambition...

10/10 Another level. It must have blown everyone away, and I don't think even Dylan could ever get his head round the awesomeness of what he had created

I just don’t get it. It’s not fun to listen to. The writing isn’t mind blowing like people say. The harmonica is too much. I feel like I’m being lied to by people who think it’s good.

Erg lekker plaatje Bobby

(*Bob Dylan-gemompel over de vrouwekes*) (*een halve minuut aan schelle mondharmonica die net iets te hard in de mix ligt*) - herhaal bovenstaande 400 maal Blonde on Blonde wordt omgeschreven als 'het eerste dubbel album in de rockmuziek' en alleen daarvoor verdient het al straf. Er zal ongetwijfelt wel een mooie tekst tussen deze nummers zitten, maar 1. ik versta Dylan niet op ~80% van zijn lines en 2. als ik hem versta knalt er een mondharmonica overheen. Verre van mijn favoriete Bob Dylan album. Sterker nog: dit viel me echt tegen.

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Decent in spite of Dylan’s performance on it. The delivery is a bit like a not entirely flattering tribute act but he is a master of its craft and it’s decent in its fundamentals. Took two attempts as there’s only so much you can listen to him drawl.

Musically is a reasonably strong package and those occasional blues injections provide a great backdrop, but Bob Dylan himself is the issue here. Because he insists on driving the central theme with zero vocal dynamism, his complete lack of energy prevents the music from wrapping around him with any comfort or interest. The musicians are doing all the heavy lifting, but Dylan's dry, flat presence ultimately deflates what could otherwise make the album. I continue to believe Bob is a great songwriter but not a great artist. I did listen to this album alot and as it had a passive interest throughout despite my issues I will therefore give it a generous 3. I also think some credit is due as this is dated in many ways but in spite of this it still had some appeal to me so for that it deserves some credit.

This isn't the type of Dylan I find tolerable for a whole album, let alone a double. His mastery of song writing in his early folk albums is overshadowed here by the bigger rock band production. The harmonica, once used for the occasional highlight, is employed in long waffling ear bleeders which I got really tired of. The song writing is solid with some real classics, but I don't think Dylan is the best person to be delivering them. He has already started to become a self caricature, leaning even into the Dylan drawl to the point of farse. A prolific artist that peaked high and early and then started on a multi decade decline.

I feel bad about this one. I know it's legendary and I know he is a progenitor of modern music. That said, I struggle to get past his voice.

Sounds like a Swedish porno.

I've been going over this for a few days now. When i see these song titles I'm impressed - tracks we've all heard and know and my initial impression was this will be another 5/5 The good: Most of these songs are good/great by normal person standards. Classic tunes like Just Like a Woman, Stuck Inside Mobile, pill box hat etc. Couple too many blues romps. But when i dig into this I really don't enjoy it. This feels like Dylan at his most annoying, particularrly as a romantic partner. If you were a woman and got mixed up with this fella, thats on you, but god damn. He's either stalking/worshipping you or throwing you out like a piece of trash and blaming you for it. He's also playing up the signature Dylan vocal affect, which can also be annoying. Last thing in the instrumentation. Prettyyyy loose. I think on Visions of Johanna I heard a straight up miss on a chord change. Robbie Robertson giving it his all on a couple tracks, but low key stinks at playing guitar. This feels like a more hastily made and less grounded version of Blood on the Tracks. Last last thing is I'm not a huge fan of cryptic lyrics that can be interpreted multiple ways. More of a math/science guy. Final thought - do not get romantically involed with Bob Dylan, regardless of the number of times he tells you hes outside your window beating his trumpet.

I was listening to ‘visions of Johanna’ while waking the dog and I looked up at the sky and the clouds had parted into this bizarrely perfect circle of blue with a wisp of clouds inside that were in the exact shape of th Virgin Mary RIGHT at the point in the song where Bob starts singing about Madonna and it was the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve ever experienced. It was insane. It was moving. I texted Sean about it and he said ‘haha that’s sick’ but I could tell he didn’t mean it. Anyway I’m not even then biggest Dylan fan but there is something that feels close to sacred at times in his verses. I don’t think any other artist could have put me in the mindset where I’m interpreting clouds as signs from god.

Is it blasphemous to say I think I’m an electric Dylan guy? It’s just way more fun. I really didn’t think I was much of a Dylan fan but this has to be in my top surprise favorites. Just so much going to hear in the arrangements. Absolutley love the piano songs with the meandering honky tonk changes. Feels like a New Orleans band. Listened to this a bunch while walking around the Dylan motherland of Lower Manhattan on a fall day. Not a bad time!

rym 4.14 Folk Rock/Singer-Songwriter 这一张年轻的时候听过，熟悉的鲍勃迪伦，熟悉的口琴和钢弦吉他。这张感觉更注重私人化的感情，甚至不少曲目都是关于情情爱爱，像暖洋洋的秋日阳光。 pick: I Want You, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

60s folk. Blues, sultry. Great Dylan album with fun songs.

Bob Dylan has never been a musician I've sought out but I gotta say this blues rock album has some moments. Not surprised this is lauded as a classic.

Bob Dylan isn't one of my favorite artists, so I wasn't exactly eager to hear this album. But I have to admit I liked it. Yes, there's his voice, which I don't care for, and there's the harmonica, an instrument that really gets on my nerves. Even so, the end result was surprisingly positive!

Great album. Weird and wonderful lyrics and some great songs. Has there been another album like this? Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is about twice as long as it needs to be, and Rainy Day Women is not nearly as funny as he thinks it is but otherwise excellent.

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Good album. Some standouts

Although I was worried with the direction the album began in with probably my least favourite song on the album “Rainy day women”, I must say that there are some absolutely brilliant songs on here: “Visions of Johanna”, “one of us must know”, “Stuck inside of mobile with the Memphis blues”, “Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands”. Whilst I have only listed four songs I must say I am quite happy to have been proven wrong.

Track By Track Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 - Quite a honky beginning with that marching band feel. Sounds like it was recorded in a convivial, loose kind of session. Like it when he laughs or ad libs on a song. Singing about the establishment it seems in his very witty and slightly dry way. Quite decent, didn’t love though. Pledging My Time - Very screamy Dylan harmonica. He’s really getting into it on this one. Like those bluesy stabs and riffs in between the verses. Slow rambling vibe, quite good. Visions Of Johanna - The lyrics are so lovely here. Beautifully mysterious and poetic. Weaving lots of dream-like vignettes throughout the whole narrative. Great melody. Liking the organ on this as well. Hadn’t noticed it before. Favourite one so far. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Never heard this. Nice intro, again with that organ. It works really well in the mix. Enjoying the melody of this as well. Good chord changes too. I Want You - This sits well in the listing, nice up tempo following the slightly slower previous track. There’s a sunny brightness to this one. Very sweet. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - I’m very much into the Dylan vibe at this point. I loved this. The poetry, the narrative, the music. His lyricism is really in its own world, so unique & surreal and somehow universal too. Brilliant performances all round. That organ again shining in the background. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - I think I was introduced to this either by my friend from school or my step-dad, so there’s some fond memories there. I do like the bluesy rockin’ stomp. A fun one. It sounds like Dylan in his cheeky or funny mode. It’s got a slight honky tonk vibe. Just Like a Woman - I mean it’s really lovely. Beautiful song. It’s been covered by so many, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone. This original is great. The acoustic picking in the breaks is a lovely touch. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) - Liked the bluesy dissonance in the opening. It has some grit, this one, but also with a pretty melody. Temporary Like Achilles - Like strolling into a bar somewhere with a honky tonk piano. A good vibe on this one. Similar structure to ‘Pill-Box Hat’, but softer. Absolutely Sweet Marie - Larger, driving sound for this one. Another weaving story, almost epic in length. Big harmonicas also. Didn’t stand out as much for me, but it’s got some powerful company. Fourth Time Around - Very lovely beginning, pretty guitar. Liking a lot. I almost recognise it! Gorgeous melody. There is also a cheekiness in the romantic lyrics. Obviously Five Believers - Another mover. Great smokin, almost rock n’ roll vibe. Fun, tight playing from the band. Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands - An epic ballad. Really quite lovely. Nothing more to say really. Could’ve swum in it for longer actually; just took me away. Overall Review: I had obviously heard of this before, but never listened all the way through. A little like the cover photo, this album feels very loose and frayed at the edges but also has a bunch of heart and a good dollop of his acerbic wit thrown in there. The playing is brilliant. The band was tight. There’s an almost ethereal magic running through the musicians on many tracks. And Al Kooper’s organ really was a highlight for me. It was previously not my favourite of Dylan’s, but by the last track, I was really quite charmed. It has so much to offer, this album - I thoroughly enjoyed diving into its world. A pleasure to review this classic. 4.5/5 Favourite Songs: Visions Of Johanna, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), I Want You, Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

I've been listening to music actively for the last 7ish years, and on and off for 10+, and I've never heard someone defy and one-up himself like Dylan did in the 60s. He started as a guy who played covers, then on Freewhelin' he showed his penmanship, on Bringing It Back Home he bent over critics and added an electric facet to his musicianship only to add a fierce backbone on Highway 61. That leads us to Blonde on Blonde, on which he combines the fierce, endurance, poetry and the venomous backbone that made him lovable. To make a double album this engaging from start to finish is a marvel that's rarely, if ever, achieved. The songs have immense staying power, be it in it's intimacy, humor, or irony that draws you in. Everything tells a story, and at the end of each song, I'm sitting in my chair, waiting for an applause to come barreling in. Those songs where Bob sings about the women in his life are my favorite off of this one. Be it "Visions of Johanna", "Just Like a Woman", "I Want You" or "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (only Dylan could make an 11 minute singer-songwriter song be compelling all-throughout), they all make fire run through my veins. I guess it's a disservice to other songs, like "Rainy Day Women", "One of Us Must Know", "Memphis Blues" and " Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine", to name a few, but some songs have to stand out, even on a star-studded album such as this one. One more thing to add: I love the expansiveness of the sound on Blonde on Blonde. It's not your regular singer-songwriter album - it has a lot of blues and country in it, and I'd wager that because of this album, I developed a love for said genres without even knowing it. I can't think of closing words for a majestic album such as this one. It's 70 minutes of pure fun and poetry. That's all.

Dear god please no more Bob Dylan. I can’t stand his voice

Bob Dylan...after this album, I had to re-examine how I felt about him. As a songwriter, he's undeniably talented. Sure there's some pretty weak efforts, including the opening track but the fact is he is about as talented of a songwriter as there is ranging from corny, almost Neil Young level rhyming for the sake of rhyming, to Michael Stipe, cryptic nearly undecipherable hidden meanings. And for that, this is a great album. The Proto punk noise level of this album is significant. There's points where he knows. Exactly what he's doing And he's just making sound to make sound. Sometimes, though it really works in the song. And sometimes the song comes together feeling well, composed and constructed. But those vocals are trash. There's no way you can slice it better. They are off key. They are pitchy and it's not even intentional. You can tell that he either doesn't care about how he sounds. Or he doesn't know. He sounds the way he sounds either way. The fact that people love his singing tells me that there is a whole level of humanity that doesn't need harmony or Melody in their vocals. That tracks if you listen to modern rap. Am I saying that Bob Dylan is the first rap artist? Absolutely not. But I will say that I can see the road from Bob Dylan to Jay-Z.

Ok

Some songs the harmonica was unbearable but enjoyable otherwise

Finally, a Dylan album. Of course, I have heard it. This was released when Dylan was at his peak influencing pop culture. After this, Dylan went into seclusion after his so-called motorcycle accident. First when talking about Dylan you have to do with his singing. He is not a good singer. In fact, he is a terrible singer. You just have to get used to it. On the other hand, he is an excellent songwriter. During his 1965-6 period he was writing a lot of surreal poetry that was hard for the average listener to understand. It is brilliant but only some people can see its brilliance. This is the difference between him and the Beatles. Lennon and McCartney wrote songs that almost everyone could understand. They were true pop artists. He recorded this in of all places Nashville with a very good band. Let’s look at some of the individual songs. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35: a lively beginning. One of those Dylan songs that nobody is sure what the title or the song is about. Visions of Johanna: one of Dylan’s most beautiful lyrics. Ain’t it just like the night/ to play tricks on you/when it is so quiet. I want you: a straight forward love song. Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again: another surreal song that most listeners can’t figure out. For example, what does the title means. Just like a women: A put down song. I don’t think feminists would like it. The third side of the album has a lot of filler. No songs stand out. Sad eyed Lady of the lowlands: a beautiful song about his new love Sara his first wife. This is a good album but not a great one: four stars.

Not for me, but fun how he whines on so!!

Classic

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Fine, not really for me

Best Of Bob

This has some of my favorite Dylan songs on it but I can say the same thing about most of his albums.

I really liked this album. Some of it was toe-tapping music out of a honky-tonk, some was bluesy, and some had me parsing the lyrics like I was trying to decipher a TS Eliot poem. Sometimes it was 2 or 3 of those at the same time. This is the first Bob Dylan album I’ve heard, and I’m looking forward to the others on this list.

J'ai bien aimé ++ en fait on s'y fait à sa voix de merde

Wonderful and dense. I have no idea what descriptions such as: with your mercury mouth in these missionary times, or your cowboy mouth and your curfew bells mean. I don't have the time or patience to find out. But I'm at peace with my ignorance and I still love this album. Partly, because Bob Dylan is one of the few people I know who is a worse singer than I, but mainly for the strength of the unfathomable songs. They may be gibberish and he may just have pulled random words from a tombola made from a leopardskin pillbox hat, but none the less I'm going to give this 5 stars.

For me, this is the album where Dylan goes from great to good, swapping firey folk protest anthems for much more prosaic riffs and themes from straightforward blues-rock that don't entirely fit the interestingly cryptic lyrics. Also suffers from double album bloat, paticularly the atrociously sentimental 11-minute slog that closes proceedings.

The lyrics were good but it was very same-y

Fourth double-album randomly in a row. Two of them live and no one I like; this website is trying to boot me off this project. As for this album: Another Bob Dylan record, another befuddled yawn. How was this ever popular music?

This is good. I am not blown away, as maybe I expected to be. I like Bringing it all Back Home more I think.

I do not need a gun to the head to name Dylan as my favorite artist. For that reason even though Blonde on Blonde lands at about number five in my Dylan album list, it certainly deserves the worship it deserves. This listen I noticed a distinct triad of approaches. Dylan’s state of the relationship songs get the loud, and majestic HIghway 61 Revisited treatment. While the tender songs with their dream-like images get gentle acoustic, almost Elizabethan plucking. Lastly, the numerous blues-based songs feature a ribald Dylan delivering comedic lines that are a combo of Lenny Bruce, Your Show of Shows writing room and Lightnin Hopkins. The rotation provides the variety of emotions that all great records master. Oddly the best known songs fall near the bottom compared to others on the record. I can’t get past the stupid-sing-along quality of the chorus in “Rainy Day Women #12 and #35”, nor the annoyance from the blaring marching band. Sometimes “Just Like a Woman” hits me in “A Natural Woman” manner, however it can also become schmaltz. “I Want You” has a chirpy guitar refrain that interferes with another round of memorable characters Dylan created. Those shortcomings just keep the record from the top on my list. Blonde on Blonde reaches high ground on enough levels to be a classic. Dylan seemingly effortlessly tosses off put downs, future aphorisms, absurdist juxtapositions and touching odes. The gathered studio musicians, plus Al Kooper and Robbie Robertson, sound like a roadhouse, then play with beautiful understatement on tracks like “Visions of Johanna” and “4th Time Around.” This near elegance meets shotgun blasts from Robbie Robertson, most notably on “Obviously Fiver Believers” characterizes the record, which means producer Bob Johnston deserves a healthy dose of credit. Hard to think of non-Bob Dylan records that combine endlessly fascinating lyrical stories and live music excitement. Blonde on Blonde continued the tossed off brilliance of his previous two records

Bob Dylan lovers love this album because it is Dylan at his Dylan-iest.

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Ganz okay.

I'm quite sure in 1966 cameras had manual focus

Listened to this on a flight from MSP TO NYC, felt right lol. Best Bob D album?

Really like the loose band sound. Great storytelling and some lovely guitar parts.

I liked the jazzy bits in the beginning, but the rest started to blend together a bit. I do like his lyrics though.

Guy on a buffalo.

I like his story telling a lot. My favorite of his albums that I have listened to.

Enjoyable at first great opening song but its the same song over and over after the 5-6

I know it's a classic but it really doesn't hold up

Lowkey overrated. It's got good tracks to be sure, but not my favorite bob. I will say '66 is crazy for this stuff.

Fine but not really my thing. I wish he could sing.

I really enjoyed this album, definitely the best Bob Dylan I've heard. The instrumentation was really lush and Bob had some great melodies in there.

Entspannter Rock 3/5

Definitely not my favourite Bob Dylan album. It was ok.

Classic Dylan showing the diversity on the last of the rock album trio. Utilizing Nashville musicians for dynamic sound mixed with his storytelling makes for a great double album.

Jag tycker likt det förra Bob Dylan albumet att det inte tilltalar mig särskilt mycket. Jag har hört om texterna och budskapen och Nobelpriset och allt annat men jag tycker faktiskt inte att Blonde on Blonde är så bra. Det är långt och ofta inte så intressant, vissa låtar är för långa och tråkiga och låter som de innan. Det tilltalar mig inte heller musikaliskt eller sångmässigt. Jag kanske är bitter och inte på Dylan-humör men jag gillar det inte helt enkelt. Jag ger det 6/10.

Jag tycker om albumet mycket, dock tyvärr tycker jag inte om varje låt, jag gillar främst låtarna som handlar om kärlek eller är lugna. Tycker albumet är liiiite för långt, fattar att de är det första dubbel album i rock historien men ändå. Alla munspels solos är extremt dåligt mixade. Mina favorit låtar är: Sad eyed lady of the lowland Just like a woman Visions of Johanna One of us must know Jag ger detta album en 8,5/10

Total classic! (Thanks Jack Black!)