 | Together Through Life by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $4.75 The latest from Bob, which he says aims at at 1950s Chess and Sun Records sound.
See below for the Quintessential Top 10 from the 1960s and 1970s.
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 | Together Through Life (Deluxe Edition) CD + DVD by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $13.13 Deluxified version with a bonus disc of one of Bob's radio shows and a DVD with an interview.
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 | Watchmen Soundtrack by Soundtrack
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.99 Great movie, and it opens with "The Times They Are A-Changin," includes the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower," and closes with My Chemical Romance's "Desolation Row" over the credits.
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 | Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.99 Rare and Unreleased tracks from 1989 (OH MERCY) through 2006 (MODERN TIMES)
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 | Dylan (3CD) by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $11.10 Sony's latest marketing ploy, a 3-disc retrospective just in time for Xmas ... or you can get the 1-disc short version! ...or you can get the deluxe 3-disc version with Bells & Whistles for $100.00! For the Dylan fan who has everything! Take my advice and check out Dylan's 10 best albums below instead.
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 | Modern Times by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.92 This one sounds much like LOVE & THEFT --
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 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.38 #1 (1965) From the furious opening of "Rolling Stone" to the poignant end of "Desolation Row," one of the best rock albums of all time. [All '60s & '70s here -- Dylan in his prime, no "late Dylan."]
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 | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $15.93 / Used from: $6.49 #2 (1966) Right up there with "Highway 61", another masterpiece. "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again" is one of his best songs, and that's saying something!
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 | Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.98 #3 (1965) The folk half is brilliant -- the rock half has a couple of dud tracks (Outlaw Blues, On the Road Again), but overall this is clearly some of the best Dylan.
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 | The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The "Royal Albert Hall Concert" by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.00 #4) SEE MY REVIEW (1966) Many of us had the "Royal Albert Hall" bootleg -- it was actually Manchester, and Dylan & the Hawks (later the Band) play maniacally in the face of folkie opposition.
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 | Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.19 The DVD of the Scorcese documentary -- Bob from 1961 to 1966, with Dylan's full cooperation, interviews, & interviews with Joan Baez & many more.
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 | No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7) by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.43 Dylan 1961 -- 1966, 26 of the 28 tracks previously unreleased songs and alternative versions, the soundtrack to the Martin Scorcese documentary.
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 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.44 #5 (1962) By far the best of the first 4 folk albums -- "Times" and "Another Side" have some great songs, but this is a great album. Protest against WW3 and for civil rights.
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 | Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.95 #6 (1975) Great love song cycle -- Dylan at his most personal, most vulnerable, and most universal.
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 | John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.78 #7 (1968) Brilliant song cycle full of Biblical imagery about an outlaw, his fall, repentance, redemption, & final grace in the arms of a loving woman.
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 | Desire by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.98 #8 (1976) Great follow-up to "Blood on the Tracks," not quite as good (I've never liked "Joey"), but Dylan has never put out another album as good since. Fantastic fiddle from Scarlet Rivera.
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 | The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan & the Band
Buy used from: $4.90 #9 (1967/1975) Greil Marcus champions this as Dylan's best. Dylan disagrees (claims he only released it to combat bootlegging). Great fun, but definitely not "his masterpiece."
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 | The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 - Concert at Philharmonic Hall by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.91 #10 (1964) A great and legendary live performance finally out with state-of-the-art sound -- from just before Bob plugged in and became Judas, he's playing songs from the forthcoming "...Back Home."
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 | Lyrics: 1962-2001 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $32.40 / Used from: $23.00 updated complete song lyrics
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 | Chronicles, Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $18.72 / Used from: $0.72 SEE MY REVIEW) great storytelling -- enough other people have written about him, here's his chance to tell it from his point of view
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 | Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
Buy used from: $0.53 SEE MY REVIEW) Marcus goes to the Dylan well again, this time focusing on one of his greatest songs, "Like a Rolling Stone."
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 | Bob Dylan and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy)
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.95 Check this one out, edited by Peter Vernezze and Carl Porter at Weber State University in Utah -- the essays barely scratch the surface of the possibilities!
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 | Chimes of Freedom: The Politics of Bob Dylan's Art by Mike Marqusee
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $9.79 There are lots of books on Dylan -- here's one looking at his leftist politics in the '60s & the social context.
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 | Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s by Mike Marqusee
Buy new: $13.16 / Used from: $8.95 Expanded paperback edition of CHIMES OF FREEDOM, which came out in 2005, two years after the original hardcover.
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 | The Political Art of Bob Dylan
Buy new: $90.00 / Used from: $40.49 Dylan's engagement with the "political world," from leftist folkie days to later evangelicalism.
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 | Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
Buy used from: $5.22 Brand new tome on Dylan as poet comparing his treatment of "sins, virtues and graces" to some of the great poets.
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 | Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan & Scripture by Michael J. Gilmour
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.01 Dylan has gone through Jewish and Christian periods, and his music is full of Biblical references and themes.
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 | The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.31 A whole book looking at the music of the Harry Smith anthology and its sociocultural context, from which sprang the music of Dylan's "Basement Tapes."
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 | Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited by Clinton Heylin
Buy new: $13.18 / Used from: $4.95 SEE MY REVIEW) Great overview of Dylan's music and career
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