 | Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.00 Dylan's best - the album as a whole as well as every song. But this does not make Blood On The Tracks more IMPORTANT than Desire, Time Out Of Mind or the albums from the mid-sixties.
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 | Desire by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $2.75 The most colourful and varied Dylan album, covering more ground and going in more directions than any other Dylan album, but nevertheless adding up to a stunning whole.
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 | Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.25 Side A makes this Dylan's first rock album, raw and psychedelic. Flip over to the best side B ever recorded, with Mr Tambourine Man, It's Alright Ma, Gates of Eden and It's All Over Now Baby Blue.
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 | Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.72 World-weary and completely unique in the Dylan catalogue. His darkest album.
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 | Good as I Been to You by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $1.14 5/5 After surviving the eighties, Dylan revisited his folk roots and recorded and album of covers, releasing an album without a band or guest performers for the first time since the early sixties.
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 | World Gone Wrong by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $2.89 5/5 World Gone Wrong seems a continuation of Good As I Been To You, slightly blueser and no less brilliant than its predecessor.
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 | Hard Rain by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $1.92 Though not as extensive as Live 1975, Hard Rain ranks among Dylan's finest live albums, highlights being blistering versions of Idiot Wind and Lay Lady Lay...
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 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.98 With indefinably revolutionary songs such as Like A Rolling Stone and Desolation Row, in retrospect, this album seems like a natural onward step from Bringing It All Back Home.
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 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.09 The breakthrough album. Blowin' In The Wind, Masters of War and Don't Think Twice are only some of the timeless classics on Dylan's second album.
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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: $8.95 Mind-bending acoustic songs and raw, almost unbelievably intense electric songs peaking with Like A Rolling Stone. The live album to end all live albums. How did he do it?
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 | The Times They Are a-Changin' by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.24 The most political Dylan album, a soundtrack to the civil rights movement, and still relevant today.
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 | The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.88 The tip of the iceberg when it comes to Dylan bootlegs. From the early years in the Village through to Oh Mercy, this set is absolutely essential.
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 | Bob Dylan Live 1975 (The Bootleg Series Volume 5) by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.50 The songs from freshly recorded Desire are particularly powerful, but the entire album is brilliant, the most complete official record of one of the most legendary tours in music history.
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 | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $15.93 / Used from: $9.38 Picks up where Highway 61 Revisited left off, with a warmer sound, a more spaced-out voice, wilfuly chaotic approach to production, and Dylan at the peak of his songwriting powers.
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 | Infidels by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $7.98 Despite some dubious jingoistic/zionist references, this album is a masterpiece. Knopfler does lead guitar while Sly and Robbie take care of the rhythm, but the songs speak for themselves.
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 | John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.98 A glimpse into the mind of a disillusioned yet eerily serene preacher-cum-bank-robber. The album's mood is concentrated in the definitive original version of All Along The Watchtower.
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 | Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.84 Dylan's best album from the eighties. Daniel Lanois' production brings out previously obscure depths in Dylan's sound. Highlights are Man In The Long Black Coat and Shooting Star.
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 | "Love and Theft"
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.93 Released on September 11th 2001, this is the most recent Dylan album. Though the songs are new originals, the lyrics sound like they could have been on Smith's Anthology...!
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 | Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.06 The bridge from acoustic folk to electric rock, recorded in one sitting, Dylan's voice at its most nasal, songs like It Ain't Me Babe and To Ramona make this a playful classic.
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 | Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.79 The album of the "religious trilogy", awesome guitar work by Mark Knopfler, funky production by Jerry Wexler, and almost fanatical Christian songs which somehow seem to go beyond religion.
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 | Planet Waves by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $5.55 Featuring The Band, from the hopeful Forever Young to the bleak Dirge, this is a gem. After New Morning, this was Dylan's second "come-back album". Blood On The Tracks would be the third...
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 | Shot of Love by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $3.25 The most underrated Dylan album, the third and last gospel album. The title track rocks, and Every Grain of Sand is one of Dylan's most powerful songs from any period.
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 | Street Legal by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.99 Released in the year between The Rolling Thunder Revue and Dylan's conversion to Christianity, this album is easily overlooked. Though the production is shaky, the songs are excellent.
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 | The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan & the Band
Buy used from: $11.60 Though this is great stuff, you're better off downloading a more complete bootleg such as Genuine Basement Tapes or Tree With Roots, as many of the best songs have never been officially released.
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 | Live at the Gaslight 1962 by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: $34.99 From the earliest official recordings of freshly-written A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall and Don't Think Twice to absorbing covers of Moonshiner and Barbara Allen, Gaslight is a mesmerizing experience.
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