Dylan

Another Side Of Bob Dylan - #573

Dylan, Bob

1964 Columbia 1/1/64

Dylan, The Original.  The folk artist.  Sang like a folk singer.  Not so social revolutionary on this one but a FOLK SINGER in the 50's tradition of Guthrey and others.

Purchased: 12/1/97 - J&R $10.99

Rated: 4

Blonde On Blonde - #202

Dylan, Bob

1968 Columbia 1/1/66

Dylan broke into pop with this one and changed everything.  This is one of first popular lyric that makes you think.  The end of moon and June requirements in popular music.  Dylan angered folk admirers by using a rock band on this one but it is still folk in undertone.  My 2nd copy of this.  The vinyl original was given to a German collector and it brought tears to his eyes.

Purchased: 1/1/90 - Columbia House $9.99

Rated: 5

Blood On Tracks  - #652

Dylan, Bob

1974 Columbia 1/17/75

In 1998, it was said of "Time Out of Mind" review (for the 1997 album), Minds " the best record since Blood On Tracks.  Yes, here Dylan weaves his words to our interest and in a folk sense.  Like it a lot.  And yes, after this there seems to be a lot of junk.

Purchased: 8/7/99 - J&R $7.99

Rated: 4

Bob Dylan - #478

Dylan, Bob

1961 Columbia 1/1/62

Folk from Dylan hit the mass market with this on. A first for the genius of the lyric in the last half of the 20th Century.  This Dylan is young, intense, idealistic, and angry.  And this is serious Folk.  Dylan began his history of seemingly having something to say about everything here.

Purchased: 11/4/94 - Best Buy $6.99

Rated: 5

Bringing It All Back Home - #574

Dylan, Bob

1965 Columbia 1/1/65

First Dylan album I ever owned - maybe, memory gets murky after 40 years.  I remember getting the vinyl in the mail on the from Columbia House.  Wondering , what was this from this man called a folk artist.  This music if really rock but the Dylan images are there.  Listening to this I wonder why Blonde on Blonde caused such a sensation. (Well, yes I do - Dylan performed at Newport and everyone expected Fold - out came the music, in rock, from Blonde on Blonde.0

Purchased: 1/1/94 - J&R $10.99

Rated: 4

Desire - #569

Dylan, Bob

1975 Columbia 1/1/75

Bought this one when I was in Arizona and had just won $6000.  It, and a few others got me going on my collection of Dylan. This album is most famous for Hurricane, a protest song about the jailed boxer.   Hurricane Carter was convicted of murder and eventually released.  The social protest worked.

Purchased: 11/4/95 - Best Buy $6.99

Rated: 3

Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The - #270

Dylan, Bob

1964 Columbia 1/1/63

November 9, 1997.  Was America his naïve that it had to take a Dylan that had to wake up the country?  Yes, fold music moved with the generations as America changed.  Dylan was a vanguard

Purchased: 1/1/91 -  $14.98

Rated: 4

Hard Rain - #572

Dylan, Bob

1976 Columbia 1/1/76

An audience and lots of rock here.  Not sure if this is a concert of his own or with The Band.  There is no information on the album liner notes.  His trend was toward country but this one still has lots of rock 'n roll.  A Greatest Hits of Sorts because some of this music is also released on some other albums.

Purchased: 11/4/96 - Best Buy $6.99

Rated: 3

Highway 61 Revisited - #272

Dylan, Bob

1965 Columbia 1/1/65

BREAK THROUGH.  A land mark album that brought Dylan to me personally, and much more of America than those that previously listened to folk music.  You can hear him think rock and roll - coming in the future.

Purchased: 1/1/91 - J&R $10.99

Rated: 5

Infidels - #576

Dylan, Bob

1983 Columbia 1/1/83

Dylan in the 80's.  A long slow change toward mediocrity.  Rock and country here.  Ok but not what a fan looks to for in the king of musical images.

Purchased: 12/1/96 - J&R $9.99

Rated: 3

MTV Unplugged - #547

Dylan, Bob

1995 Columbia 5/2/95

Dylan singing as Dylan at 55.  This is the album that got me collecting all of the Dylan Albums.  He wheezes, and rambles through this music as he doesn't seem to care but even he cannot hide his artistry.  This is the artist that other Pop artists mention most.

Purchased: 1/1/95 - J&R

Rated: 4