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Albums -

1. Blonde on Blonde
2. John Wesley Harding
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Bringing It All Back Home
5. Live '66 at "Royal Albert Hall"

6. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
7. Another Side of Bob Dylan
8. Desire
9. Self-Portrait
10. Blood On The Tracks

Songs -

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Tangled Up In Blue
3. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
4. Idiot Wind
5. Ballad of a Thin Man

6. Visions of Johanna
7. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
8. Just Like A Woman (live Manchester)
9. I Threw It All Away
10. Girl From North Country (original)

Albums:

01  Blood On The Tracks
02  Highway 61 Revisited
03  Bringing It All Back Home
04  Blonde On Blonde
05  The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
06  Time Out Of Mind
07  Modern Times
08  Love And Theft
09  Oh Mercy
10  Real Live

Songs:

01  Like A Rolling Stone
02  Tangled Up In Blue
03  Lay Lady Lay
04  It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - from The 30th Anniversary Celebration
05  Knockin' On Heaven's Door
06  Baby Let Me Follow You Down - from The Last Waltz
07  Cold Irons Bound
08  Summer Days
09  Lily Of The West
10  It Ain't Me Babe - from Real Live

top 10 jeffs in chronological order:

Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Basement Tapes
John Wesley Harding
New Morning
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid ST
Blood on the Tracks
Street Legal
Time out of Mind


Special Mentions for Bootleg Series 4, 8 and 10

1.Basement Tapes *cough* a tree with roots. ;)
2.Blonde on Blonde
3.Highway 61 revisted
4.New Morning
5.John Wesley Harding
6.Blood on the Tracks
7.Bringing it all back home
8. (another) Self Portrait
9. Another Side of Bob Dylan
10.Freewheeling

Albums:

1. Blonde On Blonde
2. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. Highway 61
5. Live at Brandeis
6. The Times They Are A Changing
7. Planet Waves
8. Blood On The Tracks
9. Oh Mercy
10. Self Portrait or Modern Times

Songs:

1. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
2. Girl From The North Country
3. Don't Think Twice It's Alright
4. Desolation Row
5. Visions of Johanna
6. Bob Dylan's Dream
7. Absolutely Sweet Marie
8. She Belongs To Me
9. Like A Rolling Stone
10. Soon After Midnight

Edit: forgot It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, that's in my top 5 favorite Dylan songs.

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Ah, forgot Girl from the North Country (original) even though a couple of people already mentioned it. Basically for me he could do no wrong up to and including Blonde on Blonde, whether his songs be released or unreleased, though I still haven't heard his first album. Maybe I'll listen now on Spotify.

Albums:

Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the Tracks
Oh Mercy
John Wesley Harding
Bringing it All Back Home
Desire
Time Out of Mind
New Morning
Tempest
Empire Burlesque

Songs:

Most of the Time
Like a Rolling Stone
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
I’ll Keep it With Mine
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Workingman Blues 2
Every Grain of Sand
Long and Wasted Years
Tempest

  1.  John Wesley Harding
  2.  The Basement Tapes *
  3.  Bringing It All Back Home
  4.  Blonde on Blonde
  5.  Highway 61 Revisited
  6.  Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol II
  7.  Blood on the Tracks
  8.  Time Out of Mind
  9.  The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
 10. Nashville Skyline


  * An idealized Basement Tapes that does not include Band outtakes and adds some essential tunes not on the LP. Overdue.

1- Tomorrow Is Such a Long Time
2 - The Drifter's Escape
3 - Spanish Harlem Incident
4- Down In The Flood
5 - Forever Young
6 - Jokerman
7 - Blind Willie McTell
8 - If Not For You
9 - Just Like a Woman
10 - Every Grain of Sand

'Classic Bob' is soooooo overplayed that I can't stand it. 

So great to see this, I was starting to wonder whether it's just me who loves that song a whole lot.

In terms of songs, the only ones listenable to my ears are:

01: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
02: Like A Rolling Stone (Barely)

Pretty sure we've done this exact thread somewhere, but it's probably so long ago that it doesn't hurt to revisit to let newer members weigh in, and older ones reconsider. I know my preferences can change daily...

1. Bringing it All Back Home
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Blonde on Blonde
4. Love & Theft
5. Blood on the Tracks
6. Basement Tapes
7. John Wesley Harding
8. Tell Tale Signs: Bootleg Series v8
9. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
10. Another Side of Bob Dylan

I couldn't even attempt a songs list.

Could it be this one?
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,4366.150.html

So it would seem. I wonder what stupid sh*t I said in that one...

I still haven't listened to all of his albums, so this list is going to be slightly.. incomplete.

1. Highway 61 Revisisted
2. John Wesley Harding
3. Bringing It All Back Home
4. Blonde on Blonde
5. Love & Theft
6. Blood on the Tracks
7. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
8. Desire
9. New Morning
10. Another Side of Bob Dylan

Favorite songs from favorite albums:
Freewheelin': Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance
Bringing It All Back Home: Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Highway 61 Revisited: Queen Jane Approximately
Blonde On Blonde: 4th Time Around
John Wesley Harding: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Blood On The Tracks: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Love and Theft: Po' Boy
Modern Times: Workingman's Blues #2
Together Through Life: Life Is Hard
Tempest: Roll On John

For me, that is the definite low point of Highway 61 Revisited.

My favorite version of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flGpGD0ePMM&

Wish I could find an actual file version of it somewhere.

Albums:

1. Highway 61 Revisited
2. Desire
3. Blonde On Blonde
4. Blood On The Tracks
5. Bringing It All Back Home
6. Love & Theft
7. Street Legal
8. Time Out Of Mind
9. New Morning
10. Modern Times

well that or Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

I can't narrow it down to just 10 albums or songs, so I will just mention a few that I have on a lot lately. There's some great stuff on the recent Another Self Portrait, and I keep going back to the songs on Oh Mercy. I might actually prefer that one to the more praised Time Out of Mind. Soundwise, it's tossup, but the songs on Oh Mercy speak to me more than those on TOOM. And it's hard to get enough of that Royal Albert Hall (lol) "bootleg". If a time machine was invented, that's the show I would go back to. And I can never get enough of the much maligned Street Legal (critics! who needs 'em?), especially Changing of the Guards. I have no idea what he is saying in that song, but I can sing the whole thing, all 6 and 1/2 minutes of it without a cheat sheet.

Albums:
1. The Basement Tapes
2. Blonde On Blonde
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Greatest Hits Vol. II
5. John Wesley Harding

6. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
7. Nashville Skyline
8. Bringing It All Back Home
9. Self Portrait
10. Planet Waves


Songs:
1. Million Dollar Bash
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Forever Young
4. Desolation Row
5. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

6. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
7. Subterranean Homesick Blues
8. Wigwam (Demo)
9. Hurricane
10. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Demo)

Tough choices, indeed. This is my current list (which I'm sure will change many times throughout today alone) of Bob Dylan's best. Also, some special mentions to "Another Side of Bob Dylan", The Bootleg Series and the songs "Dirge"as well as the classic "Mr. Tambourine Man".

Like a Rolling Stone
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (live ’66)
Forever Young (slow)
Never Say Goodbye
Nettie Moore
Summer Wind (actually…this is Sinatra)
Don’t Worry Baby (actually…this is BW’s old band)
Potato Head Blues (actually…this is Louis A.)
Like a Rolling Stone

Mississippi, Across the green mountain, Carribean Wind, Brownsville Girl, Workingmans Blues, Precious angel, Foot of Pride, Blind Willie McTell, Abandoned Love, Dignity.

Albums
1 Blood on the Tracks: just so much good stuff, no filler; even my least favorite song on it ("Meet Me in the Morning") is an awesome tune
2 Blonde on Blonde: probably the Dylan album I "respect" the most; it also has a bunch of his best tunes and best imagery
3 Nashville Skyline: what an awesome vibe this one has; his voice is sweet as honey; the songs are beautiful
4 The Basement Tapes: the vibe on this one is unbeatable; and his lyrics are bafflingly great (and I love the stuff from The Band as well!)
5 Slow Train Coming: committed to the material like hardly anyone I've ever heard, some really nice melodies too; "I Believe In You" and "When He Returns" are excellent
6 Hard Rain: easily his best live album; great live versions of "I Threw It All Away", "Shelter from the Storm", "Stuck Inside of Mobile..." and "You're a Big Girl Now"
7 Time Out of Mind: I almost consider this a successor to Blood on the Tracks since it conveys it's mood so well; but mostly just great songs overall
8 "Love And Theft": "Mississippi" alone merits it's inclusion, but mostly I just love the vibe; "Moonlight" is a great song as well
9 Bringing It All Back Home: any album with "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" has gotta be on here; the acoustic side on here is unbelievable
10 John Wesley Harding: really does feel like a code that is hard to crack, but you keep going back hoping to; his lyrics on this one are truly great

Songs
1 "Every Grain of Sand": beautiful melody, beautiful harmonica work, classic Dylan vocal and some of his best lyrics
2 "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts": seriously feels like a movie to me while listening; it's that vivid!
3 "Mississippi": I don't even know how to describe; the fact that even nearly 40 years into the game that he had something this deep, this meaningful, its insane
4 "I Believe In You": you can really feel how deeply he feels about what he's singing; no one could accuse him of faking it here
5 "One More Cup of Coffee": a great story, great vocals, and the classic Desire-era sound; wouldn't mind if a few more unreleased tunes from these sessions pop up
6 "Billy 1": I just think his voice is in top form; the production is great and I think he shines on this ballad; classic Dylan
7 "Make You Feel My Love": what I take to be a real ray of light shining through a lot of darkness of Time Out of Mind
8 "Changing of the Guards": some of his most cryptic lyrics; and I myself really like the band (of course if they coulda been recorded better...)
9 "Tell Me That It Isn't True": probably my favorite tune off of Nashville Skyline, his voice seems so nice on this
10 "To Be Alone With You": I know, it seems light, but it's just so smooth and nice; not everything Dylan does has to be super analyzed

Albums in no particular order:

Blood on the Tracks
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
Street Legal
Nashville Skyline
Desire
New Morning
John Wesley Harding
Self Portrait

Bubbling under - the 'unofficial' Infidels, Time Out of Mind and Oh Mercy

Dylan is too awesome for me to attempt a top 10 albums but I will say m FAVORITE of his albums are the following.  All of them tied for number 1  :) 

John Wesley Harding
Blonde on Blonde
Desire
Love and Theft
Blood on the Tracks
Bringin' it All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Tempest
Infidels
Oh Mercy!

Just listening to Bob's Cold Irons Bound.  And I am once again struck by just how much he sounds like Popeye the Sailor singing this song.  Don't agree?  Just go listen and you will hear.

(And this is one of my current fav Dylan tunes)

C'mon!   Popeye or Not?

wish I found this thread earlier, missed it.
Long time Dylan fan here
1. Blood On the Tracks
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
4. Blonde On Blonde
5. Modern Times
6. Infidels
7. Bringing It All Back Home
8. John Wesley Harding
9. Slow Train Coming
10. Desire

jet without wings

1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Infidels
3. Blood on the Tracks
4. Slow Train Coming
5. Highway 61 Revisited
6. Shot of Love
7. Oh Mercy
8. Empire Burlesque
9. Saved
10. Nashville Skyline

1. Blood on the Tracks
2. Blonde on Blonde
3. The Basement Tapes
4. Bringing it All Back Home
5. Love & Theft
6. Highway 61 Revisited
7. John Wesley Harding
8. Oh Mercy
9. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
10. Nashville Skyline

Hurricane
Like A Rolling Stone
I Want You
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Desolation Row
Lay Lady Lay
Knocking On Heavens Door
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Just Like A Woman
My Back Pages
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Gates of Eden
If Not For You
Boots of Spanish Leather

New Dylan recording apparently in advance of a new upcoming album. Here is the standard "Full Moon and Empty Arms."

http://www.bobdylan.com/us/home

I think it's beautiful.

I like his singing, but the song itself is boring. And I love standards.

Thanks Luther!

Love his voice and the song fits him perfectly. Glad to hear it'll be on his new album.

beautiful.  Thanks for the link captain.  gotta take another break, this post is taking forever... and I've got friends over tonight for a listening party.  Maybe we will play some Bob.

Love the linked song. It really suits Bob and highlights how truly great his backing band are. Love it.

I love the basement tapes, its Americana its finest....


A wall of sound Bob Dylan cover....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdcs61yC3bQ

I could only think of a top three----I'm not a fan of Dylan as a performer although I'm the first to admit he's a prodigious songwriter.

1. Highway 61 Revisited
2. The Basement Tapes
3. Blonde on Blonde

1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Ballad of A Thin Man (live, with The Band)
3. Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

I deleted my earlier post because parts of it could have been taken as disrespectful. Anyway, since then I've been listening to all the Dylan albums I hadn't previously heard.  Although it didn't make my list, I was surprised how listenable "Shot Of Love" is, it might even be my favourite Dylan album of the eighties. [EDIT - no. Relistened to "Oh Mercy". That still takes the title.]

Albums:


1. Blonde on Blonde
2. Bringing it All Back Home
3. Highway 61 Revisited
4. Blood On The Tracks
5. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
6. Freewheelin'
7. The Times They Are A-Changin'
8. Basement Tapes
9. Street-Legal
10. Desire

If the Basement Tapes don't count then I guess John Wesley Harding.


Songs:

Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
One of Us Must Know
I Want You
Like A Rolling Stone
Hard Rain A-Gonna Fall
Idiot Wind
Visions of Johanna
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Mr Tambourine Man
It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

1) Blood on the Tracks
2) Highway 61 Revisited
3) Nashville Skyline
4) Desire
5) Street Legal
6) Oh Mercy
7) Planet Waves
8) Slow Train Coming
9) Time Out of Mind
10)Shot of Love or Freewheelin'

 I'm with you except I would add Lay Lady Lay.

Tastes are tastes, but to call an artist's entire discography unlistenable is pretty ignorant. And we're talking about Bob fucking Dylan here.

I can only assume they're talking about the sound of Dylan's voice. Now that i can understand----either you love it or you hate it----but I can't believe they mean his compositions! That would be crazy...

"Tastes are tastes" is the key here, and I don't think "ignorant" is a fair criticism of them. But what I would say is, if these posters find as unlistenable all but two or three of the songs of someone generally considered to be an absolute master of rock-era pop music (for lack of a better term), they are in an extreme minority. It's fine to inhabit that space. But it's a tiny, lonely space.