I think Dylan's triptych of albums around 1966 is possibly the greatest 3 album run ever.
1. Bringing it all back home
2. highway 69
3. blonde on blonde
These 3 albums are almost perfect, anyone agree?
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sorry
I really wanted to use the word 'triptych' in a thread.
I don't even know if its in the right context.
Triumverate?
maybe...
though, for me, it'd be better if it were 'another side...' instead if 'bringing it all back home'.
bit of a freudian slip there on highway 61!?
Nope
Bringing it all back homes deserves to be there just for the last 3 tracks.
oops
i wuz watching porn on another tab
those three albums are really, really amazing
if not the greatest album run, it's certainly all the way up there. what's even more impressing to me, is the ridiculously high quality of ALL albums from (including) "freewheelin'..." up to (including) "blonde on blonde".
and talk about historical importance! basically every singer/songwriter since is indebted to dylan and that early string of mindblowing records.
^This entirely.
i think
you can make that argument all through Dylan's career.
For example, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline and Self Portrait (most underrated album ever) are just as impressive or Planet Waves, Blood on the Tracks and Desire ?
Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft and Modern Times ain't too shabby either.
Before any backlash starts about Self Portrait, I urge you to revisit it. It really is a great album
Oh, you're undoubtedly right
There's brilliance in all of the albums. I love Love and Theft and Modern Times and have lots of time for Blood on the Tracks and John Wesley Harding but for me the original gnarled troubadour with the cheese grater voice is the Dylan I'll always love most.
^^: yes! well, apart from the late 70s + 80s output
dylan's discography is pretty much mindblowing in terms of quality, and i heartily agree that pretty much all his 60s albums are essential. a slight dip qualitywise in the early 70s, but he returns with a vengeance on blood on the tracks and desire. and my god, listening to the rolling thunder bootleg proves how great live performer he was/is as well. for me, things get sticky after desire. i pretty much avoid late 70s + all his 80s records. from time out of mind and onwards, he's once more positioned himself as one the most interesting songwriters of our time.
^^^I also agree with this.
Was listening to street leagl yesterday and while I think it has some good tracks it really doesn't measure up.
Rolling thunder live is fucking immense!
80's not all bad
Whilst a lot of his output was poor (I have a theory that anyone that was good in the 60's wasn't any good in the 80's) you can't ignore Oh Mercy which is pretty good stuff.
Added to that, Blind Willie McTell (Infidel's out take) is probably the greatest song he ever did
I agree 100%
These albums came out (please correct me if I'm wrong) within 18 months of one another, the first of the 3 coming out when he was 24. For me that is staggering songwriting and consistency for someone of such a young age, within these 3 albums he changed the way rock records were written forever and evrybody since has been influenced whether they realise it or not by these 3 records.
Also from Dylans point of view it took a lot of balls to move away from the acoustic folk comfort zone and get a band behind him which he did during this time.
I fucking love these 3 albums but i still think Blood on the tracks is his best!
blonde on blonde
.. I reeeally want to like it but it's just not up there with the other two. It certainly has some of his greatest songs (visions of johanna for one) but as an album... I'm still not convinced.
hmmm
It's much harder work than the other two
but is probably his masterpiece.
It does take a bit more getting use to then the other 2 but...
once the penny drops its every bit as good. Was blonde on blonde not the 1st rock double album or maybe the 1st mainstream double album?
Visions of Johanna, Just Like a woman, Rainy Day women, I want you, stuck inside of memphis etc etc are all fucking great songs.
The lyrical imagery of visions of johanna is fucking incredible.
'The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face'
Fuck knows what it means but I love it!
Those albums are ace.
Personally I feel Another Side...is pretty underrated and close to those three.
^
this. definitely. for me 'my back pages' is his greatest song.
i prefer highway 61
.
I agree about..
'Another side'... To Ramona, My back pages and Ballad in Plain D are underrated classics. Fucking great album.
Lset we not forget It ain't me babe...no no no
it ain't me babe! Fucking amazing song!
i agree 200%
Those 3 albums are simply amazing... blonde on blonde being the most mature of them and you can totally see where hes going and where he has been.... Bringing it all back home is like the missing link between folky legend and the first ever rockstar..... Highway 61 is pure genious, mythical lyrics and general stonerness lol tis my favorite of the 3.
although these are 3 great albums,
the only one that is "perfect" is highway 61.
^^^I have purposely not listened to Highway 61...
in weeks because I didn't stop listening to it for so long however this thread has inspired me to stop fucking about and crack it up full belt on the way home!
Tombstone blues - I fucking love it.