People generally assumed that this album of hymns, carols, and popular festive songs was ironic, but Dylan insisted otherwise. “Skylark” features some nice guitar work, and “That Old Black Magic” injects some energy at the end, but the album is little more than an elderly man indulging himself.īob Dylan singing Christmas songs just seems wrong. Fallen Angels beats Triplicate only by being less tediously long. The second album of Dylan’s ‘Sinatra period’ is a marginally more interesting affair, but it’s lacking a lot of inspiration. Triplicate’s opening track, “I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plans”, is pleasantly upbeat, but after that it’s a dreary road ahead. It’s an overwhelmingly long record (30 songs), and the plodding instrumentation doesn’t do much to keep listeners engaged. It’s fun and features several ‘woop-woops’, but it’s not very Dylan.Īfter releasing two whole albums of syrupy Sinatra covers that nobody really wanted, Dylan thought he’d release a triple album with even more syrup.
The only track worthy of note is the jaunty “Silvio”, co-written with The Grateful Dead. It’s Dylan at his most disappointing, following up 1987’s (mostly) mediocre Knocked Out Loaded with something even worse. Not many people have heard of this one, and rightly so. I’m fairly sure most of this ranking could change tomorrow, but #38 and #1 are set in stone. It turns out you can have too much of a good thing.Īnyway, here are Dylan’s 38 studio albums ranked from worst to best.
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On top of that, he’s put out 15 live albums (comprising 68 CDs), and 14 volumes of his Bootleg Series (that’s another 58 CDs). There aren’t many musical discographies quite so gargantuan as Bob Dylan’s, containing an almighty 38 studio albums. For some reason I persevered, and it wasn’t long before I was searching for Dylan box-sets on Amazon (still the best purchase I ever made). Bad singing, abrasive harmonica, overly long songs, etc. I think Blonde On Blonde was the first album I tried, and I found it to be pretty difficult listening. It didn’t feel pretentious at the time, I swear.
I started listening to Bob Dylan about four years ago, having put a few of his albums (pilfered from my Dad’s collection) onto my iPod Classic before a trip through Eastern Europe. Tambourine Fan: Bob Dylan’s studio albums ranked Who would be mad enough to single-handedly rank Bob Dylan's 38 studio albums? Why, me of course
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