#Bob dylan discography numberd series

Loved this at the time, even if now it sounds like itвЂ™s coming from a particular time and place in DylanвЂ™s life, a tidy bluesy jam of a session with a wide range of musicians all around. Favourite track: Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) Still worthy of being passed around, itвЂ™s jaunty and still fun to play along with on my acoustic guitar. Probably the most bootlegged album in record history, thanks to The Band. I rediscovered this during the 2012 Olympics in London, freshly copied on to my iPod, the strangely touching nursery rhyme lyrics were the perfect nightly antidote during the busiest two weeks of my life. That first buy, which I duly borrowed back from my younger brother in April of 1995, when after hanging around the Point Depot for the afternoon and acting like one of the roadies before DylanвЂ™s gig, I found out where he was staying and showed up the following morning with this album to sign, which he did. The first of those solo acoustic albums, this is more upbeat and the delivery more telling, more Irish-influenced too, his Arthur McBride cut from the style of Paul Brady.

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Somehow I have this on vinyl and cassette, which is odd considering there is only one 11-minute song on the entire album thatвЂ™s worth listening to in any depth вЂ“ that favourite track he co-wrote with Sam Shepard. The first of his Frank Sinatra cover albums, 10 songs neatly delivered and best to listen to while cooking or making the bed, the live performances were astonishing. Favourite track: Rank Strangers to Me 35. I only ever got this on cassette and itвЂ™s a proper Dylan late-1980s mess in parts, even if the cheap covers are somewhat redeemed by the songs he co-wrote with the Grateful Dead. Favourite track: September of My Years 36. His own personal homage to the great American songbook, and beautifully packed, these three CDs and 30 songs are well covered, and covered well enough after one listening. Favourite track: Hark the Herald Angels Sing 37. IвЂ™m not too bothered, although every Christmas I swear I can hear that startling old vocal range from across the other side of the Wicklow Mountains. I lent my copy of this CD to Daniel Day-Lewis that Christmas of 2009 and never got it back. Favourite track: The Ballad of Ira Hayes 38.

Dylan (1973)Дespite the title, and interesting cover portrait, this was a throwaway album with no input whatsoever from Dylan or a single original song, made up of Colombia leftovers after he briefly jumped shop to Asylum Records. If I had ranked them yesterday or if I ranked them again tomorrow, the order could change again, couldnвЂ™t it? 39. ItвЂ™s a personal selection, based on what sounded вЂ“ and still sounds вЂ“ best to me. To mark DylanвЂ™s 80th birthday вЂ“ today вЂ“ IвЂ™ve ranked his 39 studio albums, which in many ways reflect not just his lifetime but also the vast influences around it and, of course, his often double-edged relationship with fans.

#Bob dylan discography numberd series

Not forgetting the 15 volumes of his Bootleg Series (another 60 CDs), his 12 live albums (comprising 68 CDs), the countless more non-album tracks and thousands of unofficial bootlegs. Hearing them for the first time вЂ“ the creative sustenance of the songs, their phrases and rhymes, the startling authenticity of his voice вЂ“ simply outplayed anything IвЂ™d heard before.Дylan now has 39 official studio albums to his name, beginning with that self-titled debut, released in March 1962, up to Rough and Rowdy Ways, released in June of 2020. Within a couple of years, IвЂ™d obsessively got hold of DylanвЂ™s entire back catalogue, by then 28 albums. Ian OвЂ™Riordan: Within a couple of years of first hearing Dylan, IвЂ™d obsessively got hold of his entire back catalogue Maybe Blonde on Blonde wasnвЂ™t meant to be listened to for the first time in the summer of 1992, or Saved for that matter, especially not in immediate succession.

So itвЂ™s his fault, really, because that first influence started something still not easily explained: from there I borrowed, or else stole, whatever other Dylan albums he had at the time, some on cassette such as Highway 61 Revisited, others such as Desire on vinyl, and after lifting too his copy of Robert SheltonвЂ™s biography, No Direction Home, thereвЂ™s been no looking back. This was his idea for a cheap Christmas present and sometime around that December of 1991, while in college in the US, I bought the self-titled debut album Bob Dylan as a gift for my younger brother. He asked me to check out the used record stores and see had they any early Dylan on vinyl. From The Basement Tapes to Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan superfan Ian OвЂ™Riordan ranks the singerвЂ™s studio albums