Recently finished listening to all of Bob Dylan’s authorized studio releases, and here’s a ranked order of them in terms of how much I liked them:
1) Blonde on Blonde
2) Love and Theft
3) Highway 61 Revisited
4) Bringing it All Back Home
5) Time Out Of Mind
6) Together Through Life
7) Modern Times
8) The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
9) Oh Mercy
10) The Times They Are a Changin
11) Shot of Love
12) Another Side Of Bob Dylan
13) Shadows in the Night
14) John Wesley Harding
15) Blood on the Tracks
16) Tempest
17) Basement Tapes
18) Slow Train Comin
19) Bob Dylan I
20) Nashville Skyline
21) Street-Legal
22) Planet Waves
23) Desire
24) Under the Red Sky
25) World Gone Wrong
26) Infidels
27) Christmas in the Heart
28) New Morning
29) Saved
30) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
31) Self-Portrait
32) Good As I Been To You
33) Fallen Angels
34) Triplicate
35) Empire Burlesque
36) Down in the Groove
37) Knocked Out Loaded
Also, my son and I saw him last night in concert and it’s was quite a memorable and great show. Saw him in Philadelphia at the opening night at The Met, and the venue was fantastic. Had spotlights outside the venue. Some notes:
1)!Cry a While” was apparently set to Link Wray’s “Rumble.
2) A GREAT highlight was a cool version of “Scarlett Town” with the kid singing it standing up holding the mic all kinds of cool ways and every once in a while holding a pose of just standing there in his silver suit striking this certain cool pose he kept doing consisting of standing there with one hand on his hip. Coolness!
3)DID take awhile to figure out what songs he was doing- because he revamped them a lot! I forget what song it was to, but I really thought he placed it to the music of “Cold Irons Bound.”
4) He played no guitar but was at the piano. He sometimes stood up getting into it. Man, he can really play the piano! It was turned up, and he can really play!
5) Another highlight was “Like a Rolling Stone”: at some points the band just seemed to drop out and he sang lines in almost a sad way. It was beautiful and I won’t forget it.
6) Biggest highlight for me was “Blowin in the Wind” Tears were welling up. The arrangement was stunningly beautiful including a violin
7)!Early Roman Kings” was awesome
8)?Setlist:
