Highway 61 Revisited
by Bob Dylan
This album has been added to 9 private lists and 22 public lists:
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Top 100 All Time
Cooper AllenThis is the least annoying his harmonica ever is. This album is the last really good Bob Dylan album before I start to lose interest. It has such a specific tone and feel, I don’t know how to describe it. I like that he has organ.
Ballad of a Thin Man is a very surreal song that paints an odd picture.
Queen Jane gets stuck in my head all the time.
But my two favorites are Like a Rolling Stone and Tombstone blues.
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Albummers
Dale CooperChoice: Kealan
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1965
JamesDylan takes folk storytelling, blues structure, surreal humor, and electric rock energy and fuses them into something volatile and completely self-assured. “Like a Rolling Stone” changed the scale and ambition of rock songwriting immediately, while “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “Desolation Row” stretch language into strange, cinematic territory. The backing musicians give the songs rough momentum rather than polished precision, which keeps the album feeling alive and unpredictable. Dylan’s voice sounds mocking, exhausted, amused, and accusatory sometimes within the same verse. The album redefined what lyrical complexity in popular music could look like. It still feels impatient with every convention surrounding it.
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2025 - Week 22: Rob's Listening Log #9
Rob RyanThe best album of all time?
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1001Albums
Neil HopkinsLike Bringing it all Back Home, this album is also full of complex, multi layered songs, backed with an electric band playing with gusto and sung by Bob in his trademark honking nasal drawl. Every time I listen to Desolation Row, I swear that someone has put extra verses in that I’ve never heard before, and they still feel relevant - the bit about the passengers on Titanic arguing about which side they’re on feels very on the nose today. Bobtastic!
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vertino1001albums:326
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