This album has been added to 6 private lists and 19 public lists:

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  Albummers

  Dale Cooper

  Kealan

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  1965

  James

  Dylan 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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  Every Album I've ever listened to (in order)

  sayyidjammy

  8/10

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  2025 - Week 22: Rob's Listening Log #9

  Rob Ryan

  The best album of all time?

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  1001Albums

  Neil Hopkins

  Like 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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  2024-10

  vertino

  1001albums:326

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  Bob
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  Everything I've listened to

  Ice
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  2025

  Ice
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  1960’s Album

  Ben B
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  Favorite Albums of All Time

  Harrison VanDolah
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  Joseph La Rocca’s new list #3

  Joseph La Rocca
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  Twenty Five Greatest Albums Of All Time

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