What is the best Bob Dylan album of all time?

By YPB Team

Bob Dylan's discography spans six decades of folk, rock, and poetry. Which album stands as his greatest work?

  1. Blood on the Tracks — ranked #11
    Blood on the Tracks
    Dylan's 1975 masterpiece widely considered his most emotionally raw and personal album, featuring 'Tangled Up in Blue'.
  2. Blonde on Blonde — ranked #22
    Blonde on Blonde
    The landmark 1966 double album that pushed rock into new territory, featuring 'Visions of Johanna' and 'Just Like a Woman'.
  3. Highway 61 Revisited — ranked #33
    Highway 61 Revisited
    The 1965 album containing 'Like a Rolling Stone', widely cited as one of the greatest rock records ever made.
  4. Bringing It All Back Home — ranked #44
    Bringing It All Back Home
    Dylan's 1965 electric folk pivot featuring 'Mr. Tambourine Man' and 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.
  5. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — ranked #55
    The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
    The 1963 album that introduced Dylan as a singular protest poet with 'Blowin' in the Wind' and 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'.
  6. Time Out of Mind — ranked #66
    Time Out of Mind
    Dylan's haunting 1997 comeback album that won the Grammy for Album of the Year, featuring 'Not Dark Yet'.
  7. John Wesley Harding — ranked #77
    John Wesley Harding
    The stripped-back 1967 country-folk album that became a touchstone for the Americana movement.
  8. Desire — ranked #88
    Desire
    The vivid 1976 storytelling album featuring 'Hurricane' and 'Isis', recorded with Scarlet Rivera on violin.
  9. Nashville Skyline — ranked #99
    Nashville Skyline
    Dylan's surprise 1969 country album introducing a smooth new voice and the duet 'Girl from the North Country' with Johnny Cash.
  10. The Times They Are a-Changin' — ranked #1010
    The Times They Are a-Changin'
    The stark 1964 protest album that cemented Dylan's role as the voice of a generation.
  11. "Love and Theft" — ranked #1111
    "Love and Theft"
    Dylan's acclaimed 2001 album blending Americana, blues and rockabilly, released on September 11.
  12. Modern Times — ranked #1212
    Modern Times
    The Grammy-winning 2006 album praised for its late-career mastery of blues, rock and jazz influences.
  13. Rough and Rowdy Ways — ranked #1313
    Rough and Rowdy Ways
    Dylan's final studio album (2020) featuring the epic 17-minute elegy 'Murder Most Foul' and his Nobel Prize-era reflections.
  14. Oh Mercy — ranked #1414
    Oh Mercy
    The critically revered 1989 comeback produced by Daniel Lanois, featuring 'Everything Is Broken' and 'Most of the Time'.
  15. Planet Waves — ranked #1515
    Planet Waves
    Dylan's intimate 1974 album recorded with The Band, featuring the tender 'Forever Young'.

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