What is the best Bob Dylan album of all time?

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

Blood on the Tracks - ranking option ranked #1

Blood on the Tracks

Dylan's 1975 masterpiece widely considered his most emotionally raw and personal album, featuring 'Tangled Up in Blue'.

1/15
Blonde on Blonde - ranking option ranked #2

Blonde on Blonde

The landmark 1966 double album that pushed rock into new territory, featuring 'Visions of Johanna' and 'Just Like a Woman'.

2/15
Highway 61 Revisited - ranking option ranked #3

Highway 61 Revisited

The 1965 album containing 'Like a Rolling Stone', widely cited as one of the greatest rock records ever made.

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Bringing It All Back Home - ranking option ranked #4

Bringing It All Back Home

Dylan's 1965 electric folk pivot featuring 'Mr. Tambourine Man' and 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.

4/15
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - ranking option ranked #5

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'.

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Time Out of Mind - ranking option ranked #6

Time Out of Mind

Dylan's haunting 1997 comeback album that won the Grammy for Album of the Year, featuring 'Not Dark Yet'.

6/15
John Wesley Harding - ranking option ranked #7

John Wesley Harding

The stripped-back 1967 country-folk album that became a touchstone for the Americana movement.

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Desire - ranking option ranked #8

Desire

The vivid 1976 storytelling album featuring 'Hurricane' and 'Isis', recorded with Scarlet Rivera on violin.

8/15
Nashville Skyline - ranking option ranked #9

Nashville Skyline

Dylan's surprise 1969 country album introducing a smooth new voice and the duet 'Girl from the North Country' with Johnny Cash.

9/15
The Times They Are a-Changin' - ranking option ranked #10

The Times They Are a-Changin'

The stark 1964 protest album that cemented Dylan's role as the voice of a generation.

10/15
"Love and Theft" - ranking option ranked #11

"Love and Theft"

Dylan's acclaimed 2001 album blending Americana, blues and rockabilly, released on September 11.

11/15
Modern Times - ranking option ranked #12

Modern Times

The Grammy-winning 2006 album praised for its late-career mastery of blues, rock and jazz influences.

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Rough and Rowdy Ways - ranking option ranked #13

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.

13/15
Oh Mercy - ranking option ranked #14

Oh Mercy

The critically revered 1989 comeback produced by Daniel Lanois, featuring 'Everything Is Broken' and 'Most of the Time'.

14/15
Planet Waves - ranking option ranked #15

Planet Waves

Dylan's intimate 1974 album recorded with The Band, featuring the tender 'Forever Young'.

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