Yakman wrote:
Instead of the familiar challenge of a top 10, why not waste some time and rank them all in order?
1.Highway 61 revisited (1965) Best song: Like a rolling stone
2.Blonde on Blonde (1966) Best song: Visions of Johanna
3.Blood on the tracks (1975) Best song: Simple twist of fate
4.Love and theft (2001) Best song: Mississippi
5.Time out of mind (1997) Best song: Not Dark Yet
6.Street Legal (1978) Best song: Senor (tales of yankee power)
7.Oh mercy (1989) Best song: Where teardrops fall
9.Bringing it all back home (1965) Best song: It's alright ma
10.Basement tapes (1975) Best song: This wheel's on fire
11.Planet Waves (1974) Best song: Going, going, gone
12.Infidels (1983) Best song: Jokerman
13.The Freewheelin' (1963) Best song: Don't think twice, It's alright
14.Good as I been to you (1992) Best song: Frankie and Albert
15.World gone wrong (1993) Best song: Jack a-roe
16.Nashville Skyline (1969) Best song: Tonight I'll be staying here..
17.The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) Best song: Lonesome dea
18.Another side of Bob Dylan (1964) Best song: It ain't me babe
19.Desire (1976) Best song: One more cup of coffee
18.John Wesley Harding (1967) Best song: All along the watchtowe
19.Under the red sky (1990) Best song: Born in time
20.New Morning (1970) Best song: Man in me
21.Slow train coming (1979) Best song: I believe in you
22.Shot of Love (1981) Best song: Shot of love
23.Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (1973) Best song: Knocking on heav
24.Knocked out loaded (1986) Best song: Brownsville Girl
26.Empire Burlesque (1985) Best song: I'll renember you
27.Saved (1980) Best song: Solid rock
28.Down in the groove (1988) Best song: Ninety miles an hour
29.Self portrait (1970) Best song: All the tired horses
30.Bob Dylan (1962) Best song: Baby let me follow you down
31.Dylan (1973) Best song:.......
There! That's half an hour wasted!
To answer the poll question, no it's not a crap list, but I do disagree vehemently with you on some points. Which I'll say now in no particular order
*All the Tired Horses is a horrible song, and is nowhere near the best song on Self Portrait
*Bob Dylan the debut album, is a lot better than where you rank it, as is Dylan '73
*Desire is either #1 or #2 for me so it's horribly underrated on your list in my opinion.
My favorite songs on each album differ a good bit from yours most notably in the following instances.
Highway 61 - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Blood on the Tracks - You're Gonna Leave Me Lonesome When you Go
Empire Burlesque - Dark Eyes
Other than that though, it's not a bad list, and I wouldn't call it a crap list.