Bob Dylan (studio album) by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Year: 1962
Overall rank: 1,890th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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72/100 (from 476 votes)
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Award Top 5 albums of 1962 (4th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (184th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,890th)
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Bob Dylan bestography

Bob Dylan is ranked 16th best out of 78 albums by Bob Dylan on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited which is ranked number 27 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 29,648.

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From 05/03/2024 18:15
The kind of debut that doesn't exactly nail an artist's ethos, but it's not difficult to see what Dylan is attempting to cultivate here. His musicality is still a bit underdeveloped, he struggles to make these traditional folks songs his own, and it doesn't help that John Hammond's production is so patchy. And yet, the passion is there. The searching and yearning. It's not hard to see how Dylan could build something more sustainable from here.
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From 02/06/2024 23:51
Only some performers can echo the times they live in. Fewer can catch the zeitgeist of the time, and only one in a generation can shape the times to come.

Yet, even for the evident heir apparent to Woodie Guthrie's crown, this performer, due to his youthful inexperience, can only offer glimpses of what's to come.

He is, at this time at the transitional point where the tide is on the horizon; a tide that will soon enough rise to meet the high walls of the mighty fortress enforced by the Old Guard, the rulers of the age.

It is, of course, in no small part, thanks to the works of this performer, that we know what lies beyond those fortress walls.

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From 01/02/2022 15:16
I am coming to this album late on after knowing Dylan for years - but I haven't been what you would call a folkie. I have opened up to it more in recent years and so delved in here. I think I was right to wait as although I like it - and some cracking tracks like Talkin New York, House of the Rising Sun and Song To Woody - it isn't amongst my favourite Dylan or even that folk albums I have since found
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From 11/26/2021 23:26
Not Dylan's best album but very interesting of course and some clear signs of what was to come later on in his career
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From 11/20/2020 23:09
Forte estreia do menino Dylan! Versões poderosas e o começo do letrista que viria a ser!
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From 10/03/2020 23:40
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Best tracks: In My Time of Dyin', House of the Rising Sun
Worst tracks: Fixin' to Die, Freight Train Blues
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From 10/01/2020 03:13
Tenía más altas expectativas. El album debut de Bob Dylan, lanzado en 1962, en mi opinión tiene temas muy olvidables, además de la baja calidad en la producción de ese tiempo. Hace un par de días escuché The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan por primera vez, siendo ese el segundo album de Bob Dylan que escuché (después de Highway 61 Revisited). Lo amé y decidí escuchar toda su discografía. Siendo este album debut el tercer disco que escucho, puedo decir que de los tres es el que menos he disfrutado, pero si hay algo que me gusta es que, por lo que veo más adelante en su discografía, Bob Dylan mantiene su esencia de escribir letras filosóficas y usa su inseparable armónica. Lamento ser un poco duro con este album, pero, por lo que veo, su discografía solo mejora. Pronto seguiré con el resto de su trabajo.
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Average Track Rating = 78.84
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From 05/24/2019 03:45
The start of a legend. Not a favorite album of mine, but it's clear in it's influence and roots. Here, on full display, Dylan is slowing chiseling out what he will become: the voice of a generation.
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From 10/08/2018 14:42
Song to Woody alone makes this album an all time great. Shows the promise of Dylan's writing for the years to come.
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Best Albums of 1962
1. Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music by Ray Charles
2. Howlin' Wolf by Howlin' Wolf
3. Waltz For Debby by Bill Evans Trio
4. Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
5. Green Onions by Booker T. & The M.G.'s
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10. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins
11. Oh Yeah by Charles Mingus
12. Takin' Off by Herbie Hancock
13. Crying by Roy Orbison
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15. Mosaic by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
16. Surfin' Safari by The Beach Boys
17. Peter, Paul And Mary by Peter, Paul And Mary
18. Coltrane by John Coltrane Quartet
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20. The Original Telstar: The Sounds Of The Tornadoes by The Tornados
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