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Today's album of the day

Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1965.
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Overall rank: 102
Average rating: 86/100 (from 1656 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. She Belongs To Me
3. Maggie's Farm
4. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
5. Outlaw Blues
6. On The Road Again
7. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
8. Mr. Tambourine Man
9. Gates Of Eden
10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
11. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

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[HoldenM]

Early Bob. Ain't nothin' else like it.

Track picks
2. She Belongs To Me
8. Mr. Tambourine Man
10. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
11. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
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[DommeDamian]

In Denmark, we have this infamous music-critic called Thomas Treo (btw Treo is a headache-pill XD). He calls out/slanders everybody, and doesn’t like anyone. Except Bob Dylan. And just like Treo has loads of attitude, one of Dylan’s masterpieces Bringing It All Back Home has loads of attitude as well. So much attitude, it’s undeniably dedicated. Yet the heart is way too big as well; Honesty and passion are keywords for the music. Generally speaking, one of the hardest discographies to pick a favorite album from is Bob; he has perhaps the greatest of all time, or least my favorite. But right now, I have to bring up Bringing It All Back Home simply because it has a little bit of it all (the emotionality, the hits, the replayability etc).
The A-side to this album, is mostly filled up with my personal all-time favorite songs using the 12-bar blues form. The political Subterranean Homesick Blues (that song form is quite complicated in this exhibition), the easygoing super-sweet She Belongs To Me, Maggie’s Farm which substantially’s about giving the middle finger to the things that loves limiting you,and becoming who you glorify to be, the fast and fun rocker Outlaw Blues, the straightforward head-bumper On The Road Again, as well as the humorous stream-of-consciousness stack Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream. The exception is the exceptionally stunning Love Minus Zero, and its instrumentation/vibe (exclusively the guitar) is heart-flattering to ‘no limit’. Throughout the songs, small doses of slicker guitar lingering in the background, strengthens every single message being portrayed.
And then there’s side B, which indisputably is wanna my all-time favorite sides on any record, perhaps the greatest four track run on any album I have ever heard. Besides 115th Dream, side A was the short instantaneous cuts, whereas B has the long, completely stark-tight, spiritual (folkroots-tributepaying) supreme epics. Even when just looking at the length and song-titles on my vinyl, it raises my curiosity like heaven. These four tracks has a rarity of exciting me when I listen to them, and they also entrance with some of my favorites melody-lines in Dylan’s entire discography, possibly in folk in general. The outermost song on this side, is the incredible Mr. Tambourine Man, the song that unlocked the doors to psychedelic music in 65, and that should be the quintessential folk song in my life. The entire song is a personality trait. Then we have the sinistrous Gates of Eden: the sonic-visceral manifestation drips chills down the spine and back, as the scene in each strophe gets darker. And then comes the honest semi-philosophical It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleeding which lyrically crunches the soul, rhythmically pumps the blood. And as if it couldn’t get any better, the inmost track on the B-side is It’s All Over Now Baby Blue. A criminally enigmatic ‘lullaby’, full of different meanings, and shines of undying appeal and personality, while marking a personal favorite closer to an album in all of Bob Dylan’s albums (beside all albums released in that era).
His artistic itinerary produced two fundamental innovations: the blues of desolation and the visionary ballad. A myriad of musical elements (folk, blues, beat), the discomfort of existentialism, the mythological personality, the literary citations are all fused together in a unique block of sound and emotion. I feel the same way with Bringing It All Back Home, as Phil Ochs feels about Highway 61. Bringing It All Back Home is an all-time favorite album of mine, not just the 1960s but in music history. It wows me that just a few years ago, I couldn’t stand this guy. In present-time, I feel like the Nobel price didn’t deserve him.
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[CharlieBarley]

One Dylan album I am spinning a lot these days.
Contains my all-time Dylan favourite song - 'Mr Tambourine Man'.
By the way, trying to create a Top Ten Bob Dylan's songs list is an impossible task. I've tried many times and I always fail.