Christmas In The Heart (studio album)
by Bob Dylan
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Christmas In The Heart is ranked 54th best out of 80 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 27,337.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 69 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 08/07/2025 13:56 | jacobeddy1984 | 27 | 94/100 |
| ! | 05/23/2025 12:13 | Pienk | 678 | 81/100 |
| ! | 03/18/2025 20:46 | hoffmcar0000 | 83 | 66/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2025 15:40 | fabm0 | 6,506 | 59/100 |
| ! | 02/27/2025 20:45 | MaxStorm98 | 3,798 | 89/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 59.4/100, a mean average of 58.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 58.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.7.
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This is neither the best of Dylan nor the best of Christmas. In the former case, it would be somewhere near the bottom of the stocking..
What can one say? There have been many artists who have done Xmas albums ~ so why not Bob? I have the album and I play it every Xmas ~ I find it adorable in a strange way ~ hilarious too ~ nice to share a part of Xmas with my favourite songwriter ~
Bob attempts to put together a collection of mainly traditional carols and favourites on here, my main gripe with it is that most of the time he sings them like a drunk Louis Armstrong impersonator (and normally I don't mind his latter era vocals). Didn't work for me
Bork 10/19/2019 14:28 | #243911
Hit and miss Christmas album. Here Comes Santa Claus opens up strong with Dylan's vocals doing the song justice, and Hark the Herald Angel Sings is quite soothing despite the ever-present raspy grit. Too many of the standards unfortunately fall flat, but the whimsy of Must Be Santa shows up just past the midpoint and makes it worthwhile.
Sandrof1969 02/20/2018 21:29 | #208997
Che Dylan riesca quasi sempre a stupire non è una novità da molto tempo; che riuscisse a farlo, però, pubblicando un disco natalizio per beneficenza non era ancora accaduto. Accadde nel 2009 e le canzoni di Natale, nelle mani di Dylan, perdono quel buonismo esasperato, falso, ipocrita per conservare solamente la bontà che quelle canzoni dovrebbero trasmettere, insieme ad un senso di sicurezza e di calore.
PatrickD is spot on. This is hilarious!
eclab 04/30/2014 09:44 | #110405
Bob Dylan isn't well suited to carols, but this is still better than "Down In The Groove".
PatrickD 12/24/2013 22:07 | #98705
This is seriously hilarious! He sounds like a drunk homeless man half the time. Top of my list for funniest Christmas albums.
Mercury 12/28/2012 06:54 | #59194
Look! As a Christmas album this ain't half bad! Actually it's quite good in parts. My fave Xmas record, outside of Charlie Brown.
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