Real Live
by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan bestography
Real Live is ranked 49th 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 26,720.
(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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Real Live track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Real Live rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 1984 | 22/80 | 4 |
| 2025 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 25 Music Albums of 1984 | 1/25 | 5 |
| 2025 | martintho | Top 40 Music Albums of 1984 | 12/40 | 4 |
| 2025 | DJStuart79 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1984 | 54/61 | 1 |
| 2024 | byuzak | Top 96 Music Albums of 1984 | 56/96 | 2 |
| 2023 | Moondance | Dylan albums rated | 55/68 | - |
| 2022 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2021 |  Mercury | Bob Dylan Chart | 43/73 | - |
| 2021 | bea | Bob Dylan | 52/63 | - |
| 2020 |  21stCenturySchiz | Top 12 Music Albums of 1984 | 11/12 | 1 |
| 2019 | ReelBigToph | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 72/100 | 1 |
| 2018 | glynspsa | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 27/100 | 4 |
| 2018 |  badseed | Bob Dylan Albums Ranked | 41/58 | - |
| 2018 | Sandrof1969 | Top 50 Music Albums of the 1980s | 3/50 | 19 |
| 2018 | Sandrof1969 | Bob Dylan Live album - My chart | 1/9 | - |
| 2018 | Sandrof1969 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 18/100 | 17 |
| 2011 | Blind Boy Grunt | Top 48 Greatest Music Albums | 45/48 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 58 | |||
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Real Live ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 05/27/2025 21:07 | mostlymor | 6,822 | 79/100 | |
| 02/11/2025 16:24 | jokerman1965 | 120 | 83/100 | |
| 04/21/2024 07:00 | Tuur | 950 | 67/100 | |
| 11/09/2023 13:57 |  Tamthebam | 22,936 | 69/100 | |
| 02/12/2023 15:16 |  MW19704U | 6,990 | 59/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 64.8/100, a mean average of 62.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.4.
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This 10 track live album, covering 7 songs from the 60's & 3 from the 70's, is OK. Dylan is in fine voice and the band is strong. I'm not sure that it reveals anything surprising or new in the way of Dylan concerts ~ he has done over 3830 (as at August 2022) in his 60 year career ~ but for an idea of what he sounded like 'live' in the early 80's, it is a fair representation.
adnielsen 06/19/2018 03:44 | #216990
Surprisingly a solid live disc from Dylan in the 80’s. Alternate lyrics for “Tangled Up In Blue” are awesome. Really good versions of “It Ain’t Me, Babe”, “I and I”, and “Masters of War”. This is certainly more for the Dylan diehard but it definitely has some solid content.
Sandrof1969 02/09/2018 22:31 | #207483
Dylan allestisce una band dal taglio british con l'ex Bluesbreakers Colin Allen alla batteria, l'ex Faces Ian McLagan alle tastiere e soprattutto l'ex Bluesbreakers ed ex Rolling Stones Mick Taylor alla chitarra solista e propone alcuni suoi classici in versione rock blues dalla resa eccezionale. Taylor fa faville in "Highway 61 revisited", in "Masters of War" ed in "Ballad of a thin man", l'ospite Carlos Santana è la ciliegina sulla torta in "Tombstone blues". Il "mio" personale Bob Dylan
wow, was shocked at the incredible quality of this one, given the low rate the album had here
As with most 'official' Dylan live albums, it's incredibly disappointing. Highway 61, has a good Stones groove, but the rest is a bit weak. Maybe the whole gig would have been better. Maybe we'll get it on the bootleg series at some point.
sssvnnn 02/03/2015 14:04 | #133828
I think it´s a good dylan live-album.
(I don´t know many, but I like this one)
If you'd like to hear Dylan's sixties classics with Mick Taylor on guitar... Here you go. The words to Tangled Up In Blue re-written. Dylan claims these are the more fully realised lyrics (as if the Blood on the Tracks lyrics weren't). Hey, it's his song.
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