Real Live
by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan bestography
Real Live is ranked 51st best out of 81 albums by Bob Dylan on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bob Dylan is Highway 61 Revisited which is ranked number 29 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 25,043.
(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
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  sssvnnn | Top 80 Music Albums of 1984 | 22/80 | 4 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1984 | 86/100 | 1 |
| 2025 | DJStuart79 | Top 61 Music Albums of 1984 | 54/61 | 1 |
| 2025 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 25 Music Albums of 1984 | 1/25 | 5 |
| 2025 | martintho | Top 40 Music Albums of 1984 | 12/40 | 4 |
| 2024 | byuzak | Top 96 Music Albums of 1984 | 56/96 | 2 |
| 2023 | Moondance | Dylan albums rated | 55/68 | - |
| 2021 | bea | Bob Dylan | 52/63 | - |
| 2021 |  Mercury | Bob Dylan Chart | 43/73 | - |
| 2020 |  21stCenturySchiz | Top 12 Music Albums of 1984 | 11/12 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 17 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 53 | |||
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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 | 7,057 | 79/100 |
| ! | 02/11/2025 16:24 | jokerman1965 | 120 | 83/100 |
| ! | 04/21/2024 07:00 | Tuur | 955 | 67/100 |
Rating metrics:
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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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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.
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.
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.
wow, was shocked at the incredible quality of this one, given the low rate the album had here
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)
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