"Love And Theft"
by Bob Dylan

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"Love And Theft" by Bob Dylan
Year: 2001
Release date: 2001-09-11
Overall rank: 1,138th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 508 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 2001 (16th)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (168th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,138th)

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Bob Dylan bestography

"Love And Theft" is ranked 12th 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 24,907.

Bob Dylan album bestography « Higher ranked (922nd)
Nashville Skyline This album (1,138th)
"Love And Theft" Lower ranked (1,256th) »
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"Love And Theft" track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Average Rating: 83 (100 votes)Comments: View 0
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Mississippi
Average Rating: 87 (111 votes)Comments: View 1
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Summer Days
Average Rating: 82 (92 votes)Comments: View 0
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Bye And Bye
Average Rating: 78 (85 votes)Comments: View 0
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Lonesome Day Blues
Average Rating: 79 (83 votes)Comments: View 0
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Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Average Rating: 79 (84 votes)Comments: View 0
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High Water (For Charley Patton)
Average Rating: 83 (88 votes)Comments: View 0
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Moonlight
Average Rating: 80 (83 votes)Comments: View 0
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Honest With Me
Average Rating: 81 (83 votes)Comments: View 0
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Po' Boy
Average Rating: 82 (92 votes)Comments: View 0
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Cry A While
Average Rating: 79 (83 votes)Comments: View 0
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Sugar Baby
Average Rating: 82 (85 votes)Comments: View 0

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"Love And Theft" rankings

"Love And Theft" rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,138th | 2000s rank: 168th | 2001 rank: 16th  Overall chart history
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 !		10/05/2026 17:52 Siromynian  Ratings distribution  1,78974/100
 
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 !		07/05/2026 17:31 Leonard  Ratings distribution  6,63170/100

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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.


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From 10/12/2014 17:03 | #124237 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A latter day masterpiece from the "Picasso of song". A trip through Americana. Mississippi is the gem here. His delivery is the key. Po' Boy is fantastic as is Sugar Baby. Some great blues. Lonesome Day Blues is badass & Cry A While too (What an odd meter / time signature on this track). I love the crooner tunes too "Moonlight" & "Bye & Bye". Floater is so unique with some great lines! High Water is the other classic but I prefer this one live with a different arrangement. Only track that I don't love is "Summer Days". It's one of the more popular tracks & I usually love ole 50's retro style tunes but it's just alright to me. I love the rough jagged voice throughout much of the album. "Honest With Me" very catchy & fast gets you movin' Great album! MEZ
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From 03/19/2009 14:27 | #3190 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Hmm. Funny how the rankings work on this site. Love and Theft, one of Dylan's best (it's wilder and faster and more Southwestern than the digitally enhanced, but equally spectacular Time Out of Mind) and widely hailed as one of the finest albums of the last decade only comes in at number 98 for the year 2001. That must be a glitch, because except for Is This It by the Strokes, you won't find a better album from that year.
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From 02/25/2013 23:08 | #66122 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
How does Bob Dylan make an album like this nearly 40 years after starting his career, and 35 years since his peak? There will never be another Dylan. This is a totally different kind of music than what he excelled at in the Freewheelin Dylan' era, or the Blonde on Blonde era, or the Blood on the Tracks era. It's also so different than the 80's Dylan, and much better too.
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Very nice album. Bob's voice is a bit ragged, but it suits the music just fine. The backing band is excellent, they shine on every track. The slide guitar on "Honest With Me" is VERY nice! If you're a fan of Mr. Dylan's music, definitely pick this one up.
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From 11/18/2015 09:27 | #153081 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Outside of blood on tracks and the mid sixties trilogy his most brilliant concoction. The cherry on the top by an artist with the ability to evolve and regenerate thsat has never been seen before and most likely we'll never see again.
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