Bob Dylan
by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan bestography
Bob Dylan is ranked 16th 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 25,313.
(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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Bob Dylan track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bob Dylan 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 |  Sandrof1969 | Top 10 Music Albums of 1962 | 9/10 | 1 |
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Top 90 Music Albums of 1962 | 1/90 | 5 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1962 | 11/20 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 72 Music Albums of 1962 | 3/72 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Taka | Top 97 Music Albums of the 1960s | 90/97 | 2 |
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 11 Music Albums of 1962 | 2/11 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Top 5 Music Albums of 1962 | 4/5 | 2 |
| 2026 |  pedro1976 | Bob Dylan, my ranking | 18/18 | - |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 45 Music Albums of 1962 | 31/45 | 2 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 24 Music Albums of 1962 | 18/24 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 253 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 877 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/29/2026 23:32 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 08/12/2026 15:12 | Jakor | 5,544 | 70/100 |
| ! | 08/01/2026 13:11 | Olli | 7,932 | 62/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.7/100, a mean average of 71.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.9.
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HoldenM 05/03/2024 18:15 | #303325
The kind of debut that doesn't exactly nail an artist's ethos, but it's not difficult to see what Dylan is attempting to cultivate here. His musicality is still a bit underdeveloped, he struggles to make these traditional folks songs his own, and it doesn't help that John Hammond's production is so patchy. And yet, the passion is there. The searching and yearning. It's not hard to see how Dylan could build something more sustainable from here. (Edited)
Only some performers can echo the times they live in. Fewer can catch the zeitgeist of the time, and only one in a generation can shape the times to come.
Yet, even for the evident heir apparent to Woodie Guthrie's crown, this performer, due to his youthful inexperience, can only offer glimpses of what's to come.
He is, at this time at the transitional point where the tide is on the horizon; a tide that will soon enough rise to meet the high walls of the mighty fortress enforced by the Old Guard, the rulers of the age.
It is, of course, in no small part, thanks to the works of this performer, that we know what lies beyond those fortress walls.
9/10! (Edited)
I am coming to this album late on after knowing Dylan for years - but I haven't been what you would call a folkie. I have opened up to it more in recent years and so delved in here. I think I was right to wait as although I like it - and some cracking tracks like Talkin New York, House of the Rising Sun and Song To Woody - it isn't amongst my favourite Dylan or even that folk albums I have since found
Not Dylan's best album but very interesting of course and some clear signs of what was to come later on in his career
VictorVale 11/20/2020 23:09 | #261156
Forte estreia do menino Dylan! Versões poderosas e o começo do letrista que viria a ser!
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