Desolation Row (track)
by Bob Dylan
Year: 1998
From the album The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (track #5)
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Desolation Row appears on the following album(s) by Bob Dylan:
- Highway 61 Revisited (track #9) (1965)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (track #5) (this album) (1998)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (track #22) (2005)
- MTV Unplugged (track #7) (1995)
- The Original Mono Recordings (track #67) (compilation) (2010)
- The Real Royal Albert Hall 1966 Concert (track #5) (2016)
- The 1966 Live Recordings (track #5) (compilation) (2016)
- The 1966 Live Recordings (track #20) (compilation) (2016)
- The 1966 Live Recordings (track #36) (compilation) (2016)
- The 1966 Live Recordings (track #50) (compilation) (2016)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/31/2026 17:37 |  HoldenM | 9,496 | 91/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 05:47 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,011 | 71/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2025 21:00 | Smith | 2,746 | 84/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2024 15:22 | AndyLish79 | 13,218 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2024 03:25 |  AAL2014 | 40,658 | 76/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.7/100, a mean average of 86.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.5.
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