 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.94 The place to start. Electric Dylan tears up the rock'n'roll rule book. HIGHLIGHT - Like a Rolling Stone
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 | Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.48 Marriage break-up inspires Dylan to new songwriting heights. HIGHLIGHT - Idiot Wind
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 | Bringing It All Back Home by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 One side acoustic, one side electric, two sides genius. Transitional album from folk singer to rock visionary. The acoustic side is sustained poetic brilliance. HIGHLIGHT - It's Alright Ma
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 | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.49 His best 'folk' album contains some brilliant lovesongs as well as some of his most inspired political songs. HIGHLIGHT - Masters of War
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 | Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.50 Third of the great mid-60s trilogy. Claimed as rock's first double album it has Dylan at the peak of surreal lyricism. That thin wild mercury music, Dylan called it. HIGHLIGHT - Visions of Johanna
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 | John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.80 Dylan's first post-motorcycle accident album. Country-tinged ballads packed with sparse and elliptical religious imagery. One of the first country-rock albums. HIGHLIGHT - Dear Landlord
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 | The Times They Are a-Changin': Remastered by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.99 Bleak and sombre collection of folk songs inspired by the struggle for civil rights. HIGHLIGHT Boots of Spanish Leather
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 | Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1966: the Bootleg Series Vol.4 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £9.27 / Used from: £6.23 Possibly the greatest live album ever, this captures the intensity of Dylan's 66 tour of the UK (as seen on the Scorsese documentary). HIGHLIGHT Like a Rolling Stone
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 | The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £11.99 Dylan's outtakes were often better than the songs on the official studio albums. A great collection of unreleased material especially from the early 60s and late 70s. HIGHLIGHT Shes Your Lover Now
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 | Biograph by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £16.57 / Used from: £7.48 Excellent box set which is part retrospective and part unreleased material. A good overview. HIGHLIGHT Lay Down Your Weary Tune
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 | Time Out of Mind by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.41 Lazarus like comeback after Dylan nearly died from a lung infection. Steeped in death, dirt and the blues, this was his most powerful work for years. HIGHLIGHT Not Dark Yet
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 | Street Legal by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.10 Dylan consciously trying to recreate the 60s heights but muddy production spoils what is an almost great album. Lyrics veer between the brilliant and banal. HIGHLIGHT Senor
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 | Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.72 His one success in the career nadir that was the 80s. Brilliant production by Daniel Lanois gives the album a coherent feel. Decent lyrics and vocals. HIGHLIGHT Man in the Long Black Coat
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 | Desire by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.24 His bestselling album, this is very accessible. Some great songs and more varied instrumentation than usual. Avoid Joey. HIGHLIGHT Hurricane
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 | Nashville Skyline by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.78 Throwaway country album but has its charms including a ramshackle duet with the late great Johnny Cash. HIGHLIGHT Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You
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 | Infidels by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.49 The first post-Christian album this could have been a great record (the outtakes are superb) but the final result is patchy despite (or because of) a glossy production. HIGHLIGHT Jokerman
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 | World Gone Wrong by Bob Dylan
Buy used from: £4.48 Dylan returning to his folk roots with a collection of cover versions. His cracked end of the world voice is appropriate for the material. HIGHLIGHT World Gone Wrong
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 | Another Side of Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 Recorded in 24 hours, this is a bit slipshod and the vocals vary even more than normal. Avoid 'Ballad in Plain D'. HIGHLIGHT Chimes of Freedom
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 | Planet Waves by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.40 Recorded with The Band, this contains a handul of great songs (Wedding Song, Dirge) but the rest is pretty ordinary. HIGHLIGHT Forever Young
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 | Love And Theft by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.06 His last studio album. Similar to Time out of Mind but more musically varied. I need to listen to this a bit more before I can really judge it. HIGHLIGHT Mississippi
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 | Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.23 Dylan's embrace of Christian fundamentalism lasted for 3 albums. This is the first and the only one that is worth hearing. If you're not offended by the religion, it's not bad. HIGHLIGHT Slow Train
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 | New Morning by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £4.23 One of his most eclectic albums though not all of it works. Easy listening throughout but few standout tracks. HIGHLIGHT New Morning
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 | Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.99 Not as good as either of the Band's first 2 albums. This has its moments but the production is poor and its more filler than killer. HIGHLIGHT Tears of Rage
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 | Bob Dylan Live 1975: the Rolling Thunder Revue by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £15.58 / Used from: £7.80 Dylan is in great voice throughout and this is a valuable record of the Rolling Thunder tour in the mid-70s. HIGHLIGHT Isis
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 | No Direction Home: The Soundtrack: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £16.98 / Used from: £8.42 A treasure trove of rarities and unreleased tracks for the hardcore fan but not the place to start for the uninitiated. HIGHLIGHT Maggies Farm
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