Dylan's 20 Best

Stage 1: Woody Created a Monster

1962 Bob Dylan

1963 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

1964 The Times They Are a-Changin’

1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan

 

Stage 2: Peak Dylan

1965 Bringing It All Back Home

1965 Highway 61

1966 Blonde on Blonde

 

Stage 3: the Country Period

1967 John Wesley Harding

1969 Nashville Skyline

1970 Self Portrait

1970 New Morning

1973 Pat Garret & Billy the Kid

1973 Dylan

 

Stage 4: Middle 70s

1974 Planet Waves

1975 Blood on the Tracks

1975 the Basement Tapes

1976 Desire

1978 Street Legal

 

Stage 5: the Christian Trilogy

1979 Slow Train Coming

1980 Saved

1981 Shot of Love

 

Stage 6: albums you only buy if you’re a collector

1983 Infidels

1985 Empire Burlesque

1986 Knocked Out Loaded

1988 Down in the Groove

1989 Oh Mercy

1990 Under the Red Sky

 

Stage 7: late in the innings, Dylan comes good again

1992 Good as I Been to You

1993 World Gone Wrong

1997 Time Out of Mind

2001 Love and Theft

2006 Modern Times

2009 Together Through Life

2009 Christmas in the Heart

2012 Tempest

2015 Shadows in the Night

2016 Fallen Angels

2017 Triplicate

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