Monday, February 13, 2023

Bob Dylan – Top 50 Albums

Bob Dylan

Top 50 Albums

Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24 in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He has become one of rock music’s most iconic performers and his name is synonymous with the term “folk rock.” This page ranks his top 50 albums.

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Top 50 Albums


Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by album’s appearances on best-of lists as well as chart success, sales, critics’ ratings, and awards.


Ranked in Dave’s Music Database’s Top 1000 Albums of All Time:

1. Blonde on Blonde (1966)
2. Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
3. Blood on the Tracks (1975)
4. Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
5. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
6. Love and Theft (2001)
7. Modern Times (2006)
8. Time Out of Mind (1997)
9. Greatest Hits (compilation: 1962-66, released 1967)
10. Desire (1976)

11. John Wesley Harding (1967)
12. The Royal Albert Hall Concert (The Bootleg Series Volume 4) (live, recorded 1966)
13. Nashville Skyline (1969)
14. Biograph (box set: 1962-1981, released in 1985)
15. Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
16. The Basement Tapes (archives, recorded in 1967 with the Band)


Beyond Dave’s Music Database’s Top 1000 Albums of All Time:

17. Greatest Hits Vol. II (compilation: 1962-71, released 1971)
18. Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
19. The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964)
20. The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (archives, released 1991)

21. Dylan (box set: 1962-2006, released 2007)
22. Planet Waves (with the Band, 1974)
23. Oh Mercy (1989)
24. Bob Dylan (1962)
25. Slow Train Coming (1979)
26. Greatest Hits Volume 3 (compilation: 1973-90, released 1994)
27. Triplicate (2017)
28. Before the Flood (live with the Band, 1974)
29. Tempest (2012)
30. Together Through Life (2009)

31. New Morning (1970)
32. Street Legal (1978)
33. Infidels (1983)
34. Good As I Been to You (1992)
35. Shot of Love (1981)
36. The Rolling Thunder Revue (The Bootleg Series Volume 5) (live, recorded 1975)
37. World Gone Wrong (1993)
38. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
39. Don’t Look Back (soundtrack, 1967)
40. Self Portrait (1970)

41. The Concert at Philharmonic Hall (The Bootleg Series Volume 6) (live, recorded 1964)
42. Shadows in the Night (2015)
43. Empire Burlesque (1985)
44. The Witmark Demos (The Bootleg Series Volume 9) (archives, recorded 1962-1964)
45. The Cutting Edge (The Bootleg Series, Volume 12) (demos box, 1965-66, released 2015)
46. No Direction Home Soundtrack (The Bootleg Seris Volume 7) (archives, recorded 1959-1966)
47. Saved (1980)
48. Under the Red Sky (1990)
49. Knocked Out Loaded (1988)
50. Hard Rain (live, 1976)


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First posted 5/24/2015; updated 2/13/2023.

4 comments:

  1. No Times They Are A’Changing? Oversight or is Down in the Groove a better album?

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    1. Thanks for the catch. An oversight on my part! I've updated the list and The Times They Are A-Changin' is now included.

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  2. Where is The Times They are a Changin’??

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    1. Thanks for the catch. An oversight on my part! I've updated the list and The Times They Are A-Changin' is now included.

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