Bringing It All Back Home |
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Released: March 22, 1965 Peak: 6 US, 11 UK, -- CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): 1.5 US, -- UK, 3.5 world (includes US + UK), 9.39 EAS Genre: folk rock |
Tracks:Click on a song title for more details.
Total Running Time: 47:21 |
Rating: 4.608 out of 5.00 (average of 29 ratings)
Quotable““If you’re…just starting your Dylan collection, this is the perfect place to start.” – Steve Marshall, The Night OwlAwards:(Click on award to learn more).
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Revolutionizng the Folk Scene“After a short period as a backup pianist for rockabilly star Bobby Vee, Dylan converted to the guitar and began exploring folk territory, heavily influenced by folk legend Woody Guthrie, whose potent celebrations of the common man would lure Dylan away from rock and roll and into New York’s acoustic Greenwich Village scene.” CS“With his early acoustic albums Dylan…revolutionized the early-1960s folk scene simply by writing his own songs.” TB Then “the floodgates opened and every sensitive teenager who could pick three chords on a battered acoustic guitar suddenly became a folksy singer-songwriter. Dylan was also seen as the inventor of protest music, so the eyes of the musical community were firmly fixed on him, watching his every move.” TB Plugging InDylan made one of rock ‘n’ roll history’s most significant move in 1965 with the release of Bringing It All Back Home. He “broke all musical boundaries” NO with this “remarkable collection of songs unlike anything else up to that time.” NO “You can feel the excitement of the world being turned on its head, of a cult figure discovering his talent and joyously making the most of it.” RD “If you’re…just starting your Dylan collection, this is the perfect place to start.” NOHe “lost some of his most loyal fans…after he did the unthinkable – he plugged in.” CS “With Another Side of Bob Dylan, Dylan had begun pushing past folk” AM and now, “for the first time, this folk music hero used an electric guitar.” NO “On Side One of this pioneering album, Dylan amplifies his cryptic, confrontational songwriting with guitar lightning and galloping drums” 500 and “blows folk music open.” RD “By fusing the Chuck Berry beat of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles with the leftist, folk tradition of the folk revival” CS Dylan created “a new kind of rock & roll.” CS Doesn’t Abandon Acoustic – And Was Always Electric Anyway“Dylan still remembers his folk heritage.” CS he “returns to solo acoustic guitar on the four superb songs on Side Two” 500 where he delivers “some of his best acoustic narratives. But for Dylan, the future was electric.” CS“The fact is that Dylan had always been an electric musician, with his journey into folk music only a temporary departure from his true home of pompadour haircuts and electric guitars.” CS “Bluesmen like Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed and rockers like Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly [were] among his early appearances.” CS “Only the restraining hand of his producer John Hammond Sr. kept Dylan’s rock and roll cuts off his early albums, as Hammond knew Dylan was best marketed as an acoustic act.” CS Exceptional Songwriting“It’s not just that he went electric, either.” AM “The nominal folk songs derive from the same vantage point as the rockers, leaving traditional folk concerns behind and delving deep into the personal.” AM “From start to finish, Bringing It All Back Home is one of Dylan’s most enduring statements, containing some of Dylan’s greatest songs and performances.” NO “He’s exploding with imagination throughout the record.” AM Home “had the requisite folk tunes that fans expected, it also contained songs of introspection and paranoia, alongside beautifully poetic love songs – all within the confines of a single album.” NO “This is the point where Dylan eclipses any conventional sense of folk and rewrites the rules of rock, making it safe for personal expression and poetry, not only making words mean as much as the music, but making the music an extension of the words.” AMThe SongsHere’s a breakdown of each of the individual songs. |
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Subterranean Homesick BluesBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: 3/8/1965 (single), Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 39 BB, 52 CB, 53 HR, 6 AC, 2 CL, 9 UK, 4 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 72.18 streaming |
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About the Song:The “raucous leadoff track” NO from Bringing It All Back Home was Dylan’s first top-40 single and his “first single to show off his rock and roll interest.” CS This song and “Maggie’s Farm” are loud, caustic, and funny as hell.” 500It “is a stream of nonsense consciousness.” RD It is “a rock ‘n’ roll song with nicely twisted lyrics that tells about the then current mood of things; this one at its release truly was the first rap song ever made.” KN Dylan “pays tribute to electrified rocker Chuck Berry by borrowing from his ‘Too Much Monkey Business.’” CS “The opener is only the beginning of the revolution” CS where Dylan plugged in and went electric.
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She Belongs to MeBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 21 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 13.93 streaming About the Song:“The painfully shy She Belongs to Me” CS and Love Minus Zero/No Limit are “uncommonly beautiful love songs.” AM |
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Maggie’s FarmBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: 6/19/1965 (single), Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 12 CL, 22 UK, 6 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 18.91 streaming About the Song:“The rural rocker Maggie’s Farm” CS “and It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding openly criticize the American government.” CSThis is “a great upbeat sounding song about something that is a downer, but you got to smile when you hear the nasty things that Bob has to say about Maggie’s family.” KN This and Subterranean Homesick Blues “are loud, caustic, and funny as hell.” 500 |
Love Minus Zero/No LimitBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 10.84 streaming |
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About the Song:She Belongs to Me and Love Minus Zero/No Limit are “uncommonly beautiful love songs.” AM |
Outlaw BluesBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 5.19 streaming About the Song:Outlaw Blues, an “up-tempo Chuck Berry-style workout,” TB “and On the Road Again are rambunctious 12-bar blues.” RD |
On the Road AgainBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 4.60 streaming About the Song:Outlaw Blues and “the hilariously surreal On the Road Again” TB “are rambunctious 12-bar blues.” RD This song “and Bob Dylan's 115th Dream are “uncommonly funny fantasias.” AM |
Bob Dylan’s 115th DreamBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 5.32 streaming About the Song:On the Road Again and Bob Dylan's 115th Dream are “uncommonly funny fantasias.” AM |
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Mr. Tambourine ManBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: 3/22/1965 (single), Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 4 CL, 3 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 156.15 streaming |
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About the Song:Dylan offers songs that are “individual, yet not personal” AM such as on “the whimsical poetry of Mr. Tambourine Man.” AM Of course, this song gained even greater fame when covered by the Byrds. Their #1 version of the song effectively kicked off the folk-rock movement in the 1960s.
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Gates of EdenBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: -- Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 4.13 streaming About the Song:“The dream-like Gates of Eden.” CS |
It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only BleedingBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 14 CL Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 17.94 streaming |
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About the Song:In Maggie’s Farm and the scabrous “It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding,” 500 with its “surreal paranoia,” AM Dylan “openly criticize the American government.” CSThis “is another masterpiece that holds itself together and keeps building to its close almost 8 minutes later.” KN Dylan’s biographer called it the “ultimate protest song.” CS |
It’s All Over Now, Baby BlueBob Dylan |
Writer(s): Bob Dylan Released: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) Peak: 16 CL, 10 DF Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, -- video, 39.89 streaming |
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About the Song:“The closing ballad, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, [is] arguably his finest, most affectionate song of dismissal.” 500 |
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First posted 3/7/2011; last updated 9/15/2026. |
