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How many people can say they've listened to every Bob Dylan album?

• Who can honestly say they've heard every official release put out by Bob Dylan in his long career? And did you listen to some of them as a personal challenge or by choice? Are there albums you've only heard once because you never felt the need to go back?

• Answer:

  I believe I have done so.  His discography,while quite prolific , is far more manageable that the Dead's or Zappa's.  He has 35 studio albums, 13 live albums and the 9 album Bootleg Series.  I am not counting compilation  albums although some of them have songs not available elsewhere and I have listened to those as well.  By comparison , the Dead are up to close to 150 recordings and as you would expect have far more live recordings than Dylan has recordings of any kind.  I couldn't begin to calculate Zappa's output , I am guessing it  is around 100 albums , half of which have been released since his death.   I can honestly say I found something to love, several things actually in each Dylan album I listened to even if the overall record was sometimes sub-par.  The possible exception might be Dylan, a 1973 release by Columbia Records that was released without Dylan's input.  It basically took some of the worst outakes and cutting room recordings and released them as a way of giving Dylan the finger for switching labels.  Even there though, I kind of like his version of Big Yellow Taxi and Mr Bojangles.  I listened to all of these records as a choice because I consider Dylan to be the greatest artist of the last 50 years (my life) and because he is really the only popular songwriter that is worthy of academic like study.  I try to occasionally go back to some of the more obscure and /or less popular recordings and I am always surprised and intrigued by what I find.  That said, I find the classics to be the most essential recordings.  I think Blonde on Blonde is his masterpiece followed closely by Freewheeling, Blood on the Tracks, Love and Theft and Highway 61.  in 1975 when the Basement Tapes were finally released, it confirmed Dylan's status as the greatest songwriter of the 20th century.  That album was the first one I purchased and I go back to that one as often as any.  I have also purchased roughly 25 bootlegs, including one called the Genuine Basement Tapes which contains the complete recordings from those fabled sessions.  His most underrated album is def  Love and Theft.  It had the misfortune of being released in the US on September 11th which meant it never really got got discovered until later.  It contains some of his most playful lyrics and his band is first rate.  Its follow up, Modern Times, is almost as good.  I also enjoy his collections of traditional folk music.  And yes I liked the gospel albums also.  Dylan and the Dead, not so much.  However if you find bootleg recordings of that tour, you will realize that the official release did not do justice to the tour and that Dylan and the Dead actually had some great performances.  Not doing a proper recording of this tour was the biggest mistake of Dylan's career.   Finally I will always have a special fondness for the song Lilly , Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, from Blood on the Tracks.  I once got tossed out of a biker bar after someone trashed the jukebox after I dared to put this song on.