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Your Favorite Album?
Autolux – Future Perfect 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde 26%  26%  [ 18 ]
Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? 21%  21%  [ 14 ]
Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn 10%  10%  [ 7 ]
The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street 40%  40%  [ 27 ]
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To me, "Blonde on Blonde" is him channeling the zeitgeist. It's just as sprawling and diverse as Exile is. I wonder if "Like A Rolling Stone" had been the first song if that album wouldn't have become a consensus greatest album ever. But, in it's context, I think it's perfect. I think Rainy Day Women offsets the other heavy songs on there. The whole thing is just impossible to pin down. It's serious, tossed off, bluesy, ramshackle, precise, dense, superficial, dark, funny, poetic, accessible, and inaccessible (if you know the meaning of "Visions of Johanna", you're lying).

Nicely put. It's still my fave Dylan album (counting Basement Tapes as a Dylan/Band collaboration).


Agreed. Exile got my vote though.
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autolux. why not? ;-)


Dude, you're on a roll.


I picked Pink Floyd ( :oops: ), but in my defense, that's a very atypical Floyd album, and a pretty unique album in general. I'm not really a fan of Pink Floyd or Syd Barrett, but Piper is great.

Exile doesn't need my vote, and I feel about the same about Blonde on Blonde as I do about London Calling. There are some songs on it that are undeniably great, several that are just OK, and few I really, really dislike. It's not one of my favorite Dylan records.


It should lose out simply because of Rainy Day Women. Every other song, save maybe Pledging My Time, is pretty awesome.

But Exile defines a MAIN ERA in my life. Now, truly if it was Highway 61 or Bringing it All Back Home, I'd have some trouble here.


I'm a bit bothered by your dismissiveness of the Blonde On Blonde. I'll probably end up going Exile simply for the late night memories made with that album playing in the background but this is pretty difficult to me.

To me, "Blonde on Blonde" is him channeling the zeitgeist. It's just as sprawling and diverse as Exile is. I wonder if "Like A Rolling Stone" had been the first song if that album wouldn't have become a consensus greatest album ever. But, in it's context, I think it's perfect. I think Rainy Day Women offsets the other heavy songs on there. The whole thing is just impossible to pin down. It's serious, tossed off, bluesy, ramshackle, precise, dense, superficial, dark, funny, poetic, accessible, and inaccessible (if you know the meaning of "Visions of Johanna", you're lying).


Some of his best songs too. Throw in some Danko, Robertson, Hudson, Manuel, Al Kooper, and Charlie McCoy and you've got a masterwork and, to me, the best overall glimpse into why Dylan was so great.

I'm not saying I'd vote it over Exile. Just that this was difficult and it was a 15 round Heavyweight fight that went to the cards and the fix might be in.


I totally get Visions of Johanna. It's one my favorite Dylan songs. I love Dylan, possibly on a mental level more than The Stones, but in terms of pure rock and roll, I'll take Exile.

Let's say this -- The GAR of 1996 would pick BoB. The GAR of 99-present definitely picks Exile. Take this for what you know it means.

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i didn't like "Rainy Day" for a long time, but it recently clicked and washed off the years of radio abuse and whatever other issues I previously had with it.


I'm fine with that song.

I don't like "Pledging My Time", "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat", and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". It's the last one that really kills it for me. I know a lot of people love that song, but I just find it to be an annoying drag.
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rainy day women is dylan's octopus garden. eek, but i do love the album.
exile takes this round for me.
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i didn't like "Rainy Day" for a long time, but it recently clicked and washed off the years of radio abuse and whatever other issues I previously had with it.


I'm fine with that song.

I don't like "Pledging My Time", "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat", and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". It's the last one that really kills it for me. I know a lot of people love that song, but I just find it to be an annoying drag.


Leopard-Skin Pill Box definitely is a song for that time. But I like it.

And if you don't like Sad Eyed Lady, you don't get Dylan, not even for a second.

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And if you don't like Sad Eyed Lady, you don't get Dylan, not even for a second.


Well I've never been a member of the Dylan/Stones cult so maybe I'll never "get him" like you and some others do.

I like his voice fine most of the time, but sometimes the way he sounds can be flat out grating to me. This song is an example of that.

It's music after all. I'm not always in it for lyrical poetry.
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I'm going with Oasis.

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You know, putting Oasis in there was just mean, OPA. I know it's not many people's favorites, but it ranks WAY up there for me.


Oasis at the top of their game. Better than Definitely Maybe imo.


I still listen t this album a fair amount. It's fucking brilliant for what it is.


I just listened to it last week. Still a fucking amazing rock record.

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The title track fucking kills, but overall I like Definitely Maybe better. That's gettin' played tomorrow.

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The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
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Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde
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