🎸 Ballad of a Thin Man: the Dylan Listening Club - WE'RE DONE - roundup and results from post 1758

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inspired by @bergkamp’s heroic endeavour … is there any interest in a FULL DISCOGRAPHY listening club for Dylan this year?

we’re talking 40 albums in total, so basically running across this year for an album a week. Add a judicious summer break, and hold the Christmas album back to next winter for seasonal accuracy

Below is the full album list, listening dates, and links to discussion and voting posts

Summary

Jan 13 - Bob Dylan (1962) - chat - score poll - song poll
Jan 20 - The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963) - chat - score poll - song poll
Jan 27 - The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964) - chat - score poll - song poll
Feb 3 - Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) - chat - score poll - song poll
Feb 10 - Bringing It All Back Home (1965) - chat - score poll - song poll
Feb 17 - Highway 61 Revisited (1965) - chat - score poll - song poll
Feb 24 - Blonde on Blonde (1966) - chat - score poll - song poll
Mar 3 - John Wesley Harding (1967) - chat - score poll - song poll
Mar 10 - Nashville Skyline (1969) - chat - score and song polls
Mar 17 - Self Portrait (1970) - chat - score and song polls
Mar 24 - New Morning (1970) - chat - score and song polls
Mar 31 - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - chat - score and song polls
April 7 - Dylan (1973) - chat - score and song polls
April 14 - Planet Waves (1974) - chat - score and song polls
April 21 - Blood on the Tracks (1975) - chat - score and song polls
April 28 - The Basement Tapes (1975) - chat - score and song polls
May 5 - Desire (1976) - chat - score and song polls
May 12 - Street-Legal (1978) - chat - score and song polls
May 19 - Slow Train Coming (1979) - chat - score and song polls
May 26 - Saved (1980) - chat - score and song polls
June 2 - Shot of Love (1981) - chat - score and song polls

SUMMER BREAK (and potential bonus listening)

Aug 4 - Infidels (1983) - chat - score and song polls
Aug 11 - Empire Burlesque (1985) - chat - score and song polls
Aug 18 - Knocked Out Loaded (1986) - chat - score and song polls
Aug 25 - Down in the Groove (1988) - chat - score and song polls
Sept 1 - Oh Mercy (1989) - chat - score and song polls
Sept 8 - Under the Red Sky (1990) - chat - score and song polls
Sept 15 - Good as I Been to You (1992) - chat - score and song polls
Sept 22 - World Gone Wrong (1993) - chat - score and song polls
Sept 29 - Time Out of Mind (1997) - chat - score and song polls
Oct 6 - “Love and Theft" (2001) - chat - score and song polls
Oct 13 - Modern Times (2006) - chat - score and song polls
Oct 20 - Together Through Life (2009) - chat - score and song polls
Oct 27 - Tempest (2012) - chat - score and song polls
Nov 3 - Shadows in the Night (2015) - chat - score and song polls
Nov 10 - Fallen Angels (2016) - chat - score and song polls
Nov 17 - Triplicate (2017) - chat - score and song polls
Nov 24 - Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020) - chat - score and song polls
Dec 1 - Shadow Kingdom (2023) - chat - score and song polls
Dec 8 - Christmas in the Heart (2009) - chat - score and song polls

And the ongoing playlist of top picks from each album

  • I Want You (yes)
  • It Ain’t Me Babe (no)
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if we do this at least he’s unlikely to release new albums while we’re listening, unlike GBV …

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I will start this and listen to all the good albums and then fall away, probably around the born again Christian era

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Breaking Bad Coward

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Stick with it, that’s the point where things get really interesting.

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Is the idea to do it chronologically or mix it up a bit to make it more interesting?

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definitely chronological for me just as a project as much as anything, but people are welcome to do what they want and drop in and out

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Very up for this, I did my own mini version last year where I listened to 20+ albums that I thought were worth exploring. That was the first time I’d properly listened to a Dylan album. Keen to build upon that cursory knowledge.

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hey that’s almost a Dylan lyric

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If it were a voting situation, I’d probably go for a random order…however in this case I don’t mind going chronological because Dylan’s best stuff is largely front loaded, so I’ll keep with it at least initially. If I’m gonna drop out it’ll be during the dodgy 70s phase.

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right 12 of you suckers have signed up so far, we’re on!

the dodgy Christian trio, which come basically halfway through this whole thing

  • at the end the first half of the club - pre-summer
  • at the start the second half of the club - post-summer
  • do those three spread out over summer so we can truly revel in them
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Oh awesome! I’ve been meaning to set this exact idea up for months, but there have always been other listening clubs going and it felt like another would be too many so I was waiting for the right moment.

I’ve got a few weird gaps here and there in Dylan’s discography that I’m keen to fill in.

Have a strong preference for chronological order in these things as I like to hear the evolution from album to album and would find a random order too unstructured to be enjoyable.

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What can I say, I just love to run year-long listening clubs for artists with exactly 40 albums

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hope he doesn’t drop dead in the middle of this, would really send me under.

think his is the celebrity death i’m most dreading. him and ted from gone fishing.

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I’ve done the entire run through before, and I’m not sure I’ve got it in me to do it again. But I’ll start with the intention of doing it anyway.

Do think the Bootleg series, or at least significant chunks of it are pretty essential to the Dylan catalogue now. But can maybe do that at the end if there’s still appetite. It makes a massive discography even more unwieldy, so it’s not really worth trying to weave it in.

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I fear we’ll look back wistfully at the three weeks we spent with the Christian trio once we hit the albums that don’t exist like Down In The Groove and Knocked Out Loaded a couple of weeks later…

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No Biograph means no ‘Caribbean Wind’. AH’M 'OOT*

*Probably in until after Oh Mercy.

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or with some guidance from experts, make that optional summer extras

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Yeah, go on then. Like a bit o’ Bob here and there