SLOW POLL COMING - the Best 70s Dylan Album

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huh, people don't like desire?

Nope!

i voted for 'new morning' because it makes me genuinely happy and makes me suspect sometimes that dylan was genuinely happy when he made it, though that is a suspect enough conclusion for any of his music.

this. perfect small town album. always in a good place when i'm listening to this.

self portrait has some of my favorite dylan songs too.

Obvious and kind of boring, but it has to be "Blood On The Tracks".

Desire is a good record, it's weird to me that people hate on it

Indeed it is. My second favourite in the list here.

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honestly had no idea this was going to be such a foregone conclusion going in

Really? I figured it was written in stone.

as someone who mostly accepted the conventional wisdom that Dylan stopped being interesting after his motorcycle crash, my initial peremptory view of his 70s stuff was as an undifferentiated mass of half-assedness with the occasional gem thrown in ("oh this one has Knockin on Heaven's Door/Forever Young/Tangled Up in Blue on it? weird"). I took my sweet time digging into the actual albums, oblivious to general critical consensus. I had assumed the critical consensus in the 70s was "not as good as his 60s work" and/or "A RETURN TO FORM!"

If this poll was done without BOTT, i.e. "Second place you guys", I reckon those positions would be markedly different.

Lots of us rarely listen to the sixties stuff!

I'm pretty worn out on it myself

dude has a lot of bitter/mean songs in his catalog but sheesh Idiot Wind has got to be the most brutal

yep. was just driving home listening to BOOT and 'idiot wind' came on and christ is that a cruel, horrifying song, like dylan was suddenly half-possessed by the spirit of the judge from 'blood meridian' or something -- 'one day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes, blood on your saddle.'

we can all thank god we were never married to bob dylan.

it's the little miracles we should be thankful for

idiot wind' came on and christ is that a cruel, horrifying song

yeah, sheesh, just the title alone. "even your farts are stupid"

after the basement tapes i think new morning and planet waves are my favorite dylan records. love how he sounds like he's mimicking levon helm on "tough mama"

'slow train' is such a weird record, i'm surprised it didn't pull at least a few ilm contrarians or secret stans

I've now heard "One More Cup of Coffee" TWICE this month out in Tokyo, once in a Burger King in Shinjuku, now in a Mos Burger in Asakusa. This is why I should avoid burger joints in Japan.