I hear it sometimes on the radio or a record player and I see that it’s badly mixed and it doesn’t sound very good, but what can you do? I’ve got, on Columbia Records alone, 21 or 22 albums out. So every time you make an album, you want it to be new, good and different, but personally, when you look back on them for me all my albums are, are just measuring points for wherever I was at a certain period of time. I went into the studio, recorded the songs as good as I could, and left. Basically, realistically, I’m a live performer and want to play onstage for the people and not make records that may sound really good.
~Bob Dylan (Lynn Allen interview, Dec 1978)
A list of “Dylan album” posts @ alldylan.com:
- Bob Dylan (1962)
- The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (1963)
- The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964)
- Another Side Of Bob Dylan (1964)
- Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
- Blonde On Blonde (1966)
- John Wesley Harding (1967)
- Nashville Skyline (1969)
- Self Portrait (1970)
- New Morning (1970)
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
- Planet Waves (1974)
- Blood On the Tracks (1975)
- The Basement Tapes (1975)
- Desire (1976)
- Hard Rain (1976)
- Slow Train Coming (1979)
- Bob Dylan at Budokan (1979)
- Saved (1980)
- Shot of Love (1981)
- Real Live (1984)
- Infidels (1983)
- Empire Burlesque (1985)
- Knocked Out Loaded (1986)
- Down In The Groove (1988)
- Oh Mercy (1989)
- Under The Red Sky (1990)
- Good As I Been To You (1992)
- World Gone Wrong (1993)
- Time Out Of Mind (1997)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert (1999)
- Love & Theft (2001)
- Modern Times (released August 29, 2006)
- Tell Tale Signs – Bootleg series vol.8 (oct 6, 2008)
- Together Through Life (2009)
- Tempest (2012)
- Another Self Portrait: Bootleg series vol.10 (August 27, 2013)
- Shadows In The Night (2015)
-Egil
BLONDE ON BLONDE, although sounding as mellifluous and warm and compelling as an LP COULD sound, is rife with instrumental and vocal faux pas….but as the maestro said: “My music is all ABOUT mistakes!” God love this man!~E