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[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



I do believe Bob painted his masterpiece with this one. Always been my favorite. His sixth album and the first to
chart higher here than in the UK. We finally caught up. Like A Rolling Stone was the first Dylan song to receive
extensive airplay and I don't remember it being edited down from the 6 minutes. That song sits at the top of Rolling
Stones 500 greatest songs of all time, along with the album being #4 on the 500 greatet albums list. This album is
where the Dylan purists cried foul. Folk Dylan was no more. The only track here that was not electric was the closer
Desolation Row. That happens to be my favorite here, so I confess, maybe I was holding on too. Eleven minutes long
and I was captivated by every verse. That didn't stop me from loving all the other tracks but two. That kazoo thing
in the title track was always so bad. Not sure I knew who Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper were at the time, but they
both play on the album and I became a fan. One of my favorite live albums comes from them as a team. Dylan was off
and running as a mainstream artist with this album. A quote from Bob sometime after the release, "I'm not gonna to
be able to make a record better than that one". I'll second that.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Highway 61 Revisited

Best Track - Desolation Row

1) Like A Rolling Stone ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLiLSRKms30
2) Tombstone Blues ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-z-WCGDXlk
3) It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry ***
4) From A Buick 6 **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_46i_LwiLNo
5) Ballad Of A Thin Man ***
6) Queen Jane Approximately ***
7) Highway 61 Revisited **
8) Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylkOK7IDwNg
9) Desolation Row ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9ZR8ykRow

3's - 7
2's - 2
1's - 0

Grade - 2.8
allmusic - 3.0