The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Dylan's best album of the 70's. In some camps, Dylan's best album period.
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I fall into that second camp.

I knew of Dylan, thought I disliked his voice. A buddy of mine in college was a big fan and when Dylan played a high school auditorium in a little town in Tennessee, I figured why not go.

I grabbed Freewheelin on CD from Grapevine Records in Boone a couple weeks before the show so I would know some stuff. The CD did not prepare me at all for the raucous show I witnessed.

By the time he played Tangled Up In Blue that night I had become a fan. I picked up today’s album the next day. It’s been my favorite since then.

He has other great albums (including Freewheelin) but this is the one that speaks to me most clearly and directly.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
I fall into that second camp.

I knew of Dylan, thought I disliked his voice. A buddy of mine in college was a big fan and when Dylan played a high school auditorium in a little town in Tennessee, I figured why not go.

I grabbed Freewheelin on CD from Grapevine Records in Boone a couple weeks before the show so I would know some stuff. The CD did not prepare me at all for the raucous show I witnessed.

By the time he played Tangled Up In Blue that night I had become a fan. I picked up today’s album the next day. It’s been my favorite since then.

He has other great albums (including Freewheelin) but this is the one that speaks to me most clearly and directly.
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You're probably in the majority. it's a great record.

Dylan's enjoyed such a ridiculously long career (like Neil) that there are so many home runs to choose from you see lots of variation from one fan to the next of their favorite and those can change from season to season and year to year.

If you ask ten fans of an artist to name their favorite record, and you get 5 different answers among them, that's a boss of a musician.
 
Yer Ol' Uncle D said:
Dylan's best album of the 70's. In some camps, Dylan's best album period.
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I can agree, although it's my second favourite Dylan album of the 70s; and my second favourite Dylan album overall. Desire is my personal #1.

That said, this was the first Dylan album I ever bought on CD (at the fresh young age of 23) and definitely opened the door for me. Like Lee I was familiar with his stuff before hearing this; a few songs I quite liked and a few I didn't get quite yet. About 6 or 8 months after I picked this one up, I wound up on the road for a few months with a friend who was hugely into Dylan and he gave me an extensive tutorial on Dylan's first six albums along the way. That was a good year.
 
avecigrec said:
I can agree, although it's my second favourite Dylan album of the 70s; and my second favourite Dylan album overall. Desire is my personal #1.

That said, this was the first Dylan album I ever bought on CD (at the fresh young age of 23) and definitely opened the door for me. Like Lee I was familiar with his stuff before hearing this; a few songs I quite liked and a few I didn't get quite yet. About 6 or 8 months after I picked this one up, I wound up on the road for a few months with a friend who was hugely into Dylan and he gave me an extensive tutorial on Dylan's first six albums along the way. That was a good year.
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Thanks for reinforcing my post just before yours.

Blood On The Tracks is primo, but when it comes to 70's output, I reach for The Basement Tapes, Planet Waves and Desire just as often.
 
So this is my favourite Dylan and probably in my all time top 5 albums by any artist.

I first heard this when I was 16 and my dad lent me a pile of his CDs because he could see I was getting into music and wanted to give me a primer. I loved the music right away but it probably took me until my mid 20s for it to fully connect.
 
Ziggy gets strange!

I love this record. It’s probably not one I’m gonna give the number one spot. But it is definitely a contender for number two some days.

Off to read the wiki now since the book states this was Bowie’s break out in America which I find odd but probably true.

From the wiki:
The cover artwork, shot by Brian Duffyand featuring a lightning bolt across Bowie's face, was the most expensive cover ever made at the time
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MyWifeHatesTrain said:
Ziggy gets strange!

I love this record. It’s probably not one I’m gonna give the number one spot. But it is definitely a contender for number two some days.

Off to read the wiki now since the book states this was Bowie’s break out in America which I find odd but probably true.

From the wiki:
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Not sure where the wiki got that from. His breakthrough in the US was Young Americans.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
Not sure where the wiki got that from. His breakthrough in the US was Young Americans.
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I think critically this one was his US breakthrough but that maybe it took until Young Americans for him to have that big pop breakthrough?

This is a strange one in that it’s a weird old album with 3 huge pop hits. Totally agree on the stones cover being poor although to be fair I don’t have much time for the original either.
 
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