When did you realize this was the most important album of the 60s?

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Bullshit

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oops, wrong pic

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When I was underage

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*blocks your path*

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>>72766994
when i realized that pic related borrowed its title from it is when i started to really pay attention

a couple tracks are still unfamiliar, but overall a huge album

>>72766994
I love that album, but most important goes to something by the beatles, and best goes to pet sounds

>>72767011
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>>72767055
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>>72767284
none of these albums would have been made without Highway 61 Revisited

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>>72767377
but he did electric first on bringing it all back home

Roy Orbison, Chuck Berry, and A Hard Day's Night came out before that. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan also really made people consider rock music something worth critical attention.

>>72767498
Freewheeling isn't rock..

>>72767402
It was only half-electric and he was still considered a folk artist
This was the album that made him a rock legend
It has Like a Rolling Stone, the first long-ass single and punk rock song

>>72766994
When I first listened to it

>>72766994
But it's not. I mean, it's not even the most important Dylan album of the 60s.

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>>72767055
*Ahem*

>>72766994
When some kept shouting "Judas" at him for bringing an electric Guitar and The Nighthawks as his back up band the very last time he played The Newport Folk Festival and when somebody being interviewed after his set said that he now belonged to "The Establishment" and they could have him!

>>72769012
100% would not exist without Dylan.

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>>72766994
*blocks path*

>>72767534
but the songs from and around freewheelin' (and onwards) had a tremendous impact on contemporary musicians (moreso the pop/rock ones) before he ever strummed a stratocaster on tape. dylan's first brush with fame came with the myriad of covers others people did, repurposing his simple arrangements as fleshed-out rock singles and scoring billboard hits. he was recognized as an extraordinary talent early on, and one could make the case that apart from the most overt political screeds he was always a pop artist in waiting

>>72766994

What's so important about this album? I'm not trying to contradict this statement I'm just wondering what innovations it introduced that were so influential, I don't know shit about music history

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>>72770309
pretty much one of the first (if not the first) albums that wasn't strictly about "hey gurl" or "damn im sad"

not that you have to be some chin-stroking dip to appreciate it, highway 61 can just as easily be enjoyed while turning your brain off and grooving to the songs; daring amalgams of country, blues, folk, ballads, pop and rock'n'roll

dylan managed to fuse these incredible earworms with a type of lyrics that had not featured in anglo-american pop music earlier, cribbing influences from centuries of different poets and movements but never sacrificing the actual quality of the song. it's also brimming with personality and idiosyncrasy, especially for its time. for a brief while he was arguably an even bigger curiosity than the world-conquering beatles, and he played himself so beautifully

simply one of the best albums ever cut, bettering his previous superlative effort. and the guy would eclipse this one barely six months later. fucker wasn't even 25 yet

>>72767011
>Jolly pop songs
>Most important album of the 60s
Have some decency.

>>72770536
Not him, but for a more direct answer - he practically immortalized himself with the first song on that ablum - Like a Rolling Stone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmADAA97RTI

>>72770544
(you)

>>72770536
>fucker wasn't even 25 yet

It's fucking astonishing isn't it? He's the Einstein of songwriting, an absolute genius and the only musician I would look down on anyone for dismissing.

>>72770884
Great argument buddy.

bob dylan sucks cock

>>72766994
Nigga that's not even the most important Bob Dylan album.

>>72772296
(not true, by the way)

>>72772318
Yes it is.

Blonde on Blonde
Blood on the Tracks
Freewheelin'

All more important.

>>72772296
>the album i like best is the most important
Wrong

>>72772356
>All more important.
How so?

>>72772356
>Freewheelin'
Yes, you could argue that it is more important insofar as it was the first largely original Bob Dylan album and spawned both powerful protest songs that inspired a generation (Blowin' in the Wind, Masters of War) and lyrically clever love songs brimming with resentment (Don't think Twice).

>Blonde on Blonde
I disagree. Superb album, but by this point it was nothing revolutionary that hadn't been done in Bringing it All Back Home or High 61 Revisited.

>Blood on the Tracks
Definitely not. Again, a superb album, one of Dylan's best, but it was released in 1975 by which point Bob Dylan was well and truly established as an icon.

For my money's worth I think Bringing it All Back Home is his most important (and best) album but Highway 61 is also a fair choice.

>>72772272
Go jerk off to Limp Bizkit you pathetic small-minded moron.

>>72772782
Why did you even give him a (You)?

>>72772782
limp bizkit sucks cock

>>72772746
>Bringing it All Back Home
I don't understand why this album isn't discussed here. Every time a see a thread about Bob Dylan, it's either Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited. And the album has Mr. Tambourine Man, Gates of Eden, It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue on it for crying out loud.

>>72772860
thanks for clarifying

>>72767011
Immediately thought of this when I saw the thread. The only album of that decade to impact music in any significant way.

>>72772924
>The only album of that decade to impact music in any significant way.
You can't possibly be serious.
>The Velvet Underground & Nico
>In the Court of the Crimson King
>The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
>In a Silent Way
>Hot Rats
>Out to Lunch
Do I need to go on?

>>72772860
Probably because those are the ones that always come on top in online polls and shitty website 'worst to best' lists.

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People who think Dylan's last good album was Blood on the Tracks are simply wrong. Pic related is definitely in my top 5 Dylan albums.

>>72766994

Who's the guy standing behind Dylan on this cover?

>>72773701
a fair number of hardcore dylan fans have love and theft at #1 as well