Ranked: The Albums of Bob Dylan
The new album is a late career highlight and the best in 23 years
4 min readJun 21, 2020
New albums by Bob Dylan and Neil Young in the same week? Did I wake up this morning in the 1970s?
This week’s release, Rough and Rowdy Ways, is the fortieth album of Bob Dylan’s career, excluding the archival Bootleg Series.
As in previous stories, I triangulated the views of music critics and fans to create the definitive ranking of Bob Dylan’s albums.
The critics’ view
Data for the critics’ view come from the meta-site Album of the Year(AOTY).
The new album comes in at a very respectable number 8, edging out the fan-favorite, Highway 61 Revisited. According to critics, this is Dylan’s best album of the 21st century, to date.
The fans’ view
As usual, I used Rate Your Music (RYM), the biggest crowd-ranking site, for the fans’ view.
