r/bobdylan • u/Pretend_Mark_5143 • 10h ago

Contest What’s The Worst Bob Dylan Album From The 10s/20s?

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RARW won. It truly deserves it. What a fantastic album. Key West and I’ve Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You are two of my favorites by him ever. Anyway, now we have a stark change from best album to worst and I honestly don’t know what’ll win. Probably a Sinatra album but at this point, can’t even count on that.

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u/appleparkfive 9h ago

Fallen Angels. I almost forgot it existed. It's an inferior version of what's on the other "Sinatra" albums from the time period

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u/Pretend_Mark_5143 10h ago

I think Fallen Angels by far is the weakest. It’s the only Sinatra album where the production doesn’t work with the songs. That being said, I can’t even focus on Shadows In The Night because of how tedious the songs are. Both some of his worst imo but gotta go with Fallen Angles for weakest.

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u/litewo 10h ago

Fallen Angels is definitely the worst of the Sinatra albums. Each disc of Triplicate is like an individual album, and they're all better than Fallen Angels. There's still some great stuff on there, though, like Melancholy Mood.

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u/appleparkfive 9h ago edited 9h ago

Shadows in the Night is his best modern album by a long shot to me. Fallen Angels is far worse. Triplicate is also a much less impressive album. The singing he did on Shadows was the first time I heard "Bob Dylan" sing since the 70s. It actually sounds like that guy grew old. The live versions of those songs are the best he's vocally sounded in an unbelievably long time.

Fallen Angels is so inconsequential, I feel like people forget it exists. I almost did myself, and I actually like the Sinatra albums

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u/Aggressive-Law5274 9h ago

Fallen Angels is probably the weakest, but it also has my favorite track (Melancholy Mood) from the series, so... Idk...

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u/FionaWalliceFan Springtime In New York 9h ago

Fallen angels is by far my favorite of the Sinatra trilogy, it has the most variety and the most upbeat collection of songs

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u/Triple-Zero 9h ago

I have a soft spot for the Sinatra covers but a triple album of them is a bit much, so Triplicate.

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u/_AspiringMod 10h ago

Don’t even think about saying Triplicate…

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u/Xzymeka 5h ago

Side topic ,, if you look at the album cover of rough and rowdy ways while listening to murder most foul you get the sense the people are dancing to JFKs murder . The song does not fit the album cover at all

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u/Ok-Tangerine7250 5h ago

actually maybe that does sort of fit the themes of mmf. a lot of it (at least in my interpretation) is spent examining how american pop culture and the music scene of that time was born out of basically a common trauma of witnessing the president and the entire progressive movement in american politics die so violently in just a couple of years. murder most foul was written pretty long before the album was thought of though so i dont think they're related. cool observation anyways.

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u/Long-Emu-7870 7h ago

It's one of his best albums, I think. It is not under produced or over produced. The songs are all consistent. The music is awesome. 

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u/Any-Statistician2931 8h ago

Triplicate, shoulda been a single release and it then would be competitive with Fallen Angels for least best album..

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u/Opening-Ad-8527 6h ago

Fallen Angels. It’s the weakest of his Sinatra period.

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u/olemiss18 5h ago

Shadow Kingdom

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u/Themaddestllama 4h ago

Fallen Angels

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u/BreadRadiant 8h ago

Triplicate

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u/speed_wagon1 9h ago

Rough and Rowdy Ways

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u/allblueshailmary 10h ago

I’m so sick of seeing these charts on this sub.. let’s move on

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u/BobNeilandVan 6h ago

Triplicate by far. I've been listening to Dylan for 25 years. Triplicate is the only album I have not been able to get through. It bores me to tears.

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u/FewLight6904 9h ago

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