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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "This was released in May, 1966, on two hunks of vinyl, believed to be the rock genre's first double album. If \"Highway 61,\" which came out the previous year, was the disorienting body blow to the relatively staid consciousness of popular music, \"Blonde\" was the one-two combination that crowned the new champ. Dylan was on an experimental tear, and everything he attempted worked. He spewed mystical poetry with mischievous phrasing on such milestone works as the epic \"Visions of Johanna,\" the raucous \"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35\" and the heartfelt \"Just Like A Woman.\" When this album was unveiled, many among his folk base still hadn't forgiven him for his electric turn at the Newport Folk Festival a year earlier. But this helped finally get them over it. That creative transition demonstrated to the public that Dylan would not be corralled by any musical boundaries. And if it needed further convincing on that point, it now had \"Blonde on Blonde.\"";

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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "\"Like A Rolling Stone\" leads off this near masterpiece, and it broke the mold of pop-rock singles because it clocked in at over six minutes, unheard of in 1965. Last year Rolling Stone Magazine rated it No. 1 on its list of the top 500 songs of all time. But \"Highway\" is so much more than one searing anthem. While Dylan had made his mark among folk audiences by faithfully following the sandal prints of his idol, Woody Guthrie, this was his watershed crossover to mainstream rock audiences and prepared the music world for \"Blonde On Blonde.\" He explored feelings of revenge, doom, anger, desperation, longing and restlessness with cuts like \"Tombstone Blues,\" \"Ballad of a Thin Man,\" \"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues\" and \"Desolation Row.\" Most aficionados put this at or near the top of Dylan essentials.";

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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "In 1975, Dylan was en route toward a divorce from his wife Sara, and after the protest era of the '60s had gone off into musical limbo. He wasn't irrelevant, but the fire around him seemed to be fading out. All that changed when \"Blood\" came out and reinvigorated his career. This release was a throwback to his earlier, primarily acoustic work and again put the focus on his sublime storytelling ability. The two most recognizable selections are \"Tangled Up In Blue\" and \"Shelter From The Storm,\" both of which are Dylan at his most personal, introspective and cathartic. But equally moving and powerful are \"Simple Twist of Fate,\" \"Idiot Wind\" and \"If You See Her, Say Hello.\" This is Dylan's most mature collection of poetry and music, and audiences seemed to agree because it soared to No. 1 on the album charts shortly after release and eventually went platinum.";

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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "This was Dylan's second album, released in 1963 before he turned 22. While it didn't cause the sensation that \"Highway 61\" or \"Blonde on Blonde\" would later incite among the mainstream, it further solidified his Guthrie-influenced, Greenwich Village coffee house folk credentials. And this album did stir up the pot furiously in the sense that no songwriter before him had mined an imagination or strung together random ideas on American culture quite like Dylan; it would go on to influence numerous artists, including the Beatles and Rolling Stones. \"Freewheelin'\" produced some of Dylan's most enduring hits such as \"Blowin' In The Wind,\" \"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall\" and \"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.\" His debut album, \"Bob Dylan,\" contained only two originals, so this essentially was his true debut, since it had only two covers. When you think of pure Dylan – acoustic guitar, raspy harmonica, throaty twanged voice – this is the gold standard.";

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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "Musicians today take their sweet time in the studio, obsessing over every production detail. But the '60s were simpler times; artists laid down their tracks, then moved onto the next effort. Dylan was in a particularly fertile period here. This album was also released in 1965, five months before \"Highway 61 Revisited.\" It features perhaps Dylan's most famous cover photo, with him in the foreground and Sally Grossman, wife of then-manager Albert Grossman, relaxing in a chair. Rumors at the time suggested it was Dylan himself in drag. Significant because side one featured an electrified band – thus earning the label of being the very first \"folk rock\" album — this collection starts with one of Dylan's signature numbers, \"Subterranean Homesick Blues,\" containing some of his most indelible stream-of-consciousness lyrics (\"Twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift\"). It also introduced such Dylan standards as \"Mr. Tambourine Man,\" \"Maggie's Farm\" and \"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.\"";

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DiscDebate_BobDylan[i-1].body = "Considering the length of Dylan's career, there are actually a few worthy candidates for this dubious distinction. \"Empire Burlesque\" was a futile exercise in '80s production excess. \"Dylan\" was a 1973 collection of outtakes that should have remained outtakes. And \"Saved,\" from his Christian period, was so strident – unlike the more accessible \"Slow Train Coming\" — that fans scurried away in droves. But \"Self Portrait\" may get the nod as his all-time worst outing. Greil Marcus, rock critic for Rolling Stone and a longtime Dylan fan, began his now infamous 1970 review with this line: \"What is this s---?\" This musical miscalculation was a bizarre and somewhat contemptuous attempt by Dylan to tell his fans to stop worshipping him and get a life, similar to what Woody Allen did with his film \"Stardust Memories.\" And the most unfortunate part is, it's a double album. ";

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