Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
1975 Ratings: #1 / 130
User Score
1975 Rank: #3All Time: #138
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork
Blood on the Tracks is pleasing and complete enough to visit repeatedly, until the syllables become words, the words resolve into meanings, and all of it becomes internalized, a space accessible even without the presence of the album.
100
AllMusic
Dylan made albums more influential than this, but he never made one better.
100
Consequence of Sound
The legend's most painful and brutally honest album changed songwriting forever.
100
Rolling Stone
It is the work of someone who is not just seeing through himself, but looking through us -- and still making us see things that we haven't seen before.
100
Q Magazine

Suddenly Dylan no longer seemed to be straining to recapture the surreal poetic torrents of the '60s ... this is probably Dylan's most complete and most unified album--and yes, damnit, his best.

Whynot
100

500 FOLLOWERS REVIEW (big thanks to all of you guys!!!).

This one is the only Bob Dylan album I have never written a single line. There is something too big about it that keeps me always in the back of the room just listening to it without being able to put my words on it. Maybe this is a good opportunity to finally give it a try.

For many many years talking about best Dylan album was a synonym of talking about “Highway 61 Revisited” and perhaps for some bold people it was a ... read more

MickyT
100

'Blood on the Tracks' is another phenomenal album from Bob Dylan, sure it doesn't reinvent the Dylan formula instrumentally but I'm drawn to this body of work for the same reason that I love a lot of Dylan's records, the lyrics. Around the time Dylan was nearing closer to a divorce and the lyrical content of 'Blood on the Tracks' is centred around that, you can hear the emotion in Dylan's passionate perfromances and as a result we got one of the best break up albums of all time. It's ... read more

Andrei
NR

The anger and emotion in Bob Dylan's voice on "Idiot Wind" make for what might be his best vocal performance ever.

100

my favorite bob dylan record. one of my favorite albums of all time

100

Radiohead if they made folk music

90

I think Dylan’s confessional lyrics on this album work to his benefit, as lots of his instrumentation comes across as sad on other albums as well, and they also differentiate this from his others while playing to his strengths.

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Added on: February 4, 2013