13. Bob DylanBlonde On Blonde
I love Dylan and I think this is my favourite double album. ‘Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ takes up the entire side of one of the discs. I guess the thing with this record is that there’s a slightly psychedelic quality to the lyrics. Dylan was moving away from the political and the personal – he’s just out there. I really like the chaos of it. For me it represents that mercurial, genius quality that I don’t think many people have, when an artist goes through a period of just producing amazing music. Bowie did it with Low, Lodger and Heroes; Dylan did it with Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Barbara Charone, Rufus Wainwright, Suzi Quatro, Richard Hawley, John Foxx, Marianne Faithfull, Tony Visconti
