And whenever this earth crumbles, Blood On The Tracks will still sounds amazing.

If you've never listened to Dylan, or just afraid of all the self-righteous "dylanologist" our there who might mock you for misquoting Highway 61 Revisited, my suggestion would be to avoid the compilations and start with Blood on the Tracks.

It's his most accessible album in many ways. His usually nasal-y voice found in his 60's albums is a little lower. The songs aren't about hippie politics, but rather finding, fulfilling, and ultimately losing love. And of course, the fact that every song has a great hook, and he's writing at his best, doesn't hurt at all either.

The opening track, Tangled Up In Blue, in perhaps his most incoherent of his many incoherent story songs. The lyrics don't make much sense on first listen, but the melody is so up beat that you don't really care. This sequel, or antithesis, or fascimile, of the opener is the second to last song, Shelter from the Storm. Neither really have a chorus, and both are based on imagery rather than linear story, and both are absolutely amazing, like the entire album, once you have time to absorb it each time you revisit it.