If Bob Dylan is only half as good as they say he is. . .

then he's just incredible.

Me: "Have you ever listened to Dylan?"
You: "Yeah."
Me: "Have you listened to Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited, Bringing It All Back Home, and Blood on the Tracks in their entirety?"
You: "No."
Me: "Then you haven't listened to Dylan."

Granted, everything he's every touched is doomed to be overanalyzed and critiqued to total exhaustion, but that shouldn't be any reason to knock him off.

Here's my desert island Dylantrack list. I've tried to favor the obscurities (Like A Rolling Stone's a great song, but overplayed).

Side note: "It's alright ma, I'm only bleeding," my favorite song off my least favorite "pinnacle" dylan album, reads to me like proto-rap, which predates grandmaster flash about 15 years I think.

"He Not Busy Being Born is Busy Dying."