1. Blonde On Blonde - the first Dylan album I picked up and it rocks!
2. Bringing All Back Home - solid album and a very close second. I love It's All Over Now Baby Blue & Love Minus Zero
3. Highway 61 Revisited - when I heard the opening of Desolation Row, it opened up my eyes and ears to Dylan, but to me the album doesn't flow quite as well as the other two.

I'd go BIABH > BOB > H61R.

None of them are as good as the Freewheelin' Bob though. -is aware this is irrelevant-

Blonde on Blonde is an easy winner. Bringin' It All Back Home's electricity is very weak and doesn't hit home at all. Not to say that it doesn't have its fair share of good songs, but Dylan was just getting started on his road to diversity. Highway 61 Revisited is a step in the right direction; some much longer songs, universal lyrics, and a better tone of voice if you ask me.

Blonde on Blonde eclipses its predecessors as it's both like them and unlike them at the same time. It has a canon of lengthy pieces to wrap your head around ("Sad Eyed Lady...", "Visions of Johanna", "Stuck Inside of Mobile..."), along with these tiny jovial tunes ("I Want You") that cause the album to have several different identities. Both of the predecessors had those kinds of pieces, but the lyrics were never this surreal or enticing; just listening to Bob Dylan's sheer poetry across "Visions of Johanna" is a pure treat. And its length is another big factor to why I like it so much; in order to expand so much upon his musical palette while still not abandoning the reputation he had built up, Dylan needed enough space to both compliment his old style and spit in its face, so to speak.

That's at least how I see it.

Well, Blonde On Blonde is my favorite album ever, so I'm going to have to go with that.

The night I bought it, I listened to it three times in a row. I still listen to it fairly regularly. I love that album. I just think it combines everything great about Dylan into one awesome experience. Also, at the time, Bobby D was just on fire, and in 1966, more Dylan was better Dylan. So even if I didn't have a personal attachment to it, I'd still go with the double album. Highway 61 is almost as good, though.

Blonde On Blonde is my favorite Bob Dylan album, period. When I first got a copy of that (on cassette!) I completely wore it out.

Bringing It All Back Home is fairly close behind, because it has such sentimental value to me - my friends and I used to drink in my buddy's shed, which he'd wired electricity into and put an ancient computer inside of; one of the only albums he had on the computer at first was Bringing It All Back Home, and that was the soundtrack to a good many wonderful nights with friends.

Very sorry - double post.

This.

nah the holy trinity is:-

New Morning
Oh Mercy!
Time Out of Mind

(I'm serious)

Wow ! GreenMeany, clutnuckle, Jonny Redshirt, ThePhanastasio .... four in a row going for Blonde on Blonde, which in my opinion is the weakest of the three albums.

Clutnuckle always has something perceptive to say, but on this occasion almost every merit that he mentions, I see as a weakness. Obviously BoB has lots of great moments and I Want You is a fabulous track, but some of the other "tiny jovial tunes" ( nice phrase,btw )just sound like throw-away fillers to me ( eg Five Believers).
And for me, the longer pieces are just too long. No one can forget the brilliant line,"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face", but also, unfortunately, it`s also difficult to forget the rather turgid chorus of "Sad Eyed Lady", which, like some of his other choruses, are repeated too often for my liking.

So, like TheBig3, my vote goes to either of the other albums; they are shorter, sharper and do a better job of maintaining the excitement that Bob can pack into his lyrics.

PS, Thanks for the memory about hanging out with friends in a shed, Phanastasio. When I did that, we listened endlessly to "Feel like I`m Fixing to Die". Great days, eh ? You`re young, you`ve got more friends than you know what to do with, everything is possible ...

PPS, No,no, Il Duce, the REAL holy trinity is Blood on the Tracks, Desire and Street Legal !

^^to each his own, Lisnaholic