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Blonde on Blonde

by Bob Dylan

Blonde on Blonde is a 1966 folk rock album by Bob Dylan. It runs 14 tracks across 73 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.4/5 from 16 ratings.

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Folk Rock · Rock · Blues Rock

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16 ratings
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14
Tracks
73 min
Runtime
98 bpm
Tempo
A major
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  • AllMusic5/5
  • Entertainment WeeklyA+
  • MusicHound Rock5/5
  • The Encyclopedia of Popular Music5/5
  • The Great Rock Discography10/10
  • The Rolling Stone Album Guide5/5
  • Tom HullA−

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  • Rob Gordon · High Fidelity (2000)

    Everyone tells you it's the best one. I've spent about fifteen years looking for a way to disagree and come back with nothing, which is annoying.

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14 tracks · 73 min

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Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 16, 1966 on Columbia Records. Recording sessions began in New York in October 1965 with numerous backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing band, The Hawks. Though sessions continued until January 1966, they yielded only one track that made it onto the final album—"One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)". At producer Bob Johnston's suggestion, Dylan, keyboardist Al Kooper, and guitarist Robbie Robertson moved to the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee. These sessions, augmented by some of Nashville's top session musicians, were more fruitful, and in February and March all the remaining songs for the album were recorded.

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Blonde on Blonde completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 1965 and 1966, starting with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Critics often rank Blonde on Blonde as one of the greatest albums of all time. Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial". It was one of the first double albums in rock music. The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart in the USA, where it eventually went double-platinum, and reached No. 3 in the UK. Blonde on Blonde spawned two singles that were top twenty hits in the USA: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "I Want You". Two further songs, "Just Like a Woman" and "Visions of Johanna", have been described as among Dylan's greatest compositions and were featured in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

In brief

Is Blonde on Blonde good?
Riffiter listeners rate Blonde on Blonde 4.4/5 from 16 ratings.
When was Blonde on Blonde released?
Blonde on Blonde was released in 1966.
How many tracks are on Blonde on Blonde?
Blonde on Blonde has 14 tracks, with a runtime of 73 minutes.
What genre is Blonde on Blonde?
Blonde on Blonde is catalogued under Folk Rock, Rock, Blues Rock.
What BPM is Blonde on Blonde?
Blonde on Blonde runs at a median tempo of 98 BPM across its tracks, most often in A major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Blonde on Blonde?
Listeners of Blonde on Blonde also rate Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin IV by Led Zeppelin, Abbey Road by The Beatles.
Who produced Blonde on Blonde?
Bob Johnston produced all 14 tracks on Blonde on Blonde.

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Produced by
Bob Johnston
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