Bob Dylan Albums Ranked Worst to Best

Not surprisingly, Bob Dylan's recording career has its ups and downs.

That's bound to happen when you stick around for more than 50 years and release over three dozen albums. As you'll see in UCR's list of Bob Dylan Albums Ranked Worst to Best, he's made classic records almost every decade since his 1962 self-titled debut. No other classic act has repeated this feat.

And more than any other figure in the history of popular music, Dylan has logged more comebacks than we can count, dating back to the '60s and into modern times.

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It wasn't an easy path, but the singer-songwriter has managed to influence generations of artists and revolutionize the sound of music – from folk to rock to even gospel – along the way. Name a legendary artist who's come of age since the mid-'60s, and chances are a line can be traced back to Bob Dylan.

Dylan has transformed popular music for five decades, riding the waves and filtering it back into his and others' art. He's made some of the most essential records in rock history, along with a select few contemporaries like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,  Like we said, he's had quite a run, as you'll see in the list of Bob Dylan Albums Ranked Worst to Best below.