"Blonde On Blonde" is the 3rd in Bob Dylan's Holy Trinity of albums. If you are a Dylan fan, you know what the other 2 are. This one includes many of his most recognizable early songs, such as "Rainy Day Women", "I Want You", "Just Like A Woman" and "Memphis Blues Again". It also has 2 songs which rival any I have ever heard for sheer volume and quality of poetic imagery well matched by musical accompaniment: "Visions Of Johanna" and "Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands". Both tracks are rather long, and you can lose yourself in the compact cosmos that each provides. On all tracks in general, Bob and his band go effortlessly from rock to pop to blues to folk, and all combined points therein. I do not dislike one single track. This is simply one of the essential albums of the Universe. It helped to define a generation. I could listen to it forever...

Far and away his best.. although some of its enormity may to having been released as a 2-fer. Yet how else could a seminal juicy classic like "Sad Eyed Lady" have helped baize a trail for side-long cuts some 40 years ago? (a virtual godsend to us late night FM jocks..) Definitely one of the ten albums you'd be sure to take along in that proverbial desert island scenario, it uses nearly every structural blues idiom as a musical vehicle for some of the hippest most demonstrative poetic imagery rock & roll has ever known. "Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule", so simply drawn yet so magically it embeds itself in the mindscape. This is why he's him and we're not.. dig it for what it is or don't say he never warned us.. ~LD