Bob Dylan

Sillybilly said:

 No one mentioned Infidels yet. Great album. 

Think my favourites are:  bringing it all back home (I just love “Bob Dylan’s 115th dream and Love minus zero), Infidels and Blood On The Tracks. If live albums count then “At Budokan” has to be in there. 

*cough*

bobmunro said:

Sillybilly said:

 No one mentioned Infidels yet. Great album. 

Think my favourites are:  bringing it all back home (I just love “Bob Dylan’s 115th dream and Love minus zero), Infidels and Blood On The Tracks. If live albums count then “At Budokan” has to be in there. 

*cough*

Sorry Bob. Speed reading at my age!! 😉

StreekDerek said:

Blood on the tracks for me particularly some of the outtakes on the bootleg series. You can understand why he got the Nobel prize from the lyrics on the likes of Shelter from the Storm and Idiot Wind. How he left Up To Me off the album is beyond me.
Speaking of his official bootlegs also love Tell Tale Signs.

Some of his alternate versions are the equal of the released songs.
In all cases it is fascinating to see the evolution of the songs and his train of thought.
Same with the way he has constantly reinvented songs in live performance.
The version of It's Alright Ma, I'm only Bleeding on Before the Flood is far superior to the original imo.

EveshamAddick said:

Dylan has tarnished his legacy with much evidence of plagiarism (to be fair, he has always borrowed / stolen right back to the early 60s stuff) but most recently lifting a study guide on Herman Melville for his Nobel speech: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40272123

and the poet Henry Timrod for the Modern Times LP: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dylan-borrowed-from-obscure-civil-war-poet-say-critics-416069.html

Not to mention all the lifts in the supposed autobiography Chronicles:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/bob-dylan-and-plagiarism/

The copying even extends to his art works:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/28/bob-dylan-paintings

EveshamAddick said:

Dylan has tarnished his legacy with much evidence of plagiarism (to be fair, he has always borrowed / stolen right back to the early 60s stuff) but most recently lifting a study guide on Herman Melville for his Nobel speech: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40272123

and the poet Henry Timrod for the Modern Times LP: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dylan-borrowed-from-obscure-civil-war-poet-say-critics-416069.html

Not to mention all the lifts in the supposed autobiography Chronicles:

https://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/bob-dylan-and-plagiarism/

The copying even extends to his art works:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/28/bob-dylan-paintings

a great artist (anon .. probably talking of himself lol) once said .. 'most artists borrow, great artists steal' .. Dylan has enough brilliant 'original' material in his portfolio, but I agree, the persistent findings of plagiarism have done him no good .. Joni Mitchell has accused him of plagiarism live on radio .. 
nowadays with almost everything collected on the internet with pretty much instant access, it's VERY hard to get away with nicking other people's published work .. check out Ian McEwan as another example

StreekDerek said:

When does extensive research become plagiarism? I read Why Dylan Matters last year which looks at the links between the Greek classics and Dylan’s lyrics. There’s no doubt Dylan has been influenced by these but also Shakespeare, the bible, the blues and many other things; his genius is to bring them all together and make it is own and be a guide to and for life to so many of us fans.

the difference ? .. extensive research is what it says on the tin and then interpreting and composing the outcome of your research in YOUR OWN WORDS and/or musical style

Plagiarism is copying almost word for word or note for note another's work with minimum alteration and then passing it off as your own

Majestic.