I used to care, but things have changed

The Independent has listed the top 20 Dylan albums, as part of the current Zim frenzy ahead of the Scorsese documentaries next week. Hard to argue with, but difficult to rank - Blonde On Blonde is usually voted top, but I can't decide between Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home. The latter was the first Dylan album I owned - I bought it on cassette from a second hand shop in Portsmouth. At the time (age 16) I was graduating from heavy rock and the likes of Pink Floyd, the Doors, etc etc. To hear a line like

' Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.'

was just electrifying. Certainly more so than, say, Ummagumma. About which I'll say no more.

Anyway, plenty of Dylan gubbins going on at the Indie, including the boy Kershaw talking about the 'Judas!' accuser at the Free Trade Hall in 1966.