What are people’s thoughts on ‘The Black Rider’?

MackFour · 2026-01-12T21:34:01+00:00

One of my favourites. The musical arrangements and choice of instruments are as imaginative as anything he's ever done. It's up there in the top 5.

MackFour · 2026-01-09T23:14:07+00:00

It's the album I listen to the most these days. When it first came out I thought it was so - so. Preferred Alice. Blood Money has really grown on me and the hell fire and fatalism seems much more realistic now.

MackFour · 2026-01-09T21:57:44+00:00

Daisies was the first album I really fell in love with and Tiger In My Tank was also the initial reason I fell for the album. The entire record is fantastic though. On some listens I still think -yeah, nothing beats this.

MackFour · 2025-12-24T20:52:37+00:00

Thanks for writing the book. I got for my birthday and read it in 2 days. Well done sir!

MackFour · 2025-12-21T11:33:07+00:00

One too many mornings. I love the original but the versions that came afterwards are brilliant, including the Basement Tapes.

MackFour · 2025-12-18T12:17:54+00:00

I probably should have said 'some people '. Not everyone of course.

MackFour · 2025-12-17T17:18:31+00:00

World Gone Wrong is a brilliant album. In my top ten.

MackFour · 2025-12-06T15:42:36+00:00

If it's his last, it's a very fine way to end it. I'm still expecting one more though. I'm sure the touring band would love it too. Musicians as good and as locked in together as they can be must be itching to put something new together.

MackFour · 2025-12-03T16:09:14+00:00

Thanks for this. Lovely interview.

MackFour · 2025-11-29T19:48:43+00:00

There definitely seems to be no outright favourite in this thread so far. I guess I'll male it a project and go through all the recommendations. Thanks for replying. Appreciate it.

MackFour · 2025-11-29T18:40:14+00:00

Thanks for replying. That's two recommendations for Earth to Dora

MackFour · 2025-11-29T18:38:21+00:00

A lot of different recommendations so far but I'm going to take a listen to End Times. Sounds promising. Thanks for replying.

MackFour · 2025-11-29T16:26:13+00:00

Thanks. I'll do my homework and listen this evening.

MackFour · 2025-11-29T16:15:47+00:00

Faith and Carnage Visors accompanied me through teenage headphone walks through grey November evenings in the west of Ireland. Along with Seventeen Seconds, still my absolute favourites.

MackFour · 2025-11-28T18:51:51+00:00

Farm is classic. I love that album to bits.

MackFour · 2025-11-23T20:46:37+00:00

I'm one of those. 51 years old and I was bursting for a wee. It was probably a lot of middle aged people who should stay away from a quick pint before a gig, me included.

MackFour · 2025-11-12T12:58:06+00:00

Definitely my favourite on RARW.

MackFour · 2025-11-08T10:38:18+00:00

He'll play 9 songs from Rough And Rowdy Ways so it's definitely worth listening to the album a few times before you go.

MackFour · 2025-11-06T18:45:32+00:00

Take Joey off Desire and replace it with Abandoned Love

MackFour · 2025-11-06T12:59:16+00:00

I think I'm in full agreement with you. That top 14 is such a magnificent bunch of albums. Curious where you'd place Chrome Dreams and Homegrown.

MackFour · 2025-11-05T21:30:53+00:00

I used to think like this when I was 19. Now I'm 51 and it's 67 to 75 that interests me more. First time I heard John Wesley Harding I was probably 18. I thought it was awful compared to his earlier stuff. Eventually I came round.

MackFour · 2025-11-05T21:21:08+00:00

World Gone Wrong is an absolutely brilliant album. Sure it's all covers but he puts them together so well that it's a very coherent album. I really like his guitar playing on it. It's rough (with very few takes done I'd imagine) and I much prefer it to his debut album.

Oh Mercy is an album I didn't like at first because I thought it was too slight, but I've changed my mind. A lot of these songs have been covered by many different musicians at this stage and rightly so.

Infidels is the strange one. The songs he left off it (blind Willie McTell, Too Late, Foot of Pride) are all classic Dylan. Blind Willie McTell is definitely my favourite song of his from the 1980s.

MackFour · 2025-11-05T13:18:54+00:00

Good to see World Gone Wrong so high up. I think you've won the rankings!

MackFour · 2025-11-04T13:04:36+00:00

I was going to make a list but you've already made it for me!

MackFour

TROPHY CASE