Before the Flood (1974)

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
4. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
5. It Ain't Me, Babe
6. Ballad of a Thin Man
7. Up on Cripple Creek
8. I Shall Be Released
9. Endless Highway
10. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
11. Stage Fright
12. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
13. Just Like a Woman
14. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
15. The Shape I'm In
16. When You Awake
17. The Weight
18. All Along the Watchtower
19. Highway 61 Revisited
20. Like a Rolling Stone
21. Blowin' in the Wind

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From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Before the Flood [1974] From Dylan’s huge 1974 North American ‘come-back tour’ with THE
BAND, on which it seemed a surprise, at the time, that he revisited a large number of his old songs,
this album, Dylan’s 15th, was his first ‘live’ album. (It was also the second and last for David Geffen’s
Asylum label.) The title is said to be the English translation of the Yiddish phrase ‘Farn Mabul’, the
title of a trilogy of novels by Sholem Asch (1880– 1957), published 1929–31 and translated into English
as Three Cities, 1933. Asch was the father of MOSES ASCH, founder of Folkways Records.
Before the Flood was a double-LP of confident, brash rock’n’roll Dylan: a record of an artist exhilarated
by being back on stage after a long absence, and in the process largely ignoring the differences
between one song and another. There is an overspeedy, break-neck quality here that does little justice
to the lyrics and has Dylan mainly just throwing back his head and yelling. It has never been a
favourite of anyone keen on Bob Dylan, and he has himself bad-mouthed the atmosphere that obtained
on the tour itself, which he recognised accorded a questionable primacy to energy. Don’t
look to this album for any of the subtlety, nuance or understatement which have always been hallmarks
of Dylan’s genius."


Dear Mister Gray:
I know it's only rock'n roll but I like it! I don't need no high brow proffesor telling me that I can't be keen on Dylan just because this is one of my favourites!
According to Alias

Best Song:
"Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)"
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric:
"You say you love me
And you're thinkin' of me,
But you know you could be wrong"
According to Alias