Great album, but I feel alone in preferring Good As I Been To You. Both albums are incredible but while I feel like World Gone Wrong has better highs it also has worse lows. I listen to Good As I Been To You in full quite often
There's been a bunch of people rating his albums recently, putting Good As I Been To You at the bottom. Both that and World Gone Wrong are A at minimum.
It’s part of the zeitgeist.
As time goes by there are “accepted” opinions on what is “good” and what is “bad”
Nothing in Bobs catalog should be “automatically” put in any one category.
For those who actually listen objectively they will realize that there are multitudes to Bob and you need to keep an open mind.
That, and things change.
What I loved and ignored decades ago has evolved so much over time.
For example, **Street Legal** just hits me differently now.
Senor? Good Grak, I just feel that sucker now.
I'm not too big of a fan of Ragged & Dirty, Broke Down Engine and Lone Pilgrim at least not compared to the other tracks on the album, kind of hard for them to compare to tracks like Two Soldiers, Delia, Love Henry, or Jack a Roe. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I find Good As I Been To You to be more consistent than World Gone Wrong.
Love this album. It adds the wind-chilled, skeletal, end-times, prophecy blues voice and vibe of his later years - Oh Mercy/Time Out Of Mind/Tempest style - to the textures and materials of his debut/Gaslight Tapes/Freewheelin’-era covers.
It feels like the promise of those early concerts come home to roost.
Then it also drips with the Old, Weird America side of the Complete Basement Tapes recordings/Self Portrait/John Wesley Harding era.
Those are three of my favourite things. All here, in the lonely garage recording room in which Dylan reconnected with his roots, post-Rock Aristocracy sessions of his star-stuffed 50th Birthday concert and Under The Red Sky guest sessions around the time of the Supper Club sessions.
And one of my favourite Dylan album covers, conjuring up a surreal, worldly Old World soul.
It’s got the haunted spirit he’s made his own. Off to listen to it again now!
I really like this album, and listened to it quite a bit in the five or six years after it was released. I still revisit it occasionally, especially for Two Soldiers and Lone Pilgrim.
Together, both albums pretty much cover the breadth of folk traditions that are the essential root ingredients of American music. From Scotch/English murder ballads to delta blues, seafaring stories and old timey country songs, these are song styles Bob knows well and performs sublimely on these albums. The vocals and guitar playing may be the best he’s ever done. The thing that impresses me most about these performances is how well he inhabits these stories. These songs are familiar to anyone who has explored folk traditions, yet he makes the characters in these songs come alive. He makes you believe he has lived these stories. I really don’t know any modern folk singer who does it better. Maybe John Prine? J. J. Cale?
I played World Gone Wrong and Good As I Been to You so many times when they came out. It’s like one big, awesome classic folk album in my mind. I love them both!
It's a favorite of mine. Bob's guitar is great. The songs are darker than good As I Been To You, and it seems more lived in. I love the photo on the cover.
It hit right when it came out. At that point, nobody knew if Bob was done as a songwriter, the TOOM comeback was still in the unknown future. I like to think that this and GAIBTY's return to the well of traditional folk and blues brought Bob out of his slump.
I love World Gone Wrong. Feels like a bunch of lullabies. Good as I Been to You is a more rocking with the windows down in the summertime kind of album. I would have bought hundreds of these albums if he made them.
Sort of return to the old folk days of singing old classics, especially rare, rediscovered classics. I really like the Mississippi Sheiks’ “World Gone Wrong” and it was cool to hear Bob’s version.
Makes me wish he’d have made a Trinity of this, GAIBTY, and a re-recording of his debut album.
I enjoy it, but was grateful when his songwriting chops returned so strong a few years later (the early 90s were pretty bleak on that count).
One of my favorite Bob album covers too.
Great album, but I feel alone in preferring Good As I Been To You. Both albums are incredible but while I feel like World Gone Wrong has better highs it also has worse lows. I listen to Good As I Been To You in full quite often
There's been a bunch of people rating his albums recently, putting Good As I Been To You at the bottom. Both that and World Gone Wrong are A at minimum.
It’s part of the zeitgeist. As time goes by there are “accepted” opinions on what is “good” and what is “bad” Nothing in Bobs catalog should be “automatically” put in any one category. For those who actually listen objectively they will realize that there are multitudes to Bob and you need to keep an open mind. That, and things change. What I loved and ignored decades ago has evolved so much over time. For example, **Street Legal** just hits me differently now. Senor? Good Grak, I just feel that sucker now.
I came here to say this… Ok not really but I do agree
What do you consider a low from this record?
I'm not too big of a fan of Ragged & Dirty, Broke Down Engine and Lone Pilgrim at least not compared to the other tracks on the album, kind of hard for them to compare to tracks like Two Soldiers, Delia, Love Henry, or Jack a Roe. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I find Good As I Been To You to be more consistent than World Gone Wrong.
You are not alone.
They’re kinda companion albums the Bromberg sessions is what we need to hear
Love this album. It adds the wind-chilled, skeletal, end-times, prophecy blues voice and vibe of his later years - Oh Mercy/Time Out Of Mind/Tempest style - to the textures and materials of his debut/Gaslight Tapes/Freewheelin’-era covers. It feels like the promise of those early concerts come home to roost. Then it also drips with the Old, Weird America side of the Complete Basement Tapes recordings/Self Portrait/John Wesley Harding era. Those are three of my favourite things. All here, in the lonely garage recording room in which Dylan reconnected with his roots, post-Rock Aristocracy sessions of his star-stuffed 50th Birthday concert and Under The Red Sky guest sessions around the time of the Supper Club sessions. And one of my favourite Dylan album covers, conjuring up a surreal, worldly Old World soul. It’s got the haunted spirit he’s made his own. Off to listen to it again now!
I also love the video he shot for Blood in My Eyes off this album. Based on the outfit from the cover it might have been shot in the same day.
Beautiful comment, so apt in describing the charms of wgw
Well said.
Fantastic, I view this as part of his late-career renaissance. Fantastic guitar playing and great singing. His vocal style fits the tracks perfectly.
His performance of Delia on this album is a masterpiece.
I love playing that arrangement myself. Beautiful.
I go back to it often. The liner notes are impressive even. He talks about the present (90s) as ‘the New Dark Ages’.
It’s great, Dylan is great at music.
I really like this album, and listened to it quite a bit in the five or six years after it was released. I still revisit it occasionally, especially for Two Soldiers and Lone Pilgrim.
This says it best: [https://dylanchords.com/36\_wgw](https://dylanchords.com/36_wgw)
Always loved the diagrams
I think it's a masterpiece
Me too. Way overlooked. One of my top three Dylan albums.
Love it. It’s better recorded than GAIBTY (which is also still excellent) and his voice and (underrated) guitar playing is deeply moving.
Strange things have happened
I remember bopping around with a Walkman blasting this on cassette.
Together, both albums pretty much cover the breadth of folk traditions that are the essential root ingredients of American music. From Scotch/English murder ballads to delta blues, seafaring stories and old timey country songs, these are song styles Bob knows well and performs sublimely on these albums. The vocals and guitar playing may be the best he’s ever done. The thing that impresses me most about these performances is how well he inhabits these stories. These songs are familiar to anyone who has explored folk traditions, yet he makes the characters in these songs come alive. He makes you believe he has lived these stories. I really don’t know any modern folk singer who does it better. Maybe John Prine? J. J. Cale?
Agree. Bob sounds so committed to the characters in these songs; and turns in some of his best singing of the 1990s.
An album gone right
Even if you don’t like the album you have to admit “Two Soldiers” is a top Dylan song.
Not as good as Good As I’ve Been to You, but definitely a wonderful album.
I love his vocal and playing on lone pilgrim
I've always loved the cover art. Sticks out.
Blood in my eyes is a banger
I played World Gone Wrong and Good As I Been to You so many times when they came out. It’s like one big, awesome classic folk album in my mind. I love them both!
Love it, Infact I got blood in my eyes.
It's a favorite of mine. Bob's guitar is great. The songs are darker than good As I Been To You, and it seems more lived in. I love the photo on the cover. It hit right when it came out. At that point, nobody knew if Bob was done as a songwriter, the TOOM comeback was still in the unknown future. I like to think that this and GAIBTY's return to the well of traditional folk and blues brought Bob out of his slump.
Top 10 Dylan album. It's a damn shame he didn't put as much effort into singing his own songs on so many albums.
Amazing!
Love it.
Enjoy Stagger Lee and Broke Down Engine. Two Soldiers is intriguing although the singing is a bit strange. I much prefer Dave Alvin’s Delia.
Called it Spot On - Even Prescient
I love Delia and the title track.
Great album title. Tracks don't live up to it.
It’s a personal favourite of mine. Bob plays and sings much better than on Good As I Been To You. His take on Delia alone is worth buying this record.
Love it. Love folk music and Bob does justice.
Conflicted on where it stands for me personally amongst his bests, but it’s a very enjoyable album for me.
Personal favorite. Wish he’d done a few more in this style.
His guitar playing in this album and the former one is quite amazing
It’s ok, rather hear him sing his own songs, though.
I love it, one of my favorites.
I love World Gone Wrong. Feels like a bunch of lullabies. Good as I Been to You is a more rocking with the windows down in the summertime kind of album. I would have bought hundreds of these albums if he made them.
I love Bob’s guitar playing in this album.
The only thing I liked about it was the album cover.
My thoughts are yes, the world has gone wrong.
It's amazing! I love "Blood in my eyes" and "Delia" are my favorites.
Sort of return to the old folk days of singing old classics, especially rare, rediscovered classics. I really like the Mississippi Sheiks’ “World Gone Wrong” and it was cool to hear Bob’s version.
Makes me wish he’d have made a Trinity of this, GAIBTY, and a re-recording of his debut album. I enjoy it, but was grateful when his songwriting chops returned so strong a few years later (the early 90s were pretty bleak on that count). One of my favorite Bob album covers too.