I’ve followed the career and output of many recording artistes over the last few decades, and am aware that most have churned out some second rate and probably unfinished/ unrefined pap in amongst some really good stuff. However, we often have to tolerate the mediocre songs just to find the gems in among. Dylan has certainly churned put some poor stuff in his long career, but I have difficulty thinking of anyone else (apart from Trad Arr of course) with such a high ratio of good songs compared to forgettable ones; whether you can tolerate his sloppy singing and performance style or not, there are not many singer songwriters out there you could even have a top fifty list of songs to argue about anyway.