For diehard fans, the most covetable Dylan treasure on ThisNext is most likely either The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live, 1966: The Royal Albert Hall Concert or the Bob Dylan - Limited Edition Catalog Box Set. “For any real Dylan fan, this is perhaps his greatest statement as a live performer,” says moulin68 of the former. “In this recording, Dylan faces a mostly hostile crowd who feel betrayed by his shift from folk to rock…The second, electric, part of the concert ends with a fan yelling ‘Judas!’ at Dylan, who replies with a savage version of ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’” The OG version of “Like A Rolling Stone,” plus 157 other Dylan songs, can be all yours with the revolutionarygirl-selected box set. It’s got “15 cds of remastered songs from the Bob Dylan repertoire,” explains our shopcaster, who’s quite taken with what All Music Guide describes as Mr. Zimmerman’s “winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-conscious narratives.”

My personal favorite of such narratives can be found on Blonde on Blonde, which is probably my most beloved Dylan record of all time (seriously, “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” makes me swoon every time). But lately I’ve been most heavily spinning Desire and going crazy for songs like “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)” and “Isis” (of which Jack and Meg White do a quintessential Stripesy cover; download the mp3 at i guess i’m floating). And I’ve also been really into the live rendition of “My Back Pages” from the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration: It’s Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and Roger McGuinn, and it’s nothing short of extraordinary. (Get the mp3 from Country Pinball Machine, who dubs the performance “a real thing of beauty.”)

And for the full-on Bob Dylan experience, watch Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home, which ilseeriksson turns to for inspiration (since the film “brings out social frustrations”). Or go even further back and bear witness to the snarly awesomeness that is Dylan at 23, as portrayed in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1965 documentary Don’t Look Back. My favorite moments: the above video for “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and the infamous Science Student scene.