Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (LP)

Ranked 16th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic arrangements, Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks lingers as a soul-exposing confessional. To hear it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion, sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate relationships gone astray. The critically lauded record's close vested autobiographical narratives help make it universal: The work serves as a consummate expression of love's darker sides and the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel.