I'm a big Leonard Cohen fan, but I don't think he's Nobel material like Dylan.
Good Dylan/Bad Dylan?
Off the top of my head, his late-career bests for me include Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door, and Mississippi. But I also love "Standing in the Doorway." I'm sure I'm missing some others that come close. On that album, Make You Feel My Love is the weakest. And Highlands is a lot of fun, though a different sort of experience (and also shows that Dylan was indeed influenced by Burns).
His recent Sinatra covers? Not great. But unlike many, I do like his voice a lot.
Some of you may not know about his Theme Time Radio series. It's really a wonderful series of about fifty one-hour shows in which he chats about and introduces songs that he likes by others, each show involving a different theme. He's wonderfully knowledgeable about music history and brings many great anecdotes and songs you may not have heard before. He also tells some very cheesy jokes along the way.
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