meower wrote:
 
Surely it is available on CD?

Highway 61 Revisited was the first Dylan vinyl that I purchased. Loved it then and still do.

(Yeah, if you're owld you can remember buying vinyl. )

 nuggler wrote: 

the acoustic versions of it's alright ma, just like a woman and don't think twice it's alright are AMAZING on that album. 

 geordiezimmerman wrote: 
Or the brilliant double live Before the Flood with The Band as backup where he comes close but doesn't quite succeed in reclaiming All Along the Watchtower back from Hendrix.

I wouldn't recommend any greatest hits compilations because once you get bit you'll want to hear it all & you'll be missing out on hidden gems such as Man In A Long Black Coat to name but one of dozens. Be patient & start your collection album by album is my suggestion.

A really good start for Dylan is this 3 disc set.  Covers his entire career with and is just a great retrospective.

Disc: 1
1. Song to Woody
2. Blowin' in the Wind
3. Masters of War
4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6. The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. All I Really Want to Do
8. My Back Pages
9. It Ain't Me, Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie's Farm
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like a Woman
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 19. All Along the Watchtower
Disc: 2
1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2. Lay, Lady, Lay
3. If Not for You
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
6. On a Night Like This
7. Forever Young
8. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Simple Twist of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing of the Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar 15. Jokerman 16. Dark Eyes
Disc: 3
1. Blind Willie McTell
2. Brownsville Girl
3. Silvio
4. Ring Them Bells
5. Dignity
6. Everything Is Broken
7. Under the Red Sky
8. You're Gonna Quit Me
9. Blood in My Eyes
10. Not Dark Yet
11. Things Have Changed
12. Make You Feel My Love
13. High Water (For Charley Patton)
14. Po' Boy
15. Someday Baby
16. When the Deal Goes Down

Album	Year	Chart Positions<1><2>		Certifications
		US 200	UK Albums	U.S.<3>	CAN<4>
Bob Dylan	1962		13
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	1963	22	11	Platinum
The Times They Are a-Changin'	1964	20	15	Gold
Another Side of Bob Dylan	1964	43	8	Gold
Bringing It All Back Home	1965	6	1	Platinum
Highway 61 Revisited	1965	3	4	Platinum	Gold
Blonde on Blonde	1966	9	3	2× Platinum
John Wesley Harding	1967	2	1	Platinum
Nashville Skyline	1969	3	1	Platinum	Gold
Self Portrait	1970	4	1	Gold
New Morning	1970	7	1	Gold
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	1973	16	29	Gold
Dylan	1973	17	10	Gold
Planet Waves	1974	1	7	Gold
Blood on the Tracks	1975	1	4	2× Platinum	Platinum
The Basement Tapes	1975	7	8	Gold
Desire	1976	1	3	2× Platinum	Platinum
Street Legal	1978	11	2	Gold	Platinum
Slow Train Coming	1979	3	2	Platinum	2× Platinum
Saved	1980	24	3
Shot of Love	1981	33	6
Infidels	1983	20	9	Gold	Gold
Empire Burlesque	1985	33	11		Gold
Knocked Out Loaded	1986	54	35
Down in the Groove	1988	61	32
Oh Mercy	1989	30	6		Gold
Under the Red Sky	1990	38	13
Good as I Been to You	1992	51	18
World Gone Wrong	1993	70	35
Time Out of Mind	1997	10	10	Platinum	Gold
Love and Theft	2001	5	3	Gold
Modern Times	2006	1	3	Platinum	Platinum

<edit> Compilations

Album	Year	Chart Positions<1><2>		Certifications
		US	UK	U.S.<3>	CAN<4>
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits	1967	10	6	5× Platinum	2× Platinum
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II	1971	14	12	5× Platinum	2× Platinum
Masterpieces	1978
Biograph	1985	33		Platinum
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3	1994	126		Gold
The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 1 (UK)	1997		6
The Best of Bob Dylan, Vol. 2 (UK)	2000
The Essential Bob Dylan	2000	67	9	Platinum
The Best of Bob Dylan (US)	2005
Bob Dylan: The Collection	2007
Dylan (single disc version)	2007	3	10	Gold
Dylan (deluxe version)	2007	93

<edit> Live albums

Album	Year	Chart Positions<1><2>		Certifications
		US 200	UK Albums	U.S.<3>	CAN<4>
Before the Flood	1974	3	8	Platinum
Hard Rain	1976	17	3	Gold
Bob Dylan at Budokan	1979	13	4	Gold	Gold
Real Live	1984	115	54
Dylan & The Dead	1989	37	38	Gold
The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration	1993	40
MTV Unplugged	1995	23	10	Gold
Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances (Japan)	2001
Live at the Gaslight 1962	2005
Live at Carnegie Hall 1963	2005

<edit> The Bootleg Series

Album	Year	Chart Positions<1><2>		Certifications
		US	UK	U.S.<3>	CAN<4>
The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991	1991	49	32	Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert	1998	31	19	Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue	2002	56	69	Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall	2004	28	33
The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack	2005	16	21	Gold
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs (two-disc version)	2008	6	9
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs (deluxe version)	2008

<edit> Other appearances

• The Concert for Bangla Desh (George Harrison, 1971) - 6 songs
• Rock of Ages (The Band, 1972) - 4 songs
• The Last Waltz (The Band, 1978) - 5 songs
• Postcards of the Hanging (The Grateful Dead, 2002) - 1 song
• Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan (Various, 2003)
• A Musical History (The Band, 2005) - 7 songs

 Hairfarmer wrote: 
Or Highway 61 revisted or Desire.

 ed wrote: 
or Blonde On Blonde or Bringing It All Back Home

 lunar1963 wrote: 
we'll see you in a few years lunar!  you're gonna be a busy man listening to BD

After seeing I'm Not There, and No Direction I am totally intrigued by Bob Dylan. I just bought Nashville Skyline for about 6 dollars in a supermarker and once again I'm impressed. And mind you, there was a time that I thought the future of music lay in cold synth pop (...love that still too, lol)