Album · Bob Dylan
Desire by Bob Dylan
Desire is an album by Bob Dylan, released in 1976. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 35 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hurricane”, on 29 lists with a best position of #44.
Desire, Bob Dylan's seventeenth studio album, came out on Columbia on January 5, 1976, a follow-up to Blood on the Tracks cut with the same traveling caravan of players that rolled through the Rolling Thunder Revue the year before. It's one of Dylan's most communal records: Jacques Levy co-wrote most of the songs, and Emmylou Harris and Ronee Blakley sing along on many of them.
These are long, rambling story-songs, and two of them stirred up a storm. "Hurricane" kicks the album off with a fiery account of the murder case against boxer Rubin Carter, arguing that he was framed; Carter walked free in 1985 after his conviction was thrown out on appeal. The 11-minute "Joey" drew fire for seeming to glorify gangster Joey Gallo. None of it hurt business: the album sat at number one on the Billboard chart for five weeks, went double platinum and reached number 3 in the UK.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Desire on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurricane | 29 | #44 | – | 1976–2026 | |
| 2 | Isis | 3 | #279 | – | 2001–2020 | |
| 3 | One More Cup Of Coffee | 3 | #425 | – | 2010–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.