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Bob Dylan's best songs?
I just posted a list of my 10 favorite Bob Dylan songs over at About.com, but figured you folks might be interested in weighing in over here.
So let's have it. What are your favorite Bob Dylan songs of all time. If you feel compelled to say why, go for it!
So let's have it. What are your favorite Bob Dylan songs of all time. If you feel compelled to say why, go for it!
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Permalink Reply by Steve Leftridge on -
A fun challenge! Here's my best guess, but ask me again tomorrow, and I might list ten different songs.
1. Tomorrow is a Long Time
2. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
3. Spanish Harlem Incident
4. License to Kill
5. One Too Many Mornings
6. Seven Days
7. Who Killed Davey Moore?
8. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
9. When I Paint My Masterpiece
10. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Gilbert on -
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Maggie's Farm
Like a Rolling Stone
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Dear Landlord
Ballad of a Thin Man
Just Like a Woman
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Simple Twist of Fate
Shelter From the Storn
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Permalink Reply by Wade Williams on -
1. "Up to Me" -- Biograph. The only reason I can figure this didn't make it onto "Blood on the Tracks" is that the album was already perfect. This is the saddest song in the history of the world, I think. Only Dylan can pull off having a line like "The only decent thing I did when I worked as a postal clerk/ was to haul your picture off of the wall in the cage where I used to work" in a song and still have the song be the saddest song in the world.
2. "Blind Willie McTell"--Biograph [?]. Haunting as hell. That song goes all the way to the bone.
3. "Shelter From the Storm"--Blood on the Tracks--I could just list all the rest of the songs on this album to fill out the list. The song's an epic and sounds fresh every time I listen to it, and I go through periods where it's all I listen to.
4. "Girl From the North Country"--Nashville Skyline. Dylan taking old folk stuff from the "old weird America" era and making it new.
5. How do you get the rest of the screen to dome down? Can't swee what I'm typing.
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Permalink Reply by David Kucera on -
Wow! I have always loved "Up to Me" and "Blind Willie McTell." It's great to see those two songs included in the same list. This list could go on forever, but I want to include, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" and "Joey".
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Permalink Reply by skydigger on -
my favorite's are...
Masters of War
It's Alright Ma (I'm only bleeding)
Lay Lady Lay
Man in the Long Black Coat
Not Dark Yet
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Permalink Reply by RP N10 on -
Have to go for:
Visions of Johanna
Tangled Up In Blue
Mississippi
Lily, Rosemary & The Jack of Hearts
When I Paint My Masterpiece
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Permalink Reply by Rudyjeep on -
It's probably easier to list a top 20 or 30 than a top 10, but here it is....In no particular order....
Dignity - "Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed....Dignity never been photographed"
Maggie's Farm - "I got a head full of ideas....That are drivin' me insane...It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor"
Highway 61 - "Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"....Abe says, 'Man, you must be puttin' me on"
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - "But goodbye's too good a word, gal.....So I'll just say fare thee well"
Shelter from the Storm - "Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm....."Come in," she said..I'll give you shelter from the storm."
Hurricane - "How can the life of such a man....Be in the palm of some fool's hand?"
Absolutely Sweet Marie - "Well, anybody can be just like me, obviously.....But then, now again, not too many can be like you, fortunately"
Nobody 'Cept You - "Used to play in the cemetery....Dance and sing and run when I was a child....Never seemed strange....But now I just pass mournfully by"
Most Likely You go your way and I'll go Mine - "You say you love me...And you're thinking of me....But you know you could be wrong."
Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat - "It balances on your head.....Just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine....Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat"
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Permalink Reply by Garry Mitz on
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1. Goin' To Acapulco
2. I'm Not There (1956)
3. Simple Twist Of Fate
4. Standing In The Doorway
5. Lay Lady Lay
6. Shelter From The Storm
7. Million Dollar Bash
8. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
9. Girl From The North Country
10. Visions Of Johanna (No Direction Home version)
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Permalink Reply by David Shaw on -
In no particular order:
Love Minus Zero / No Limit
Like a Rolling Stone
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
License to Kill
Positively 4th Street
I Threw It All Away
Lay Lady Lay
All Along the Watchtower
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Desolation Row
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Permalink Reply by Lost Hills on -
So far, I guess I agree with everyone, especially the last poster. You could probably pull ten out of a hat, but here's a few that I liked enough to learn to play:
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Love Minus Zero
George Jackson
She Belongs To Me
Blowin' In The Wind
Gates Of Eden
Billy
Visions Of Johanna
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man
From A Buick 6
The times They Are A Changin'
Hell, I can't stop with ten.......
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Permalink Reply by Kit Kellison on -
Sitting on the front porch of our 5 room house, my brother would play the new Dylan albums over and over. A lot of my favorite Dylan songs are from the two albums released one after another in 65: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited . It's hard to imagine how so much magical verbiage could have flowed from one person in just one year.
1.)She Belongs to Me (Bow down to her on Sunday, salute her when her birthday comes)
2.) Maggie's Farm (Everybody knows she's the brains behind Pa)
3.) Ballad of a Thin Man (and something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?)
4.) Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues (Don't put on any airs, when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue - they got some hungry women there, and they'll sure make a mess outta you)
5.) Desolation Row - the imagery in this song is gorgeous (The only sound's that's left, after the ambulances go, is Cinderella's sweeping up on Desolation Row)
6.) With God on our Side, 1963 from The Times They Are a Changing
7.) Also Love The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, especially when I hear my son singing it from his bedroom
8.) The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest from John Wesley Harding - Four and twenty windows and a woman's face on every one
9.)Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat (Blond on Blond)
10.) It' Ain't Me Babe (Another Side of Bob Dylan) Go 'way from my window, leave at your own chosen speed...
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