Faveorite Bob Dylan songs?
 

The BBC is having a Bob Dylan season at the moment and I have been listening to him more than usual this week because of that. So, what you are your faveorite Dylan tunes.

The first five to come into my head are : ' Hurricane' , 'Subteranian Homesick Blues', 'Like A Rolling Stone', 'Just Like A Woman' and 'Tangled Up In Blue'

all i know is the last time i was at his house (one of them), he had fake leather couches and his own portraits everywhere.... weird shit

I like that one where he mumbles.

ah! I know just the one you mean :winkwink:

"Tangled Up In Blue" is probably my favorite Dylan song (for sentimental reasons). Actually, I like the entire "Blood on the Tracks" album, and have probably listened to it hundreds of times over the years.

I also like The Times They Are A-Changin', Masters of War, Hurricane, Maggie's Farm, Lay Lady Lay, If Not For You, Gotta Serve Somebody, and Knockin' On Heaven's Door.

All Along the Watchtower and Like A Rolling Stone were excellent songs, both as written by Dylan, and then later re-interpretted by Jimi Hendrix.

Be sure to catch the Martin Scorsese documentary on Bob Dylan, titled "No Direction Home - Bob Dylan". It is supposed to have some previously unseen footage from early in Dylan's career.

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It's all over now baby blue
Don't think twice, it's alright
Masters of War

That is what they are running on the BBC. Part one last night and the second tonight. Then there are a bunch of BBC produced shows to go with it.

All around the watchtower, All I really want to do, Like a rolling stone, man in me, visions of Johanna, Lay lady lay,

Everything off "Blood on the Tracks" especially "Idiot Wind" and "Tangled Up In Blue."

rainy day woman, mr. tambourine man

Please oh please, tell me you have heard Lennon's "Serve yourself".

If not, download it. Or at the very least, do a google check for the lyrics. Several versions/variant recordings, are all satirically great. But in one, I distinctly remember him in a Dylan-esque voice, all in good fun, you can here him laughing at the end. Great "funny" little shot/song directed at good ol' Bob.

I know the song you are talking about. Lennon had a great barbed wit.

The one part of Bob Zimmerman's (er, Dylan's) career I didn't really get was during his "Born-Again-Bob" period, as we referred to it. Nonethless, I went to a Dylan concert in Tokyo during that phase and Dylan came out with a large band and proceeded to play different arrangements of his songs, with a slightly calypso feel to them. That was really bizarre.

Oh well...

BTW, one of my favorite John Lennon song's is the Dylanesque sounding "Working Class Hero".

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Just remembered...my favorite Dylan concert was back in 1986 at the UC Berkeley Greek Theater, when he toured with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

What made the show really special was that Tom Petty's really tight band played back up for Dylan's set. Also at the end, Dylan and Petty did some duets.

You couldn't have asked for a more gorgeous sunset with the Pacific Ocean in the background over the top of the amphitheater.

Thanks for bringing back some good times memories...

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Chimes of Freedom
Ballad of a Thin Man
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Forever Young
Desolation Row
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan's Dream
Oxford Town

...pretty much anything he recorded pre around 1970.

http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/

Desolation Row
One More Cup of Coffee
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
Sara
Shelter from the Storm
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Oxford Town


Just off the top of my head

Hurricane
Lets Roll

boots of spanish leather
restless farewell
tambourine man
i shall be released

when you see the flowers grow
down they go row and row
and did you herar sally say
she has two friends born in may

huricane

Glad others like Hurricane as much as I do.

Can't measure Dylan by the song... Have to measure him by the album

The enitre John Wesley Harding record (every song is a gem)
The entire Pat Garett and Billy the Kid soundtrack
Basement Tapes album (w/ the Band)
Blood on the Tracks
Blonde on Blonde
Planet Waves
Hard Rain (live)
Nashville Skyline
Desire

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While rubin sits like buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
That?s the story of the hurricane,
But it won?t be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he?s done.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

i would say Ballad of a Thin Man

Dont really care for him, Maggies Farm would be a passable tune for me.

Mr. Tambourine Man
listen to easy guitar solo (kind of) in the background. Once you catch it you'll be listening only that :)

Jimi's version of Watchtower must be one of the top 5 rock songs ever recorded. At least it is in my playlist

I like his "Tangled Up In Blue" so much. :thumbsup

I'm surprised there aren't more 'votes' for knocking on heavens door.

a hard rain is gonna fall.

tangled up in blue

desire & blood on the tracks...amazing albums

best tune "visions of johanna" from blonde on blonde