Favorite Bob Dylan song?

tcaporale
tcaporale Posts: 1,577
edited June 2012 in Other Music
Now this might be damn near impossible since the guy has written so many perfect songs, but the one I'll always love the most is "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)". The lyrics might be the best I've ever heard; the guy must've been totally in the zone when he wrote/recorded this thing.

What's your favorite?
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    My favorite? There's a couple that really stand out for me: Tombstone Blues and Subterranean Homesick Blues. Both great lyrics. But my favorite might be Subterranean. Just one kick ass song. Lyrics are awesome.
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  • Lone Drawn Meteor
    Lone Drawn Meteor Posts: 1,230
    Damn. This changes every day. Here's what's come up recently on the iPod.
    One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later), Tangled up in Blue, Nettie Moore, Everything is Broken, Jokerman, Love Minus Zero - No Limits, A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, Spirit on the Water, Honey Just allow me one more chance, Not Dark yet, Goin' to Acapulco…
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  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    i really prefer his newer stuff, from time Out of Mind onward...the following songs have AMAZING lyrics:

    Not Dark Yet
    Tryin to get to Heaven
    To Make You Feel My Love
    Standing in the Doorway
    Mississippi
    Red River Shore

    and very good also:

    Cry A While
    Nettie Moore
    Someday Baby
    Thunder on the Mountain

    and an older one with INCREDIBLE lyrics, the masterpiece of his religious phase:
    Every Grain of Sand
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Tangled Up In Blue
    Not Dark Yet
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  • MysteryTrain
    MysteryTrain Singapore Posts: 1,189
    Positively 4th Street; it's basically the ultimate 'put-down' song
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,229
    i love not dark yet. kinda sums up how i have been feeling recently, "its not dark yet, but its gettin there..."

    there are just too many for me to list though. i really love his older stuff between "freewheelin" and "the times they are a changin"...
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  • goldrush
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    Tangled Up In Blue is the first one that springs to mind for me, although there are way too many to choose from.

    Am I the only one that prefers Dylan's songs when they are sung by other people? I love his songwriting but his voice really gets on my nerves. I always get shit off my friends when I say that!
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    new pony
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  • jamingjamers
    jamingjamers Posts: 383
    to many great songs over all those years
    cant pick one
  • RYEzupSF
    RYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    Shelter From the Storm
    John Brown
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  • Empty Glass
    Empty Glass In Rob's shed Posts: 12,329
    Tangled Up in Blue

    my dad is a huge Dylan fan and when I was growing up, Dylan was played loud and often. Between Bob and my Old man's singing, for most of my life I thought this song was called Tiger Lovin' Blues :-D
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  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    tangled up in blue
    baby
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

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  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIEV1OanDGY
    "All I Really Want to Do"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpyhl85MYmU
    "I Shall be Released"
  • RYEzupSF
    RYEzupSF Posts: 6,003
    pandora wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpyhl85MYmU
    "I Shall be Released"

    Thanks for that. One of the best songs of all time.
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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    Simple Twist of Fate
    Ballad of a Thin Man
    Stuck Inside of Mobile w/ Memphis Blues Again
    Girl From the North Country
    If Not For You

    My top 5 today...

    EDIT: Changing of the Guard just came on my iTunes, so adding that too.
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  • ilockyer
    ilockyer Posts: 2,272
    Abandoned Love

    Audio of the only live performance to date.

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  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    hard to pick but these 3 songs are always on my IPOD

    desolation row
    like a rolling stone
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  • Porchsitter
    Porchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,091
    Visions of Johanna
    Ballad of a Thin Man
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    Sorry....can't really narrow it down to one and could list more, but these are the top 3 at the moment.
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  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    Tangled Up In Blue!
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  • Zoso
    Zoso Posts: 6,425
    have to go to the 1908's and go license to kill or visions of johanna... maybe ballad of a thin man ;)
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