Bob Dylan: Your Top DOZEN Favorite Dylan Songs

Bob Dylan has so many great songs, from so many great albums...

So, what's your Top DOZEN favorite Bob Dylan Songs of all time?

(yeah, a dozen songs...a Top 10 just wouldn't do it!)

Let's see what you got...

 

karkjelrs how beautiful is that picture you have of him AH goodness hahah.
well i mean i don't like to favorite anything but the top 12 i can think of that i go goo goo over...


1. stealin (woodie guthry cover)
2. ballad of a thin man
3. highway 61 revisited
4. 4th time around
5. i shall be free
6. it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry
7. down along the cove
8. stuck in mobile
9. it's alright ma'
10. tangled up in blue
11. it ain't me babe
12. visions of johanna

 

I LOVE Dylan - he is my awareness mentor. Give me a little time and I'll come up with 12 - soooo many to pick from - I'm listening to Maggies Farm right now.

 

Ok - here goes -
Mr Tamberine Man
Masters of War
Times They are a Changing
My Back Pages
Visions of Johanna
Like a Rolling Stone
Don't Think Twice
Hard Rain
When the Ship Comes In
Chimes of Freedom
Maggies Farm
Highway 61 revisited.

That was tough!!

 

What a hard question... Um okay 12...
(no order)
-Mr. Tmaberine Man
-Times they are a changing
-A Hard Rains a gonna fall
-My back pages
-Blowin in the wind
-Subteranean (sp?) Homesick Blues
-Motorpsycho Nightmare
-Like a Rolling Stone
-Positivley 4th street
-It aint me babe
-Its all over now baby blue
-House of the risin sun

 

- Subterranean homesick blues
- Masters of war
- I'll be your baby tonight
- Motorpsycho nitemare
- Bob Dylan's 115th dream
- Mr. tambourine man
- Love minus zero/No limit
- It's alright ma (i'm only bleeding)
- As I went out one morning
- Lay lady lay

I also really like songs like Long John and Oxford town

 

watching the river flow-tonight i'll be staying here with you-nashville skyline rag-copper kettle-hurricane-john wesley harding-jokerman-the drifter's escape-ballad of a thin man-when the ship comes in-rainy day women-idiot wind..there's so many these are just the first 12 that popped into my noggin

 

I should have included Ballad of a thin man as well now that I see it in your list...

 

And I should have included Lay Lady Lay - How could I miss that one?

 

O.K. here's my picks...

and WoW! - this was very hard...

I couldn't even get past Bob's 60's & 70's material....

Here's my baker's dozen in no particular order....

- Positively 4th Street
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
- It Ain't Me Babe
- Girl from the North Country (''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' version)
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Shelter From The Storm (Live, electric version from the ''Hard Rain'' album")
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Desolation Row
- Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
- Lay Lady Lay
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- Like A Rolling Stone

So many great songs I left out, like ''Just Like A Woman'', ''Black Diamond Bay'', etc...

Maybe next time, we do a top 10 from each decade?

BTW, nice lists everyone!

 

Subterranean Homesick Blues
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Don't Think Twice it's Alright
Like A Rolling Stone
It's Alright, Ma
Mr. Tambourine Man
As I Went Out One Morning
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Ballad of a Thin Man
115th Dream
It Ain't Me Babe
Tangled Up in Blue

 

1. I Want You
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. House of the Rising Sun
3. Knockin' on Heavens Door
4. Dark Eyes
5. Rainy Day Women
6. Tangled up in Blue
7. The Times They Are A Changing
8. Shelter from the Storm
9. It Aint Me Babe
10. Positively 4th st
11. Blowin in the Wind
12. Buckets of Rain
13. All Along the Watchtower

I couldn't choose only 12

 

1. it's alright ma (i'm only bleeding)
2. masters of war
3. on the road again
4. i dreamed i saw st. augustine
5. drifter's escape
6. can you please crawl out your window?
7. just like tom thumb's blues
8. isis
9. positively 4th street
10. one more cup of coffee
11. black diamond bay
12. visions of johanna

 

In no particular order....

Spanish Harlem Incident
I Can't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
If Not For You
You Ain't Going Nowhere (From Greatest Hits Vol. II)
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Desolation Row
It's Alright Now Baby Blue
All I Really Want To Do
She Belongs To Me
Shelter From The Storm
Barbara Allen
I Shall Be Free

Bob is THE man