What's your favorite Bob Dylan track?

If I had to choose just one, Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. But there are a lot.

 

I like all along the watchtower, but havent heard some songs that all of you are praising

 

Alright, here goes....Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, I Want You, Positively 4th Street, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Forever Young, Absolutely Sweet Marie...Yeah, this is too hard........

 

Shit, this would be like trying to pick my favorite orgasm.

 

"Subterreanean Homesick Blues"
"Positively Fourth Street"

 

very much depends on my mood and what i have been listening to lately. i guess i'll high fidelity it and say my ultimate top five favorite dylan songs are:
1. Gates of Eden ("at dawn my lover comes to me and tells me of her dreams, with no attempts to shovel a glimpse into the ditch of what each one means"-love it! oddly one of the most romantic things i've ever heard)
2. Desolation Row
3.Things Have Changed (the best beat and riff)
4. Girl From North Country
5. Masters of War

Though, like everyone else here, I am a total Dylan-freak, and could name a ton of them. Definatley would be faster to name the ones I don't like (I think that at this point, there are two songs and one where I don't like the lyrics but I like the music)

 

^shit, i forgot "Tangled Up in Blue"! sorry Nick Hornby...

 

Out of curiosity, what are the ones you don't like?

 

"all the tired horses" from Self Portrait-which I heard we are actually not supposed to like, so I lose some hipster points by telling you that this song makes me feel physically ill

"just like a woman" - i used to hate, now i can tolerate if I do not want to get up to skip the track. i think i was tainted by the scene in Annie Hall when the really annoying chick recites the lines that i hate anyway ("she takes just like a woman, she makes love just like a woman, and she aches just like a woman...what the fuck is that supposed to mean! is he referencing menstral cramps? i don't know!)

and I don't like the lyrics to "Gotta Serve Somebody" but I like the music and how he sings it. I bet that this is applicable to most of his Christian songs, but I really haven't listened to much of them.

anyways, other than that, i basically worship him. hope i didn't stir up too much controversy.

 

Just Like A Woman is a classic. There aren't many Dylan fans who would admit to not liking it.

As far as what it's about, what the hell are any of his songs about? Nothing, really. I can understand, because I write in the same sort of style. They're honestly just words that sound good together and evoke certain feelings. People who attempt to find hidden meaning in his lyrics miss the point entirely. It means something different to every person who hears it.

 

I agree that "just like a woman" is a classic, but i am still not required to like it. and there is no point in lying about it, especially since i am the only person that i know (in real life) who likes bob dylan. if anything, i would be more judged by the fact that I like songs, not the other way around.

and i have to disagree that he is just putting together words that sound good together without thinking of meaning. i think some of the songs are like that, but there seems to be thought put into others, with plays on words, layered meanings, biblical (and other) allusions, and other poetic devices. I'm not saying he's got some master plan to save the world, or that the songs can't mean different things to different people, but it seems that with quite a few of his songs, he is trying to say something (even if it is not necessary for it to be communicated to the public).

 

Right, heh.
So true.

 

Well, sure. I'm not saying he puts no thought into it whatsoever. Just that he doesn't labor over every line, trying to get it to mean a certain thing. He just writes it as it comes, and pretty much leaves it alone after that. Or so I've heard.

 

Yeah, Bobby has perfected the writing style called "stream-of-consciousness writing" where you just write whatever pops in your head the very second and try to put all of the words and phrases into rhyme. Try it sometime, you'll be surprised at what you come up with!

 

i really like Blowin In The Wind

 

The Hurricane. First Dylan track I ever heard.

 

Mr. Tambourine Man is one I've always liked.

 

"visions of johanna" , mostly because of this one line , wich i think it's one of the greatest dylan ever wrote : "The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face" . but , none the less , the whole song is amazing .

i can't help mentioning "it's alright ma' , i'm just bleeding" , "hurricane" , "girl from the north country" and , of course , " blowin' in the wind" and "mr tambourine man" . great lyrics , great music .

 

You're asking me... Me? I have like 1 billion but I'll cut it down to ten ok?

1. Love Minus Zero

2. A Hard Rains Gonna Fall

3. Mr. Tambourine man

4. Maggie's Farm

5. Hurricane

6. Joey

7. Tangled Up In Blue

8. Shelter from the Storm

9. You Aint` Goin` Nowhere

10.Knockin` On Heaven's door.


DYLAN FOREVER

 

Oh no! I forgot Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again... Again!