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The Top Five Songs of ... Bob Dylan

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  • Sir_Clive
    Sir_Clive Posts: 76
    aitchyaddick said:
    So many good songs, but my favourite Positively 4th Street. No one has mentioned it. Perhaps it's me. 😃🎸🎧
    Also a favourite of mine, introduced to it via a cover I heard the Stereophonics do years ago.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Blood On The Tracks, my favourite Bob album, any 5 tracks off of there.
  • Silverdreammachine
    Silverdreammachine Posts: 374
    1. Knocking on Heavens door
    2. Positively 4th Street
    3. I want you
    4. Rainy day woman
    5. The times they are a changing
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    Silverdreammachine said:
    1. Knocking on Heavens door
    2. Positively 4th Street
    3. I want you
    4. Rainy day woman
    5. The times they are a changing
    The live version on 'Dylan & the Dead' is sublime.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,059
    I want you
    Idiot wind
    Girl from the North Country (particularly the duet with Johnny Cash version)
    Tangled up in Blue
    Mr Tambourine Man

    Would probably change a bit if asked to do it tomorrow
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,034
    I like him a lot , but also enjoy covers of his songs .

    Here are five excellant covers 

    If Not For You - George Harrison
    Its All Over Now Baby Blue - Bryan Ferry
    To Make You Feel My Love -Adele
    I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Robert Palmer 
    Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,231
    I find trying to pick a top 5 almost impossible. However, I will pick out an all time favourite which reminds me of being in St Peter’s Youth club in Woolwich on the pinball whilst Rainy Day Woman was on the jukebox.
  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,030
    Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again
    Blind Willie McTell
    Like a rolling stone
    Positively 4th Street
    She belongs to me
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    edited May 2021
    Richard J said:
    I like him a lot , but also enjoy covers of his songs .

    Here are five excellant covers 

    If Not For You - George Harrison
    Its All Over Now Baby Blue - Bryan Ferry
    To Make You Feel My Love -Adele
    I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Robert Palmer 
    Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

    Dylanesque, an album by Bryan Ferry, is very good.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,132
    I like doing lists but this one really is impossible!
    Idiot Wind
    Ballad of a Thin Man
    Tangled Up in Blue
    Desolation Row
    Wedding Song (like a pilot for the next album along!)

    But how the hell do I not include Isis, Like a Rolling Stone, etc etc etc.

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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    Lincsaddick said:
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
    Listen to his last album, Lincs - 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' released last year. It holds comparison with some of his best. 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,356
    Halleluliah 
    Something 
    House of the Rising Sun 
    The Boxer 
    Brown Sugar  
     

     



  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,658
    Tangled up in blue
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,582
    Girl From The North Country - with Johnny Cash. 
    Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Alright. 
    Maggies Farm - Hard Rain version. 
    Like A Rolling Stone. 
    Desolation Row. 

    Plus just about everything from Blood on the Tracks


  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,031
    bobmunro said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
    Listen to his last album, Lincs - 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' released last year. It holds comparison with some of his best. 
    It would be interesting to see what Lincs thought of R and RW if he hasn’t heard Dylan since 1980 - personally I don’t get the praise for latter day Dylan as the last couple of albums have been pretty poor, by his high standards.
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,031
    Top 5 original studio recordings:

    Oxford Town
    Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
    Never Say Goodbye
    Ring Them Bells
    Not Dark Yet

    Top 5 live versions:

    Tomorrow is a long time (1963, Greatest Hits volume 2)
    Visions of Johanna (Royal Albert Hall)
    Isis (Rolling Thunder Review)
    Idiot Wind (Hard Rain)
    All Along the Watchtower (Budokan)

    Top 5 bootleg series studio outtakes:

    Farewell Angelina
    Tangled Up In Blue (New York version)
    Abandoned Love
    Blind Willie McTell
    Series of Dreams
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    edited May 2021
    EveshamAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
    Listen to his last album, Lincs - 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' released last year. It holds comparison with some of his best. 
    It would be interesting to see what Lincs thought of R and RW if he hasn’t heard Dylan since 1980 - personally I don’t get the praise for latter day Dylan as the last couple of albums have been pretty poor, by his high standards.
    I agree he's done nothing since Tempest in 2012 - the three cover albums aint Dylan! (I still bought them though!). R&RW though is for me Dylan back to his best story telling and poetic lyrics. It's different but nearer to the pre-80s stuff than anything since. 


  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,031
    bobmunro said:
    EveshamAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
    Listen to his last album, Lincs - 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' released last year. It holds comparison with some of his best. 
    It would be interesting to see what Lincs thought of R and RW if he hasn’t heard Dylan since 1980 - personally I don’t get the praise for latter day Dylan as the last couple of albums have been pretty poor, by his high standards.
    I agree he's done nothing since Tempest in 2012 - the three cover albums aint Dylan! (I still bought them though!). R&RW though is for me Dylan back to his best story telling and poetic lyrics. It's different but nearer to the pre-80s stuff than anything since. 


    I’m pretty much with this reviewer:

    https://brutallyhonestrockalbumreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/album-review-bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways/
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    EveshamAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    EveshamAddick said:
    bobmunro said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    I've hardly heard any of his recordings made since about 1980 .. so, in no particular order

    Shelter From the Storm
    Highway 61 Revisited
    Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)
    Too Much of Nothing
    Hurricane
    Listen to his last album, Lincs - 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' released last year. It holds comparison with some of his best. 
    It would be interesting to see what Lincs thought of R and RW if he hasn’t heard Dylan since 1980 - personally I don’t get the praise for latter day Dylan as the last couple of albums have been pretty poor, by his high standards.
    I agree he's done nothing since Tempest in 2012 - the three cover albums aint Dylan! (I still bought them though!). R&RW though is for me Dylan back to his best story telling and poetic lyrics. It's different but nearer to the pre-80s stuff than anything since. 


    I’m pretty much with this reviewer:

    https://brutallyhonestrockalbumreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/album-review-bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways/
    Blood on the Tracks, it ain’t - Desire, it ain’t - 0/10 it ain’t.

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,069
    Bob Dylan night on BBC4 tonight from 7pm onwards. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Which is his shortest song, that would be my fave.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,731
    Hal1x said:
    Which is his shortest song, that would be my fave.
    Boooo
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited May 2021
    blackpool72 said:
    Hal1x said:
    Which is his shortest song, that would be my fave.
    Boooo
    Don't know that one, hows it go? Let me guess "mumble,mumble,mumble...."
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,292
    Cliff Richard and the Nolans covering Blowing in the Wind 

    WTF?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,842
    Tom Robinson this evening played some versions that didn't get on to Blood on The Tracks.  Well worth catching up with on iPlayer Radio.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,903
    edited May 2021
    Henry Irving said:
    Cliff Richard and the Nolans covering Blowing in the Wind 

    WTF?

    Lulu doing Tambourine Man was probably more cringe worthy! (correction - as cringe worthy!).
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,292
    bobmunro said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Cliff Richard and the Nolans covering Blowing in the Wind 

    WTF?

    Lulu doing Tambourine Man was probably more cringe worthy! (correction - as cringe worthy!).
    But Lulu had a future Blue Peter presenter dancing with her
  • Broadstairs_Red
    Broadstairs_Red Posts: 361
    Lay Lady Lay
    Let It Be Me
    Knockin' on Heavens Door
    Girl from the North Country
    Just Like a Woman

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