Philzone.org Discussion Board: Archive 2004: Music Talk Archive 2004: Top 5 Dylan tunes...

In honor of his recent slew of media lately, here my 5 favorite Dylan songs (at this moment)

5 Isis
4 Maggie's Farm
3 Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues
2 You ain't goin nowhere
1 It's alright ma...I'm only bleeding

What, dear zoners, are your favorites?

Like A Rolling Stone...just an amazing song in any era...it's as pertinent today as it was when it was written...

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright...perhaps the greatest ending a relationship song ever written...

Subturranean Homesick Blues...aside from being one of the coolest song titles, this song rocks lyrically and musically...

Idiot Wind...again, timeless in its message...

Everything's Broken...don't know why, but I love this song...

Highway 61 Revisited...angry Bob...

1- Mr. Tamborine Man
2- Black Diamond Bay
3- It's all right Ma
4- Joker Man
5- Gates Of Eden

1) Its all right, Ma
2) Tomorrow is a Long Time
3) My Back Pages
4) Not Dark Yet
5) Sara
6) The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
7) Love Minus Zero/No Limit

ohh, I'm sorry, was I s'pose to stop at 5? I could go on and on. And yes, they change daily

>>Don't Think Twice, It's Alright...perhaps the greatest ending a relationship song ever written...

Couldn't agree more.

1. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues
4. Visions of Johanna
5. Brownsville Girl

6. Girl From the North Country
7. Positively 4th Street
8. It Takes A Lot to Laugh, Lot to Cry

Five would be difficult....

1. Mr. Tamborine Man
2. Jokerman
3. Shooting Star
4. Tangled Up In Blue
5. Too Much Of Nothing

Honorable Mention: Fourth Time Around (an interesting parody of Norweigan Wood with a nice melody)

Oh, this is tough for only five:

1. All Along the Watchtower
2. Masters of War
3. Shelter from the Storm
4. Visions of Johanna
5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Positively 4th St.
Man in the Long Black Coat
You Aint Goin No Where
Silvio ( i think hunter wrote it ?)
Things have changed

++too many to choose from

1.Mr Tambourine Man
2.Visions of Johanna
3.Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
4.Rosemary, Lily & the Jack of Hearts
5.It's All Over Now Baby Blue

6.Brownsville Girl
7.Highway 61 Revisited
8.I Threw it All Away
9.Licence to Kill
10.She Belongs to Me
11.Ramona
12.Love Minus Zero

Like Sunstroke and Damon I was unable to limit my list to five songs. Shit, I could scrawl up another 10 without trying.

1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. All Along The Watchtower (but just imagine if Jimi hadn't electrified it--the world would be slightly less than it is)
3. Tangled Up In Blue
4. Visions of Johanna
5. Mississippi--"My heart is not weary/It's light and it's free/I've got nothing but affection/For all those who've sailed with me."

I can't even begin to narrow it down.....
Funny, he has never written an X or Z song!

A - M Below (N - Y Next Post)

10,000 Men
2 x 2
4th Time Around
A Fool Such as I
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
A Satisfied Mind
Abandoned Love
Absolutely Sweet Marie
Ain't A-Gonna Grieve
Ain't No Man Righteous (No Not One)
Ain't No More Cane
Alberta
All Along the Watchtower
All I Really Want to Do
All Over You
All the Tired Horses
Angelina
Apple Suckling Tree
Are You Ready?
Arthur McBride
As I Went Out One Morning
Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Baby, Stop Crying
Ballad For A Friend
Ballad in Plain D
Ballad of a Thin Man
Ballad Of Donald White
Ballad of Hollis Brown
Band Of The Hand (It's Hell Time Man!)
Belle Isle
Bessie Smith
Big Yellow Taxi
Billy
Black Crow Blues
Black Diamond Bay
Blackjack Davey
Blind Willie McTell
Blood in My Eyes
Blowin' in the Wind
Blue Moon
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Bob Dylan's Blues
Bob Dylan's Dream
Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag
Boots of Spanish Leather
Born in Time
Broke Down Engine
Brownsville Girl
Buckets of Rain
Bunkhouse Theme
Bye and Bye
California
Call Letter Blues
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Wait
Canadee-i-o
Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)
Caribbean Wind
Cat's in the Well
Catfish
Changing of the Guards
Chimes of Freedom
Clean-Cut Kid
Clothes Line Saga
Cold Irons Bound
Coming From The Heart (The Road Is Long)
Copper Kettle
Corrina, Corrina
Country Pie
Covenant Woman
Cry A While
Dark Eyes
Day of the Locusts
Days of 49
Dead Man, Dead Man
Dear Landlord
Death is Not the End
Delia
Denise
Desolation Row
Diamond Joe
Dignity
Dirge
Dirt Road Blues
Disease of Conceit
Do Right to Me Baby
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Don't Ya Tell Henry
Down Along the Cove
Down in the Flood
Down the Highway
Drifter's Escape
Driftin' Too Far from Shore
Dusty Old Fairgrounds
Early Mornin' Rain
Emotionally Yours
Endless Highway
Eternal Circle
Every Grain of Sand
Everything is Broken
Farewell
Farewell Angelina
Father of Night
Final Theme
Fixin' to Die
Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Foot of Pride
Forever Young
Frankie & Albert
Freight Train Blues
Froggie Went a Courtin'
From a Buick 6
Gates of Eden
George Jackson
Get Your Rocks Off!
Girl of the North Country
Go 'Way Little Boy
God Knows
Goin' to Acapulco
Going, Going, Gone
Golden Loom
Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
Gospel Plow
Got My Mind Made Up
Gotta Serve Somebody
Gotta Travel On
Guess I'm Doin' Fine
Gypsy Lou
Had a Dream About You, Baby
Handy Dandy
Hard Times
Hard Times in New York Town
Hazel
He Was a Friend of Mine
Heart of Mine
Heartland
Hero Blues
High Water (for Charley Patton)
Highlands
Highway 51 Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
Honest With Me
Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance
House Carpenter
House of the Rising Sun
Hurricane
I Am a Lonesome Hobo
I and I
I Believe in You
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
I Shall Be Free
I Shall Be Released
I Threw It All Away
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Want You
I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
I'd Have You Any Time
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Remember You
Idiot Wind
If Dogs Run Free
If I Don't Be There By Morning
If Not for You
If You Gotta Go, Go Now
If You See Her, Say Hello
In My Time of Dyin'
In Search of Little Sadie
In the Garden
In the Summertime
Introduction by Kris Kristofferson
Is Your Love in Vain?
Isis
It Ain't Me, Babe
It Hurts Me Too
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Jack-A-Roe
Jet Pilot
Jim Jones
Joey
John Brown
John Wesley Harding
Jokerman
Just Like a Woman
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Katie's Been Gone
Kingsport Town
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Lay, Lady, Lay
Legionnaire's Disease
Lenny Bruce
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Let It Be Me
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Let's Keep It Between Us
Let's Stick Together
License to Kill
Like a Rolling Stone
Lily of the West
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Little Maggie
Little Sadie
Living the Blues
Lo and Behold!
Lone Pilgrim
Lonesome Day Blues
Long Ago, Far Away
Long Time Gone
Long-Distance Operator
Lord Protect My Child
Love Henry
Love Is Just A Four-letter Word
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Love Sick
Maggie's Farm
Make You Feel My Love
Mama, You Been on My Mind
Man Gave Names to All the Animals
Man in the Long Black Coat
Man of Constant Sorrow
Man of Peace
Man on the Street
Mary Ann
Masters of War
Maybe Someday
Meet Me in the Morning
Million Dollar Bash
Million Miles
Minstrel Boy
Mississippi
Mixed Up Confusion
Money Blues
Moonlight
Moonshiner
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Most of the Time
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Mozambique
Mr. Bojangles
Mr. Tambourine Man
My Back Pages

You Decide, I Cant

N - Y

Nashville Skyline Rag
Need a Woman
Neighborhood Bully
Never Gonna Be the Same Again
Never Say Goodbye
New Morning
New Pony
Night After Night
Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
No More Auction Block
No Time to Think
Nobody 'Cept You
North Country Blues
Not Dark Yet
Nothing was Delivered
Obviously Five Believers
Odds and Ends
Oh, Sister
On a Night Like This
On the Road Again
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
One More Night
One More Weekend
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
One Too Many Mornings
Only a Hobo
Only a Pawn in Their Game
Open the Door, Homer
Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
Outlaw Blues
Oxford Town
Paths of Victory
Peggy Day
Percy's Song
Playboys and Playgirls
Please, Mrs. Henry
Pledging My Time
Po' Boy
Political World
Poor Boy Blues
Positively 4th Street
Precious Angel
Precious Memories
Pressing On
Pretty Peggy-O
Property of Jesus
Queen Jane Approximately
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Quit Your Low Down Ways
Ragged & Dirty
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Rambling, Gambling Willie
Rank Strangers to Me
Restless Farewell
Ring Them Bells
Rita May
River Theme
Rocks and Gravel
Romance in Durango
Ruben Remus
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
Sally Sue Brown
Santa Fe
Sara
Sarah Jane
Saved
Saving Grace
See That My Grave is Kept Clean
Seeing the Real You at Last
Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Series of Dreams
Seven Curses
Seven Days
She Belongs to Me
She's Your Lover Now
Shelter from the Storm
Shenandoah
Shooting Star
Shot of Love
Sign Language
Sign On The Cross
Sign on the Window
Silent Weekend
Silvio
Simple Twist of Fate
Sittin' on Top of the World
Sitting on a Barbed-Wire Fence
Slow Train
Solid Rock
Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart
Something There is About You
Something's Burning, Baby
Song to Woody
Spanish Harlem Incident
Spanish is the Loving Tongue
Stack A Lee
Stage Fright
Standing In The Doorway
Standing On The Highway
Steel Bars
Step It Up And Go
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Sugar Baby
Summer Days
Suze (The Cough Song)
Sweetheart Like You
T.V. Talkin' Song
Take a Message to Mary
Take Me as I Am
Talkin Hava Negeilah Blues
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
Talkin' World War III Blues
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Talking New York
Tangled Up in Blue
Tears of Rage
Tell Me
Tell Me, Momma
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Temporary Like Achilles
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
The Boxer
The Death Of Emmett Till
The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
The Man in Me
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Shape I'm In
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Wandering Kind
The Weight
The Wicked Messenger
They Killed Him
Things Have Changed
This Wheel's on Fire
Three Angels
Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
Til I Fell In Love With You
Time Passes Slowly
Tiny Montgomery
To Be Alone with You
To Ramona
Tombstone Blues
Tomorrow is a Long Time
Tomorrow Night
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Too Much of Nothing
Tough Mama
Train A-Travelin'
Trouble
Trouble In Mind
True Love Tends to Forget
Trust Yourself
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Turkey Chase
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
Two Soldiers
Ugliest Girl in the World
Unbelievable
Under the Red Sky
Under Your Spell
Union Sundown
Up on Cripple Creek
Up to Me
Visions of Johanna
Walk Out In The Rain
Walkin' Down the Line
Wallflower
Walls of Red Wing
Wanted Man
Watching the River Flow
Watered Down Love
We Better Talk This Over
Wedding Song
Went to See the Gypsy
What Can I Do For You?
What Good Am I?
What Was It You Wanted?
Whatcha Gonna Do
When Did You Leave Heaven?
When He Returns
When I Paint My Masterpiece
When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky
When the Ship Comes In
When You Awake
When You Gonna Wake Up?
Where Are You Tonight?
Where Teardrops Fall
Who Killed Davey Moore?
Wiggle Wiggle
Wigwam
Winterlude
With God on Our Side
Woogie Boogie
World Gone Wrong
Worried Blues
Yazoo Street Scandal
Ye Shall Be Changed
Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
You Angel You
You Changed My Life
You Wanna Ramble
You're a Big Girl Now
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
You're Gonna Quit Me
You're No Good

There must be at least 50 or more Dylan track in by faves. but since you ask us to pick 5, this week it must be...

1 God on our Side
2 Shelter From the Storm
3 Tangled Up In Blue
4 Like a Rolling Stone
5 You Aint Goin Nowhere

in no particular order:

Lo and Behold
Clothesline Saga
Open the Door Richard
Yea Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
Odds and Ends

Tangled Up in Blue
She Belongs to Me
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Tears of Rage
You're a Big Girl Now

In No paritcular Order...

It's all Over Now Baby Blue

Positively 4th Street

Highlands

Masters of War

Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

Simple Twist of Fate

Tangle Up in Blue

Memphis Blues

Tryin To Get to Heaven

Boot of Spanish Leather

Don't Think Twice

Baby Let me Follow You Down

Hurricane

If You See Her Say Hello

High Water

Visions Of Johanna


....Come to think of it I could go on for hours... this is just to difficult to think of my top 5 or even 10 Dylan songs....

Maybe add Peggy-O Jerry's version any ...

Stuck Inside of Mobile
Tom Thumb Blues
Hard Rain is Gonna Fall
Like a Rolling Stone
Tangled Up in Blue

my fav's

Song to Woody
The Man in Me
To Ramona
Tommarow is a Long Time
I Shall Be Released

I like "Joey" too MSG Man "."

I forgot about I Believe in You. I don't know if I ever heard him do it, but I heard Sinead O'Connor do it and I loved it.

Death of Emmett Till
Motorpsycho Nightmare
Simple Twist of FateLove Minus Zero
Let Me Die in My Footsteps

Buckets of Rain
Balad in plain D
Balad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
Tombstone Blues
Black Crow Blues

I could go on all day

ballad of davey moore
shelter from the storm
a simple twist of fate
tangled up in blue
to make you feel my love

It's All Over Now Baby Blue is amazing.

Impossible to come up with five, every time I think of five I think of others that are equally impressive. Some of my most favs though are,

1- Jokerman
2- Your Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
3- Boots of Spanish Leather
4- Dignity
5- John Brown - Talk about powerful !
6- What Good Am I ?
7- Shelter From The Storm
8- Tangled Up In Blue
9- It's All Over Now Baby Blue
10-Simple Twist Of Fate.

I also think some of the tunes on Love and Theft are absolutely fantastic too, just can't remember all the names of them right off the top of my head.

love minus zero ~

speaks to me these days

Just a few off the top of my head:

Up To Me
Carribean Wind
Blind Willie McTell
Tell Me Mama
Mississippi
Visions of Johanna
Someday Maybe
Oh Sister
Sara
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Stuck Inside of Mobile...
Don't Think Twice
Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
John Brown
Ballad of Hollis Brown


and the beat goes on

5) - Lay Lady Lay - I know it may not be one of his best but it was the first one I remember listening to in my friend's basement as a youngster and has stuck with me through the decades of Bobdom.
4) - Cold Iron Bounds - The best of the rockers from Love and Theft and Time Out of Mind this one still burns it up live even after Bob made the shift from guitar slinger to piano pounder in 2002.
3) - I'll Remember You - Seeing Bob play this at his first show in his birthplace of Duluth back in 98 was spellbinding. A great ballad from his post born-again phase represented by Infidels and Empire Burlesque.
2) - Tangled Up In Blue - Special not just for it being perhaps the greatest acoustic based rock song, but also for the many great versions I got to see the JGB shred this thing to pieces. The lean - in,the bend over and turn of the volume pots, the smile and then lift off - The Jerry Garcia Band has just left the stratosphere!!!
1) - One More Cup Of Coffee - A great road song,a great love that was never meant to be song, a great musical song,and a great lyrical song. This was the culmination of all the greatness that Bob was producing at his mid-70's apogee.The impassioned violins and vocals intertwining with the tale's narrative showcases the depth and richness of Bob's writing at this time and is a benchmark to which other songwriter's hope that their craft can someday reach. The best on the album of best songs!!! Isis,Mozambigue,Black Diamond Bay,etc - a master at the top of his game.

Dang, it *is* hard to name only five...

Visions of Johanna
Masters of War
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Mr. Tambourine Man
Highway 61 Revisited

5.) Boots of Spanish Leather
4.) Isis
3.) Visions of Johanna
2.) Masters of War
1.) Tangled up in Blue or John Brown

wow this is tough.. its hard to nail one down.. I look at this quick list I made and I can think of 20 other songs that should probably be in it..

as of right now my top 5 are
mississippi-probably one of the greatest songs ever written by anybody
no time to think-all of street legal is very underrated
visions of johanna-
desolation row- both show how he was really a genious
to ramona- just a really cool song

almost every song of Dylans is my favorite.

I like No Time to Think and a lot of songs on Street Legal. Unfortunately my CD of it sounds like it was recorded over a telephone or something.

I think one of best songs of Bob Dylans that he performed is Hurricane.

every song on blood on the tracks is stellar. that disc is in my player 24/7