Your favorite Bob Dylan songs?
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Topic: Your favorite Bob Dylan songs?
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: Your favorite Bob Dylan songs?
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:36
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I have just recently gotten into him alot more than usual.
Can anyone reccommend an albu, or some specific songs they LOVE that arent so popular?
I love the big hits, and I know them all mostly ( i think) but throw me some others!
 Thanks! -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:41
I'm not very familiar with Dylan, but his latest album, Modern Times, is amazing. 
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:48
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thanks ill check it out! How are the vocals? I watched some videos of him recently and the vocals were, to be all honest, awful...i love his early voice, but does he still have it on recordings? ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:48
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I agree with Vompatti. A couple of my brother's favorite songs(he is a huge Dylan fan - in fact he's going to a concert in April) are It's All Over Now Baby Blue and Maggie's Farm. An album or two that I'd recommend are Desire and The Freewheelin'. For a great live performance see Rolling Thunder or something like that. I don't know if they are bootlegs, though. |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:50
His voice is a bit rougher sounding I'd say. More scratchy, that's how I think of it. |
The Lost Chord wrote:Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 14:58
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thanks, yeah i saw a video of him doing My Back Pages and the comments and everyone were just horrified, maybe it was a bad night, the voice was just so bad! ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 15:58
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I like every single Dylan song, as long as it's someone else singing or playing it. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 16:03
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lol, i love the byrds versions i do! ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: tdbark
Date Posted: February 04 2007 at 17:51
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My favorites Dylan songs are:
Tangled Up in Blue
Blowin' in the Wind
Rainy Day Women
Dylan chose to sing in the classic folk vocal style popularized by Woody Guthrie: rough and workman like.... making music that anyone can sing along with... remember these were songs of the people..... ------------- Twenty men crossing a bridge into a village, are twenty men crossing twenty bridges into twenty villages. Wallace Stevens |
Posted By: andu
Date Posted: February 05 2007 at 04:53
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From my experience with Bob until now, I think his most accomplished album is his 1976 "Desire". Very mature, great melodies and arrangements (the violin and the backing vocals are superb), dense, long and strong. The lyrics and the singing are also great, both beautiful and socially involved (no cheap propaganda, though).
However my favourite Dylan songs are on other albums: "Song to Woody" from the first album is one of my favourite ars poetica ever; there's of course "Like a Rolling Stone", and last but not least, "Lay Lady Lay" from 69's Nashville Skyline is one of my favourite love songs ever.
Good to know you discovered Bob. Great artist he is... ------------- "PA's own GI Joe!" 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 05 2007 at 07:54
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1976's Desire is probably my favorite overall studio album by Dylan - it certainly contains my favorite song by him "Hurricane": Dylan at his most angry.
His live albums can be patchy, but they're well worth hearing if only for the differing versions of famous songs he puts in; I'd particularly recommend the seminal 'Budokan' album, and especially 1982's 'Real Live' (Ian McLachan on Hammond & Mick Taylor on guitar + special appearance by Carlos Santana) - probably the album which best shows him 'rocking out', but also containing an excellent acoustic version of 'North Country Girl'. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 05 2007 at 08:51
"Hurricane" is my favourite song of him too. In general I am not too fond of Dylan though; there are some excellent lyrics, but the music is rather dull. And if I want the lyrics I can read them. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: bsurmano
Date Posted: February 05 2007 at 16:33
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This is a true masterpiece, my personal favourite , try with it !  ------------- 'Sundown,yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast..... Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.' Bob Dylan |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: February 05 2007 at 17:26
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Freewheelin
Bringing it all Back Home
Highway 61
Blonde on Blonde
John Wesley Harding-(great non electric album. Country folk flavoured)
Blood On The Tracks
Desire (both Blood and Desire contain some of Dylans most straight forward and passionate lyrics to date. Highly recommended)
Those are my favs. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: February 06 2007 at 03:32
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Hurricane was my choice as well. An excellent album of Dylan songs translated to the local dialect of Cologne was relased in the nineties by BAP singer Wolfgang Niedecken (Leopardefell). Far better to my taste than the original versions. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 06 2007 at 08:46
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Listen to "Blood on the Tracks" "Highway 61 Revisited" and the second greatest hits album has a live version of "If tomorrow wasn't such a long time" that will bring you to tears. His voice may be an acquired taste for many but his phrasing is impeccable, especially in his "folk" years. His words on those early albums can still cut right through you. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Alucard
Date Posted: February 07 2007 at 05:35
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'The Times They Are A Changin' (CBS 1964) favourite tracks : ‘Spanish Boots Of Spanish Leather’ /’One Too Many Mornings’/ Title Track ‘Blonde On Blonde’ (CBS 1966) favourite tracks : Sad Eyed Lady Of The ‘John Wesley Harding’ (CBS 1967) Favourite track: ‘All Along The Watchtower!!!!!! ‘ Favourite tracks : Lay Lady Lay/ Girl From The Nothern Country ‘Blood On The Tracks’ (CBS 1975) Favourite tracks ‘Shelter From the Storm’/ Tangled Up IN Blue ‘Desire’ (CBS 1976) Favourite track ‘ Hurricane’ / ‘Sarah’ ‘Oh Mercy’ (CBS 1989) Favourite Track : Man In The Long Black Coat 'Biograph (Compilation)'
Favourite Tracks 'Percy's song'/'I Shall Be Released
------------- Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear "Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
Posted By: Jack-a-lynn
Date Posted: February 07 2007 at 12:25
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I love "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall", and "Lay Lady Lay" is beautiful. Also his version of "Watchtower" is and forever will be my favorite.
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Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: February 07 2007 at 12:58
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I love Knocking on Heavens door. It was great hearing that having only heard the sh*tty Guns n' roses cover before, and an ok Eric Clapton version ------------- 
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Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: February 07 2007 at 23:56
ohh man, but that's the best part about dylan. the worse his voice gets, the better it gets. -------------  
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Posted By: gong
Date Posted: February 08 2007 at 00:00
that song is really something amazing in "Patt Garrett And Billy The Kid" the movie.
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Posted By: gong
Date Posted: February 08 2007 at 00:01
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i like his 'Gates To Eden', 'Subterranean Blues', 'Disolation Raw', 'Watching The River Flow', 'Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands"......new album "Modern Times" is awesome, IMO.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: February 08 2007 at 07:33
The best version I saw of that was in 1988 when his backing band was Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers; fantastic gig! -------------
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 06:52
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Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth, Blowing down the backroads headin' south. Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth, You're an idiot, babe. It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe. ------------- 
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Posted By: Zoot Allures
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 00:12
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Well, my brother bought me "Before The Flood" live 1974 2CD set for christmas.
It's Bob with The Band. You get all the classics (Lay, Lady Lay, Knockin'..., Highway 61, Rainy Day..., All along the Watchtower, Like a Rolling stone) as well as a few Band tunes (The night they Drove Old Dixie down, Up on Cripple Creek, The Shape I'm in).
Bob's voice is excellent and very clear
 Definate recommendation.Don't know if I have a fav Dylan tune
 I've seen him a couple of times live. 1994 Woodstock. He was excellent! and again a couple of years ago but he was just average. Can't complain too much though. Free ticket
 ------------- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 22:29
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"Girl Of The North Country"
"Masters Of War"
"Abraham, Martin, & John"
"Mary From The Wild Moor"
"Only A Pawn In Their Game"
"Black Cross (Hezikiah Jones)"
"The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carol"
I am a much greater fan of Neil Young (see signature  ) than Bob Dylan, but Dylan produced some great music too.------------- 
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Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 22:39
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Everything Is Broken
Hurricane
All Along The Watchtower
Maggie's Farm
Like a Rolling Stone
Blowin' In The Wind
Don't Think It twice, It's Alright ------------- 
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 22:41
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Every single freaking one of them! ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: February 11 2007 at 08:35
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For me:
Visions of Johanna
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall
Jokerman
Jet Pilot
What's A Sweetheart Like You
Emotionally Yours
And Positively 4th Street:
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
Then you'd know what a drag it is
To see you. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |