Bob Dylan

[sodascouts]

While I can't be characterized as a fan of the highest ardor, I recognize his remarkable skills as a lyricist. Certainly he's worthy of his own thread!

[WalshFan88]

I really like some of Dylan's stuff. Especially "Highway 61 Revisited".

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[Freypower]

Thanks Soda. Now where do I start? I just didn't want to start a thread for Bob for the sake of it; like the Dire Straits thread while it may be a passion of mine others may not agree.

I always do these Top 10 things. So off the top of my head my Top 10 Dylan songs are as follows:

1. Like A Rolling Stone
2. Tangled Up In Blue
3. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
4. Lay Lady Lay
5. Hurricane
6. Just Like A Woman
7. Positively 4th Steet
8. Lily, Rosemary & the Jack Of Hearts
9. Visions Of Johanna
10. Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)

And I could have included so much else in there; I would say those songs are the ones which mean most to me at the moment.

What I might do later is include some snippets of my favourite Dylan lyrics. I did that in the Led Zeppelin thread.

My Top 10 albums are:

1. Blood On The Tracks
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Blonde On Blonde
4. Desire
5. Bringing It All Back Home
6. Time Out Of Mind
7. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
8. Nashville Skyline
9. John Wesley Harding
10. Modern Times

But other more recent albums like Oh Mercy & Love & Theft which I am still getting to know are also excellent. Ironically I don't have the earliest, folk influenced albums although I have many of the songs on Biograph & on the Manchester Free Trades Hall discs.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Well - I'm pretty much in agreement with Soda here. While I recognize and appreciate Dylan's skills as a poetic lyricist, I've never been much of a fan of his vocals. I love a lot of the songs he wrote, but honestly, the only song I like hearing him sing is "Like a Rolling Stone".

[AzEaglesFan]

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[Freypower]

Bob's been in Asia; Vietnam last night our time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13029109

I hope that the setlist for Australia includes two songs mentioned here; A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall & Highway 61 Revisited, although I did see Hard Rain in 2007.

He had to play an 'approved set' in China:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/indus...05118752.story

But Like A Rolling Stone?! Yes please, Bob! In 2007 the setlist was mainly newer material.

[Spiritinthesky]

Any Dylan fans?

http://www.facebook.com/ThisdayinBobDylan

[Freypower]

Any Dylan fans?

http://www.facebook.com/ThisdayinBobDylan

I am a Dylan fan, but I don't use Facebook. Welcome.

[VAisForEagleLovers]

Fifty years ago today, Dylan released his first album. This is from a local DC TV station.

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/03...day-73939.html

[WS82Classics]

I bought his 'Greatest Hits' CD on Saturday. It was an interesting listen. Most songs are what I would call 'Quintessential Dylan.' "Rainy Day Women" is a bit of a dumb song, but a solid album opener none the less. My favourites were "Like a Rolling Stone,"(steadily emerging as an all-time favourite) "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and "Positively Fourth Street."(sums up a lot of people I've known) "Mr. Tambourine Man" was a very good song in its full version, though I still prefer the Byrds' cover.

Top 5 Dylan songs:

1. "Like a Rolling Stone"
2. "Lay, Lady, Lay"
3. "Positively Fourth Street"
4. "Tangled Up in Blue"
5. "Subterranean Homesick Blues"