Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues, Hard Rains Gonna Fall, Desolation Row, Queen Jane Approximately, Blowing in the Wind, Mr Tambourine Man, Ballad of a Thin Man, Lay Lady Lay
There’s sooo many. Visions of Johanna, One More Cup of Coffee, Isis, Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. Sorry, I know he’s played out for a lot of folks but I could go on for days
I think "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is pretty iconic, but "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" is both really bitter and kind of funny? Also kinda problematic? But it's the one sticks with me.
I might change my vote to this if you mean the version from the “Royal Albert Hall” show, cause that’s just about the greatest live male vocal performance ever recorded.
Want to see Dylan rock out, and in a song that in terms of chord progressions and musical thematic development is far more complex than anything else he's ever written? Here he is with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers performing "In The Garden" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9WARhR_Yo
My parents had Nashville skyline so I was less than 10 years old when my mother would play that album a lot and I loved Lay Lady lay. I didn’t even know what sex was. I just loved the feel of it and that my mother love the song and would dance to it.
I love all his songs, and I have a different favorite that hasn't been mentioned yet, but this is my comfort song! 💜 I most recently saw it featured during the end credits for the movie "St. Vincent" with Bill Murray, which I had to mention. So good! (Spoilers here, beware)
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(Now spinning)
"Changing Of The Guards"
His cover of "Blue Moon"
"Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again"
"Desolation Row"
(aka How Does it Feel?)
Shelter From the Storm, Tangled Up in Blue, All I Really Want to Do, Visions of Johanna, and The Times They Are A-Changin'.
Simple Twist Of Fate…..
Covered by someone else, all along the watchtower, Hendrix version.
I think the one I have vibed to the most in my life is Tombstone Blues.
but let's be honest, if you haven't belted Like a Rolling Stone while driving somewhere and crying because your heart is broken, you have never lived
As I said, an impossible prompt!
I was 17, and it was the first time a not super well known song I would have put in a movie showed up in that movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHhWh9FtsQ
Jimi's version is apocalyptic in its drama. Bob's is apocalyptic in its sense of dread and loss. Each is perfect in its own way.
Blood On The Tracks is a truly great album.
and every time a song started playing I would yell NOT ON THAT ALBUM until one finally was
Also from that album - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, doesn't get enough attention or credit from the Dylan library of music.
Idk that's what's popping into my head rn
https://youtu.be/r9aN5_GNsMk?si=VY0yOgGk5VCBVuHM