The answer my friend...

Sherry Baby

Is blowin in the wind...

Some people hate him but hes arguably one of the greatest song writers of our generation...

What's Bob Dylan's best song?

My personal favourite is Changing of the Guards...

uch

Mary hold the candle steady while I Shave the Chickens Lip, never hear the likes again

Brock Turnpike

Wagon Wheel

retalivity

The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Wayne Jarvis

His cover of that Adele song was shíte.

dmc17

Guy Person wrote: »

His cover of that Adele song was shíte.

He made a balls of that Jimi Hendrix one too

peasant

His best song?

Every single one that someone else is singing ....:D

Urethral Buttercup

What I'm interested in now is seeing a bunch of women cooking, sleeves rolled up, butter going everywhere, these chicks are kneading dough, tossing pancakes, there is flour, ghee, star anise, some chick just doing jam and potting it with disks of grease proof paper with sticky fingers and they all have different shades of lipstick and biggish asses, and they are like laughing, and some other one is baking a sponge, **** **** **** **** **** **** **** plenty of counter space, very pretty clothes, damn damn damn damn

maestroamado

lily rosemary, jack of hearts is up there.
For me he is the greatest + Randy Newman+Elvis Costello...

The Bishop Basher

Ballad of a thin man and just like Tom Thumbs blues are 2 of my favourites.

Sherry Baby

Lay Lady Lay is a more popular one. Has always been a favourite of mine.

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

Best set of lyrics to ever be written

JeffreyEpspeen

I Want You, Jokerman and Not Dark Yet are good tunes.

Zaph

Well obviously it's Must Be Santa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus

Sherry Baby

And how could I forget Sara!

So easy to look at, so hard to define...

He also mentions another great song within that song...

'Writin' "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" for you.'

Rothko

Dark Eyes is a very underrated song of his too.

piplip87

Masters of war for me. I think it's sobering and lyrically one of the greatest songs ever written. Like many Dylan songs however I prefer a cover.

Eddie Vedder's version is brilliant.

The new one "A murder most foul", is excellent lyrically, not the best singer though.

Sherry Baby

piplip87 wrote: »

The new one "A murder most foul", is excellent lyrically, not the best singer though.

Not a great singer tbf but people like his voice anyway...

MadYaker

I heard Things Have Changed for the first time a few days ago and have it on repeat since. I’ve never listened to him much, his delivery is very interesting, he puts emphasis on odd syllables which gives the tunes an unpredictable feel. Cool lyrics too.

Hintel

Masters of War from the Real Live album

PTH2009

Love his Mr Tambourine Man cover
Blowing in the wind
Times they are a changing is a great song

Things have changed
Early Roman Kings

Saw him last year, it was decent but would of loving to see the folk version of Dylan

Hintel

Is your love in vain is one of my favourites musically

The studio version

cj maxx

Like asking me to choose between my children.
Shelter from the storm
Just like a woman
There's no answer to this question
To answer the OP
Is blowin in the wind

Sherry Baby

It ain't me babe..

Insults himself and her at the same time. Genius

Sherry Baby

Idiot Wind is another one!

ceadaoin.

So many to choose from..don't think twice its alright is great. And she belongs to me. Love that one too

Ipso

Sherry Baby wrote: »

Idiot Wind is another one!

If you see her say hello, tangled up in blue, just like a woman, forever young, knocking on heavens door, lay lady lay etc

PTH2009

The 2019 version doesn't sound like the 60s version that's for sure

https://youtu.be/vtGfk7oPIVU

73bc61lyohr0mu

Bob Dylan one of the most overrated acts along with the Beatles..

Mantis Toboggan

Hurricane song is an absolute classic!

Sherry Baby

Sherry Baby wrote: »

What's Bob Dylan's best song?

Not "wiggle wiggle" anyway.

Are all the people around him so enamored with him that not one of them stood up and said "Sorry Bob - but maybe not that one should make the cut - maybe?"

Tambourine Man and Joker Man always did it for me.

topper75

Like picking a favourite child. Impossible.

This was my favourite cover though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wJAWdAR1w

Hoop66

PTH2009 wrote: »

Love his Mr Tambourine Man cover

He wrote it!


For me it has to be:

for me.

In fact the whole of Blood on the Tracks is a masterpiece. Top 5 albums ever.

Hintel

Ya I did the double take when i seen the comment about tambourine Man

The Byrds had a hit with it

CrankyHaus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGxjIBEZvx0

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again is great too, in fact most of the songs from Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited.

maestroamado

https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/the-last-waltz-martin-scorseses-ultimate-rock-n-roll-movie/

Anyone interested in this kinda stuff have a look at this, its brilliant.
Dylan and a few of the other greats in it...

branie2

Like a Rolling Stone

JohnnyFlash

His lyrics are good, but that tortured artist thing he does puts me right off him. And he hasn’t a note in his head either.

JeffreyEpspeen

His son's band has a couple of three good songs. He didn't inherit his father's singing voice!

cj maxx

I was a 'Dylan head' ( if there's such a thing)
Me and 3/4 others. I knew his songs, albums etc .
Was so effing excited when he announced gigs in the point.
He was awful. The would be nearly over before I'd could guess the song

CrankyHaus

cj maxx wrote: »

I was a 'Dylan head' ( if there's such a thing)
Me and 3/4 others. I knew his songs, albums etc .
Was so effing excited when he announced gigs in the point.
He was awful. The would be nearly over before I'd could guess the song

Fair play for the honesty.

I've never really been sold on seeing massive legacy acts at a stage in their career where they're 60+, the ticket prices are stratospheric, the venue is massive and filled with a similar age crowd, many of who got the tickets as some kind of corporate gift.

I imagine it's nearly always a disappointment unless you tell yourself it was great.

maestroamado

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Fair play for the honesty.

I've never really been sold on seeing massive legacy acts at a stage in their career where they're 60+, the ticket prices are stratospheric, the venue is massive and filled with a similar age crowd, many of who got the tickets as some kind of corporate gift.

I imagine it's nearly always a disappointment unless you tell yourself it was great.

I totally agree as the voice will not hold up.

I have not being at a headline concert in about 5 years.
The last two were randy Newman and Elvis Costello.
Both were fine as the type of stuff they sing is easier to sing i think.
I read last year that Neil Young out-performed Dylan last year in Kilkenny.
I think Dylan's songs more difficult to sing than what Young does.
For this reason i decided not to go to Dylan at the Point.
I was one of the lucky people who seen him in Vicar Street...

CrankyHaus

maestroamado wrote: »

I totally agree as the voice will not hold up.

I have not being at a headline concert in about 5 years.
The last two were randy Newman and Elvis Costello.
Both were fine as the type of stuff they sing is easier to sing i think.
I read last year that Neil Young out-performed Dylan last year in Kilkenny.
I think Dylan's songs more difficult to sing than what Young does.
For this reason i decided not to go to Dylan at the Point.
I was one of the lucky people who seen him in Vicar Street...

Neil Young put out a decent album as recently as 2006 (Greendale) whereas contemporaries like The Eagles were at the lazy cash-grab reunion tour stage12 years before that. He's had plenty of misses but for his age you have to admire how long he's kept going.

MadYaker

Never saw Dylan but I wouldn’t rule out all legacy acts, Rolling Stones still excellent live and jagger still sounds good. The Cure are still amazing live as well.

JeffreyEpspeen

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Neil Young put out a decent album as recently as 2006 (Greendale) whereas contemporaries like The Eagles were at the lazy cash-grab reunion tour stage12 years before that. He's had plenty of misses but for his age you have to admire how long he's kept going.

Learn to Be Still was a good tune in fairness.

Feisar

It's already been said and the a vid posted:

Tangled Up In Blue

Again already said, his voice isn't the best. However it doesn't matter as he's Bob Dylan.

Rothko

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Neil Young put out a decent album as recently as 2006 (Greendale) whereas contemporaries like The Eagles were at the lazy cash-grab reunion tour stage12 years before that. He's had plenty of misses but for his age you have to admire how long he's kept going.

Greendale was released in 2003 but I think he's had a few decent albums since then. Colorado came out last year and I think it's fairly good.

JeffreyEpspeen

Rothko wrote: »

Dark Eyes is a very underrated song of his too.

Like it. Has the same dreamy quality as Big Sur by The Beach Boys.

AndyBoBandy

Subterranean Homesick Blues

The Tetrarch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5nEbNLpYQ

Covers of Bob Dylan songs often sound better than the original.