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The answer my friend...

  • 21-04-2020 10:14pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46


    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...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


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

    21/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    Wagon Wheel


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,818 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    His cover of that Adele song was shíte.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Guy Person wrote: »
    His cover of that Adele song was shíte.

    He made a balls of that Jimi Hendrix one too


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    His best song?

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭maestroamado


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 Sherry Baby


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko



    Best set of lyrics to ever be written


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


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


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Well obviously it's Must Be Santa



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 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.'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Dark Eyes is a very underrated song of his too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,301 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Hintel


    Masters of War from the Real Live album


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,955 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Hintel


    Is your love in vain is one of my favourites musically

    The studio version


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭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 :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 Sherry Baby


    It ain't me babe..

    Insults himself and her at the same time. Genius :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46 Sherry Baby


    Idiot Wind is another one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,559 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,955 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


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

    https://youtu.be/vtGfk7oPIVU


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭73bc61lyohr0mu


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,636 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Hurricane song is an absolute classic!

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Like picking a favourite child. Impossible.

    This was my favourite cover though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Hintel


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

    The Byrds had a hit with it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus




    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,320 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Like a Rolling Stone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,979 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭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...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,301 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,875 ✭✭✭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.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,102 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Subterranean Homesick Blues


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,085 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch




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


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