The answer my friend...

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.

Rothko

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

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.

Wouldn't connect the tortured artist cliche with Dylan at all. I might maybe see a bit of that on Blood On The Tracks but that's it.

Sherry Baby

Rothko wrote: »

Wouldn't connect the tortured artist cliche with Dylan at all.

Me neither.

In interviews and a few things I've read about him, it does seem he doesnt want to reveal too much of himself but that's fair enough.

cj maxx

I went searching for song I love from some less known album.
I didn't find it but fcuk sake he some amount of songs.
I had forgotten about alot of his stuff

Rothko

cj maxx wrote: »

I went searching for song I love from some less known album.
I didn't find it but fcuk sake he some amount of sound.
I had forgotten about alot ohis stuff

Can you remember any of the lyrics from it?

cj maxx

Rothko wrote: »

Can you remember any of the lyrics from it?

No . Or the album:(

EmmetSpiceland

cj maxx wrote: »

No . Or the album:(

I’m guessing ‘Baby Please Stop Crying’ from the album Street Legal.

maestroamado

MadYaker wrote: »

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.

I think stones sound a bit dated and actually it may sound better now live with all the gagets.
I cannot comment as i have not seen or heard anything recorded recently.
I am just saying that raunchy rock sound is harder to do when older.
Unfortunately i am old enough to have been in Slane...

maestroamado

Rothko wrote: »

Can you remember any of the lyrics from it?

was that "4 roads to Glenamaddy"??

PTH2009

Hintel wrote: »

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

The Byrds had a hit with it

Would of got that question wrong in a quiz

Always through The Byrds wrote it

MadYaker

MadYaker wrote: »

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.

The strange emphasis is rarely remarked upon but is the key to the slightly hypnotic way he has of delivering songs, imo.