Not one of the Top 5 Dylan songs I chose made it onto Norm Geras' Top 20.
Not one.
Statistically, that's unlikely, although it may have something to do with Mike A's comment on my disconnect from mainstream pop culture.
My picks were:
- If You See Her, Say Hello (Blood On The Tracks)
- Tears Of Rage (Basement Tapes)
- Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid - a cheap one, I know, but I still love it)
- I Pity The Poor Immigrant (JWH)
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (JWH)
1. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
2. -5. not important
Do I get a disconnect prize?
Hurricane.
One more cup of coffee.
Idiot Wind.
Sugar Baby.
Standing in the Doorway.
Precious Angel
Every grain of sand
It's all right ma, I'm only bleeding
Tangled up in blue
I shall be released
My favorites (in no particular order):
Neighborhood Bully —song about Israel
When I Paint My Masterpiece —melancholy and lovely
Tangled Up in Blue —loved it since I was a kid
Idiot Wind —the line "It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves." cracks me up, but I feel I know what he means...
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry —back when I used to party, I'd (drunkenly) play an acoustic version of this with a dear friend...
Ah, good times.
I only saw Bob once—in 1987 with the Grateful Dead. I think he may have been drunk, but I was pretty happy to see him, nonetheless.
Dylan. Feh. This is not a Bob Dylan decade. This is a Nine Inch Nails decade. Even Johnny Cash thought so.
I think last decade was a NIN decade. Does Trent Reznor still put out albums?
Not in any particular order:
"Positively Fourth Street" (Greatest Hits (?!))
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" (Biograph)
"Bob Dylan's Dream" (Freewheelin')
"Desolation Row" (Highway 61 Revisited)
"If You See Her, Say Hello" (Blood on the Tracks)
Electric, acoustic.. great performances or great lyrics, mostly both.
=darwin
Tangled Up In Blue was an amazing song but, other than that, i must admit that I missed the whole Dylan bandwagon. I was too young to get into the original Dylan in the 60's which is why I really liked Tangled, which came out in the mid-70's (?). I think it was after this that he became a parody of himself. I heard someone make the comment that, in the Victoria's Secret commercial, he looks like a leering pervert camped out next to the thong secton of your local VS.
"Like a Rolling Stone" is the best Dylan song. Period.
Clothesline Blues
Dark Eyes
Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts
Brownsville Girl
Tweeter and the Monkeyman
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight
She belongs to me
Tom Thumb's blues
Maggies Farm
Desolation row
Positively fourth street
RAINY DAY WOMAN
Dylan still rules / in a calass of his own .