If you have LOTS of free time, heres one way to kill it.

[nakedfrog]

i don't hope it, but that's almost certainly what's going to happen

Are you subscribing to the Rincewind theory that the more time you spend being bored, the longer you'll live?

 

[zinfamous]

good call, but just slightly off the mark. I (in my infinite wisdom) would have gone for Motorpsycho Nitemare, also off of Another Side Of Bob Dylan. Or maybe It Ain't Me. I don't know, my wisdom is not that infinite.

..anyway, Rolling Stone .. you know, the maganize named after the band, rolling stones? is always been about "the X most-well known commercial songs". The whole "best song" thing is too much based on what your idea of "best" is. Most influential ? Most well loved? Most known? Best today ? Best when it was released? Most complex? Best lyrics? Best solo ?
MADE THE MOST MONY ?

It Ain't Me is a good call. I'd go lame and go with Blowing in the Wind, Rainy Day Women 12 & 35, Shelter from the Storm.

I've always been partial to Tangled up in Blue. Hurricane is rocking, and I think even noob people with zero musical taste would actually like that one because it sounds like "a real song" to their uncultured ears and they likely don't think they are listening to Dylan.

By the way, I would have put the Weight higher than where they put it. Top 10 easily. of all the covers, I always thought none were still better than the Band original, even as great at the Staple Singers were. ....but then I stumbled upon the Aretha and Duane Allman track, and felt nothing but pure shame that I had never heard this before

that smokes the Band out of the room. holy shit. (I think it was the closing credits of an episode of either HBO's Watchmen or Lovecraft country...probably Lovecraft)

 

[UsandThem]

i am totally gatekeeping weird al, if you were not a fan back when it was uncool to listen to weird al, you are not a TRUE fan today. I'm talking Another One Rides The Bus, Mr Frump In The Iron Lung, Nature Trail To Hell weird al.

The Weird Al album was one of the first albums I ever bought on cassette. Most of the kids who lived in the neighborhood didn't like it, but I thought his debut album was great and hilarious. I remember riding around on my bike, and blasting it in my boombox thinking I was the shit, lol.

 

[IronWing]

I listened to Weird Al's American Pie and Blurred Lines for the first time just now. American Pie was okay, Blurred Lines quite good.

 

[brianmanahan]

this is a ridiculous thing to say brianmanahan. do you know anything about folk music or about Dylan? His voice is absolutely perfect and, besides, it's a coached singing voice that he deployed specifically for his music. Dylan's musicality is also completely perfect. Really, within his genre, he's as musically gifted and perfect as anyone that as ever recorded a single note within their own genres.

Also, how many other Nobel Laureates are on this list? None? Just the one, then?

OK.

Honestly, you could put Dylan in the top 10 spots...and maybe we should. Now, I know that would be wrong and stupid, but that is certainly something I would do if I were put in charge of this list, which is why it is good that I am not in charge of such things.

(Tom Waits would round out spots 11-20...then maybe some Tiny Tim tunes)

lol i can't compete with this treatise on the genius of dylan!

i'll admit some of his stuff is catchy, i'm listening to "the times the they are a-changin" right now. but it's never been something that i would want to listen to again and again.

i do listen to some folk rock occasionally, and a bit of bluegrass. learning the banjo is still on my bucket list. but i think my days of learning are over.

 

[brianmanahan]

I listened to Weird Al's American Pie and Blurred Lines for the first time just now. American Pie was okay, Blurred Lines quite good.

of all his parodies i think "amish paradise" is my favorite, even if it isn't that close to the original

and "party in the CIA" allows me to listen to miley cyrus without hating myself

 

[DigDog]

.. eh .. like i said, Dylan is always measure in terms of "folk singer". And he's allright as a folk singer. But, remember that he also was in the Travelling Wilburys?

Oh and that single that made me buy a $100 (in 1990) box set

And yeah, Hurricane is a good banger. But i get the feeling, @zinfamous that you are measuring him against himself. "in the list of Bob Dylans, which Bob Dylan is the most Bob Dylan?"
And obviously the answer is gonna be Bob Dylan. What you have to do though, is measure him versus others who are *not* Bob Dylan.
So, which banger bangs the most, Hurricane, or Easy Livin' ? How does Chimes Of Freedom compare to, say, Redemption Song?

Rock is .. not folk. And while Dylan certainly was historically important in the panorama of american music in the 60s, his output just isn't "rock" enough to make it high on the rock list. Not enough leather pants, you feel me? I mean, Dylan can be poetic as fuck, but the guitar player from Hanoi Rocks ziplined onto stage while riffing and through pyrotechnics.


i stand by my original statement, the best rock song ever written is We Will Rock You and therefore the N.1 spot goes to Queen.

 

[BudAshes]

this is funny but I have to disagree: U2 was awesome up and through the Joshua Tree 9Achtung Baby was pretty good, though). Joshua Tree is one of those all-time great albums. ....then you look at everything Brian Eno was responsible for. He had just come from producing 2 (3?) great Talking Head albums, to produce the Joshua Tree.

you do you,
but I ain't listenin'
to any u2.

Now sing that in your head in Bob Dylan's voice and for emphasis add a harmonica solo.

 

[shortylickens]

i love weird al's version of american pie so much

 

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[snoopy7548]

Bob Dylan looks like Adam Sandler.

 

[IronWing]

Bob Dylan is the Bruce Springsteen of the 1960s.

 

[sdifox]

would you like a whole album of U2 songs free on your itunes?

that you can't delete forever?

It's the band you deserve for buying Apple product. Actions have consequences.

 

[BudAshes]

It's the band you deserve for buying Apple product. Actions have consequences.

Coldplay VS U2

Which is worse?

 

[brianmanahan]

Coldplay VS U2

Which is worse?

battle of the blands

i'll admit i am guilty of listening to some coldplay

 

[snoopy7548]

I like U2, especially their Joshua Tree-era of stuff. Or maybe only that era.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm going to have to give the edge (ha, ha, see what I did there) to Coldplay as far as being worse.

 

[shortylickens]

Also I didnt see any Van Halen on the list.

 

[snoopy7548]

Also I didnt see any Van Halen on the list.

Van Halen sucks your mom's dick.

 

[zinfamous]

Coldplay VS U2

Which is worse?

Coldplay, but I do like...2 of their songs? maybe? Chris Martin strikes me as a super douche, though.

 

[sdifox]

Coldplay VS U2

Which is worse?

Nickelback

 

[snoopy7548]

Nickelback

Found the Creed fan.

 

[zinfamous]

I like U2, especially their Joshua Tree-era of stuff. Or maybe only that era.

yeah, from War to Joshua Tree....really great stuff. Problem was that it sounds like every album after was just B sides to Joshua Tree. They're definitely not flaky with their activism, too, which is nice. It kinda comes with the territory with Irish bands, especially from that era.

....though going there with the Irish folk, I think I'd prefer the Cranberries. :heart: Delores, RIP

(purposefully not posting Zombie, even though it's a great song and I love it).
Also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlw4NohB678

 

[zinfamous]

Bob Dylan is the Bruce Springsteen of the 1960s.

Dylan can play more than one chord, and more than one instrument, though.

 

[lxskllr]

Also I didnt see any Van Halen on the list.

I have the RS500 I... acquired when it first came out, and I could have sworn Van Halen was in there. It isn't. Seems like drastic oversight to me.