It seems like I have been listening a lot to Dylan lately (he seems to have a good effect on me after going through a disappointment). I know we have several other Dylan fans, so I thought it would be cool to see what are people's favorite Dylan songs are. Mine (off the top of my head) are: Jokerman Sweetheart Like You I and I Something There Is About You Forever Young Wedding Song Like a Rolling Stone Hurricane Sara Idiot Wind Million Dollar Bash Knockin' on Heaven's Door If Not for You Desolation Row Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again Just Like a Woman I Want You My Back Pages It Ain't Me Babe The Times They Are A-Changin' I better stop there. Top 5 Favorite Dylan Albums: 1 - Highway 61 Revisited 2 - Desire 3 - Infidels 4 - Blonde on Blonde 5 - Blood on the Tracks
Idiot Wind Masters of War High Water (for Charlie Patton) Highway 61 Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat Silvio Make You Feel My Love
Simple Twist of Fate Subterranean Homesick Blues Hurricane Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan's 115th Dream Mr. Tambourine Man
Virtually all of them, but some top favorites lately are Nobody 'Cept You (outtake from Planet Waves, featured on Bootleg Series 1-3) and Abandoned Love (outtake from Desire, featured on Biograph, though the live boot from a 75 Ramblin Jack Elliot show is far superior). Spanish Harlem Incident is also a longtime favorite. Lately I've been listening to the Outfidels boot (Infidels outtakes). Killer alt version of Sweetheart Like You with a very different lyric. Manny: Dylan played Million Dollar Bash live last year for the first time ever. It was sweet.
So you're the guy that ruins the encores at all his shows. Dylan plays over a hundred nights a year and I've seen him thirty or forty times. His sets vary extensively night to night, but for the last several years he's closed almost every single show with Like A Rolling Stone and Watchtower. On very rare occasions he swaps out Rolling Stone for Hwy 61 or Knockin on Heaven's Door or some other 'greatest hit.' Watchtower is the most boring thing he ever does live -- a mediocre attempt at covering Hendrix's superior cover of the song. Both great songs, I agree. But if I never hear them again, I'll be just fine.
"Black Diamond Bay" "Simple Twist of Fate" "Buckets of Rain" "Meet me in the Morning" "Shelter from the Storm" "Forever Young"
I wanted so badly to go to the Bonneroo that he performed at just to see him but I just didn't want to deal with the 75,000 people that were already there. I really need to see him live someday. Batman, I would be interested in picking up outtakes from "Infidels". I have read from a couple of critics that if Dylan had just changed the order of the songs and deleted one song or two for songs that weren't on the album (I can't remember those songs' titles) that "Infidels" would have truly ranked as one of his greatest albums ever. Personally, I think it is a great album but I am probably in the minority on that one. Yet, I would love to hear the version of "Infidels" that the critics say he should have released - mainly to see if it would be that much better.
Having never been to one of his shows, I highly doubt it. Mostly I just like Watchtower because of the DMB cover anyway. Not a huge Dylan fan.
Subterranean Homesick Blues It Ain't Me Babe Mr. Tambourine Man Like a Rolling Stone The Times They Are A-Changin'
Manny: If you don't have it already, pick up Bootleg Series v. 1-3. The third disc has pretty much all the studio Infidels outtakes. The only things on the Outfidels boot that's not on BS 1-3 are the alternate takes on the known songs. There are a lot of alt lyrics on songs like Jokerman and Sweetheart Like You, for example. I love Infidels for the songs and the vocals, but the clean as hell Knopfler production (and guitar) grates on me a bit. I even like the lesser songs like the Zionist screed Neighborhood Bully and the pedantic Union Sundown. I think Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight is my favorite on the record. I like the follow up, Empire Burlesque, even better and pretty much everybody hates that one.
Okay, I'll do that. I got "Street Legal" and "Time Out of Mind" coming soon. That increases my Dylan album count to 20 (and that includes "Biograph").
