Bob Dylan, the awesome

[Led Zeppelin]

A thread dedicated to Bob Dylan, some of his best songs (in my opinion) and in no particular order:

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8

Bob Dylan - I Want You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhOc0V-ES40

Bob Dylan - Hurricane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EotM7FH8uQg

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBkbPEoeAI

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TH6-bQYuiU

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1sLiME-dA

Bob Dylan - Masters of War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWkWSLEW-Ds

Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUogzf1h2UY

Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS2VTZFV50c

Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ncQgjIlFM

Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgECKj9LSH4

Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZFURNywy2U

There's a couple more but I don't want to flood my post with videos. :p

[KrazyRabidSheep]

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XRbeUnn-AUA

[Pirate Utopian]

Great stuff, my favorite Dylan song is (the predictable choice) Like A Rolling Stone.

[Invader Zim]

Some of his best work is on his bootleg album; stuff like his cover of 'Moonshiner'.

[punisa]

Hey Led Zeppelin, thanks for the videos :thumbup:
Dylan is THE legend !

[Holden Caulfield]

yes yes yes yes,

Gates of Eden,
Tangled up in Blue,
I don't Understand,

and of course, subterranian homesick blues & talkin' john birch paranoia blue,

my favourite dylan songs, my dad seen he many many times in his youth

[Led Zeppelin]

This thread needs to be brought back simply for this:

Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKoV1yJnqAI

Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjqYPH7rAo

[Incendiarism]

He mentions my city in Brownsville girl, it was pretty cool.

My favorite Dylan song would have to be this one though, since it's the first I can remember listening to and loving:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkVGClqrT4

[JimmyJazz]

I will never get sick of this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C339On5ie24

[Led Zeppelin]

That's a good one, as is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw1f7LTzsd4

Oh my name it is nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I's taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side.

Oh the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh the country was young
With God on its side.

Oh the Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I's made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side.

Oh the First World War, boys
It closed out its fate
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too
Have God on their side.

I've learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.

But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.

In a many dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ
Was betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God's on our side
He'll stop the next war.

[Led Zeppelin]

Hmm, I thought Dylan's new stuff was total garbage, but there are some good ones if you rummage through it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQDeYzUkXOU

[Invader Zim]

I actually like a lot of his new stuff, to paraphrase a review of one his albums (one of his more recent albums as i recall); even if he were to fart into a microphone it would be worth 6 stars out of five.

[redarmyfaction38]

that would be the robert zimmerman that objected to the "militant" using "maggies farm" to raISE funds to fight maggie thatchers neo liberal govt. then.

[Led Zeppelin]

that would be the robert zimmerman that objected to the "militant" using "maggies farm" to raISE funds to fight maggie thatchers neo liberal govt. then.

Do you have a source for that?

It's very probable though, he was politically pretty....weird after the 60's, and even during.

Another great Dylan song:

On The Road Again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBeCyG75mhQ

[Magdalen]

Hmm, I thought Dylan's new stuff was total garbage, but there are some good ones if you rummage through it:

WQDeYzUkXOU

Look up Workingman's Blues #2, from his 2006 album Modern Times.

[albionfagan]

Bob Dylan is my world :thumbup:

[Led Zeppelin]

Look up Workingman's Blues #2, from his 2006 album Modern Times.

Damn, I missed your post earlier, but thank you for the suggestion. This song is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQqpILfhpY

There's an evenin' haze settlin' over the town
Starlight by the edge of the creek
The buyin' power of the proletariat's gone down
Money's gettin' shallow and weak
The place I love best is a sweet memory
It's a new path that we trod
They say low wages are a reality
If we want to compete abroad

My cruel weapons have been put on the shelf
Come sit down on my knee
You are dearer to me than myself
As you yourself can see
I'm listenin' to the steel rails hum
Got both eyes tight shut
Just sitting here trying to keep the hunger from
Creeping it's way into my gut

Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues

Now, I'm sailin' on back, ready for the long haul
Tossed by the winds and the seas
I'll drag ‘em all down to hell and I'll stand ‘em at the wall
I'll sell ‘em to their enemies
I'm tryin' to feed my soul with thought
Gonna sleep off the rest of the day
Sometimes no one wants what we got
Sometimes you can't give it away

Now the place is ringed with countless foes
Some of them may be deaf and dumb
No man, no woman knows
The hour that sorrow will come
In the dark I hear the night birds call
I can hear a lover's breath
I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall
Sleep is like a temporary death

Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues

Well, they burned my barn, they stole my horse
I can't save a dime
I got to be careful, I don't want to be forced
Into a life of continual crime
I can see for myself that the sun is sinking
How I wish you were here to see
Tell me now, am I wrong in thinking
That you have forgotten me?

Now they worry and they hurry and they fuss and they fret
They waste your nights and days
Them I will forget
But you I'll remember always
Old memories of you to me have clung
You've wounded me with words
Gonna have to straighten out your tongue
It's all true, everything you have heard

Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues

In you, my friend, I find no blame
Wanna look in my eyes, please do
No one can ever claim
That I took up arms against you
All across the peaceful sacred fields
They will lay you low
They'll break your horns and slash you with steel
I say it so it must be so

Now I'm down on my luck and I'm black and blue
Gonna give you another chance
I'm all alone and I'm expecting you
To lead me off in a cheerful dance
Got a brand new suit and a brand new wife
I can live on rice and beans
Some people never worked a day in their life
Don't know what work even means

Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind
Bring me my boots and shoes
You can hang back or fight your best on the front line
Sing a little bit of these workingman's blues

[Plagueround]

that would be the robert zimmerman that objected to the "militant" using "maggies farm" to raISE funds to fight maggie thatchers neo liberal govt. then.

He has always been opposed to being the voice of any cause and has insisted he's just "reporting". When people started viewing him as some sort of prophet, he withdrew from their scene. I'd say it's rather consistent with what he's always done.