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Thursday, March 3. 2011

Another Maggie's Farm Scientific Poll: Your favorite Dylan stuff

"Favorite" is not a helpful word. Let me ask our scientific poll questions a better way:


1. What 3 Dylan tunes have you listened to most often in your life, or which have touched you the most?


2. What 2 Dylan albums do you tend to listen to most?


My answers below the fold -


 


 

1. Highway 61, Visions of Johanna, Mississippi. It's very difficult to narrow it down.


2. Love and Theft, Blond on Blonde.

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It was intereresting to see our readers' responses to our Dylan poll last week. The guy has done so much good stuff that it's difficult to narrow down. This is very good, though: Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so qu
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I'm sure I'm a minority on this, but I love Nashville Skyline.
#1 Park Slope Pubby on 2011-03-03 13:01 (Reply)
Obit in today's WaPo. Dylan's girlfriend and early muse, Suze Rotolo has died.
#2 JLW III on 2011-03-03 13:04 (Reply)
Hmmm, from this article it seem's Mr. Dylan was deep into leftist politics, afterall.

But it's all right, Ma, it's life... be one of me faves from Bringing It All Back Home .

Infidels it don't count unless it sells... Union Sundown i use listen alot and could be song of the hour.

Hmmm.
#2.1 Leag on 2011-03-03 15:16 (Reply)
Stuck Inside of Mobile, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, My Back Pages. Man Gave Names to All the Animals is on the bubble.

Only two albums? Well, Bringing it All Back Home for sure; Blonde on Blonde and New Morning fight it out for the second spot. I'll bet there aren't a lot of other votes for New Morning
#3 Dan D on 2011-03-03 13:07 (Reply)
Hard to say for sure but probably; Mr. Tambourine Man, My Back Pages, Tangled Up In Blue.
Bringing it All Back Home and Blood on the Tracks
#4 Kevin on 2011-03-03 13:55 (Reply)
Songs: "Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again," "Tangled Up In Blue," "Desolation Row."

Albums: Good As I Been To You, Highway 61 Revisited
#5 Clubbeaux on 2011-03-03 13:57 (Reply)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Positively 4th St.....I mena, if you can pare down a list like his!

As for albums, Dose doesn't do albums. I have dozens of HQ Dylan recordings from live shows. The period from his near fatal heart condition in 1997 up until Charlie Sexton and Larry Campbell left the band in 2002 saw a number of really outstanding shows. Stealth taped a few myself but if I'm going to my Dylan collection, that's where I'll reach.

Albums are cheating ;)
#6 Dose Amigo (Link) on 2011-03-03 14:36 (Reply)
Songs: Every Grain of Sand, Mississippi, Positively 4th Street

Albums: Love and Theft; John Wesley Harding

But those are the colors that are in my mind today. Ask me again tomorrow.
#7 steph on 2011-03-03 14:41 (Reply)
Exactly-today I add "One Too Many Mornings" for "Mississippi".
#7.1 MikeinAppalachia on 2011-03-03 15:32 (Reply)
Tangled up in Blue
Knockin on Heaven's Door
Most of the Time
#8 Sam on 2011-03-03 15:08 (Reply)
SONGS:
I Shall Be Released (I'm really into this song right now)
Hard Rain
Tangled Up in Blue

ALBUMS:

Blond on Blond
Freewheelin
John Welsley Harding

Unfortunatly - I think i-tunes / mp3 has done away with "listening to albums". It's too easy to pick and choose - make play lists - etc.

I don't dig into the lesser know stuff as much. It's not like the good old days when you dropped the needle and listened to a whole album side.

JG
#9 jg on 2011-03-03 15:24 (Reply)
I suppose if somebody put a gun to my head and forced me to pick a favorite Dylan anything, it would be "John Welsley Harding" for album and "Tangled Up in Blue" for song.

I've always viewed Dylan as the Wal-Mart of folk - a ersatz Woody Gutherie.
#10 Tom Francis on 2011-03-03 16:06 (Reply)
songs: probably "You're a Big Girl Now", Workingman's Blues#2, "I Threw it All Away" (ask me in an hour, it'll be different.

Albums- "Blood on the Tracks" "Highway 61"
#11 bill on 2011-03-03 16:10 (Reply)
For favorite albums it's "Blood on the Tracks" and "Modern Times," Love the energy of the latter, especially on audiophile vinyl.

For songs, "Shelter from the Storm" always moves me, although my SACD version has "artifacts" or little chirps. "Thunder on the Mountain" is great fun and always gets me up dancing.

But there are others - "All Along the Watchtowers", "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," even "Country Pie."
#12 Whitehall on 2011-03-03 17:25 (Reply)
Melanie, Lay Lady Lay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcorTXUK4yc
#13 rhhardin (Link) on 2011-03-03 17:50 (Reply)
Tangled, without a doubt
Rainy Day Women
And, from out of nowhere, Black Diamond Bay. I love the rhythm, the rhyme, and the concise, evocative picture it draws in a scant few minutes.

The two albums are Blood on the Tracks and Desire. I consider their release in consecutive years to have been matched only by the Grateful Dead w/ Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
#14 Bill Duncliffe on 2011-03-03 17:53 (Reply)
Bill, Black Diamond Bay is such a terrific song. Totally underrated.
#14.1 Stella Blue on 2011-03-06 19:30 (Reply)
"Chimes of Freedom"
"The Times They Are a-Changin'"
"My Back Pages"

But here's the catch: I'm referring to the Byrds' versions. ;-)
#15 beenel on 2011-03-03 18:10 (Reply)
Tangled up in blue, Maggie's Farm, Stuck inside of Mobile
#16 LWS on 2011-03-03 20:12 (Reply)
Impossible. Let's try...

1a. Songs I've Listened to the most often (and that includes in my head):
Million Dollar Bash
The Clothes Line Saga
Please, Mrs. Henry

1b. Songs that Touched me the most:
Oh, Sister
One More Cup of Coffee
Senor... no, Isis... no, Senor... OK, Definitely Isis (I think)

2. Albums Listen to Most:
Self-Portrait
Time Out of Mind (Masked & Anonymous Soundtrack close 2nd)
#17 Pajak (Link) on 2011-03-03 22:16 (Reply)
Re: albums, agree with Whitehall (#12): Blood on the Tracks, Modern Times. Too many songs to pick only 3..........
#18 South of 5 and 20 (Link) on 2011-03-04 00:18 (Reply)
Visions of Johanna, Bob Dylan's115th Dream, I'll be Your Baby Tonight.

Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde On Blonde
#19 geoffb on 2011-03-04 02:19 (Reply)
Too many to choose from so I'll go with what I've been listening to most over the last 6 months or so.......

'Highway 61 Revisited' with The Band
'Changing of the Guards'
'Jokerman'

'Every Grain of Sand' has touched me the most.

'Street Legal' and 'Blood on the Tracks' have gotten me through most of my flights recently.
#20 Toonarmy9 on 2011-03-04 05:17 (Reply)
Its alright ma
tangled up in blue
you aint goin nowhere

strangely, maggies farm came up on shuffle as i wrote this. Heh
#21 Jo shmo on 2011-03-04 06:14 (Reply)
Nashville Skyline, best album, to me. Lay Lady Lay, had to buy many records because I wore them out, playing them over and over again.
#22 Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas (Link) on 2011-03-04 07:57 (Reply)
No llores, mi querida
Dios nos vigila
Soon the horse will take us to Durango.
+
PG & BTK
#23 DavidB on 2011-03-04 10:59 (Reply)
"Forever Young" and "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"
#24 Liz on 2011-03-04 12:10 (Reply)
Oh, my third most often played is "Ring Them Bells" - listening to it right now ....
#25 Liz on 2011-03-04 12:14 (Reply)
Gosh! Dylan songs: Tom Thumbs Blues,Nothing Was Delivered and Tears of Rage.

Albums: John Wesley Harding and listening to The Basement Tapes or Modern Times a lot.

By the way I am sending the Co Sprgs travelogue on to all. Thanks
#26 Phil Rudd on 2011-03-04 13:24 (Reply)
Three favorite Dylan songs are 'Things have changed " "One too many mornings " and " Ballad of Hollis Brown "
#27 Steve on 2011-03-05 07:15 (Reply)
Have you heard this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fRcO_8ccygdded#at=19
#28 mal on 2011-03-05 23:57 (Reply)
1: Sara, To Ramona, Visions of Johanna

2: Desire, Blonde on Blonde
#29 Stella Blue on 2011-03-06 19:24 (Reply)
Singles: Just Like a Woman, I Threw it All Away, Queen Jane Approximately, Positively 4th Street
#30 Jack (Link) on 2011-03-21 19:33 (Reply)
These are most difficult choices, but here goes.

1: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go; All Along The Watchtower; Dirge; Wedding Song.........can I go on, please. No, wait, definitely "Shelter from the Storm:.

2: Blood on the Tracks; Blonde on Blonde; (but also "Oh Mercy" & "Planet Waves"), plus the rest of them.
#31 T on 2011-03-21 22:04 (Reply)
How come I'm just seeing this now? How could I have missed it?

Here we go - three tunes:
1- Jokerman
2 - A simple twist of fate
3 - I want you

album:
1 - Blood on the Tracks.
2 - As Good as I Been to You

I don't want to think about any of these answers too long or too hard; too many other great tunes want to argue with my decision.
#32 random coolzip on 2011-03-23 18:31 (Reply)
1. Subterranean Homesick Blues
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. Just Like a Woman
#33 wayne on 2011-03-24 11:59 (Reply)
Addendum:
Love Minus Zero / No Limit
#34 T on 2011-03-28 21:43 (Reply)

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