Favourite Bob Dylan song and WHY ?

[KidKruger]

Your favourite can obviously change daily, today my fave is:

"Visions of Johanna"

WHY ? Seems in a class or style of it's own for the time it was issued, perhaps at that time it sounded like what was to come (part of what was to come) in popular music. Sung with confidence, like a strong poem, never seems to tire no matter how many times you play it. Also something quite sensual about it.

[kpc]

"Mozambique" has been rattling around in my head for the past day or two.

[????]

Lay Lady Lay..

..mine and the missus' 'first dance' at our wedding

Lay Lady Lay

[david_carnell]

Girl from the North Country.

My girlfriend is only from Tottenham but, hell, it's North London - that'll do.

[????]

She'd probably prefer Chas'n'Dave then DC

[TonyQuinn]

Toss up between Idiot Wind and Political World

[Keef]

Sign Language, which he duetted with Clapton.

[KidKruger]

never heard of that one Keef, is it off the Bangladesh album / concert ?

[GSJ57]

I'm with kpc - love 'Mozambique'.

[david_carnell]

The apocryphal tale is that Dylan wrote Mozambique purely to see how words he could get to rhyme with "Mozambique". Fortunately he soon gave up the idea and just wrote a great song instead.

The Live 1975 album has a great big band version.

[kpc]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> The apocryphal tale is that Dylan wrote Mozambique

> purely to see how words he could get to rhyme with

> "Mozambique". Fortunately he soon gave up the idea

> and just wrote a great song instead.

>

> The Live 1975 album has a great big band version.

Gave up far too easily. (tu)

[Bony Fido]

"Days of 49" I just love the line "they call me a bummer and a gin sot too but what cares I for praise?"

The afore-mentioned Visions of Joanna is a beautiful song.

[reggie]

You're a big girl now

the most fantastic mood of the whole song...gets me every time

soooo good

[MrBen]

Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn). A nod to the country folk of the early 1900's and 30 years before bands like Primal Scream nicked it.

[Mick Mac]

???? Wrote:

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> Lay Lady Lay..

>

> ..mine and the missus' 'first dance' at our

> wedding

>

> Lay Lady Lay

You are not serious!

[Mick Mac]

Id go for

It aint me babe.

Think i was splittin up with a girl at the time and it seemed apt. Great song though.

[????]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > Lay Lady Lay..

> >

> > ..mine and the missus' 'first dance' at our

> > wedding

> >

> > Lay Lady Lay

>

>

> You are not serious!

I am

[SteveT]

Yep, I go with quids, 'Lay lady lay', it's just the most familiar of his tracks.

[woofmarkthedog]

I ...like the " Chips" one

"We hope it's chips it's chips"

W**F

[Mick Mac]

J&B already?

[woofmarkthedog]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> J&B already?

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No that's for Wednesdays

W**F

[Mick Mac]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Id go for

>

> It aint me babe.

>

> Think i was splittin up with a girl at the time

> and it seemed apt. Great song though.

[giggirl]

Favourite Dylan song constantly changes but today I am thinking:

All Over Now Baby Blue (adore the Bryan Ferry version)

One More Cup of Coffee

You Belong to Me (always brings a tear)

Just Like a Woman

Covenant WEoman

Simple Twist of Fate

What Can I Do For you?

Oh heck, did I have to pick just one? Can't do that. I don't rate him as a singer though and his gigs are very dull.

[SteveT]

Giggirl wrote:-I don't rate him as a singer though and his gigs are very dull.

Like watching paint dry, it's as if his legs seize up on stage, but a prolific writer of songs.

[KidKruger]

giggirl - sometimes you just have to pick whatever is today's fave ! And yeah I agree his gigs are worse than watching paint dry, nearer LISTENIN to paint dry in fact. Been to a few and just not worth it for me.

So let's concentrate on his songs as it's a more positive experience !!

Been playing some today and today my fave is 'Obviously 5 Believers', if ever a guy got the blues and did something with it in his own way it was Zimmy.