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In this thread I asked people to list their favorite top 10 Bob Dylan songs. 17 People voted for a total of 102 different songs. Some songs received more votes than others. The number in front of the song is the number of votes it received. Here are the results:
9 Like A Rolling Stone
8 Desolation Row
8 Tangled Up Blue
7 Don’t Think Twice
6 Subterranean Homesick Blues
5 Positively 4th St
5 Idiot Wind
4 Maggie’s Farm
3 Blind Willie McTell
3 Highway 61 Revisited
3 It’s All Over Baby Blue
3 It’s All Right Ma
3 Simple Twist Of Fate
3 Stuck Inside Of Mobile
2 Ballad Of Hollis Brown
2 Black Diamond Bay
2 Blowing In The Wind
2 Buckets Of Rain
2 Chimes Of Freedom
2 Gates Of Eden
2 High Water
2 Isis
2 It Ain’t Me Babe
2 Just Like A Woman
2 Mr. Tambourine Man
2 Not Dark Yet
2 One More Cup (Valley Below)
2 Po’ Boy
2 Queen Jane Approximately
2 Things Have Changed
2 Thunder On The Mountain
2 Times They Are A Changing
2 Tomorrow Is Such A Long Time
2 Workingman’s Blues
2 You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
1 A Hard Rain
1 Absolutely Sweet Marie
1 Across The Green Mountain
1 Aint Talkin
1 All Along The Watchtower (live)
1 Ballad In Plain D
1 Ballad Of A Thin Man
1 Beyond The Horizon
1 Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
1 Boots Of Spanish Leather
1 Brownsville Girl
1 Bunkhouse Theme
1 Dignity
1 Dirge
1 Every Grain Of Sand
1 Forever Young
1 Girl From The North Country
1 Gotta Serve Somebody
1 Hurricane
1 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
1 I’ll Remember You
1 Idiot Wind (bootleg)
1 Idiot Wind (live nyc)
1 If You See Her, Say Hello
1 It Takes A Lot To Laugh
1 It’s All Right Ma (live)
1 Jokerman
1 Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
1 Knocking On Heavens Door
1 Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat
1 Lilly, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts
1 Love Minus Zero/No Limits
1 Masters Of War
1 Meet Me In The Morning
1 Mighty Quinn
1 Mississippi
1 Most Of The Time
1 Mozambique
1 My Back Pages
1 Obviously Five Believers
1 One Too Many Mornings
1 Pay In Blood
1 Rainy Day Women 12 & 35
1 Rank Strangers To Me
1 Red River Shore
1 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
1 Sara
1 Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
1 Series Of Dreams
1 She Belongs To Me
1 Shelter From The Storm
1 Spanish Harlem Incident
1 Sweetheart Like You
1 Talking World War III Blues
1 Tell Me Mama
1 They Killed Him
1 Tombstone Blues
1 Too Much Of Nothing
1 Turkey Chase
1 Ugliest Girl In The World
1 Under Your Spell
1 Until I Fell In Love With You
1 Visions Of Johanna
1 When I Paint
1 When The Ship Comes In
1 Wiggle Wiggle
1 You’re A Big Girl Now