# Revealed: Dylan wrote every pop song of the last 35 years!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 10, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869 "2010-08-10T20:07:02Z")
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### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869/1 "2010-08-10T20:07:02Z")

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As a big Bob Dylan fan, I very much enjoyed this 4-minute parody:

[No Direction, Period](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1156305/no_direction_period/) (video link).

Try to spot all the songs!

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### Author: ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869/2 "2010-08-10T20:49:04Z")

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That’s hilarious, but it brings up a question: I always knew that The Black-Eyed Peas never wrote their own songs, but the documentary didn’t make clear if Fergie’s “My Lumps” was written by Dylan about the thing on Joan Baez’s back, or if Joan wrote it herself.

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869/3 "2010-08-10T21:05:47Z")

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Nah, he couldn’t have. [Pachabel beat him to it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM).

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### Author: ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revealed-dylan-wrote-every-pop-song-of-the-last-35-years/549869/4 "2010-08-10T21:11:32Z")

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Well, she could have, but the documentary makes it undoubtedly clear that Dylan wrote every popular song of the last 35 years, including “My Humps”.