# You have to pick 10 and only 10 Bob Dylan songs to listen to for the rest of your life **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445 "2015-04-24T15:17:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/21 "2015-04-24T20:22:45Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Yep, it’s pretty fucking annoying. A year after listening to absolutely nothing but Dylan will change your mind. Even if you like him I’m sure you listen to other things too. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/22 "2015-04-24T20:36:31Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > A year after listening to absolutely nothing but Dylan will change your mind. Even if you like him I’m sure you listen to other things too. That has nothing to do with the OP. How about you act like an adult and not a 14-year-old douchebag and go shit somewhere else? ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/23 "2015-04-24T20:37:09Z")
Desolation Row Brownsville Girl Highway 61 Revisited It’s Alright Ma (live version from Before the Flood) High Water Tomorrow is a Long Time Ballad of Hollis Brown Simple Twist of Fate All Along the Watchtower (w/ The Band on Before the Flood) Dignity ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/24 "2015-04-24T21:10:45Z")
I’ll take _Blood on the Tracks_ and be happy. One of my favorite albums and exactly 10 songs. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/25 "2015-04-24T21:14:27Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > That has nothing to do with the OP. How about you act like an adult and not a 14-year-old douchebag and go shit somewhere else? Odd. I don’t see Moderator after your user name. Had the OP not forced not listening to nothing else, mine and \*\*panache45 \*\*comments wouldn’t have come up. I can’t think of a single artist I’d be able to pick 10 songs of and never listen to anything else whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/26 "2015-04-24T21:35:49Z")
I’ll start a tally of all the songs and post it in a couple of days. This is starting to look interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/27 "2015-04-24T21:47:52Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Odd. I don’t see Moderator after your user name. > > Had the OP not forced not listening to nothing else, mine and \*\*panache45 \*\*comments wouldn’t have come up. > > I can’t think of a single artist I’d be able to pick 10 songs of and never listen to anything else whatsoever. Go be a dick somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/28 "2015-04-24T22:33:40Z")
I’m not all that familiar with his work, but I’ll try to come up with ten off the top of my head. To make things easier, I’ll allow other singers’ versions as well: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Kesha’s version) Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (Bob Dylan’s version) It Ain’t Me Babe (The Turtles’ version) Just Like a Woman Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds version) My Back Pages (The Byrds’ version) All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix’s version) Positively 4th Street Like a Rolling Stone Oh well, I only came up with nine. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/29 "2015-04-24T22:35:25Z")
Great question. Not sure why someone who dislikes Dylan would bother opening this thread, let alone post in it. Anyway, in alphabetical order: Desolation Row Idiot Wind Like a Rolling Stone One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Po’ Boy Subterranean Homesick Blues Tangled Up in Blue Things Have Changed Thunder on the Mountain Workingman’s Blues 2 mmm ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/30 "2015-04-24T22:40:06Z")
I missed one more that someone else mentioned: Manfred Mann’s version of Quinn the Eskimo. That brings me up to 10. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/31 "2015-04-24T22:50:58Z")
if i couldn’t decapitate myself as an alternative then could i pick other artists covers of his song? ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/32 "2015-04-24T23:09:25Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > if i couldn’t decapitate myself as an alternative then could i pick other artists covers of his song? What? Am I not the only one who doesn’t appreciate his weird, nasally, slightly Quagmirish voice? ---
**Author:** ![theoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@theoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theoldman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/33 "2015-04-24T23:16:23Z")
Wiggle wiggle Ugliest girl in the world Under your spell Rank strangers to me They killed him Ballad in Plain D Bunkhouse theme Turkey chase Beyond the horizon And uh Desolation Row 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/34 "2015-04-25T01:38:57Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Sorry about that, it is: > “You can only listen to Bob Dylan for the rest of your life - pick 10 songs.” which of his albums came with a loaded gun? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/35 "2015-04-25T02:10:21Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Can I pick 10 bullets you put in my head instead? 😃 Why don’t you follow Frankie Lee’s example and start your pickin’ right now? ---
**Author:** ![Dickerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@Dickerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dickerman)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/36 "2015-04-25T02:30:10Z")
I not a big enough fan to come up with ten, but I’m surprised there’s only one mention of “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” so far, so I’ll second that, and Desolation Row. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/37 "2015-04-25T03:28:36Z")
My Back Pages Chimes of Freedom Absolutely Sweet Marie Memphis Blues Again Love Minus Zero/No Limit Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues Positively 4th Street Queen Jane Approximately Desolation Row Obviously 5 Believers With honorable mention to: I Shall Be Free No. 10 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) And a lot of others, really. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/38 "2015-04-25T03:33:53Z")
A good mix. Jimi Hendrix - “All Along the Watchtower” Indigo Girls - “Tangled Up in Blue” Tracy Chapman "The Times They Are A-Changin’ " Peter, Paul and Mary - “Blowing in the Wind” The Byrds - “Mr. Tambourine Man” Eric Clapton - “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” Grareful Dead - “Slow Train” The Clancy Brothers - “When the Ship Comes In” Steve Howe - “Going, Going, Gone” Bob Dylan - “Positively 4th Street” ---
**Author:** ![Linden\_Arden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Linden\_Arden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linden_Arden)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/39 "2015-04-25T03:45:22Z")
Idiot Wind (bootleg version) Blind Willie McTell Series of Dreams Visions of Johanna Dirge Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) Hurricane Every Grain of Sand Tangled up in Blue Like a Rolling Stone ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445/40 "2015-04-25T04:02:35Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > which of his albums came with a loaded gun? 😛 Clarification, I think I understand that "shoot myself in the head comment now. It is because I misrepresented the question. It is not, you can only listen to one musician the rest of your life, Bob Dylan, what ten songs would you pick? The correct version of the question is “Fans of Bob Dylan, if you could only listen to 10 of his songs the rest of your life, what 10 would it be?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-have-to-pick-10-and-only-10-bob-dylan-songs-to-listen-to-for-the-rest-of-your-life/718445.md?page=3)