You have to pick 10 and only 10 Bob Dylan songs to listen to for the rest of your life

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?

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

I’ll take Blood on the Tracks and be happy. One of my favorite albums and exactly 10 songs.

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.

I’ll start a tally of all the songs and post it in a couple of days. This is starting to look interesting.

Go be a dick somewhere else.

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.

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

I missed one more that someone else mentioned: Manfred Mann’s version of Quinn the Eskimo. That brings me up to 10.

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?

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

:slight_smile:

which of his albums came with a loaded gun? :stuck_out_tongue:

Why don’t you follow Frankie Lee’s example and start your pickin’ right now?

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.

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.

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”

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

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?”