Best Bob Dylan songs that the casual fan has never even heard of =

[Fighting Donkey]

Alright fellow hardcore Dylan fans...

I nominate:

-- Goin' To Acapulco from The Basement Tapes
-- The Wicked Messenger from John Wesley Harding

[greendog]

1. ~~Spanish Harlem Incident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ451OQYpcY&feature=related

[darkstar]

2. Percy's Song is one...

that's for sure

:hi:

[Fighting Donkey]

4. Good stuff!

"I'm Not There" finally released on the I'm Not There Originial Soundtrack is another great one. Great movie too, if a bit trippy. But Ledger is god.

[enigmatic]

3. "Every Grain Of Sand"

Just about perfect.

[NNadir]

5. Who killed Davey Moore.

[Fighting Donkey]

6. All of you, great choices.

[darkstar]

8. Great thread topic

Dylan's consistent greatness so early in his life and, then, for so long sometimes manages to still astonish me. How can it be that on that Biograph 3-disc set, on disc #1 alone that he had that many great songs not on his first 3-4 records? I mean that's two whole records by 60s standards. And it is all stellar. Ramblin Gamblin Willie, When the Ship Comes In, Moonshiner, Davey Moore, and on and on....

Welcome to DU!!!

:hi:

[Fighting Donkey]

11. Thank you!

I forgot one of my very favorites, "Fourth Time Around" from Blonde.

I could listen to that song for hours, it's just gorgeous.

[darkstar]

12. Hey yeah...I like it too

I haven't tried to track it down internet-wise, but do that song and Norwegian Wood have a relationship, i.e. one written in response to the other? The melodies are so similar, both in D (I think), both in 3/4, and both about empty, nearly anonymous 1-nite stands.

[Fighting Donkey]

15. Yeah!

Actually I just read something about that. Dylan played John Lennon (I think it was Lennon) what would become Fourth Time Around, and then Lennon wrote Norwegian Wood. So the title that Bob came up with was "Fourth Time Around" which was supposedly a subtle shot at Lennon.

[darkstar]

7. Yeah, that's a nice one too...

:hi:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. Sweetheart Like You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-CJTvVGmo

"You know you can make a name for yourself,
You can hear them tires squeal,
You can be known as the most beautiful woman
Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal"

:toast:

[NinetySix]

10. Tombstone Blues from Highway 61

Also Oxford Town from Freewheelin'

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. "Things Have Changed."

[darkstar]

14. A Series of Dreams

[Fighting Donkey]

16. Summer Days from Love and Theft

Though I think that's on one of his "best of's" now.

[Fighting Donkey]

17. "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)"

NOT the studio version though, the badass electric version from Royal Albert Hall, Live 1966. He just screams it out in defiance. So frickin' cool.

[speedoo]

18. Great thread, love the picks. Here are my nominations...

Mississippi and Honest With Me from Love and Theft (a very underrated album)

Not Dark Yet from Time Out of Mind

Senor from Street Legal

Isis from Desire (the live Rollong Thunder versions are amazing)

Idiot Wind from Blood on the Tracks

On a Night Like This from Planet Waves (another very underrated album)

Everything from John Wesley Harding (except of course for the only well known tune from that album, All Along the Watchtower)

Visions of Johanna and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands from Blond on Blonde

Maggie's Farm from Bringing It All Back Home (again, the live Rollong Thunder versions are amazing)

and, from Freewheelin'... Girl from The North Country and Corinna, Corinna.

[Fighting Donkey]

19. Awesome list.

For a long time, I had a verse from Idiot Wind framed and hanging up in my apartment =

"You hurt the ones that I love best -
And cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch -
Flies buzzin' around your eyes.
Blood on your saddle."

[speedoo]

28. Thanks!

I like that verse a lot. The intensity reminds me of the last verse from Masrers of War:

"And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead."

[mr blur]

20. "Blind Willie McTell" from The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (nt)

[billyoc]

21. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues

[SecularMotion]

22. "Everything Is Broken"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHd1iMPtDk

and "Disease Of Conceit"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ze2kTGoiIM

from "Oh Mercy"

[greendog]

23. ~~This Wheel's on Fire

~~~High Water

~~One Too Many Mornings

~~~Only A Pawn In Their Game

[speedoo]

29. Love all those songs. nt

[WinkyDink]

24. "If Not For You". Man, I wore that out back in the day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adIDEhgsCS0

[EstimatedProphet]

25. How about All Along The Watchtower?

[Fighting Donkey]

26. Great song, but I think everyone's aware of AAtW.

[EstimatedProphet]

33. OK...Brass Bed, maybe?

[HERVEPA]

27. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

[Ishoutandscream2]

30. "Idiot Wind" from Blood on the Tracks

[Highway61]

31. ahh..Dylan

To Ramona...my favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4J-G2n7Ww

One More Cup of Coffee (With Joan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvht7fToVx0

Every Grain of Sand (just beautiful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EOGef0xtTo

Chimes of Freedom (Bruce and Friends)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDBUJB7j9-c

Love minus Zero no Limit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQ7GsDzx8Q

He's my favorite...Highway61 :)

[cemaphonic]

32. here's a few

"Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie" - This one is obscure enough that I first heard it as a cover.

"Isis"

I agree on Going to Acapulco

[Rising Phoenix]

34. Don't fall apart on me tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgO64s5dmB0