Happy Birthday Robert Allen Zimmerman post your favorite Dylan song!!!

[Slit Skirt]

Masters of War
Tombstone Blues
Subterranean Homesick Blues
My Back Pages

and the greatest ever....Like a Rolling Stone

Love you Mr Bob Dylan!!!

[RT Atlanta]

1. Hurricane!

From this album:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Buncha free Dylan concerts.

http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/bob-dylan-and-the-band/concerts/boston-garden-january-14-1974.html?utm_source=NL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110524

ya gotta register

[jefferson_dem]

3. Happy Birthday Bob! Next year, it will be a half century's worth of divine musical output...

I agree with you on LARS being the best ever. In fact, I would argue that (real) Rock n' Roll was born with his rendition on the Newport stage, on July 25, 1965.

VIDEO here - http://video.yandex.ru/users/npodgornov/view/16/

I'm generally wary of offering my favorite Dylan songs...as I may not able to stop once I start. At the moment, this one is unsurpassed - http://grooveshark.com/s/It+s+Alright+Ma/1h0VeU?src=5

[frazzled]

4. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

Well, I don't really have a single favorite.

There are some I never liked, however, from the Maggie's Farm, Lay Lady Lay period. Yuk.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Ha...

Great minds... Check out my post just above yours. :fistbump:

[frazzled]

15. You are clearly a person of great taste

and musical and political acumen. As am I! ;)

[barbtries]

5. you've named a lot of good songs...

just like a woman
everybody must get stoned
it ain't me babe (as performed by the turtles)
all along the watchtower (hendrix)

list goes on. don't ask me that!

i couldn't recall the title for the longest time, here is my favorite: Positively 4th Street

happy burfday bob dylan

[Slit Skirt]

12. you make me laugh...there are just so many....

i believe he has earned the title as most prolific songwriter ever..in modern times anyway...at least i think i read that somewhere

[stellanoir]

7. well there are a slew of them but for this site I'll post the one

that the imaginary Ipod in my cranium shuffles to every time I think of political or economic issues. . .

"Everything is Broken."

(could only find cover versions on you tube)

[jefferson_dem]

9. Dylan's people are ruthless in protecting his material from c'right infringement (as they see it).

Clips last only a day or two on youtube before the cease and desist goes out and then ... poof ... it's gone.

Grooveshark is still "open access" for audio. http://grooveshark.com

[Slit Skirt]

13. good one!

[Itchinjim]

8. "Tangled Up in Blue"

Happy B-day Bob.

[RainDog]

10. ballad of a thin man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjVXlPxkhMc

this version is great - live 1966

[jefferson_dem]

14. Aye! Love the '66 version.

And Cate Blanchette's take in "I'm Not There" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ha1eqHDu_w :)

[RainDog]

21. I like Cat Power's version of Stuck Inside of Mobile and the Wilco/Tweedy Simple Twist of Fate

from that cd.

but like the real deal even more.

Tho, I gotta say that Hendrix owns All Along the Watchtower.

[DemocracyInaction]

11. Today's my birthday, too!!!

I also remember it as the day "Jefford's Jumped"! Remember when Jeffords (repub) became a democrat!!! Oh well, some people get excited about songs; I get excited about repubs waking up and jumping. Guess I need to get out and celebrate if this is all I remember about my b-day!!

[RainDog]

16. Happy Birthday to you, too!

Wish Jefford's Jump had been the equivalent of Bob plugging in...

[barbtries]

17. happy birthday!

:hi:

[rfranklin]

18. Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat...

Well, I see you got a new boyfriend
You know, I never seen him before
Well, I saw him
Makin’ love to you
You forgot to close the garage door
You might think he loves you for your money
But I know what he really loves you for
It’s your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat

[bobthedrummer]

19. Desolation Row, HB Bob from the east side of the river n/t

[Zorra]

20. All Along the Watchtower

[progressoid]

22. +1

[RandomKoolzip]

23. "See You Later, Allen Ginsburg."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726M-ErLYss&NR=1

[cbdo2007]

24. It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Happy Birthday Bob!

[abq e streeter]

25. Don't know how anyone was able to pick just one...I narrowed it down to a top 25

When the Ship Comes In
Please Crawl Out Your Window
When the Night Comes Falling From The Sky(out-take version, not the one on the Empire Burlesque)
Changing of the Guards
Mr.Tambourine Man
Jokerman
License to Kill
Sweetheart Like You
Desolation Row
Highway 61
Visions of Johanna
Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
It's All Right Ma
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Ballad of a Thin Man
Tombstone Blues
Memphis Blues Again
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
All Along The Watchtower (although I agree with a post above saying Hendrix does "own" this)
Billy 4
Idiot Wind


Lily, Rosemary and The Jack of Hearts
Sara
Chimes of Freedom
My Back Pages


BTW, my sigline is from When The Night Comes Falling

[meegbear]

26. I just like saying "haaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

[tinymontgomery]

27. Lot's of the one's all ready listed

Lot's of the one's all ready listed. Tiny Montgomery and the whole basement tape recording are great before it went commercial.

[ellie]

28. Oooh! So many!

I'll pick five

Isis
Shelter from the Storm
Don't Think Twice
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Maggie's Farm


Happy Birthday Bob!

[w8liftinglady]

29. Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHrK6L91BgA

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
And what did you see, my darling young one ?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
And what'll you do now my darling young one ?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

[azul]

30. Happy 70th, Mr Bob Dylan, how does if feel?

Thank you for the amazing songs.

Love Jimi's All Along the Watchtower,

And really adore Sylvia Herold's Farewell Angelina:

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


And check out the Persuasions' new Knockin on Bob's Door, if you please.