Song to Woody

An oldie but goodie—gotta love it !

Mine too! And my most played overall.

One of my favorites!!

Simple Twist of Fate followed closely by Shelter from the Storm. Surprised my top Dylan songs are all Blood on Tracks cuts, I would have said I'd be partial to the debut record, specifically Song to Woody and House of the Rising Sun

Simple Twist might just be TOO good of a song. I discovered a new-found love for that song this year.

The way the harmonica comes in always gives me chills. And the entire “he woke up and the room was bare” verse. Great, great song.

I’ve made up my mind to give myself to you. I played it at my wedding this year!

Perfect choice!

Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright… cliche I know but the Still Game ending gave it a special place in my heart.

One of my absolute favorites!

One of Us Must Know Love me some Blonde on Blonde Interesting tho that second was I’m Not There, which I didn’t think would be there

Blonde on blonde is absolute gold. Stuck inside of mobile was my number 2 this year

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

This is my go to song for Dylan noobs to listen to!

Queen Jane Approximately

Have you listened to the Dylan & the dead live version? I can’t decide if I like it better than the original ahhhh

the man in me!

Same for me too. It's in my cooking playlist, driving playlist, biking playlist, guitar play along playlist, my sit around doing nothing in particular playlist...

he’s a good man, and thorough.

“oh, well, all right”

Same!

Me too! It was my number 1 of the year. It’s high in the running for favorite song of all time too. I just love it, and it’s what got me listening to more than just Dylan’s hits years ago.

Me too! I don't know I should be embarrassed or proud of it. 🤣

PROUD! His voice is at perfect rasp, the lyrics are solid, and the mix of piano, organ, vocals is sublime Americana.

Same

Up To Me It’s been that type of year

Dude that was my 2020 most played song! I understand completely lol

Visions of Johanna

Isis Just addicted to the melody and the lyrical delivery.

I had three versions of Isis in my top 100 songs. If they'd been added together, it would have been my top Dylan song (and second-top-song overall). I would recommend checking out the live versions if you haven't already. I go back and forth on whether I prefer live or the studio version.

I want you.

Same! It's so catchy

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues from the Live 1966 record

one of my all time favs (from any artist) in general, but there is something about that version. and besides that, if i could only listen to one dylan recording for the rest of my life, it would be that one. absolutely phenomenal

Most likely you go your way (And I’ll go mine)

Gem of a song

Weirdly, Precious Angel. Finally saw the light on the religious period this year, though not the light on religion.

Lay Lady Lay! It was my 8th most played song. Something about those bongos and steel guitar just hypnotize me, not too mention the lyrics ("Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine").

Song that started my Dylan fandom

Simple twist of fate. Let’s just say it’s been a rough year lol

We’ve all been there my friend! Luckily Bob gifted us blood on the tracks

Tangled up in blue

A lot more love for Simple Twist of Fate in the thread but I think I prefer this.

Jokerman babyyyyy!

Mine too!

Mama, You Been on My Mind - Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - October 1964

I love this version! You can really hear the great chemistry between Joan and Bob

Just Like a Woman

Song to Woody. Second most listened is Positively 4th Street

Mine was positively 4th street!

One too many mornings. Probably one of the best discoveries I made this year

Ahhh I love these kind of discoveries

Idiot wind from hard rain.

all the different versions on ‘more blood, more tracks’ are incredible and it’s so rewarding to listen to each one and hear the different variations, both lyrically and musically

Of course. That song is salvation.

Tangled up in blue.

“Things Have Changed” for me

Gates of Eden was in my top 100 too, such an amazing and underrated song but my highest was As I went out one morning, at 4th

She Belongs To Me

Just Like Tom Thumb's. see flair for which version

they absolutely kill it on that version

Boots of Spanish Leather

one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful songs ever written imo. you ever hear this version? https://youtu.be/iOHkyZ62jjQ

Song to Woody, Girl from the north country, and ballad of a thin man by a significant margin. I wrote my senior thesis paper on Bob Dylan and used those as my major examples so I listened to them a whole lot.

The Royal Albert Hall version of Ballad of a Thin Man

Love the organ. fits the aura of the song so well.

Girl from the North Country, followed by Don't think twice it's alright.

She's Your Lover Now (Studio Outtake - 1966)

Shelter From The Storm- Live at Hughes Stadium.

Great track, thought the Live at Nippon Budokan was my favorite version until I heard this one.

One More Cup of Coffee. Dylan was my most played artist, but this song only clocked in at 20th.

Just Like A Woman

“Mr. Tambourine Man” was my 2nd most played song of the year overall. Then “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Like a Rolling Stone” were my next two most played songs.

Tangled Up in Blue cuz I'm a basic bitch. Oh well...if it means I'm a basic bitch, Bob shouldn't have made that song so damn good.

The Band’s I Shall Be Released was my most played song written by Dylan but my most played song recorded by him was Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

It’s all over now baby blue 1975 rolling thunder revue version.

girl from the north country.

Too Late (band version) I listened to this thing 38 times. Was an amazing complement to foot of pride and the best song on the bootleg series.

JOKERMAN

My Own Version Of You

murder most foul

Key West, I didn't realise how good this song was until this year

Best Dylan song since Mississippi imo.

Def one of my favorites from that album!

Oh it's good

I Threw It All Away 👌🏻

The Man in Me!

To Ramona followed closely by Simple Twist of Fate.

Meet me in the morning!

“Abandoned Love”

Spanish Harlem Incident

Meet Me in the Morning

Lay, Lady, lay - live at Tarrant

On the road again

Covenant Woman

Heart of Mine

Every Grain of Sand - 1980 Demo

With God on our side

Don’t have Spotify but I know it would’ve been/would be MMF.

Stuck Inside of Mobile

What Can I Do for You, live in Toronto

It ain’t me babe

Chimes of Freedom!

Just Like A Woman. No explanation needed. Second was the alt take of It Takes A Train

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright. Last year it was his cover of Ring of Fire.

I shall be free😹

If You See Her Say Hello- take 2

Changing of the Guards This was the year I gave Shot of Love a chance.

Jokerman. And I almost know all the words now.

Buckets of rain

One of us must know

My Back Pages followed by Boots Of Spanish Leather and Make You Feel My Love

mine was One More Cup Of Coffee!!

shelter from the storm

Baby let me follow you down

Jokerman, for the third year in a row.

Too Late (Band Version)

Like a Rolling Stone

Subterranean Homesick Blues!

I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine

Mr tambourine man

house of the rising sun!

Caribbean Wind

Yea! Heavy and a bottle of bread!

The comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus. Haven't listened this to this song in too long. Going to go change that

Strangely enough it was I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine. I've developed a bit of an obsession.

Abandoned Love! Sort of an addicting listen

Don't Fall Apart on me Tonight - listened to Infidels (great and underrated)for the first time in years, that is my favourite on the album

Mississippi ❤️

Same here!

The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll

Which version

The original version on "The Times They Are A Changing"

The og is great. 1975 live version is awesome too, different from og but really cool, from his Boston show that year.

Changing of the Guards

What Can I Do For You, followed by Pressing On. Not necessarily religious, I just love Saved. Wound up in the top 0.05% of Bob listeners this year.

East Virginia Blues

Dear landlord, idk why, I guess it hit different this year

Tell Me I do love this song but was surprised it was my most-played Bob song

Tomorrow Is a Long Time

I haven't looked yet, but I'm betting its either Born in Time (was my alarm for a short while), I Want You (MTV Unplugged 2) or one of the Mississippi's from Tell Tale Signs.

If not for you was the song for me! Fourth time around close thereafter. Kind of surprised it wasn’t sara, as I listened to it religiously for a longer period. Might be split up between the original and live versions..

really can’t believe it, dylan is usually my most listened to, but it didn’t even make the top 10 songs top Dylan song is Folsom Prison Blues from The Basement Tapes complete collection edit: dylan is my top artist but i guess i listened to other single songs more

Po' boy

Rub a dub dub!

Dirt road blues

When I Paint My Masterpiece

Highlands

Odds and ends off the basement tapes for some reason

my top 10 most played songs on spotify in 2021: 1. I contain multitudes (bob) 2. my own version of you (bob) 3. god bless the child (billie) 4. back in the good old days (john hartford) 5. its been a long, long time (bing) 6. pennies from heaven (bing) 7. Jockey full of burbon (tom) 8. Night Life (ray price) 9. simple twist of fate (bob) 10. Rosa Parks (outkast) i thought i listened to a lot more new music.... oh well.... maybe RARW counts....lol

Forever Young, slow version for me with Jokerman coming in at #2

Can't wait

Bob was my #1 artist but not in my top 5 songs, which is due to the fact that I spent a month or two listening to every studio album while making an 80th birthday playlist. So my listening was too spread out to hit the songs chart. The playlist - emphatically not a greatest hits - turned out well: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fQEf8VTB46e60ZtYI77Lg?si=NTb6Mi6uRumOm2t-skTSig

I got Jokerman

Oxford Town

Changing Of The Guards! Last year was Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

i don’t have spotify, but i would bet that it was ‘sad eyed lady of the lowlands’, followed closely by ‘you’re a big girl now’

Bessie Smith was my overall most played!

Moonshiner, from the Bootlegs. That one really gets me lately.

What can I do for you live toronto

My top two were Too late Crossing the Rubicon

Tempest … that song is such a fun ride

Foot of Pride (Alt version from Springtime in NY). Not sure how that happened but I do think its the best song on Vol 16. Even if “the reviews are mixed”…

Just Like Tom Thumb Blues (Live 1966)

Blowin' in the Wind. It was my number one song.

Ballad for a Friend from the Witmark Demos

Girl from the North Country! Good break up song lol

to be alone with you!

Desolation Row

Blind Willie McTell - Take 5

East Vriginia Blues and then working on a guru

Joshua Gone Barbados

"Nothing Was Delivered" was my #1 Dylan and my #1 overall.

Mississippi

Shelter from the Storm, Live Hard Rain version. Followed closely by Jokerman

I contain multitudes

Masters of War

I am the weird one here …. Idiot wind take 6 from more blood more tracks

Tombstone Blues

buckets of rain! don’t think twice was a close second

Isis - Live Bootleg Series 5

Angelina. I had a pretty intense tryst with Springtime in New York.

Lily rosemary and the jack of hearts, which is tied for being my favorite song ever by now

Groom

Standing in the Doorway-it was my number one song of all.

When you gonna wake up

Too Late (Band Version) from the new Bootleg Series.

same. Song is dope. Also, nice handle. My top song period was The Curse of Millhaven (Bob still my #1 artist though)

My own version of you. Followed by Mississippi. The lanois version of course.

the Girl From the Red River Shore outtake on Tell Tale signs. I Was Young When I Left Home, was my "most binged", which I think means "most times in a row" as I was trying to figure it out on guitar and I suck.

Great question! Key West. I still can't get enough

Love Minus Zero/No Limit!

Meet Me in the Morning!

One of Us Must Know

It Ain’t Me, Babe - Live at Harvard Square Theatre It was my #1!