The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that flew, a Bob Dylan thread

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I was a huge RHCP fan in middle school, and grew up with the parents playing Dylan my while childhood. I was probably a month or so into The Uplift Mofo Party Plan before I realized Subterranean Homesick Blues was THAT Subterranean Homesick Blues. At that age I knew the song but not the title, and it was so different it never clicked until I was reading the lyrics.

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I’ve liked Bob Dylan most of my life, but I only really got to know his music a few years ago.

Favourite albums:

  1. Blood On The Tracks (1975)
  2. Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
  3. Blonde On Blonde (1966)
  4. Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
  5. Desire (1976)

I do also love the Freewheelin’ and Time Out of Mind.

Favourite Songs:

  1. Positively 4th Street (Single, 1965) (Such an underrated song, one of my all-time favourites)
  2. Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts (Blood On the Tracks, 1975) (Also criminally underrated)
  3. Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
  4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
  5. Tangled Up In Blue (Blood On the Tracks, 1975)
  6. Queen Jane Approximately (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
  7. Visions of Johanna (Blonde on Blonde, 1966)
  8. Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
  9. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)
  10. Isis (Desire, 1976)
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I’d say you did pretty well. It’s all down to personal taste, so there is no right or wrong list. Somewhere out there is even a man or woman who counts 1973’s “Dylan” as their favourite Bob Dylan album.

I do have one question, though: “Visions of Johanna” seemed conspicuous by its absence. Have you no love for that song?

I can relate to your feelings about “Desire”. I was always a little lukewarm towards that album until I watched the remastered Rolling Thunder Revue film when it came out. Those incendiary live performances drove me back to the album with new appreciation for the songs.

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