Bob Dylan turns 80 today and I’ve been a fan for about half that time. My first Dylan album (I think) was Oh, Mercy, unless it was some kind of greatest hits package that I’ve since forgotten. As big a fan as I am, I still haven’t digested his entire catalog but below are my favorite 80 songs (in no particular order). Happy Birthday, Bob!
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| Happy 80th, Bob! |
Sara
Up to Me
Not Dark Yet
Standing in the Doorway
You Angel You
Shooting Star
If You See Her, Say Hello
The Times They Are A-Changin’
What Was It You Wanted
Let Me Die in My Footsteps
Shelter from the Storm
Someone’s Got a Hold of My Heart
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
I Believe in You
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
You’re a Big Girl Now
Seven Curses
Positively 4th Street
When the Deal Goes Down
Born in Time
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Meet Me in the Morning
Idiot Wind
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Unbelievable
Man in the Long Black Coat
Percy’s Song
Under the Red Sky
Desolation Row
You Changed My Life
Where Teardrops Fall
Hurricane
Every Grain of Sand
Love Sick
Gotta Serve Somebody
If Not for You
Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Masters of War
Like a Rolling Stone
Blowin’ in the Wind
I Shall Be Released
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Buckets of Rain
Abandoned Love
Disease of Conceit
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
I Want You
Lay Lady Lay
Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
What Good Am I?
Everything Is Broken
It Ain’t Me Babe
Things Have Changed
Political World
Forever Young
Heart of Mine
Girl from the North Country
Isis
Til I Fell in Love with You
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
Tryin’ to Get to Heaven
Highway 61 Revisited
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Song to Woody
Most of the Time
Simple Twist of Fate
Lord Protect My Child
One More Cup of Coffee
Ring Them Bells
Tangled Up in Blue
Ballad of a Thin Man
Dignity
Ye Shall Be Changed
Tombstone Blues
Golden Loom
Thunder on the Mountain
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
