these tangled up in blue welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten Bob Dylan
songs for this list we’ve chosen our
entries based on a combination of the
artists fan favorites and their most
commercially successful songs
number ten knockin on heaven’s door
part of the soundtrack for the Western
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
which Dylan even had a bit acting pardon
this folk rock and gospel tune tells the
story of a dying sheriff
what does KBC do it peaking within the
Billboard Hot 100 top 20 the simple but
bitterly poetic melody has also inspired
cover versions by Eric Clapton
Guns’n’Roses
you too and countless others
number nine a hard rain’s are gonna fall
– fine
one of his most episodic songs this 7
minute long entry from Dylan’s
breakthrough album seems at first to
consist of a series of tales from a
distant past so how I saw a black branch
with blood that kept dripping but as the
verses unfold the imagery becomes
increasingly apocalyptic and begins to
read more as a warning from the future
indeed a month after the song’s debut
the u.s. became engulfed in the Cuban
Missile Crisis making it perhaps a bit
too on the mark
number eight all along the watchtower
there must be some way out of here do
you think perhaps the most famous of his
songs to become popularized by other
artists kangin oh really
villains original version of all along
the watchtower appeared on the John
Wesley Harding album several months
before Jimi Hendrix’s electric cover
however Dylan’s version is still a
classic there are many who feel alive is
brother Joe with his shrieking harmonica
and some of the most impactful imagery
of any of his songs so does not talk
falsely now is getting laid like many
Dylan tracks it has been called an
anti-war statement but also like many of
his songs you could never really prove
it
number 7 mr. Tambourine Man
with allusions to being numb and put
under a spell
this song is often considered a metaphor
if a poetic one for a drug deal forest
parts Dylan has gone on record saying
that the folk number is actually about
well a man who plays a tambourine take
me it’s abstract imagery allows for
multiple and individual interpretations
leaves frightened countries which is
what makes it just as interesting nearly
fifty years after its release
crazy number six
positively 4th Street
the
released as a single the same year as
landmark albums highway 61 revisited and
bringing it all back home this is one
everyone can relate to
at his best and bitterest Dylan laces
into a superficial friend you know the
kind that loves you when you’re on top
but is the first to disappear when
things go south he even goes so far as
to sing
rather
that’s pretty cold Bob
number five subterranean homesick blues
equally famous for its experimental
music video which first appeared in da
Pennebaker documentary don’t look back
his tracks he’s Dylan cutting between
issues of the times in his fevered
savant-like style
often but never easily imitated the song
draws on scat and R&B influences to
create something truly
iconoclastic
and has taught young people for
generations just exactly what and whom
to look out for
number four tangled up in blue the 70s
marked a departure from earlier protest
hymns to a focus on the personal lives
of his subjects he had a job in Santa Fe
working in an old hotel but he never did
like it all that but you want to hear
just a went to hell
so we drifted down this blood on the
track single captured the many twists
and turns of two lives which become
repeatedly entwine but all the way he
was alone the past was close behind he
seen a lot of women but you know forever
reticent to be labeled the voice of a
generation tangled up in blue still hits
on something undeniably universal the
only thing I knew how to do was keep on
keepin on like a bird that flew
Tyger the big blue as the baby boomers
struggled to get a foothold in a new
decade
number three blowin in the wind
you go
one of Dylan’s most earnest and
straightforward songs this one was
released during the build-up to the
Vietnam War and became a rallying cry of
the anti-war movement throughout
yeah
always the contrarian Dylan insisted it
was not a protest song
which was not a little ironic
considering it’s widely recognized as
the most important protest song of all
time
as well as a valuable civil rights
anthem
number two the times they are a-changin
gather round people
with escalation in Vietnam seemingly
inevitable and the assassination of
President Kennedy just months earlier
Dillons folk masterpiece is both a
message of hope and a warning while
imagery like wheels and motion indicate
the change is indeed inevitable dylan
cautions that there will be consequences
for those who stand in the way and don’t
speak
there’s no 10
for the time T
the struggle between old and new ways
that define so much of the decade was
never more perfectly described the first
one will be before we reveal our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
the race
here comes a story of the hurricane the
many authorities came to blame
she walked up to me so gracefully and
took my crown of thorns come in she said
I’ll give you shelter from the storm my
name it ain’t nothing ie G means this
big country I come from is called the
Midwest
number one like a rolling stone
from the moment the first organ riff
sounded everything changed lyrically
derisive and as his early fans would
claim an outright betrayal
this song bridged the gap between folk
and electric between idol and villain
and between idealism and cynicism
I think it was booed upon its first live
performance seems like pure insanity now
but the song represented Dylan’s desire
to keep growing as an artist even if it
meant leaving behind those who held him
dearest
do you agree with our list which Dylan
songs are closest to your heart
for more iconic top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten Bob Dylan
songs for this list we’ve chosen our
entries based on a combination of the
artists fan favorites and their most
commercially successful songs
number ten knockin on heaven’s door
part of the soundtrack for the Western
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
which Dylan even had a bit acting pardon
this folk rock and gospel tune tells the
story of a dying sheriff
what does KBC do it peaking within the
Billboard Hot 100 top 20 the simple but
bitterly poetic melody has also inspired
cover versions by Eric Clapton
Guns’n’Roses
you too and countless others
number nine a hard rain’s are gonna fall
– fine
one of his most episodic songs this 7
minute long entry from Dylan’s
breakthrough album seems at first to
consist of a series of tales from a
distant past so how I saw a black branch
with blood that kept dripping but as the
verses unfold the imagery becomes
increasingly apocalyptic and begins to
read more as a warning from the future
indeed a month after the song’s debut
the u.s. became engulfed in the Cuban
Missile Crisis making it perhaps a bit
too on the mark
number eight all along the watchtower
there must be some way out of here do
you think perhaps the most famous of his
songs to become popularized by other
artists kangin oh really
villains original version of all along
the watchtower appeared on the John
Wesley Harding album several months
before Jimi Hendrix’s electric cover
however Dylan’s version is still a
classic there are many who feel alive is
brother Joe with his shrieking harmonica
and some of the most impactful imagery
of any of his songs so does not talk
falsely now is getting laid like many
Dylan tracks it has been called an
anti-war statement but also like many of
his songs you could never really prove
it
number 7 mr. Tambourine Man
with allusions to being numb and put
under a spell
this song is often considered a metaphor
if a poetic one for a drug deal forest
parts Dylan has gone on record saying
that the folk number is actually about
well a man who plays a tambourine take
me it’s abstract imagery allows for
multiple and individual interpretations
leaves frightened countries which is
what makes it just as interesting nearly
fifty years after its release
crazy number six
positively 4th Street
the
released as a single the same year as
landmark albums highway 61 revisited and
bringing it all back home this is one
everyone can relate to
at his best and bitterest Dylan laces
into a superficial friend you know the
kind that loves you when you’re on top
but is the first to disappear when
things go south he even goes so far as
to sing
rather
that’s pretty cold Bob
number five subterranean homesick blues
equally famous for its experimental
music video which first appeared in da
Pennebaker documentary don’t look back
his tracks he’s Dylan cutting between
issues of the times in his fevered
savant-like style
often but never easily imitated the song
draws on scat and R&B influences to
create something truly
iconoclastic
and has taught young people for
generations just exactly what and whom
to look out for
number four tangled up in blue the 70s
marked a departure from earlier protest
hymns to a focus on the personal lives
of his subjects he had a job in Santa Fe
working in an old hotel but he never did
like it all that but you want to hear
just a went to hell
so we drifted down this blood on the
track single captured the many twists
and turns of two lives which become
repeatedly entwine but all the way he
was alone the past was close behind he
seen a lot of women but you know forever
reticent to be labeled the voice of a
generation tangled up in blue still hits
on something undeniably universal the
only thing I knew how to do was keep on
keepin on like a bird that flew
Tyger the big blue as the baby boomers
struggled to get a foothold in a new
decade
number three blowin in the wind
you go
one of Dylan’s most earnest and
straightforward songs this one was
released during the build-up to the
Vietnam War and became a rallying cry of
the anti-war movement throughout
yeah
always the contrarian Dylan insisted it
was not a protest song
which was not a little ironic
considering it’s widely recognized as
the most important protest song of all
time
as well as a valuable civil rights
anthem
number two the times they are a-changin
gather round people
with escalation in Vietnam seemingly
inevitable and the assassination of
President Kennedy just months earlier
Dillons folk masterpiece is both a
message of hope and a warning while
imagery like wheels and motion indicate
the change is indeed inevitable dylan
cautions that there will be consequences
for those who stand in the way and don’t
speak
there’s no 10
for the time T
the struggle between old and new ways
that define so much of the decade was
never more perfectly described the first
one will be before we reveal our top
pick here are a few honorable mentions
the race
here comes a story of the hurricane the
many authorities came to blame
she walked up to me so gracefully and
took my crown of thorns come in she said
I’ll give you shelter from the storm my
name it ain’t nothing ie G means this
big country I come from is called the
Midwest
number one like a rolling stone
from the moment the first organ riff
sounded everything changed lyrically
derisive and as his early fans would
claim an outright betrayal
this song bridged the gap between folk
and electric between idol and villain
and between idealism and cynicism
I think it was booed upon its first live
performance seems like pure insanity now
but the song represented Dylan’s desire
to keep growing as an artist even if it
meant leaving behind those who held him
dearest
do you agree with our list which Dylan
songs are closest to your heart
for more iconic top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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