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[low_delta]

What is your favorite Bob Dylan song?

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You're kidding, right?

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Like this is any easier than selecting a favorite Beatles song or John Lennon song? Aiyeee!

I can't even pick my favorite Bob Dylan cover! Well, no, I take that back. It's gotta be Eddie Vedder singing "Masters of War," oooh! But close after that is Richie Haven's version of "Just Like a Woman" or Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" or Joan Baez's "Simple Twist of Fate" or......

Hm, back to the original question. Um, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"? "I Shall be Released"? "Subterranean Homesick Blues"? Oh, I give up. Ask me an easier one next time.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

My gut reaction, without letting myself think about it, would be "Like A Rolling Stone" but maybe that popped into my head from watching Michael Hedges sing it the other night.

[ex-wing191.livejournal.com]

i thought Michael Hedges died.

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[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Yes he did, a few years ago. Yet, he still put out another album! He's THAT good. :)

Actually, I was watching a video that I own of Michael Hedges. I had taken it over to freekee's house because he didn't know who Michael was. Michael Manring is also on that video so I was able to introduce him also.

Hendrix

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Hendrix' "All Along the Watchtower" is the greatest remake of all time. It doesn't even count as a cover!

Aside from that, "favorite Dylan cover" is a much harder question than "favorite Dylan song."

[ex-wing191.livejournal.com]

Buckets of rain
Buckets of tears
Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears.
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand,
I got all the love, honey baby,
You can stand.

I been meek
And hard like an oak
I seen pretty people disappear like smoke.
Friends will arrive, friends will disappear,
If you want me, honey baby,
I'll be here.

Like your smile
And your fingertips
Like the way that you move your lips.
I like the cool way you look at me,
Everything about you is bringing me
Misery.

Little red wagon
Little red bike
I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.
I like the way you love me strong and slow,
I'm takin' you with me, honey baby,
When I go.

Life is sad
Life is a bust
All ya can do is do what you must.
You do what you must do and ya do it well,
I'll do it for you, honey baby,
Can't you tell?

Re: Hendrix

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you think so? You think it's easier to pick a favorite Dylan song than a favorite Dylan cover? I think they're both equally impossible!

For Dylan songs, did I mention "Lay, Lady, Lay"? "Watchin' the River Flow"? "Just Like a Woman"? "Stage Fright"? (Or was that The Band, I don't remember...) Um, "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go?"

Oh, I give up again.

Yes

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I think it is easier to pick one' favorite Dylan song than Dylan cover. That's because they're all still Dylan. He has much (infinitely) less varitey in his own songs than those thousand other bands who've played his songs.

Hendrix - All Alng the Watchtower
Byrds - Pick one
PJ Harvey - Highway 61
Roxy Music - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
Patti Smith - Wicked Messenger

How can you compare any one of these songs to another?

Re: Yes

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Oh, now you've done it. YOu've added *more* to my favorite Bob Dylan song list and I ain't even talkin covers here.

I love Highway 61 and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall.

Re: Yes

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Highway 61 was one of my favorites to hear in concert.

I saw the Dylan/Paul Simon show. They played a song or two together, and I remember thinking that they should've done that song together. That, and "Baby Driver."

(Smith's "Wicked Messenger" just came on.)

Re: You're kidding, right?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention that "All I Really Want to do" by Sebastian Cabot is one of my favorite covers.

Yeah, I'm kidding. It's on Golden Throats 2.

But Vedder & Co.'s "Masters of War" is very cool. I captures the true emotion.

Re: You're kidding, right?

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

During the televised Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration concert, when Eddie Vedder belted out "Masters of War" with no hype, no pretension, just that amazing voice of his, I was completely and totally blown away. That was truly entertainment at its best.

Re: You're kidding, right?

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Just yesterday I was dancing to "Watching the River Flow."

:)

Re: You're kidding, right?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've heard that one in years. :-(