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Favorite Dylan song?

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  • 11239
      January 15, 2025 8:13 PM MST
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  • 23733
    Yes.  :)
      January 16, 2025 9:46 AM MST
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  • 3977
    I'm not a Dylan fan.  he always sounds like he's dying.
      January 16, 2025 5:42 AM MST
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  • 23733
    I saw your answer here earlier and thought of it later - - when I heard Meat Loaf singing his hit "I'll Do Anything for Love but I Won't Do That" -- I hate the song and usually don't like MeatLoaf for the same reasons - - he usually sounds to me that he's not good. :)
      January 16, 2025 9:49 AM MST
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  • 11239
    That's just his Minnesota accent.
      January 16, 2025 11:12 AM MST
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  • 16902
    He got away with sounding like that because the songs mattered. He's arguably the greatest lyricist in history, Nobel Laureate in literature. But every cover of a Dylan song sounds better that the original, even Knockin' On Heaven's Door which was surprising because Axl Rose can't sing either.
      January 16, 2025 10:05 PM MST
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  • 3977
    True, but that nasal sound is irritating to me.
      January 17, 2025 7:06 AM MST
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  • 34632

    Knocking on Heaven's Door performed by Guns N Roses
    (Dylan cannot sing)
      January 16, 2025 7:23 AM MST
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  • 23733
    I like their version, too.

    But I much prefer Dylan's version. :)
      January 16, 2025 9:57 AM MST
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  • 34632
    All good...that is why there are different versions of everything.  
    :)
      January 16, 2025 10:03 AM MST
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  • 16902
    Neither can Axl but I agree with you.
      January 16, 2025 10:06 PM MST
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  • 34632
    Axl can sing. 
      January 17, 2025 4:46 AM MST
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  • 16902
    Screeches the treble and growls the bass, no clarity. No opera singer in the world, myself included, would call that "singing".
      January 17, 2025 5:02 PM MST
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  • 34632
    Sorry, but I don't  like opera. 
    To each his own.    I will take Axl over opera all day long. 
      January 17, 2025 5:15 PM MST
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  • 23733

    I like a lot of his songs.
    If I had to pick a favorite, maybe "Blowin' in the Wind"- - I especially like when Peter, Paul and Mary sing it.

    But, listening to "Tangled up in Blue" that you posted --  I don't think I've heard it before. I really like it! It might now become my favorite as I listen as I type.

    I saw the actor in a video clip who stars in the new bio-movie about Dylan - - boy, he really looks like Dylan to me.
      January 16, 2025 9:54 AM MST
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  • 16902
    Bob stopped performing this one, saying that Jimi had made it his.

      January 16, 2025 10:11 PM MST
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  • 1504

    When multiple answers come to mind, I like to go by what seems more unusual. 

    Allen Ginsberg described Dylan's singing here as "Hebraic cantillation." And, since Emmylou Harris didn't get to learn the song beforehand, she said "the band would start playing and [Dylan] would kind of poke me when he wanted me to jump in. Somehow I watched his mouth with one eye and the lyrics with the other." 

    This post was edited by Danilo_G at January 17, 2025 5:25 PM MST
      January 17, 2025 5:20 PM MST
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