Is there a Dylan cover more kickass than Poster Children's "Isis"?

Half Japanese - "Tangled Up In Blue"

The Ramones' "My Back Pages" is pretty kicky too, in that everything-we-touch-turns-into-a-Ramones-song way. (ass-kicking quotient nudged up a notch by Johnny's declaration that he hated Dylan)

"oh sister," "paths of victory," "kingsport town," "knockin' on heaven's door," "hard times in new york," "he was a friend of mine," etc.

I think Manfred Mann Earth Band's "Please Mr. Henry" qualifies for reasons I can't say much better than sage Dave Marsh did in Creem:

''Please Mrs. Henry', included here is another in this series ('If You Gotta Go, Go Now', a hit in England, and 'With God On Our Side', on his second album are the others) of Dylan songs, and it may well be the best yet. The material is not as strong as 'Quinn' and 'Woman', but it is plenty good enough. And the treatment it is given – dynamic, noisy, alive, noisy – is perfect. The song is as good, if less "artistic," than the version on the Basement Tape.

The beginning at once is vengeful and despondent – it carries these contradictory emotions just as they are, as contradictions. Mann lets them clash, so that the impact is immediate; coupled with the volume (this cut seems 50% louder than the rest of the album), the effect is raucous and crude, pushing the lyric ("I'm DOWN on my KNEES/And I ain't got a DIME") the way it was intended. The guitars clatter. The girls in the background nearly bump into them, then suddenly they meld. It is as though two cars, in the midst of a horrible freeway accident, were suddenly fused into a pop sculpture that is not beautiful but extremely interesting, arresting within its own aesthetic context. This sounds like a hit single (and it almost was), and given the material ('Please Mrs. Henry', which is not a brilliant Dylan song, is a fine rock tune for anyone else.), Manfred Mann will almost always come this close to visualizing rock's aesthetic myth.'

always liked "absolutely sweet marie" by jason and the scorchers

I have that Crust Brothers record (guys from Silkworm + Malkmus) and the opener, a cover of "Going to Acapulco", is fucking hot.

Johnny Thunders' cover of "It Ain't Me, Babe" is brief and sweet.

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Ramones no doubt.