Worst Dylan Songs -- sez TIME Magazine

i mean, i get not liking rainy day women to some extent -- it's kind of the go-to song to make fun of dylan if you hate bob dylan. and i've probably not been crazy about it at times. but actually, getting into the nashville scene at the time has made me appreciate RDW more as an example of session dudes gone haywire, sort of the ultimate after hours nashville weird scene.
& yeah, leopard skin pillbox is great, i even love dylan's mangled opening lead guitar line. version on no direction home is out of this world, too.

sit around in a room full of boring throwback twats playing "Rainy Day Women" on a loop and giggling at how hilarious they are and you soon find out why this is the worst song ever

ha, well, yeah, that sounds bad. but couldn't that be any song?

it has to be some annoying shit about "teehee he said 'stoned'" i think

Yeah, sorry, speaking as someone who discovered Classic Dylan in '93: "Stuck Inside of Mobile..." and "I Want You" were much better introductions than fucking "Rainy Day Women."

rightfully "Tight Connection..." got no votes.

gonna bet that a lot of these got no votes because barely anyone has really heard them. rainy day women on the other hand .... everyone's heard that.

it has to be some annoying shit about "teehee he said 'stoned'" i think

Yeah...I can see where that might be annoying in 2011. But I think you've got to give the song some context; a #2 pop hit in 1966 gleefully urging everyone under a certain age to go get stoned--by someone who had quite a bit to lose at that moment, but who was way beyond such mundane calculations--to me that's insurrectionary. I'd say the same thing of Jefferson Airplane extolling everyone to "feed your head" a year later. At a certain point not too far down the road, yes, such gestures became meaningless.

I'm being hypocritical, though. On the Dylan birthday thread, I was writing about how Love & Theft doesn't do a thing for me. And that has quite a context too. If you don't like something, context ain't going to save it.

bbbut it's stoned as in shirley jjjackson

"Rainy Day Women" is the worst? Are you motherfucking kidding me? Like srsly?

Also, "what a fucking coffin" comment from upthread is fucking classic.

Wow, lot of fuckings in this post. fuckingfuckingfucking

One of the greatest things about hearing "Rainy Day Women" on the radio in '66 [I would imagine, since I was a year away from being born] would've been realizing that it opens EXACTLY like "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha" and that AM radio could find airtime for both in the same summer.

And, of course, "Mouldy Old Dough"

(although that was not the same summer, of course)

"Mouldy Old Dough" about a million times as good, of course

On the "Worst Lieutenant Pigeon songs" poll, it came last.

I've realized I just don't like "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" at all.

i actually really like the version on the Live 1975 in the bootleg series..

ILM voters otm.

I suspect a lot of people were voting for the one they liked the best. I may have done so myself.

calling rainy day women the worst dylan song is so disrespectful to his catalogue

(ballad in plain e 4eva)

all the tired horses and tight connection are both really great imo

ILM voters otm.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 November 2017 12:28 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Loving these Worst Songs Ever pieces btw. LOL Eagles fans.

Quinn < Stoned

All the Tired Horses is one of my top 10 Dylan songs >:(

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Still is and also Wigwam is in there. Sorry.

I'd understand if someone had Hattie Carroll as a worst..

Zanzinger wasn't his name, he didn't strike Battle with his cane or anything else, apart from that: enough happened for real that there wasn't need to change details, etc.

It isn't really a candidate for worst, but I'd understand etc..

Hattie not battle, stupid spelling corrector!

Zantzinger, fine, but he did hit her with his cane. Great song.

"hattie carroll" is the masterpiece of his protest era imo, light-years ahead of the more famous stuff

never SAT ONCE
at the head of the table
SHE JUST CLEANED UP
all the food from the table
and emptied the ashtrays
ON A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL

can't believe time magazine didn't throw in even one boomer troll pick btw. how utterly joyless. a-changin's always a good one.

"forever young"'s a feint in that direction i guess.

Tangled up in blue is just so bad

yes also Like a Rolling Stone, in fact Bob Dylan is a bad songwriter, come to think of it most canonical art is trash esp rock from 60s and 70s