rightfully "Tight Connection..." got no votes.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Saturday, 28 May 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 May 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 29 May 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
bbbut it's stoned as in shirley jjjackson
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Sunday, 29 May 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― thewufs, Monday, 30 May 2011 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― a "goaty"-style beard (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 30 May 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
And, of course, "Mouldy Old Dough"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
(although that was not the same summer, of course)
"Mouldy Old Dough" about a million times as good, of course
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
On the "Worst Lieutenant Pigeon songs" poll, it came last.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
I've realized I just don't like "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" at all.
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i actually really like the version on the Live 1975 in the bootleg series..
― ryan, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
ILM voters otm.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 November 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
I suspect a lot of people were voting for the one they liked the best. I may have done so myself.
― o. nate, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
calling rainy day women the worst dylan song is so disrespectful to his catalogue
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
(ballad in plain e 4eva)
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
all the tired horses and tight connection are both really great imo
― marcos, Saturday, 11 November 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
Quinn < Stoned
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
All the Tired Horses is one of my top 10 Dylan songs >:(
― ◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝◦ ⃝ (Moka), miércoles 25 de mayo de 2011 22:03 (six years ago)
Still is and also Wigwam is in there. Sorry.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 11 November 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
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..
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Hattie not battle, stupid spelling corrector!
― Mark G, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:44 (six years ago) link
Zantzinger, fine, but he did hit her with his cane. Great song.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
"hattie carroll" is the masterpiece of his protest era imo, light-years ahead of the more famous stuff
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 11 November 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
never SAT ONCEat the head of the tableSHE JUST CLEANED UPall the food from the tableand emptied the ashtraysON A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 12 November 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 12 November 2017 10:55 (six years ago) link
"forever young"'s a feint in that direction i guess.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 12 November 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
Tangled up in blue is just so bad
― eeshTrip (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
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
― niels, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link