Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks poll

dlh, otm

New Morning is one of my favorite Dylan albums

graduating in july just before my birthday and totally listening to "day of the locusts" on repeat for 24 hours

'i'll be your baby tonight' is a great one, nashville skyline is prob the least mean dylan album there is.

that's on JWH! at the end, where it suddenly turns into nashville skyline. yr comma might have denoted two totally separate thoughts tho.

oops! first heard those two albums on a continuous mixtape someone made for me as a teen and still sort of think of them as being somehow the same.

what i do have trouble thinking of tho, i realized looking at that list, is love songs pre-accident.

xp haha well yes that would be very confusing.

Dylan doesn't have any non-mean love songs?

A long time ago, I looked through most of his discography to make a compilation of my favourite Dylan love songs--not necessarily "lovey dovey" love songs, but Dylan-type love songs.

The non-mean love (lost) song that comes to mind is "Most of the Time". As do "Tomorrow Is a Long Time", "Mama, You Been on My Mind", "I Believe in You" (though I can see how this one is even more up to interpretation, but still). One that didn't make my playlist, but as others mention, is "If Not For You".

I can see how many songs are up to interpretation, but I've always thought only few songs about love were really mean, considering his vast discography and other songs.

He does have quite a few cynical/sarcastic songs, for sure, though.

i guess "from a buick 6" is a love song. those early ones tho--no limit, she belongs to me, etc--he's usually just bragging about the object. i got a girl who, etc.. not a lot of actual communication--vows, gooey compliments--until after the accident. jd is right that "all i wanna do" is special i think cuz it's an exception.

maybe all i mean here is third vs second person and maybe i am ascribing too much effect to it

at least he trusts women some of the time. I mean, "She said even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt." She would know.

ruby just smiled and said, oh you know some babies never learn

that swap meets line tho is kinda deceptive cuz it is prob the best line of his whole career

how bout "She’s everything I need and love but I can’t be swayed by that" from "Up to Me"?

With regard to special and exceptions, what about "Sara"? Despite the nymph and Scorpio sphinx comment (again interpretation), I think it's a nice love song.

I can see how his real life kind of puts a strain on the songs themselves, because everyone sees Dylan vs. Baez.

haha I tend to forget he dated her, and every time I watch a clip of her talking I understand why he left her.

i didn't bring up sara cuz i get the sense everyone hates it. i like the clip-clop vocal rhythm.

maybe the only desire-able track on the thing

because everyone sees Dylan vs. Baez

nah I never think about this. I mean, he'd ditched her by the time he got really interesting anyway. the marriage to Sara seems to inform his writing more.

i like the sad eyed lady line too, honestly

RAYDEEANT JEW-WELL

now the beach is deserted. except for some kelp.

Prefer Dylan vs Hardy

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i love love love love 'sara' -- it's probably my single favorite dylan song. kind of a dick move that he actually used her name, though.

now imagine him singing:

"Wait a minute BAY-bee
Stay with me a while
Said you give me life
But you nevah TOLD me bout the FIYAH

now imagine him singing "i'm just a notch in your bedpost but you're just a line in a song"

SUGAH we goin DOWWWWN

a really romantic Dylan song is "queen Jane approximately." Which I love. But not as much as "idiot wind."

how did i forget that; it's the only dylan song i've ever put on a girlmix and i think i've done it three times :/

i am a monster

w a small repertoire

I guess "I Want You" is romantic if you realize instead of the girl he wants a rhyming dictionary and a Norton Anthology of English Verse.

aw i would love getting "QJA" on a mix! that is smoothly done, dlh.

"To Romana" is pretty romantic for early Bob

:D xp

wrt "i want you" he prob has a lil flirt going w yr dancing child in his chinese suit, when he takes the flute, i mean

shit mean Ramona, otherwise it sounds like a song to the macaroni grill or something, which Bob might do also

'song to woody' is kind of a love song, and a pretty sweet one.

actually "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" is a good answer, as Elvis & Rod understood

i didn't even know that song!

I've only heard Rod Stewart's.

Listening to Hard Rain version of "Idiot Wind." Pretty good but gets a little shouty at times, so much so that I picture Dylan singing and playing drums at time, like Levon Helm.

Elvis' "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" competes for my fav Elvis song, mf goes into the deeps

yeah that whole album's shouty. "shelter from the storm" in particular. xp

voted "Shelter" btw, sounds like codeine after what's come before

Gone my whole life up until now without using the word 'shouty' but there just didn't seem to be any other word that fit. Need to check out that Elvis cover as I have been meaning to since the writings of Greil Marcus, I think it must have been, first informed me of it a long time ago.

Looks like there is an Elvis comp album named after that song which also has some of his Jerry and Jimmy Reed material and other good stuff.

I like the Dylan albums from the 60s, but this one never struck me as particularly good for whatever reason.

i'm burned out on most of his '60s classics, i'm much more likely to reach for this one (or even 'desire').

Me too. Although I never owned a copy of Desire but always enjoyed the tracks off of it on the radio way back when.