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  • What happened to Knocking on Heaven's Door?

  • Am I to presume that we are only talking 60s 70s Dylan?, One way or the other the list is endliss I mean you could nearly put 7 or 8 tracks off "Blonde on Blonde" alone.

    Not sure what all the clamer about "Mr Tambourine Man" great song but wouldn't make my top 10 or top 20 come to that and I've been listening to him since the mid 60's long time and he's helped cared me every step of the way

  • not having mr tambourine man is a sin

  • A list of Bob Dylan without Mr Tambourine Man is like a knife in my heart.

  • doesn't matter, which song you put on the list, it could be from any decade or year, Bob is always the best. Your list is really good. Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I love this man!!

  • Although very subjective, your selections are pretty good.

  • I always find it impossible to try to pick a top 10 for Bob Dylan as I never know where to begin. Whenever I see any top 10 or 20 list people pick for Dylan they always seem to be different and I couldn't really argue with any of them because he has so many masterpieces! I am a huge fan of Dylan although if he has had any flaws in his work it would have to be some of his 80's and early 90's work, but even those albums have included great songs!

  • Of coarse you had to leave off dozens or even hundreds of songs to get 10. Now, how about Shelter From the Storm, especially Hard Rain tour 1976, To Ramona, Hard Rain'a a gonna fall....

  • very good list - love my back pages - I'd put Jokerman in place of Thin man

  • And if you want to get meta, you should include as 11 Joan Baez' Diamonds and Rust (Live -1975), the single best song ABOUT Dylan.

  • Good list, but I like Tamborine Man as #1 or 2 (with Rolling Stone as the other). Thanks for the effort.

  • well, I clicked on this to think maybe I was being unfair in my opionion of this person, however, even the top ten favs of yours does not change my mind. He was a person who spoke his mind and changed a lot of people's points of view. He spoke in slurred speach without making a lot of sense most times and got booed a lot. Could be it was because he really couldn't sing. A great poet? yes, Singer, not for me. Monotone at best. Covers did his songs so much better. now you can call be names.

  • I'm so glad you included My Back Pages.

  • Good list, can't argue with #1 but I have a few favorites you omitted- Desolation Row, It Ain't Me Babe, Tambourine Man. With Dylan you could do his top 25 and #25 would be better than just about anyone else's #1.

  • good list, my list, although i love every single song as much as the other, these are probably my favs; 1. 4th Time Around 2. Positively 4th Street 3. Tangled Up In Blue 4. Dirge 5. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again 6. Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts 7. Isis 8. Visions Of Johanna 9. Po' Boy 10. As I Went Out One Morning
  • here is the problem i have with this list. you stayed in one particular era. a list like this should span the entire career of the artist- like adding "jokerman"

  • love all the choices tho here are mine in no particular order...1. simple twist of fate 2. shelter from the storm 3. like a rolling stone 4. its alright ma 5. when the ship comes in 6. a hard rains a gonna fall 7. visions of johanna 8. my back pages 9. dont think twice its alright 10. mr tambourine man

  • @sejlali1 What about Blind willie McTell & The Hurricane? You left these type of laments of all together. It would take me forever to decide on just 10. I commend RetroTopTen for doing so. Dylan with a catalog of over 500 songs 20-25 may be possible.

  • You have picked out some great tunes

  • I can't really argue about your list, except I would have liked to see Forever Young squeezed in there somewhere. To really do Dylan justice, you would need a at least a top 20 list, IMO.

  • All good, but we musn't forget Desire or Blood ot tracks and street legal and planet waves.....you're right. have to be a top 50.

  • No Mr. Tambourine Man?? :(

  • No Hurricane!!

  • Great list!

  • Highway 61 revisited, freaking great! Mr. Zimmerman could write about anything!

  • Bob Dylan doesn't write lyrics. Bob Dylan writes poetry and puts music to it.

    The man is a true genius.

  • A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is my fav

  • agree top 4

  • first impossible 10

    second even if i would try ten - i would probably only have two of yours songs in my top ten- the times they are a changing - and visions of joana - you missed so many of my gems

    and third: like a rolling stone - its a great song all right - but for me its overrated - there i said it

  • @wildhias JUDAS!!! :3

  • tough to pick the top 10 dylan songs but heres my list:

    10. it aint me babe 9. when the ship comes in 8. tangled up in blue 7. mr. tambourine man 6. dont think twice its alright 5. just like a woman 4. blowin in the wind 3. its all over now baby blue 2. the times they are a changin' 1. like a rolling stone

  • My top ten Dylan tracks list has 30 tracks in it!

  • ballad of a thin man.....fuckin dope!

  • 10. i dont believe you 9. song to woody 8.oh sister 7.lf not for you 6.its all over now baby blue 5.not dark yet 4.like a rolling stone 3.ballad of a thin man 2.visions of johanna 1.tangled up in blue
  • I LOVE BOB DYLAN

  • Impossible putting into a list only 10 songs! This is not fair.

    Make a "Top 100" and we can start a conversation...

  • Great list. We have very similar tastes in Dylan songs

  • I can say the same thing about Beatles' songs. Songs of Bob Dylan are not able to be ranked because of too many great songs over 50 years.

  • All long the watchtower?

  • I'd definitely go along with 'Like a Rolling Stone', 'It's Alright Ma' and 'Visions of Johanna', but he did write after '66 you know. I also think 'Mister Tambourine Man' should be in.

  • no "i want you"?

  • Oh and this list is too 60's-centric.

  • A better list would be a top ten for each decade.

  • bollocks

  • No Mr.Tambourine Man?????

  • nice one

  • @Omally102 Done. Unless you live in Germany...

  • there isnt a best dylan song, there is only favorites, every song is equally genius, just in a different way. list should be called favorite Dylan songs. but I agree with many on the list, my personal favorite is Its all over now baby blue. but where the hell was Mr Tambourine man?

  • fuck off you protesting cunts.the chinese have got it right (communism works)I dont suits me.

  • great list man, some of my favs aswell, like its alright ma, visions, and its all over now baby blue. good vid man, and good editing as well.

  • desolation row? the greatest song ever

  • @metrodome934 thats what i was waiting for! its 11 minutes of the greatest thing to ever reach my ears

  • Well done. Yes, there are MANY contenders for spots on this list, but I like your choices.

  • you forgot hurricane, desolation row and mr tambourine man, but a good list

  • I like your list, even though it's kinda heavy with older ballads. I especially like that you put Visions of Johanna up there. No argument at all with #1 and #2. You gotta seriously listen to Love and Theft.

  • @speedoo64 Thanks. A lot of other people have said that and I know I really need to. I have a little but have never gotten into it too much.

  • i clicked on the dislike button accidentally. I hope it doesn't matter.

  • look at my screenname.

  • Bob Dylan enough said. <3

    Love from Pakistan.

  • I Vote Vision Of Johanna

  • great list, i would've put hurricane in there somewhere though

  • @Retrotop10: I would totally agree w/ #1. But i think u may have forgot a couple. 'Shelter from the Storm', 'Lay Lady Lay', 'Hurricane' just to name a couple haha

  • @Jan7145

    Obviously something is happening here but you don't know what it is...Do you, Mr. Jones?

  • How can you do a top 10 when it comes to Dylan? I hear a song and think, it just doesn't get better than this. Next time, a different song, same reaction. My "Top 10 list might just be a top 150 list. Just depends on my mood. For your consideration: Blind Willie McTell, Dirge, Tangled Up in Blue, Not Dark Yet. I could go on forever. He amazes me with his humanity.

  • and of course it could've been 342 other songs on that list

  • Nice list, some great ones in there. I love It's All Over Now Baby Blue, it was good to see it high up. But for me no top 10 list would be complete without Changing Of the Guards, which I'd put at no. 1.

  • Blind Willie Mctell? Tangled Up in Blue. I suppose it speaks volumes of his catalouge that its near impossible to pick a top 10

  • @zoso7889 Very true.

  • A very good list. It's a matter of taste, but I would put many of the same songs you had on your list. But the list keeps on changing... : )

  • great list man!! but what about tangle up on blue? mr. tambourine man? desolation row? well I guess its all about personal opinion. thanks for the upload!

  • hey man great list!! but what about mr. tambourine man? and tangle up in blue? well I guess its all about personal opinion :) thanks for the upload!

  • The only real way to do a best Dylan song list is to make it a top 50 with no order, because they are all top notch stuff.

  • I am such a big fan of Bob Dylan...I love your top ten..some of my faves are in there as well...all great tunes

  • where is Up to me ?

  • People who really know who is Dylan will put some Desire, Blood on the tracks, new morning and planet waves songs

  • my personal favorite dylan song is positively 4th street

  • Nice taste... You seem to love Bringing It All Back Home...

  • Like A Rolling Stone No. 1. Poi tutto il resto.

  • Desolation Row should be in there...it would be my number 1 to be honest. Astonishing song.

  • great list!!!! i'm only 16 and i adore Bob Dylan! It's a real poet!Greetings from Greece!<3

  • @effiebig im only 14, and just turned it, and i love this music, i have never listend to "hanna montana" or that justin bieber kid. only classics

  • @effiebig  Have you heard Patti Smith's cover of Changing of the Guards? It's on her album "Twelve" and it's sensational.

  • @speedoo64

    yes i've heard it! i agree! it's a very good cover indeed! In fact, it was the first bob dylan's song that i heard! :D

  • @Canakar360 ???

  • @effiebig dude why does everyone (and you) comment i'm 16 and i like Bob Dylan we get it you like good music that is way past you're time. Well done you want a medal of some kind or a trinket of our appreciation. It seems like you listen to it for a pat on the back not cause you like it. Just listen and spread it to the retards on this earth that listen to gay music don't ask for a pat on the back. btw the list is legit good work RetroTop10 :)

  • @AleksTapeZ No, i don't want a medal or a pat. It's just a remark that teenagers (some of of them at least) can appreciate quality in music and personalities that changed the history of music by their lyrics and music. Personnaly, i started listen to Bob Dyaln from the age of 14 and i felt so inspired by the lyrics of "Like a Rolling Stone" because i thought it could read my mind. I think Bob Dylan is a genius and even if i have tried to talk about him to my friends NONE of them can understand.

  • @effiebig algood man i respect you that you like good music. But next time don't put a number it seems as though your trying to hard. Saying something like the teenagers around me listen to shit music they should listen to bob. Putting the number next to it is like tooting your own horn instead of showing gratitude to good music.

  • @effiebig There's many teenagers listening to Dylan, but that's no surprise, Dylan IS the best. 

  • @jan7145 You either get it or you don't Mr. Jones.

  • @RetroTop10 Of course your sister is Justin Beiber, asshole

  • @jan7145 Wow, there are more stoned hippies in the world than I thought! How many people love Bob Dylan--a couple billion?

  • @jan7145 your a narrow minded fool... simples... do like bieber? would'nt suprise me..

  • @jan7145 if you dont know.......well then you dont know......go back to watching american idol

  • @jan7145 haha you have no concept of defferent genres of music do you? go listen to your mainstream shit, because i know exactly what i'd rather be listening to. ;)

  • @jan7145 unless ur simon cowell fuck afff!!

  • @jan7145 its not the voice its the words message he sends

  • @jan7145 you'll figure out the problem you have soo enough

  • @jan7145 You presumably came here to try and understand, for which you should be commended. I suggest you read about Medgar Evers on Wikipedia and then listen to only a pawn in their game. You might realise what an outstanding social commentator Dylan was. I can understand being put off by his voice, but personally I've come to love it. I don't think his songs would carry nearly as much weight if they were sung immaculately.

  • 1. House of the rising sun 2. one more cup of coffee 3. like a rolling stone

  • Great list...for me 1. Visions of Johanna 2. Tangled Up in Blue 3. Mr. Tambourine Man 4. Desolation Row 5. Simple Twist of Fate 6. Like a Rolling Stone 7. Idiot Wind 8. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 9. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 10. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
  • "one more cup of coffee" would have definitely made that list for me!

  • Where I want u and she belongs to me and new morning

  • Gates of Eden and All along the Watchtower should be mention as two of his songs with the most amazing lyrics..

  • Madness.

    No way can you distill a body of work this great to a "Top Ten".

    Nice try, though . . . . !

  • Blonde on Blonde is probably his best album that or highway 61 revisited

  • No Queen Jane Approximately??? I think that is a great song 1. Like A Rolling Stone 2. Visions of Johanna 3. Just Like a Woman 4. Queen Jane Aproximatley 5. Desolation Row 6. Mr. Tambourine Man 7. Girl From The North Country 8. Don't think twice, its all right 9. I Want You 10. Stuck inside of mobile with memphis blues again Theses are just my favorites
  • 1. Tangled up in Blue

    2. Mr Tambourine Man

    3. Like a Rolling Stone

    4. Visions of Johanna

    5. Blowin in the Wind

    6. Its all over now Baby Blue

    7. Jokerman

    8. Sara

    9. Not Dark Yet

    10. The Times They are a Changin'

  • mr. tambourine man

    the times they are a changin

    like a rolling stone

    visions of johanna

    blind willie mctell

    it's all right ma i'm only bleeding

    every grain of sand

    tangled up in blue

    desolation row

    surely one of the next album

  • i honestly can't decide...i could give you 50 of my favourite but not in a "top list" if that makes sense..=)

  • We can't forget the timeless classic "Friday" by Bob, can we??

    :P

  • Every Bob Dylan song is my number 1 favourite song

  • My favourites are Masters of War and Ballad of a Thin Man.

  • Some of his best work IS AFTER THE 60s. Dignity, Not Dark Yet, We Live In A Political World, Silvio, Jokerman, Mississippi. . . . . . .

  • Like A Rolling Stone is such an overrated song, Dylan has wrote at least 100 songs that are better than it. Boot's of Spanish Leather should be on this list, as should Just Like A Woman.

  • Great list and I couldn't agree more with your number one choice, although personally for me, Visions of Johanna or Restless Farewell would be number two. And it's interesting that most of these songs are self reflection songs

  • @jonathan1994ish1 That's true! I really like when artists do self reflection songs and nobody does them like Bobby.

  • I've always been somewhat impartial towards Ballad of a Thin Man and the whole Highway 61 Revisited album, for that matter. Nice that you (seem to) love Another Side, that's one of my favorite Dylan records and his overlooked masterpiece, IMO. He also has some terrific tunes from 70's and 80's, such as Every Grain of Sand and Hurricane.

  • A "Top 10" is impossible.

    Get serious, please.

  • All great songs but then all his songs are great. Left out the one I think is his greatest that is Masters of War!

  • Wonderful list! I agree, it must have been hard to choose just 10. Also, where did you find the picture of Bob smiling when Visions of Johanna is playing? I've been trying to find it for a while haha. Mine would be 1) Like A Rolling Stone 2) Visions of Johanna 3) Spanish Harlem Incident 4) Hurricane 5) Forever Young 6) Blowin' In the Wind 7) Isis 8) Only A Hobo 9) Bob Dylan's 115th Dream 10) either One Too Many Mornings or Desolation Row
  • @Nichevo594 Great list yourself! Uh I just looked on google but couldn't find it again. I know I got it from google though.

  • @RetroTop10 Thanks! And alright, I'll look around haha it's a great picture of him

  • Not Dark Yet has got to be in there. So has Motorpsycho Nitemare, Angelina, Tight Connection To My Heart, North Country Blues and and and and and and ....

  • 1. Tangled up in blue 2. Masters of war 3. Like a rolling stone 4. Visions of Johanna 5. Positively 4th street 6. Lily Rosemary and the jack of hearts 7. Desolation row 8. The times they are a changing 9. Jokerman 10. Subterranean homesick blues

  • @kevinswayne54 Really good list!

  • Posativly 4th. St...?

  • (no order) It's All Right Ma, Mr Tambourine Man, Ballad of a Thin Man, Visions of Johanna, Idiot Wind, Desolation Row, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Like a Rolling Stone, Things Have Changed, My Back Pages, The Times They are a Changin' , Just Like A Women, Lay Lady Lay, As I Went Out One Morning, Sara, Shelter From the Storm, Blowin' in the Wind, Chimes of Freedom, Not Dark Yet, Tangled Up in Blue, 4th Time around, Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Don't Think Twice, The Man in Me, Hard Rain,

  • @zoeruls All great songs! :D

  • cool list...

  • you could easily do a top 100 favourite songs ... how many other artists could you do that for ?

  • For me: 1. Like a Rolling Stone 2. It's Alright Ma 3. Idiot Wind 4. Subterranean Homesick Blues 5.Desolation Row 6.The Times They Are A Changin 7. Visions of Johanna 8. Possitivly 4th street 9.Tangled Up in Blue 10. Forever Young

  • i must thank you for this

  • 10. Subterranean Homesick Blues

    9. Lily, Rosemary, And The Jack Of Hearts

    8. Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

    7. Positively 4th Street

    6. Like A Rolling Stone

    5. Tombstone Blues

    4. Angelina

    3. Visions Of Johanna

    2. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

    1. Desolation Row

  • How could you pick only 10 lol

  • 1) Visions of Johanna 2) Shelter from the Storm 3) Love Minus Zero / No Limit 4) When the Ship Comes In 5) Desolation Row 6) 4th Time Around 7) I Shall Released 8) As I Went Out One Morning 9) The Girl From The North Country 10) Lily, Rosemary, and The Jack of Hearts
  • Great list, thanks for putting this together. My list would be. 1.Desolation Row, 2.Like A Rolling Stone, 3.Masters of War, 4.Idiot Wind, 5.Mama You Been On My Mind, 6.Visions Of Johanna, 7.Subtarannean Homesick Blues, 8.Highway 61 Revisited, 9.North Country Blues, 10.Dont Think Twice. But that will probably change. I am not including newer songs on the list as I think newer songs like Aint Talkin, Workingmans Blues,Standing In The Doorway could be classics as well.

  • @dylanhighway61 Great list. Desolation Row almost made it in mine. You can tell a lot about someone by their favorite Dylan songs.

  • @dylanhighway61

    It's sooo hard for me, and this is a conversation I have with my father all the time, but I THINK my top five goes like this 1. Visions 2. Sad-Eyed Lady 3. Desolation Row 4. Tambourine Man 5. Baby Blue 6. Chimes of Freedom, have no idea what the next five would be but I would be inclined to include It's Alright, Ma, Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall, Farewell Angelina, and Blind Willie McTell. but after those first 6 it is very very difficult and will probably be different tomorrow.

  • @MyLightning2

    *top 6, *next 4

  • 1.like a rolling stone

    2.times they are a changin

    3.blowin in the wind

    4. mr tambourine man

    5. tangled up in blue

    6. my back pages

    7. its all over now baby blue

    8. talkin new york

    9. chimes of freedom

    10. pawn in their game

  • For me: 1. Desolation Row 2. It's Alright Ma 3. Like a Rolling Stone 4. Subterranean Homesick Blues 5. Mr. Tambourine Man 6. All Along the Watchtower 7. Chimes of Freedom 8. Don't Think Twice it's Alright 9. Hurricane 10. Farewell Angelina
  • He's got so many great songs. Must have been hard to pick the best 10 let alone try and rank them. Thanks for putting that together :)

  • @BIKIbear99 Yes, it was very hard! Thanks!

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