Favorite Bob Dylan Songs or Albums

[benos]

Thanks.

I looked through all the songs in the first nine albums, but didn't find "Man in Me" in them.

be

[1911jerry]

I really appreciate the wordsmithing of Bob Dylan. His lyrics are some of the best. My all time favorite is Forever Young. As I get older, I appreciate that song the most.

Jerry

[Jadeslade]

Thanks.

I looked through all the songs in the first nine albums, but didn't find "Man in Me" in them.

be

It's on New Morning, an album Bob wrote after getting an honorary degree from Princeton. Great album.

[Hany]

Lots of great songs mentioned. I came to love Dylan after years of making fun of him to my wife, who is a fan.

My all-time favorite Dylan song (and in my all-time top ten) is

Dont think twice its alright.

People think its an "anti-love song", but really I think its a song about a great love, that ended and you get to say all

those sharp, harsh, vengeful, even witty retorts that you were unable to say at the breakup.

...or maybe Im overthinking it...

[Duane Thomas]

"Chimes of Freedom" as covered by Bruce Springsteen:

BTW, Springsteen released a four-song EP, also titled Chimes of Freedom, and the version on that is even better than the one on the video to which I linked - though that one is pretty darn good, too.

http://www.amazon.co...91901336&sr=1-1

"Chimes Of Freedom"

Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll

We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing

As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds

Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing

Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight

Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight

An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched

With faces hidden as the walls were tightening

As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain

Dissolved into the bells of the lightning

Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake

Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsaked

Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail

The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze

Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind

Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind

An' the poet an' the painter far behind his rightful time

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

In the wild cathedral evening the rain unravelled tales

For the disrobed faceless forms of no position

Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts

All down in taken-for-granted situations

Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute

For the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute

For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed

An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting

Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones

Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting

Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail

For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale

An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught

Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended

As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look

Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended

Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed

For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse

An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe

An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.

[benos]

Thanks.

I looked through all the songs in the first nine albums, but didn't find "Man in Me" in them.

be

It's on New Morning, an album Bob wrote after getting an honorary degree from Princeton. Great album.

Thanks. Just got if off amazon.

And in the FYI department, once you get amazon's download program running on your machine, I much prefer buying music off amazon to buying off the iTunes store. Sometimes amazon's priced a bit better, you can listen to song snipets, and when you download an album, you click one button and an alias appears on your desktop, then you click it and all the songs download straight into iTunes.