Top fifty songs about Bob Dylan

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1. Song For Bob Dylan - David Bowie

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

2. bob dylan blues - syd barrett

― zappi (joni), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Bob Dylan's 115th dream - Bob Dylan

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

4. Simon & Garfunkel "A Simple Desultory Phillipic (or how I was Robert MacNamara'd into Submission)"

― dave q, Monday, 23 February 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

5. My Back Pages - Bob Dylan

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

6. Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

7. Like Dylan In The Movies - Belle & Sebastian

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

8. wilco- bob dylan's 49th beard

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones ("Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about...")

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan Bern - Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce, and Dan Blues

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

11. "Long Island" - the p*n*f*x

― the bluefox, Monday, 23 February 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yer Blues - The Beatles

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

13. Blues in Bob Minor - Robert Wyatt

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

14. Nada Surf - Blonde On Blonde

― (jg) ((jg)), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

15. Talking New Bob Dylan - Loudon Wainwright III

― slb, Monday, 23 February 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

16. Gilberto Gil's "From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley"

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

17. Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs - The Minutemen

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

18. Blues In Bob Minor - Robert Wyatt

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Scratch that, JZ got there before me...

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

18. Wally Pleasant, "Song For Bob Dylan" ("Bob Dylan was the first Bob Dylan . . .")

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Wyclef Jean, "Gone Til November" (even got him in the video)

― C W (C W), Monday, 23 February 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Telegram Sam - T Rex ('Bobby's all right / Bobby's all right / He's a natural born poet, he's just out of sight)

― bham, Monday, 23 February 2004 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

21. Weird Al Yankovic, "Bob"

― tod (tod), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Frank Zappa - Flakes

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah! I was gonna mention Flakes, but it's not really about him though...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(Blues In Bob Minor - Robert Wyatt
-- Hey, a good call (anyway!))

"Bob Dylan's Blues"
&
"Bob Dylan's Dream"
,
both from Freewheelin'
(o how i do, i do, i do, i do, i still do love the latter)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

25. Michael Nesmith, "St. Matthew"

― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 23 February 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Jones

― PDAS, Monday, 23 February 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Freakwater - A Mile Away...seems to be about a Bob Dylan stalker, to me.

― pauls00, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

giant sand - 'patsy does dylan' (on 'long stem rant': howe's little daughter mumbling 'bob... dylan...')

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
God (The Dream is Over) - John Lennon

― pete s, Monday, 23 February 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

31. bob dylan's beard, wilco

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'the boxer' is abt dylan?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

well alledgedly; at least it's one popular interpretaton that it depicts a young dylan ('when i left my home and family i was nomore than a boy/in the company of strangers..'), and retreating to woodstock after criticism (the last two verses). this is supposedly the joke behind dylan knowingly covering it on self portrait.

― pete s, Monday, 23 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Telegram Sam - T Rex ('Bobby's all right / Bobby's all right / He's a natural born poet, he's just out of sight)

bham, i kiss you.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

32. John Wesley Harding's "Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue and Me"

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

33. 'My Friend Bobby' - Pamela Blue

N.B. This may not be true

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Three Minute Rule - Beastie Boys
"I'm just chillin' like Bob Dylan"

― Mr. Alarm, Monday, 23 February 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Wally Pleasant, eh? I was just thinking about him.

Anyhow, the Race Marbles, "Like a Dribbling Fram" I think it was... On the Pebbles volume 2 CD.

― nick ring (nick ring), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

How is Yer Blues about Dylan? I'd never heard that before.

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it's not really. But it does have the lyric: "feel so suicidal, just like Dylan's Mr Jones"

35. Behind That Locked Door - George Harrison

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm probably wrong, but Joni Mitchell's 'Jericho' seems to me to be about Zimmie, esp.:

Anyone will tell you
Just how hard it is to make and keep a friend
Maybe they'll short sell you
Or maybe it's you
Judas, in the end
When you just can no longer pretend
That you're getting what you need
Or you're giving out anything for them to grow and feed on.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

48. 'Candle In The Wind' - Elton John

― Captain Bongo, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

49. sugargliders "this travelling song" ('singing highway 61, that song by bobby dylan')

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(er, that's 38 actually)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

39. B Movie - Gil Scott-Heron
'They don't know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan'

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

40. "Leanin' on Bob," Will Rigby

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

feel so suicidal, just like Dylan's Mr Jones"

I always thought it was "even hate my rock 'n roll."

― Prude (Prude), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes I'm lonely wanna die
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.

In the morning wanna die
In the evening wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.

My mother was of the sky
My father was of the earth
But I am of the universe
And you know what it's worth
I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.

The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bone
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones
Lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.

Black cloud crossed my mind
Blue mist round my soul
Feel so suicidal
Even hate my rock and roll
Wanna die yeah wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh girl you know the reason why.

― *, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Reviving to add:

41. "The Seeker" -- The Who ("I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles...")
42. "American Pie" -- Don McLean ("the jester sang for the king and queen in a coat he borrowed from James Dean and a voice that came from you and me")

― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'll bite:
43. "Me & Bobby D" -- Everything But The Girl

Me and old Bobby D don't get along that famously
A saviour and a seer? Maybe,
but he never meant that much to me.
Sure, I'd love a wild life,
but every wild man needs a mother or wife.
The seven seas you roam
and who's waiting at home?

― briania, Saturday, 8 May 2004 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Bobby" in the T. Rex song is actually Bob Regehr of Warner Bros. Records U.S.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The entire soundtrack of Bob Roberts = Best Dylan Songs Ever.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

44. "Lord Take This Makeup Off Me" - John Lennon

― Mike Dixon, Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

wow that last one sounds fantastic

― de, Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty good. It's on one of the vols. of The Lost Lennon Tapes, along with one called "News of the Day" where John sings just like Dylan, and the lyrics are just headlines from the NY Times. I think the audio from the scene in "Eat the Document" where Bob accuses John of being "in love with the fat chick"(Mama Cass) and then throws up is on there too.

Here are the lyrics:

Lord, Take This Makeup off Me
John Lennon

Lord, take this makeup of off of me.
I said, "lordy, lordy, lordy, take this makeup offa me."
it's bad enough on the beach,
but it's worse in the sea.

Because I'm knockin' on heaven's door.
Because I'm lookin' for my ma.

I said, "ma, take these guns away from me."
I said, "ma, take these guns away from me."
I got so thin now, they're draggin' me down to my knees.
Oh yeah, man, do you mr. Jones?

Town,
now I've been here so long, I almost forgot my name.
I said, "lord I been here so long I almost forgot my name."
but as long as I keep touring,
I'll always be in the game, fame, brain, shame and fame and game, fame, fame....

― Mike Dixon, Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Mike. Well this thread shows that a lot of people were/are obsessed with Dylan, but I think Lennon in particular had a bug up his ass over him. First he tried to copy/pastiche him ('You've got to hide your love away', 'Norwegian Wood' 'I'm a Loser'), then parody him ('I Am the Walrus', 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' 'Glass Onion'); he references him in 'Yer Blues' and 'God', acknowledging his importance in his psyche. He reurns to direct political writing eight odd years after Dylan gave it up (the odd track notwithstanding), but realises he's not that good at it. Still unable to shake off Bobby Z in his stay-at-home period he ends up bitter and caustic at his old rival. Dylan's out there, producing the odd masterpeice, full of energy on Rolling Thunder (which i assume the above song references) and remaking himself and his music. Lennon is lethargic, stoned and regressing to chilhood meanwhile.

― de, Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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