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a elegant almost lucid ballad/dirge . my favorite dylan song hands down. what do ya'al think.

― anthony, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i like 'everybody must get stoned'

― chaki, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's 'Rainy Day Women' #whatever.

Anthony: the chorus is memorable. I don't remember the rest of the song so well. Maybe we should all go and listen to it and report back.

I immediately think of 'Sara' on the Desire LP: 'staying up all night writing SELotLLs for you'. Because the title = 'Sara Lowndes', Dylan's wife? Is this right?

― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah this is right.

An absolutely key song for me, so much so that I can't answer it in a thread. (Sorry PF!)

― Tom, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fair enough Mr E - but I am still surprised at the idea of this being a key song for you.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can make a good argument for it, and dylan himself, though he would never say so, might have to agree (or at least i imagine). no doubt it is truly transcendant / transporting. defines the confessional song for me, which of course makes it beyond classic, and beyond critic

― karmik trying, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...beyond criticism.

― karmik for now, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like his Christian stuff because it's so one-dimensional and abrasive. "Property of Jesus" and "When You Gonna Wake Up" especially.

― dave q, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and "Gotta Serve Somebody." One of the Dylan megafan sites has transcriptions of all between-songs banter from the '79 tour, when all he did was proselytize. Seven or eight night stand in San Francisco baiting the audience. Amazing. Really fond of "Isis," myself, especially a live version I heard once that I think is on "Biograph."

― John Darnielle, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, the killer live "Isis" is on Biograph. Actually, the Poster Children did a better-than-decent version of it too.

If I had to pick a favorite Dylan song, though, it'd probably be "My Back Pages," just because it's so far off in its own little world.

― Douglas, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox:
why are you surpised this is a key song for me

― anthony, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not. I'm surprised it's a key song for Mr Tom Ewing.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just listened to this, and found myself rewinding and repeating the last "should I leave them by your gate" about ten times. Of what relevance that is, I'm not sure. I just like how he says it.