Playlist - The Very Best of Bob Dylan 80’s

is the alternate version of "Most of the Time" the acoustic version that sounded like a blood on the tracks outtake and came out on "tell tale signs"?

Cover is an aneurysm.

Based on the Amazon snippets, yes.

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cool, getting my vote!

hilarious that the best songs on this were never on actual albums tho

I, too, am happy they took Dignity, Series Of Dreams and Most Of The Time from Tell Tale Signs, and Blind Willie McTell from the first bootleg series release. Don't know what I'm voting for yet.

that actually looks like a good mix.
but yeah, who in hell designed that cover.

maybe the only thing i'd add is "angelina" (also not on an actual album, haha)

I might throw in something from the shelved Rock Solid live record too, but it's quite good on the face of it. Except the cover.

All in all, an excellent job of making the 80s look like a much stronger decade for Dylan than it was, accomplished partly, as mentioned above, by included material that never actually got released during the 80s. Going with 'Blind Willie McTell.' I think the recording just might be his single greatest performance as a singer.

i would add "man in the long black coat" -- my favorite track on oh mercy

oh yeah, that's a good one. i've kind of got a soft spot for "tight connection to my heart"

No "Tight Connection to My Heart," no credibility – top fifteen Dylan.

otherwise it's "Jokerman" over "Foot of Pride."

I'd been thinking of polling Dylan in the eighties, if it hasn't been done.

Sweetheart Like You
beating out Groom's Still waiting, for me

No "Tight Connection to My Heart," no credibility – top fifteen Dylan.
well, i like the song, but that's crazy talk.

OMG! Album cover of the year!! Maybe EVER! I might actually buy the thing just to have all those boxed, video bar wall Dylans glowering at me during my afternoon coffee.

well, i like the song, but that's crazy talk.

My Dylan list would look like no other.

let's see it -- i'm curious!

I came here looking for "Man in the Long Black Coat" too. Still, "Dignity" is one of my all-time favorites.

"Tight Connection" has the classic couplet:
Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine
Never could learn to hold you, Love, and call you mine

"Blind Willie McTell" by a million miles, & I love everything on here ("Pressing On"!). But "Blind Willie McTell" is my favorite Dylan song, or at least one of my five favorites.

It seems more conceptually coherent than the still-perfectly-listenable Greatest Hits Volume 3. Plus it evokes memories of a head-scratching screening of Hearts of Fire on a plane.

And yeah, "Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love)" is an unfortunate disco Dylan omission.

cuz I love you, tyler:

Girl From the North Country
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
Tangled Up in Blue
Lonesome Day Blues
Tombstone Blues
Blind Willie McTell
Sara
Foot of Pride
Sign on the Window
Buckets of Rain
Every Grain of Sand
Tight Connection To My Heart
Man in the Long Black Coat
Jokerman

Voted Every Grain of Sand but a few v. good ones here.

ah, that's not *that* crazy, alfred. <3 st. augustine. you heard the supper club versions of tight connection? kind of definitive.

She was the Rose of Sharon, from Paradise Lost........

"Blind Willie McTell" by a mile.

I think the only change I'd make would be to exchange 'Silvio' for 'Clean Cut Kid.'

Dark Eyes 4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caribbean Wind is a fatal omission, and I would personally include Neighborhood Bully

would have man in the long black coat

so much dylan chest area

That's a great comp. Voted Jokerman.

This was easy, Brownsville Girl is my favourite any decade Dylan song.

"Blind Willie McTell". Still a mystery that he didn't include it on "Infidels".

That's actually a pretty good overview of his 80s stuff there.

I'd have gone for the album version of Most Of the Time though, the Tell Tale Signs version is nice, but it's a curio. I love the American Music Club-ness of the LP version.

Missing is "Rank Strangers To Me" from Down in the Groove and the still-unreleased best take of "Born In Time" from the Oh Mercy sessions. I can't approach Shot Of love with anything approaching objectivity as it was my first exposure to Dylan, but I'd say that In The Summertime, Dead Man Dead Man, and Property Of Jesus are worthy of inclusion.

i was gonna bitch that "senor (tales of yankee power)" wasn't on this but then i remembered that's late 70s i think

just man...like who the fuck sits down and say "This is a song, it's called "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"

<3 bob!

When I saw him in 2005 he really shocked everyone by (a) dusting it off (b) kicking its ass.

yeah that's the only street legal song he ever plays anymore ... maybe the only one he's ever played since the tour for that album? really seems to relish singing it.

Ended up voting for "Dignity". Maybe not the best song here -- are any of these really better than "Blind Willie McTell"? -- but one I love nonetheless and want to make sure it's represented.

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Hard to vote anything over "Willie McTell" here, but "Every Grain of Sand" is a pretty close runner-up.

ahahahaha that cover

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Hard to argue with Blind Willy McTell, but only one vote for Every Grain of Sand?