It's a Wonder We Can Even POLL Ourselves: The Bob dang Dylan Thread for Nominating, Balloting, Competing, Beating, Cheating, Mistreating and Talking That the Heat Put Plants in the Beds, But ...

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OK, so:

BALLOT PART ONE: POLLED ON THE TRACKS

Up to 50 (fifty) of your favorite Bob Dylan songs, ranked top to bottom. Here's how the scoring will work, for simplicity's sake:

For numbers 1-20, standard ILX poll allocation in effect: 1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.
For 21-30, all songs will be worth 10 points.
For 31-40, all songs will be worth 7 points.
For 41-50, all songs will be worth 5 points.

Please note: You can specify a particular version of the song -- studio, live, outtake, etc. -- and in cases where there's a lot of different versions I will note those in the rollout. But all versions of any given song will be counted as one song for the purposes of the poll.

BALLOT PART TWO: SELF-POLLTRAIT

Up to 20 (twenty) of your favorite Dylan albums. I am not going to worry too much about what constitutes an "album." Studio releases, live albums, compilations, bootlegs both official and unofficial are all allowed. The Dylan mixtape your boyfriend/girlfriend made you in college is fine too. Scoring will be same as the top 20 in the tracks poll.

BALLOT PART THREE: YOU JUST SORTA WASTED MY PRECIOUS TIME

Up to 10 (ten) of your least favorite, most hated Bob Dylan songs. Ranked worst to not quite as worst. Scored as above for the top 10.

BALLOT PART FOUR: IT AIN'T ME, BABE

Up to 20 (twenty) of your favorite Dylan covers, specifying the performer, album, or whatever other identifying information is necessary.

BALLOT PART FIVE: HOW YOUR HEAD FEELS UNDER SOMETHIN LIKE THAT

Up to 5 (five) of your favorite photos of Bob Dylan looking ridiculous. Just send links to urls, I don't need actual photo files. These will be used for entertainment purposes during the rollout.

Ballots should be sent to blingboygrunt AT gmail DOT com. Put DYLAN POLL or some such thing in the subject line.

DEADLINE{/b]: All ballots should be in by whatever time you go to bed on [b]Monday, May 26th. Whenever I wake up at Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday the 27th, I will make a final sweep of the inbox and then declare the poll closed.

And here we go!

Holy shit

Oops, sorry about those bad tags in the second-last graf. Well, he's a first-take guy, this is a first-take poll.

I have real work to do this next month

Fuck you

Also note that is indeed blingboygrunt in the email address. All iterations of blindboygrunt I tried were unsurprisingly already taken.

Thank you for making it 50. This is the big one people.

Excited

Waiting for someone to drop a best of the 80's playlist before I finalize and send in my ballot (yes, I was anticipating this poll enough that I've already made my ballot).

my #1 will be from the 80s & I'm sure I won't be it's only #1 vote

If it's the song I'm thinking of, it's likely making my top 5.

Holy shit at the ballot sizes -- kudos to you for being willing to take all that on, tipsy. Looking forward to mid-May when I can put some brain juice into my ballots. In the meantime, heavy rotation listening and note-taking for the next three weeks at least.

Everybody vote for "Dear Landlord" and "Time Passes Slowly"!

covers poll YES!

I AM EXCITE

Everybody vote for bootleg series acoustic idiot wind

Rejected Side Polls:

- Top 10 "New Dylans"
- 10 Most Misguided Attempts to Write/Sound Like Dylan

oh man

seein him tuesday! good timing. williamc otm, dear landlord poss top 5.

everybody vote for handy dandy and went to see the gypsy

everybody vote for DIGNITY

gonna be a lotta caps lyrics in this thread later sry

Five favourite quotes from the 1966 Nat Hentoff interview (which may or may not have actually been one)--apologies for the length:

1) Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

2) Well, anyway, second of all, you've got to respect other people's right to also have a message themselves. Myself, what I'm going to do is rent Town Hall and put about 30 Western Union boys on the bill. I mean, then there'll really be some messages. People will be able to come and hear more messages than they've ever heard before in their life.

3) I mean, what would some parent say to his kid if the kid came home with a glass eye, a Charlie Mingus record and a pocketful of feathers? He'd say, "Who are you following?" And the poor kid would have to stand there with water in his shoes, a bow tie on his ear and soot pouring out of his belly button and say, "Jazz, Father, I've been following jazz."

4) When I was a boy, Harry Truman was President; who'd want to be Harry Truman?

5) Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges than in old-age homes, there's really no difference.

http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm

BOOMING POLL

Sooooooo, I can't be alone in seriously considering 3+ Wilburys numbers?

clem you blew the punchline on the first quote!

DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a "before" in a Charles Atlas "before and after" ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy - he ain't so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I'm in Omaha. It's so cold there, by this time I'm robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything's going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say?

PLAYBOY: And that's how you became a rock-'n'-roll singer?

DYLAN: No, that's how I got tuberculosis.

trying to decide which version of Isis to vote for...

(xpost) Yes. (Although maybe "What could I say?" is the punchline, and "tuberculosis" is the rimshot.)

My favourite Dylan quote of all is his description of hearing the Beatles in 1964: "We were driving through Colorado, we had the radio on, and eight of the Top 10 songs were Beatles songs...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand,' all those early ones. They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid...I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go."

Outrageous but valid: that's why he had to pull into the next drug store and buy some sunglasses.

Do the Music from Big Pink versions of the Basement Tapes songs co-written with Dylan count as covers for the purposes of pt. 4?

BALLOT PART THREE: YOU JUST SORTA WASTED MY PRECIOUS TIME

Up to 10 (ten) of your least favorite, most hated Bob Dylan songs. Ranked worst to not quite as worst. Scored as above for the top 10.

BALLOT PART FOUR: IT AIN'T ME, BABE

Up to 20 (twenty) of your favorite Dylan covers, specifying the performer, album, or whatever other identifying information is necessary.

might do these two tbf

You can submit to any or all parts of the ballot. (Though even if you only like Dylan songs sung by other people, you can still vote for those songs in the tracks poll.)

And sure, Big Pink songs can count as covers. I'm not policing anything too strictly with this, because the volume of work is too huge to try to fence it off.

trying to decide which version of Isis to vote for...
The one for Leonard if he's still here.

the one on Biograph is my fav.

I'm not generally a huge fan of the Rolling Thunder tour stuff but the versions of Isis and Shelter From The Storm are definitive.

I could easily make a top 30 just of songs from the 21st century.

I'm typically a fan of making these polls fast and easy, but I'm on board with such a large window for this one. I mean, I already know what's going to make up a good chunk of my ballot, but it gives me time to narrow down covers and maybe even worsts.

What about Dylan's song with the Traveling Wilburys? There's at least a couple of candidates from the first album that I could slot.

Wilburys are fair game, iirc.

Pretty huge list of Dylan covers.

I'm not sure anything could top Fairport Convention's "I'll Keep It With Mine", but hopefully I can find a few pleasant surprises in that list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtFXmS9FmA

Wilburys are fine. Would not want to exclude Tweeter and the Monkey Man.

Gonna rep for this as my fave Dylan cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfesHDG9i78

It's a shame Dylan's collaboration with Cecil Taylor wasn't recorded; that'd be my number one by default.

I could easily make a top 30 just of songs from the 21st century.

This. Modern Times is gonna occupy a significant chunk of my ballot.

Probably my favorite Bob cover:
http://youtu.be/UwRkK7mNWEA

all the Every Picture Tells A Story fanboys are having this as the number one cover I'm sure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqho7jpQjJ8

My fav Dylan cover...not sure yet but this is up there

http://youtu.be/wipPRxEXAPY

will rep for:
* mixed up confusion
* the letterman version of "jokerman"
* huck's tune
* when the ship comes in
* i ain't got no home

covers:
* jamie saft trio- ballad of a thin man
* the roots- masters of war

The Nazareth cover of Hollis Brown might be worth ten minutes of your time if you've never heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnYfIos4CqY

naturally "Tight Connection to My Heart" will appear on a few ballots.

i'm gonna have practically all of "love and theft" but prob the only modern times stuff i'm voting for is workingman's blues #2 and nettie moore; never been crazy abt that record. will vote for the telltale signs versh of someday baby tho.

once i would have voted someone's got ahold of my heart instead of tight connection easy, but i don't think the former has the random star trek quote, so these days it's hard.

the correct thing to do w idiot wind i think is to vote for both the nyc version and the directly-to-sara ultrasarcastic 10-minute hard rain version and have both votes collapsed into a single large vote for the difference-splitting album track.

SHENANIGANS

I went to a Dolly Parton concert last night, and she did an ace version of "Don't Think Twice." She joked about how she's contemplated doing a Dylan covers album called "Dolly Does Dylan."

It's on her new album – it ain't bad

oh man I would buy that record

xp

xp yea i left off "i was young when i left home", along with moonshiner. one of the many that could've easily been in my top 50 on some other day

Anyway, I didn't (to my knowledge) vote for any non-Dylan compositions

I voted for Pretty Saro from Another Self Portrait. It's one of Bob's best-ever vocals, if you haven't heard it you are in for a treat.

i think i voted, somewhere, for moonshiner

I like that Dolly cover too. Would so listen to Dolly Does Dylan.

yes, for sure

would hope she would have the good sense to call the album boobs of spanish leather.

"good sense"

Tangled Up in Boobs!

stuck inside of mobile with the memphis boobs again

I Want Boob(s)

Nashville Boobline

winterboob

Neighborhood Boobie

I'll Be Your Booby Tonight

guys

sad eyed booby of the lowlands

I could actually imagine her OKing Nashville Bustline.

One more: Ballad in Plan DD

I'll Be Your Bobbies Tonight

uh, Boobies

Knockers Out Loaded

enough about her boobs, let's talk about her hair.

blonde on blonde on blonde on blonde on blonde on blonde on blonde

John Wigsley Blonding

Shit, I had a computer blackout for the past few days & totally forgot my ballot. Gonna send it in anyhow, in the hope that it might yet be counted. Sorry, Tipsy.

One more: Ballad in Plan DD

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best one imo.

Status update: I have not absconded to the Caymans with the ballot results. A few real-life distractions have eaten up a lot of time the last several days, but I will have a rollout ready to commence sometime this week. I think ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBi22_A9kV4

haha

about 300 pages into Heylin, everybody upthread otm ... the challops get tiresome, but reading around them is more than worthwhile

kinda regretting not voting for Copper Kettle now

it was the only non-Dylan composition on my ballot

I know it's too late the change ballots now, and the votes are being counted, but I'm regretting that I didn't put You're A Big Girl Now any higher than #8, because the "corkscrew to my heart" verse is my favourite example of Dylan's "it's not WHAT he sings, its HOW he sings it".

That song was in my top 10 as well.

i had copper kettle on there, as well as you're a big girl now (the nyc sessions version). i'm fearing the scorn though for all the shit i DID leave off. 'it ain't me babe' was chopped off for the sake of "i forgot more than you'll ever know" as well as "let it be me"

Hey, I just realized I left "Visions of Johanna" off of my ballot!

monster

don't worry, others will make up for it

I won't.

I left off a ridiculous number of pre-1967 tracks

my eager impatience for DYLAN POLL ROLLOUT is giving me many opportunities to wonder what it would be like to have a life

my wife wants to know where the results all fyi

POLL is My Wife's Hometown

Oh, crap. "You're a Big Girl Now" sadly neglected on my ballot. Which was hastily and very arbitrarily assembled, TBF.

lol i placed 5 BotT-songs but not Big Girl, only track from side 1 not on my ballot

I now see the error of my ways

#lookingforwardtoDYLANPOLLROLLOUT

We are getting close! Sorry, don't mean to be the George R.R. Martin of poll results. I've had family in town and a lot of work to get done before I go to Bonnaroo next week. However, all Dylan results will be posted before I hit the road.

To give you a little teaser, I can reveal that there were 332 songs voted for in the tracks ballots, with 33 of them garnering at least one 1st-place vote.

Oh man, I can't believe Black Diamond Bay won.

lol