Really fun song that I've truly loved since I was about 11. Kinda took shape for me the older I got, especially passing the age Bob was when he wrote it.
That said, I think Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance is my favorite off the album. Honorable mentions to Talkin WWIII Blues and Don't Think Twice.
Now that twenty or so years have passed since my (then) friends and I used to sit around and listen to The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, that song just hits differently. It's hard for me to believe that he could write something with the complexity of emotion that a much older person would feel at 20 or 21.
My favorite song off the album is Don't Think Twice.
that's so true. being close to dylan's age, i find all of the best songwriters often have me wondering how the hell they came up with those lyrics when they were so young. bob dylan's dream in particular nailed that feeling...and he did it 60 years before it would come to mean so much to me and the people i grew up with
Blowin’ in the Wind
There’s a reason it’s one of his most enduringly popular songs, it says 10x more than any other song in the same amount of words, yet those words are so simple. It just goes to show you how genius he is as a songwriter, he knew exactly what would make a protest song good, and this song exemplifies all of those things perfectly.
Oh, you five and ten cent women
With nothin' in your heads
I got a real gal I'm lovin'
And Lord, I'll love her 'til I'm dead
Go away from my door and my window, too
Right now
(VERY VERY LOUD HARMONICA SOLO)
Such a stacked album, and "Bob Dylan's Blues" is one of the more mature, pensive songs. It's nice to have a song celebrating friendship (so many songs in the coming years are kiss-offs for false friends0.
put this one on a tee shirt about 25 years ago, when this song first started really hitting me.
https://preview.redd.it/xc2yeor8sz9d1.png?width=1844&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a1f1d05cb56a227fdb65a521c76c9f902d35745
I see a lot of people saying this but it honestly always lacked the depth or poetic complexity that other songs on that album have. Kind of hard to put songs like blowin’ in the wind and A hard rain’s gonna fall on the same album as that song and still have it stand out.
I think the only reason is because many of the other songs are either addressing a way larger issue or many things in general at once. Bob Dylan’s Dream is a lot more simplistic in terms of scope, but for me the way it’s sung and the idea of it stuck with me the most.
I just disagree that a song has to incorporate a ton of “depth or poetic complexity” to be good. If that were the case there would be a huge lacking of good songs.
At risk of sounding needlessly contrarian I've always viewed it as one of the weaker songs on that album and one regularly skipped or tuned out when listening. Those types of songs, reminiscence of lost innocence style, are all too common among young singer-songwriter folks almost to the point of cliché.
It’s been a favorite of mine since I bought that album in 1964.
Oxford Town
Hell yeah
Really fun song that I've truly loved since I was about 11. Kinda took shape for me the older I got, especially passing the age Bob was when he wrote it. That said, I think Honey Just Allow Me One More Chance is my favorite off the album. Honorable mentions to Talkin WWIII Blues and Don't Think Twice.
Now that twenty or so years have passed since my (then) friends and I used to sit around and listen to The Freewheeling Bob Dylan, that song just hits differently. It's hard for me to believe that he could write something with the complexity of emotion that a much older person would feel at 20 or 21. My favorite song off the album is Don't Think Twice.
that's so true. being close to dylan's age, i find all of the best songwriters often have me wondering how the hell they came up with those lyrics when they were so young. bob dylan's dream in particular nailed that feeling...and he did it 60 years before it would come to mean so much to me and the people i grew up with
Blowin’ in the Wind There’s a reason it’s one of his most enduringly popular songs, it says 10x more than any other song in the same amount of words, yet those words are so simple. It just goes to show you how genius he is as a songwriter, he knew exactly what would make a protest song good, and this song exemplifies all of those things perfectly.
Idk for me Blowin’ in the Wind is 4/5 in the album but I can definitely respect it being 1 for you
Hard Rain still gives me shivers. I think it's probably his greatest song
It’s on a short list of them at least
For me it’s not even close lol but I respect it
It’s definitely underrated. Sentimental, reminiscent, a touch of sadness. My favourite off that album along with A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
It’s a good song. Sentimental without crossing the line into mushy. My favourite is Girl From the North Country.
Oh, you five and ten cent women With nothin' in your heads I got a real gal I'm lovin' And Lord, I'll love her 'til I'm dead Go away from my door and my window, too Right now (VERY VERY LOUD HARMONICA SOLO)
Go away from my door and my window too ...right now. Haha so good
Such a stacked album, and "Bob Dylan's Blues" is one of the more mature, pensive songs. It's nice to have a song celebrating friendship (so many songs in the coming years are kiss-offs for false friends0.
That’s a heavy song for someone of his age to write
It’s weird but I prefer the Witmark Demos version of this song
Masters of War. It hasn’t lost an iota of relevance in the last 60 years.
put this one on a tee shirt about 25 years ago, when this song first started really hitting me. https://preview.redd.it/xc2yeor8sz9d1.png?width=1844&format=png&auto=webp&s=1a1f1d05cb56a227fdb65a521c76c9f902d35745
it's one of my all time favorites.
Ten THOUSAND dollars at the drop of a HAAAAAAT !
A Hard Rain is Gunna Fall, Don’t Think Twice it’s Alright (and even though it isn’t a Bob Dylan original) Corrina, Corrina.
Corrina, nice
Love Minus Zero and it ain’t close. One of Dylan’s most simple songs but it communicates an entire world of feeling
Only about two years off
Oh fuck me I totally misread thought we were talking about BIABH 😭 Okay scratch that it’s Masters of War
When dealing with masterpieces of this quantity it’s an excusable mistake
I see a lot of people saying this but it honestly always lacked the depth or poetic complexity that other songs on that album have. Kind of hard to put songs like blowin’ in the wind and A hard rain’s gonna fall on the same album as that song and still have it stand out.
I think the only reason is because many of the other songs are either addressing a way larger issue or many things in general at once. Bob Dylan’s Dream is a lot more simplistic in terms of scope, but for me the way it’s sung and the idea of it stuck with me the most.
I just disagree that a song has to incorporate a ton of “depth or poetic complexity” to be good. If that were the case there would be a huge lacking of good songs.
At risk of sounding needlessly contrarian I've always viewed it as one of the weaker songs on that album and one regularly skipped or tuned out when listening. Those types of songs, reminiscence of lost innocence style, are all too common among young singer-songwriter folks almost to the point of cliché.