My Pick for the 100 Greatest Dylan Songs

I've been reading the Rolling Stone issue dedicated to Bob Dylan's 40th anniversary in music (great toilet reading). They provide their list of the 100 greatest Dylan songs. Enjoyable reading but I thought I'd come up with my own list.

This was difficult. I tried to put them in order of my preference but once I get past the top five, this was quite daunting. Also, I don't have all his albums, but I believe I own and know all of his good albums. There are some stinkers and I avoid those, but if I bump into them at a yard sale, I snag them.

I have included only original Dylan songs so that rules out most of his first album and such greats as "World Gone Wrong" which is an amazing album. So if you are thinking of finally checking out Dylan, here is your list to start with.

1) Visions of Johanna - Blonde on Blonde
Tangled Up In Blue - Blood On the Tracks
Sweetheart Like You - Infidels
Like a Rolling Stone - Highway 61 Revisited
It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Bring It All Back Home
Ring Them Bells - Oh Mercy
Buckets of Rain - Blood On the Tracks
When You Gonna Wake Up - Slow Train Coming
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
When the Ship Comes In - The Times They Are A-Changin'

11) She Belongs To Me - Bring It All Back Home
Man Gave Names to All the Animals - Slow Train Coming
Love Minus Zero / No Limit - Bring It All Back Home
You Gotta Serve Somebody - Slow Train Coming
Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Subterranean Homesick Blues - Bring It All Back Home
Desolation Row - Highway 61 Revisited
One More Cup of Coffee - Desire
Girl from the North Country - Nashville Skyline
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

21) Ballad of a Thin Man - Highway 61 Revisited
Hurricane - Desire
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Blood on the Tracks
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - Highway 61 Revisited
I and I - Infidels
Black Diamond Bay - Desire
Masters of War - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Simple Twist of Fate - Blood On the Tracks
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
             - Highway 61 Revisited
Boots of Spanish Leather - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Everything is Broken - Oh Mercy
Blowin' in the Wind - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

31) Not Dark Yet - Time Out of Mind
Political World - Oh Mercy
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol
           - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Love Sick - Time Out of Mind
To Make You Feel My Love - Modern Times
Shelter from the Storm - Blood On the Tracks
Mississippi - Love and Theft
My Back Pages - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Watchin' the River Flow - Greatest Hits Vol. II
I Want You - Blonde on Blonde

41) High Water - Love and Theft
Tryin' to get to Heaven - Time Out of Mind
If You See Her, Say Hello - Blood on the Tracks
Most of the Time - Oh Mercy
Blood in my Eyes - Modern Times
Meet Me In the Morning - Blood On the Tracks
Queen Jane Approximately - Highway 61 Revisited
Positively 4th Street - Greatest Hits Volume I
All I Really Want To Do - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Mr. Tambourine Man - Bring It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited - Highway 61 Revisited
It's All Over Now Baby Blue - Bring It All Back Home

51) The Times They Are A-Changin' - The Times They Are A-Changin'
You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go
              - Blood on the Tracks
Most of the Time - Oh Mercy
Isis - Desire
All Along the Watch Tower - John Wesley Harding
Chimes of Freedom - Another Side of Bob Dylan
With God On Our Side - The Times They Are A-Changin'
When I Paint My Masterpiece - Greatest Hits Vol. II
Tombstone Blues - Highway 61 Revisited
You're a Big Girl Now - Blood on the Tracks

61) Mozambique - Desire
Forever Young - Planet Waves
Oxford Town - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Jokerman - Infidels
Highlands - Time Out of Mind
What Was It You Wanted - Oh Mercy
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
               - Blonde On Blonde
Ballad of Hollis Brown - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Shooting Star - Oh Mercy
Lay Lady Lay - Nashville Skyline

71) Things Have Changed - Wonderboys (movie soundtrack)
Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35 - Blonde on Blonde
Po' Boy - Love and Theft
License to Kill - Infidels
Temporarily Like Achilles - Blonde on Blonde
Romance in Durango - Desire
Man in the Long Black Coat - Oh Mercy
Workingman's Blues #2 - Modern Times
Changing of the Guard - Street-Legal
Dignity - Greatest Hits Vol. III

81) Talkin' World War III Blues - Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Quinn the Eskimo - Basement Tapes
Only a Pawn in Their Game - The Times They Are A-Changin'
Bye and Bye - Love and Theft
To Ramona - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Obviously Five Believers - Blonde on Blonde
Bob Dylan's 115th Dream - Bring It All Back Home
Rollin' and Tumblin' - Modern Times
Standing in the Doorway - Time Out of Mind
Precious Angel - Slow Train Coming

91) Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat - Blonde on Blonde
Dear Landlord - John Wesley Harding
I Shall Be Free No. 10 - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Where Teardrops Fall - Oh Mercy
Neighborhood Bully - Infidels
Lonesome Day Blues - Love and Theft
Moonlight - Love and Theft
Just Like a Woman - Blonde on Blonde
It Ain't Me Babe - Another Side of Bob Dylan
Idiot Wind - Blood On the Tracks