Sunday, June 14, 2020

Counting Down The Dylan Catalog

#280: Rethinking Greatness

I just read through the "100 greatest" Bob Dylan songs, beginning with #100 and counting down.  When I reached #52, "Tears of Rage", with its perfect line about parents writing a girl's name in sand, and she thinking it a place to stand, I couldn't imagine how another 51 songs would be better.

And yet they almost all brought forth an 'oh yeah'.

Here's the list, from Rolling Stone.  Some songs have a few paragraphs written by staff, others are commented on by Dylan's contemporaries and subsequent artists.

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