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The 50 best Bob Dylan songs of all time
By Charlie Burton, Bill Prince　15 June 2020
As Bob Dylan releases his 39th studio album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’, GQ presents a ranking of his essential songs
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/bob-dylan-songs

Whole books have been written about individual tracks; by the same token, in a three-stanza song he will encapsulate the narrative arc of an entire novel. But what is it that makes Bob Dylan’s work so uniquely vulnerable to interrogation? Kenneth Clark defined Shakespeare’s genius as “his freedom of mind, his power of self-identification… his complete lack of any dogma”. Dylan’s songs continue to bedazzle, bemuse and blow us away for the same reason.

So, in the spirit of such mixed-up confusion, “Blowin’ In The Wind”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “Maggie’s Farm” are just a few of the timeless, untoppable tunes you won’t find on this non-exhaustive list. Instead, you’ll find a highly partisan pick of songs that stand out in many cases for not standing in the company of his many stone-cold classics ? and thus deserve a place in this unsparingly subjective half-century.

1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5al0HmR4to
2. Like A Rolling Stone (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0
3. Desolation Row (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvcWXTIjcU
4. Mr Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oecX_1pqxk0
5. The Times They Are A-Changin’ (The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90WD_ats6eE
6. Simple Twist Of Fate (Blood On The Tracks, 1975)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGnhyoP_DSc
8. Jokerman (Infidels, 1984)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XSvsFgvWr0
9. Brownsville Girl (Knocked Out Loaded, 1986)
10. Positively Fourth Street (single, 1965)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aehwEu8SBSo

11. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iHhWh9FtsQ
12. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbwU3J-2kk
13. Queen Jane Approximately (Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ZmD3sCFcE
14. Visions Of Johanna (Blonde On Blonde, 1966)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwuCF5lYqEE
15. Hurricane (Desire, 1976)　https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZvg_FjL3Q
16. Not Dark Yet (Time Out Of Mind, 1997)
17. Joey (Desire, 1976)
18. Idiot Wind (Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
19. Love Minus Zero/No Limit (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)
20. Covenant Woman (Saved, 1980)

21. Long And Wasted Years (Tempest 2012)
22. Just Like A Woman (Blonde On Blonde, 1966)
23. Romance In Durango (Desire, 1976)
24. Lay Lady Lay (Nashville Skyline, 1969)
25. Changing Of The Guards (Street Legal, 1978)
26. Boots Of Spanish Leather (The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964)
27. Pressing On (Saved, 1980)
28. Dark Eyes (Empire Burlesque, 1985)
29. Girl From The North Country (The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963)
30. Ring Them Bells (Oh Mercy, 1989)