I've been listening to Red River Shore repeatedly for the last few weeks and I personally could go for another 20 verses.
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What Bob Dylan song do you wish never ended?
Desolation Row. The prose and rhythm feels unlimited.
Desolation Row for sure
This … it’s his Sistine Chapel
This is the correct address
Aye, I just wish that piano version wasn’t a fragment!
It’s almost like a prayer
Came here to say this. Just listened to it again yesterday and for some reason it gets me emotionally every in the instrumental break before the last verse.
ISIS.
I carried Isis to the infirmary
Cuz she broke both her hips and her bones ain’t that strong
Then I threw out my back and she fell straight away
So now we’re both eatin’ jello, and I’m singin’ this song
[repeatedly guffawing] you must be a lyricist IRL / standup / SNL writer
Haha I’m very flattered! I wish, although I did work in close proximity to SNL for several years.
My answer too
Sad eyed lady
Most of the time
The bootleg alternative version
Actually “listened” to the outro guitar solo on this song this morning. Stone cold banger.
The Bootleg version on Tell Tale Signs with acoustic guitar and harmonica is pretty great as well
Blind Willie McTell
Fourth time around
Each time I listen it feels like it never goes anywhere, and that’s why I love it so much, and it’s also probably the point of the song.
Shelter from the Storm
Tangled up in blue
Like a rolling stone
I want you
Country pie
Mississippi
Grooms still waiting at the altar
Visions of Johanna
Especially the vaguely named “alt take” on No Direction Home.
I wish Murder Most Foul was longer
Must be Santa
Oh god this cracked me up
Tell Ol’ Bill
Yes!
Brownsville Girl
This is the one, just how corrupt are these swap meets?? I gotta know!
Nettie Moore
Boots of Spanish leather
Same album: Across the Green Mountain.
It Takes A Lot to Laugh… today’s answer at least.
Black Diamond Bay
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
Tangled Up in Blue
Came here to say Jack of hearts. Sometimes it feels like it goes on for ever, and yet each line is as clever as the last. God I love it.
Jokerman
This is the correct answer!
Half asleep near the stars with a small dog licking your face!!!!!!!!
Not Dark Yet, Idiot Wind
Hurricane
Every Grain Of Sand.
I could listen to the instrumental jam on Country Pie for a long time.
Spirit on the Water end solo.
Standing in the Doorway
Wiggle Wiggle
Thanks for stealing my answer!
One more cup of coffee To fall in love with you
One more cup of coffee is nowhere near long enough. Magical mystical song, he should give us lots more of it. Also totally in love with To Fall in Love with you, insanely hypnotic. Of course there's no actual progress so putting it on repeat should be the same thing... I think we love the same songs. Any other favorites I should check out in case I missed them??
In the summertime. Mississippi. All you have to do is dream take 2. Handy Dandy. Delia. Pretty saro. Silvio. Spirit on the water. We better talk this over. I wanna be you lover take 1. Things have changed. These are some of the songs that really surprised me. Songs I had initially passed through but came back to appreciate and individually played on repeat for days on end .
Thanks! Some of these I already love to pieces, a few I haven’t even heard of. Looking forward to these listens.
I'll go with Tempest. As long as it is, after I listen to it once I typically play it one or two more times. Just a really melodic song.
It ends so perfectly though. “He dreamed the titanic was sinking into the deep blue sea”
“Mr, Tambourine Man”…👍
brownsville girl could be ten hours long and never get old
Country Pie. Way way way too short
Watching the River Flow.
Highlands. I just want to live in that song.
This was my first thought, too, and it's amazing that a 17-minute song can feel too short.
Positively 4th street. I wanna hear more sick burns
Hahagahaga
Desolation Row, Brownsville Girl, Nettie Moore
But most of all JOEY
Love Red River Shore. Love it. My pick would be... Murder Most Foul.
Isis
Ain't Talking
The NYC version of Idiot Wind
Except it's missing my favorite verse... Down the highway, down the tracks...
At shows I always wanted Summer Days to turn into a 20 minute jam.
Ain’t Talkin. Ethereal, lives forever with verses unlimited.
Black diamond bay
Surely he could have given names to literally ALL the animals in that song, couldn't he?
In the beginning, long time ago, yes. Not now.
That's a good point...
Peggy Day ends way to soon.
Maybe the length of the song is part of its beauty, but I Want You has such a beautiful melody , upbeat tempo, and infectious feel. I always find myself listening to it a couple times in a row to get my fix.
I really wouldn't mind if key west was twice as long.
Boots of Spanish leather
Ring Them Bells
Key West
Tempest
I Contain Multitudes
Jk
Sooner or later for me
Murder Most Foul
Every grain of sand
One More Cup of Coffee
Murder most foul.
If Wiggle wiggle was like 20 minutes long it would be amazing.
Sweetheart Like You
Subterranean Autopen Blues.
Some will diasagree, but here it is:
When dogs run free.
The version from the bootleg series is actually really good and I get pumped singing along to it.
Red River Shore is indeed the correct answer.
Cold Irons Bound
Santa-fe
There a lot of songs I listen to a couple times in a row. This one since I was a teenager has been the song that lets me know it’s all going to work out.
Pretty much anything from nashville
Lonesome Day Blues could use another 100 verses
Top of my head:
Forever Young, Queen Jane Approximately, It’s All Over Now Baby Blue, Bound to Lose Bound to Win
Some say he is still singing Highlands as no one has ever heard the ending.
Red River Shore Not Dark Yet every Grain of Sand I’ll Remember You
Mama You've Been On My Mind, especially the Rolling Thunder version with Joan Baez
She Belongs To Me
I'll be your baby tonight
All the tired horses
All of them.
Except This Old Man
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
One More Cup of Coffee - one of the shorter Bob songs I wish was much longer, I love the mood.
Desolation Row
desolation row prolly
That’s funny, I’ve had red river shore on repeat too.
My others would be Most of the Time acoustic and Winterlude.
Romance in Durango
Love minus zero
All the tired horses
Mississippi
The infamous live version of Like A Rolling Stone
Memphis blue again again again and again again
Key West
Changing of the Guards off of Street Legal (1978). The power and vision that it compels even especially today.
The correct answer is “Not Dark Yet” followed by “Sad eyed lady of the lowlands.”
Visions of Johanna ftmfw
Caribbean Wind
I can't be the only one to say From a Buick 6, can i?
This might be a surprising one but mine is All I Really Want To Do
Love Minus Zero and Tangles Up In Blue
To fall in love
I and I
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