Rolling Stone Top 70 Dylan songs

Not a huge Dylan fan but I love some covers of his songs...

Jimi: "All Along The Watchtower"
Jason and the Scorchers: "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
Johnny Winter: "Highway 61 Revisited"
Georgia Satellites: "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
Manfred Mann: "The Mighty Quinn"

 

How the hell did I forget to include Jason & the Scorchers' "Absolutely Sweet Marie" on a list of best Dylan covers? I love that version.

 

This is a monumental task I'd never even try to start undertaking.

I couldn't even get it down to 20.

 

Fairport Convention, "Si Tu Dois Partir" and "Percy's Song."

 

Is it me, or does Rolling Stone always overrate Like A Rolling Stone because of the name?

 

nah, it really was one of the landmark songs in rock history.

Personally I like "Johanna" much better, but it's slightly obscure, while pretty much everybody who listened to a radio in the 1960s heard "Like A Rolling Stone."

 

Oh, granted, but they also ranked Like A Rolling Stone as the greatest song of all time in 2004. Number 2? (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. That seems suspicious, even if you can make a good case for putting money on that exacta.

 

I respect Dylan and understand his place in rock history, I just can't get past that wretched voice.

And 70 top songs? A bit excessive, no?

 

I would argue that 70 doesn't do him justice.

(It's pegged, BTW, to his 70th birthday.)

His voice is awesome. It's an instrument.

 

Mike Ness (of Social Distortion fame) did a kickass cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" about 10-12 years ago:

 

His voice is by no means awesome. It serves him very well sometimes, makes him sound like an SNL parody of himself other times. It what makes Dylan Dylan and it's a tangent to the tradition of the wailing man who's down on his luck, but it's not a conventionally good voice.

I don't go all deep cut as far as my following of him, but some of them that I like:

--Stuck Inside of Mobile
--Rainy Day Woman
--Positively Fourth Street
--Tangled Up in Blue
--Neighborhood Bully
--Just Like a Woman

 

I've seen Dylan live three times in the last 12 years, and he's been terrible every time. That in no way takes away from my love of his recorded music or my appreciation of his place in music history.