Expecting Rain

World Gone Wrong

1. Delia
2. Two Soldiers
3. Blood in my Eyes
4. World Gone Wrong
5. Love Henry

Dylan & the Dead

1. Slow Train
2. I want you
3. Gotta serve somebody
4. Queen Jane
5. Joey

MTV UnPlugged

1. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
2. Desolation Row
3. Shooting Star
4. John Brown
5. Dignity

Time Out of Mind

1. Standing in the Doorway
2. Not Dark Yet
3. Trying to Get to Heaven
4. Cold Irons Bound
5. Love Sick

Bootleg Series Vol. 7

1. Visions of Johanna (Somehow I like the extra line with the nightingale's code)
2. Maggie's Farm
3. Like a Rolling Stone ("Play it fricking [sic] loud!" ... Hm, it seems there are no swear words allowed in here...)
4. Chimes of Freedom
5. A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

My 2 favorites

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1. A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. Don't Think Twice It's All Right
4. Girl From The North Country
5. Masters Of War

Bringing It All Back Home
1. Tambourine Man, It's Alright Ma (tie)
2. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
3. Gates of Eden
4. Subterranean Homesick Blues
5. She Belongs To Me

Bootleg Series Vol. 4 Live 1966

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Just Like A Woman
4. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5. Tell Me, Momma

I've always had a hard time seeing what the big deal was with Blind Willie McTell. I mean it's a good song, but damn. It gets hyped up like it's one of his finest. I like the song it just seems like the legend of the song far outweighs how good of a song it actually is.

Blind Willie McTell is one of his finest. By the time I became a fan, it was already officially released, so I wasn't around while it was just being bootlegged. I don't like hype, but sometimes the hype is deserved. The whole song just transports me to some midnight southland wooded area from Tom Sayer's time. It's a dooming beautiful lonesome song. Read this, its from this site and pretty interesting http://expectingrain.com/dok/songs/bwmctell.html

Bootleg Series, Vol. 6

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
3. I Don't Believe You
4. To Ramona
5. The Times They Are A-Changin'

"Love & Theft"

1. Mississippi
2. Floater (Too Much to Ask)
3. Po' Boy
4. Cry A While
5. Sugar Baby

To each his own, but I don't think i've ever come across a Dylan fan who didn't love this song, until now.

I like Blind Willie Mctell, but it wouldn't rank very high among my favorites either.

Anyways, my picks:

Time Out of Mind
1. Not Dark Yet
2. Cold Irons Bound
3. Tryin' to Get to Heaven
4. Standing in the Doorway
5. Make You Feel My Love

Bootleg Series Vol. 5 Live 1975

1. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
2. Isis
3. It Ain't Me, Babe
4. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
5. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

Don't get me wrong, I do like the song. As you saw it was in my Top 5 from Bootleg Vol. 3 also. It's just it's always seen as one of his best songs ever or something and I just don't see it. I don't think it would crack my Top 100 Dylan songs.

Bob Dylan

1. Song To Woody
2. Talkin' New York
3. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
4. House Of The Risin' Sun
5. Fixin' To Die

Bootleg Series Vol. 6 Live 1964

1. Mama, You Been on My Mind
2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
3. Gates of Eden
4. If You Gotta Go, Go Now
5. I Don't Believe You

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

1. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
2. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
3. Blowin' In The Wind
4. Masters Of War
5. Girl From The North Country/Corrine, Corrina

The Bootleg Series: Vol. 8 -Tell Tale Signs

1. Cocaine Blues (Live 1997) Probably my favorite ModBob track
2. Lonesome Day Blues (Live 2002)
3. Mississippi (Disc 1)
4. Huck's Tune
5. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live 2003)

"Love and Theft"

1. Lonesome Day Blues
2. Cry A While
3. Floater (Too Much To Ask)
4. High Water (For Charley Patton)
5. Summer Days

Now I'm through with the Bootleg Series, too. Some personal observations:

- For me, the hardest bootleg to rank was BS Vol. 5 because there are so many incredible performances on it ("Isis", "TUIB", ...). The Rolling Thunder Revue was an amazing tour ... but I was born too late ... Anyway, without doubt I'd say it's my favorite part of the series.
- I realized that BS 7 is actually pretty good ... I don't know why I hardly ever listen to it. I should give it a try more often. The songs from the Newport Folk Festivel are worth the price alone.
- Say what you want, but I think that there are some nice songs on the Witmark Demos. "Farewell", "Guess I'm Doin' Fine", "The Death of Emmett Till", to name a few. I don't want to say it's perfect, but it's not as bad as everybody says.


Bootleg Series Vol. 1

1. Moonshiner
2. Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
3. Rambling Gambling Willie
4. Let Me Die In My Footsteps
5. Only A Hobo

Bootleg Series Vol. 2

1. Seven Curses
2. She's Your Lover Now
3. Tangled Up In Blue
4. Eternal Circle
5. I'll Keep It With Mine

Bootleg Series Vol. 3

1. Blind Willie McTell
2. Angelina
3. Every Grain of Sand
4. Seven Days
5. Foot of Pride

Bootleg Series Vol. 4

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Ballad Of A Thin Man
3. Like A Rolling Stone
4. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

Bootleg Series Vol. 5

1. Tangled Up In Blue
2. Isis
3. A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
4. Mama, You Been On My Mind
5. Simple Twist of Fate

Bootleg Series Vol. 6

1. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night)
2. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
3. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)
4. With God On Our Side
5. It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding

Bootleg Series Vol. 7

1. Visions of Johanna
2. Maggie's Farm
3. Like a Rolling Stone
4. Chimes of Freedom
5. A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall

Bootleg Series Vol. 8

1. Born in Time
2. Cross the Green Mountain
3. Huck's Tune
4. Series of Dreams
5. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore

Bootleg Series Vol. 9

1. The Death of Emmett Till
2. Farewell
3. Tomorrow Is A Long Time
4. Gypsy Lou
5. Guess I'm Doing Fine

You and I are in agreement that Bootleg Series Vol. 5 is the best of the series. I think you could make the case that Vol. 4 and Vol. 5 are among the best official Dylan releases period. Though some of his albums are certainly right up there with them, and for the quantity and quality of Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 you can't leave that out either.

Highway 61 Revisited -

Like a Rolling Stone
Desolation Row
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
Queen Jane Approximately

Bootleg Series Vol. 7 - No Direction Home

1. I Was Young When I left Home
2. Chimes of Freedom
3. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
4. Blowin in the Wind
5. Desolation Row

Folk Singers Choice

Lonesome Whistle Blues
Tell Me Baby
Death of Emmett Till
Stealin'
Baby Please Don't Go