Expecting Rain

Here are the only songs Bob's done on an official release (I don't want to judge him on the stuff he elected not to release) that I actually dislike the experience of listening to. Though amongst the rest some tracks are obviously better than others (in some case by a looooooong way), all his other songs have something worthwhile to offer, in my opinion.

I Can't Help Falling In Love With You
If Dog's Run Free
In Search of Little Sadie
In The Summertime
It's All Good
Let's Stick Together
Little Sadie
Maybe Someday
Mr Bojangles
Neighborhood Bully
Ninety Miles and Hour (Down A Dead End Street)
O' Come All Ye Faithful
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Sally Sue Brown
Saving Grace
Shenandoah
Something's Burning Baby
T.V. Talkin' Song
The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
The First Noel
2 X 2
The Ugliest Girl In The World
Union Sundown
When The Night Comes Falling From the Sky
Wiggle Wiggle
You Wanna Ramble

Everything else, whack it on the stereo and let's have a party!

And back at my igloo the first song up could be You Wanna Ramble. That's a good 'un.

I always skip these:

Silvio
All Along the Watchtower
Masters of War
John Brown
Honest With Me
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee (boy do I hate this one, and boy does he play it a lot)

Down Along the Cove
All I Really Want To Do
Brownsville Girl
Silvio
Dark Eyes

My choice, too.

"Ugliest Girl in the World" is my 2nd choice. Downright embarrassing.

Interesting thread. I think "Brownsville Girl" and "Dark Eyes" are two of his very best songs. Strange how people who listen to the same music can be so far apart........

I forfot my list of 10-12 "skip" songs, also add Gospel Plow and Freight Train Blues. I do really like the first album however, overall. MEZ

and he should skip these ones too, although there are some great songs and not all were played yet in 2012. Hopefuly they are all gone for the next leg:

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (staccatooooooooooo!)
Ballad Of A Thin Man (was great but now It's time to quit)
Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Saturday)
Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Blind Willie McTell
Blowin' in the wind (arrangement)
Desolation Row (Stacatttooo , bad singing)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (boring, boring , boring, boring)
Forever Young (Ooooooooooooh I can't hear that anymore)
High Water (For Charley Patton)
Honest With Me (boooooooooring)
If You Ever Go To Houston (terrible song)
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (not one more time)
It Ain't Me, Babe
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Jolene
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
The Levee's Gonna Break
Like A Rolling Stone (pleasssse no more LARS)
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
Man In The Long Black Coat (arrangement)
Mississippi (the recent awful arrangement)
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Rollin' And Tumblin'
Simple Twist Of Fate (nice song but there are other sngfrom BOTT or Desire)
Spirit On The Water (uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh)
Summer Days
Tangled Up In Blue (how many time since???9
Things Have Changed
Thunder On The Mountain (enough is enough,...... hey that would be a nice replacement)
Tryin' To Get To Heaven (arrangement)
Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (I give up)


No, it's not that bad, but none of these songs was played and sung great since a couple of years.

^^
Sometimes I get the impression you'd rather have him quit touring altogether....

Made my point better than I did!

Of all the studio cuts I've heard so far, the following are those I have the hardest time sitting through:

Ballad in Plain D
It could've been bearable at a quarter of the length...

Girl from the North Country (Nashville Skyline version)
All the poignancy of the Freewheelin' masterpiece is gone, just totally gone.

If Dogs Run Free
It'd be fine without the scatting, but sadly said scatting is so bad that it ruins the whole thing.

With God on Our Side
Way too easy, and embarrassingly exploitative too. My least favorite Bob song, at least as of now.

There are several others I don't especially care for, but these are the only ones I'd really just rather do without.

I always liked "Ballad in Plain D" a lot. One problem with that song and several other ones from the album is that some of the lyrics needed revising. "A magnificent mantelpiece though its heart being chipped", "My pathway led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow", etc.

He was starting to fall into that trap in '64-'65, he needed some 'lectric chargin' to set his statuesque cruel gates back on the hollering rosebush's prickly thorns.

1. George Jackson (either version)
2. Mixed-Up Confusion
3. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
4. Workingman's Blues #2
5. All I Really Want To Do (is baby, hit the skip button)

Ballad in Plain D is embarrassing. Nothing comes close for me.


Everything else is at least interesting to me for one reason or another.

Ballad In Plain D
Masters Of War
North Country Blues
Talkin' World War III Blues
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
With God On Our Side

You've never been a miner, Carnap.

No but more to the point, I have listened to the song.

Same here.

NOOOOOOOO

I'm so lucky, I only have one but this one I truely hate: The Mighty Quinn

My Back Pages (too bad because it's an interesting song)
One More Cup of Coffee (his voice it trembles tra la la)
Stop Crying
Slow Train
Trouble (the absolute worst)
Death is not the End (still think this is revenge on Sony/Columbia for something or other)
Workingman's Blues (a very long fall from his early days; c'mon and just spit it out)

i must say there were no songs i really couldn't stand before the *crooning* period.

Yes, I dislike wanna ramble, ugliest girl, too, as most of us, but i actually do not skip them when listening to an album.


the only dylan songs i really can't stand came to light in 2001 with L&T (a very good album, per se....were it only for the presence of Mississippi & Sugar Baby).
but I can't really stand listening to:

Bye & Bye
Floater
Moonlight (!!!)
When The Deal Goes Down
Beyond The Horizon (!!!)
Life Is Hard