This powerful anti-authority anthem was used in the opening scene of the 1967 film Don’t Look Back, which featured Dylan in an alleyway holding up cards containing lyrics from the song. “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” another pivotal moment in rock history, seemed to capture the alienation intrinsic to the emergent counterculture. The song is a dense mass of wide-ranging allusions.
The musician, who started writing when the Cold War was at its height, dealt with a threat of a looming apocalypse created by the Cuban missile crisis in “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” Dylan, who tried out the song for a couple of friends ahead of debuting it in his first major concert at Carnegie Hall, was amazingly only 21 when he composed this searing indictment of the modern world. The song, an early chart hit for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1963, became an anthem of the civil rights movement, as did “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” a genuinely groundbreaking call-to-action song about the shifting generations (“come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don’t criticize what you can’t understand”). “It was that ‘I know something you don’t know.’ And I wanted to be that kind of performer.” That ability to capture the zeitgeist was evident even in the song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” one of his first and enduring masterpieces, written when he was living in New York’s Greenwich Village for the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. “All the great performers had something in their eyes,” Bob Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One. Listen to Bob Dylan’s best songs on Spotify or Apple Music. Tambourine Man,” “Just Like a Woman,” “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,” “I Shall Be Released,” or “Sara” – so let us know your favorites in the comments section at the end. Of course, there are bound to be lots of your favorites that did not make our list – wonderful songs such as “Make You Feel My Love,” “Mr.
Given his astonishing back catalogue, it’s an almost impossible task to narrow down the best Bob Dylan songs… but we’ve selected his 30 essential tracks as a sort of introduction to the master songwriter. Dylan’s meticulous craftsmanship as a lyricist has made him perhaps the most obsessively scrutinized and discussed artist in the history of popular music.
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