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Update 29.05.2014: Poll closed & Top 40 are posted further down in this post.

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Well we have finished our 5 polls focusing on the different decades:

• Bob Dylan’s best songs from the 1960s
• Bob Dylan: 30 best songs from the 1970s
• Bob Dylan: 30 best songs from the 1980s
• Bob Dylan: 31 best songs from the 1990s
• Bob Dylan: His 30 best songs from 2000 – 2012

Now it’s time to simply ask: What are Bob Dylan’s 10 best songs ?

Now is that too much to ask ? 😉

We challenge you to put together a top 10 list, or at least 10 songs (if you only provide a top 5 list, they will count as well). Songs 1-5 will receive 2 points each & 6-10 will receive 1 point.

The poll will close on Tuesday.. ca 17:00 London time (12:00 New York time).

Here are my top 10:

1. Visions Of Johanna
2. Like A Rolling Stone
3. Tangled Up in Blue
4. Ballad Of A Thin Man
5. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
6. Blind Willie McTell (electric version)
7. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
8. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
9. Desolation Row
10. Idiot Wind (New York version)

And Hallgeir’s:

1. Blind Willie McTell
2. Like a Rolling Stone
3. Tangled Up In Blue
4. Ballad Of A Thin Man
5. Every Grain Of Sand
6. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
7. It’s All Right Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
8. Visions Of Johanna
9. Brownsville Girl
10. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll

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Use the comments section in this post or move over to our facebook page and comment on my post there.
Now… cast your votes…

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Update 29.05.2014:

• 57 people voted
• 143 different songs were voted on

Thanks for the input folks… this is GREAT list.

Here are the results of the JV community jury:

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1	Like A Rolling Stone (1965)	67 points
2	Tangled Up In Blue (1974)	61 points
3	Visions of Johanna (1966)	46 points
4	Blind Willie McTell (1983)	34 points
5	It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (1965)	33 points
6	Desolation Row (1965)	28 points
6	Every Grain of Sand (1981)	28 points
8	Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)	25 points
9	A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (1962)	22 points
10	Idiot Wind (1974)	19 points
11	Not Dark Yet (1997)	17 points
12	Don’t Think Twice (1962)	14 points
13	Mississippi (2001*)	13 points
14	Changing Of The Guards (1978)	12 points
15	Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (1966)	11 points
16	Ballad Of A Thin Man (1965)	10 points
16	It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (1965)	10 points
16	Jokerman (1983)	10 points
16	The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (1963)	10 points
20	All Along The Watchtower (1967)	9 points
20	Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965)	9 points
20	Things Have Changed (1999)	9 points
23	Brownsville Girl (1984**)	8 points
23	One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) (1966)	8 points
23	Shelter From The Storm (1974)	8 points
23	Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (1966)	8 points
27	Born In Time (1989***)	7 points
27	Forever Young (1973)	7 points
27	Gates Of Eden (1965)	7 points
27	Red River Shore (1997)	7 points
27	Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) (1978)	7 points
27	Simple Twist Of Fate (1974	7 points
33	Abandoned Love (1975)	6 points
33	Blowin’ In The Wind (1962)	6 points
33	Highway 61 Revisited (1965)	6 points
33	I Shall Be Released (1967****)	6 points
33	Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965)	6 points
33	Positively 4th Street (1965)	6 points
33	Series Of Dreams (1989)	6 points
33	She’s Your Lover Now (1966)	6 points

* first recorded in 1997 & 3 versions was released on “Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006” in 2008. They sound a bit unfinished and a wise (not always the case) Dylan left them in studio & recorded “Mississippi” again in May 2001 for the “Love & Theft” album. This one just a masterpiece.

** It was originally recorded as “New Danville Girl” @ Cherokee Studio, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California 6 December 1984. Overdubbed May 1986 for the “Knocked Out Loaded” album.

*** first recorded in 1989 during the “Oh Mercy” sessions. 2 versions from these sessions were released on “Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006” in 2008. The best version is from these sessions. In 1990 it was recorded & released on “Under The Red Sky”.

**** first recorded with The Band @ the “Basement Tapes” sessions in late summer 1967. This is the best version. Dylan recorded the song a second time in 1971, releasing this new version on Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II.

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Check out:

• Bob Dylan: Like A Rolling Stone, Newcastle, England 21 May 1966 (video)
• Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In Blue, Boston 21 November 1975
• Bob Dylan: 10 live versions of “Visions of Johanna” (Videos & audios)
• Bob Dylan: Blind Willie McTell, Manchester, England 9 May 2002 (Video)
• Bob Dylan: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding), Stockholm, Sweden 28 March 2007 (Video)
• Bob Dylan – Top 200 songs according to Egil

Spotify playlist:

-Egil