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If you've ever gone through a serious break-up you've probably found Bob Dylan, so I'm asking now, which songs helped you through each stage?

Me?

Initial: Desolation Row
Intermediate 1: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Intermediate 2: It's Alright Ma (I'm only Bleeding)
Angry: Idiot Wind
Intermediate 3: Tambourine Man
Intermediate 4: Ballad of a Thin Man
Acceptance: Lay Lady Lay

I dislike him, his son is better.

I dislike him, his son is better.

Hard to respond to such silliness.

For great Dylan relationship anguish listen to Time Out of Mind. One of Dylan's best and certainly his best in the past 20 years.

The only Bob Dylan songs I like are Tangled Up In Blue, Highway 61, and Subterranean Homesick Blues. None of them are breakup songs though, so I'm not sure why I'm even posting here. They're sealing the parking lot outside my window. The fumes are trickling in. Volatile organics are making me feel just slightly off kilter. Wish I could drink beer at work.

For another Dylan song that's kinda break up related: Don't think twice, it's alright

Usually when I'm breaking up with someone I listen to Beck's Sea Change album, it's useful for crying one's eyes out.

Bob Dylan songs are great as long as someone else is singing them. In my opinion, his voice is terrible. Like nails on a chalkboard annoying.

Bob Dylan songs are great as long as someone else is singing them. In my opinion, his voice is terrible. Like nails on a chalkboard annoying.


ive always compared him to someone strangling a cat.

Bob Dylan songs are great as long as someone else is singing them. In my opinion, his voice is terrible. Like nails on a chalkboard annoying.
I saw him in concert once in 1995. He was touring with the Grateful Dead. You couldn't tell what the hell he was singing.

ive always compared him to someone strangling a cat.

It's awful. The lyrics and melodies are great, but my God at his voice. His son sounds much better.

Bob Dylan songs are great as long as someone else is singing them. In my opinion, his voice is terrible. Like nails on a chalkboard annoying.
I like his voice.

It's awful. The lyrics and melodies are great, but my God at his voice. His son sounds much better.


yeah thank god he didnt get daddys vocal "talent?"

No "Girl from the North Country"?

For shame, people, for shame.

This is like listening to a group of 16th century Florentines sitting around trashing Leonardo da Vinci.

This is like listening to a group of 16th century Florentines sitting around trashing Leonardo da Vinci.
Meh, da Vinci was a hack. Nobody liked his latest movie.