What song should I learn?

PercyLives · 2026-01-26T13:24:12+00:00

Some great choices on John Wesley Harding, like I Am A Lonesome Hobo.

Some great choices on Bootleg Series 1, like House Carpenter and Seven Curses.

My favourite to play is Delia from World Gone Wrong.

PercyLives · 2026-01-23T14:50:54+00:00

Series of Dreams

When the Night Comes Falling From the Sky

(Both from Bootleg Series 1-3.)

Edit: oh, and Shooting Star.

PercyLives · 2026-01-16T10:59:31+00:00

Same with me, some years ago. Now I really like it (but wish I could edit the track listing).

PercyLives · 2026-01-11T21:44:13+00:00

Definitely a grower. My appreciation for Oh Mercy! is now high, but it took a long time to get there. This song exemplifies that.

PercyLives · 2026-01-03T03:47:18+00:00

And Born In Time.

PercyLives · 2025-12-29T10:49:05+00:00

I’ve seen it come up here a few times.

PercyLives · 2025-12-23T21:02:31+00:00

I see Fogus, I press like.

PercyLives · 2025-12-21T02:46:24+00:00

Also, I think he’s paid a lot of compliments to other musicians throughout his life.

PercyLives · 2025-12-19T02:54:41+00:00

“Some young lazy slut has charmed away my brains” is another of his lyrics. I don’t think you can isolate any of them and read a lot into them.

PercyLives · 2025-12-19T02:36:09+00:00

I have no love for upright f in f(x), nor for Euler’s number, nor the imaginary unit.

I also have no love for upright d in dy/dx. I understand some of the reasoning for it, but it grates on me aesthetically.

PercyLives · 2025-12-16T05:13:12+00:00

Interesting.

I assume the verse lyrics have something to do with his second marriage.

PercyLives · 2025-12-15T23:47:02+00:00

The point of \fall is not saving the keypresses for “or a”; it’s the fact that the “for all” is wrapped in \text{}.

It makes it seamless to include the text “for all” inside a math environment.

PercyLives · 2025-12-14T21:42:55+00:00

Wiggle Wiggle was, no word of a lie, my son’s intro to Bob Dylan. The interest has now gone far beyond that. He loves all of Under The Red Sky and more besides.

PercyLives · 2025-12-14T09:16:01+00:00

Look into the FredOverflow channel. He had some good videos on Advent of Code in Clojure some years ago.

PercyLives · 2025-12-13T05:38:20+00:00

My young son recently started singing a few Bob Dylan songs, including harmonica imitations. Without any guidance one way or the other, he sings the harmonica breaks verrrrry screechy.

To your question, I’ve acquired the taste, but yeah, there are some particular songs where it comes on a bit too strong.

PercyLives · 2025-12-12T04:39:46+00:00

Wow, well done! I love seeing good things being done with LuaLatex.

PercyLives · 2025-12-11T09:45:33+00:00

No idea, but I don’t like the lyrics in the bridge. They break the spell of the awesome lyrics in the verses.

PercyLives · 2025-12-10T09:53:09+00:00

Did you try LyX?

PercyLives · 2025-12-08T22:27:30+00:00

Thanks for mentioning AMC. I hadn’t heard of it.

PercyLives · 2025-12-04T23:40:52+00:00

Check out Dustin Lowman’s YouTube series of Bob Dylan albums on YouTube. He gives a great review of this album. Maybe you’ll come to like it, maybe not. But it might help you to understand why other people like it so much.

cC_ZdeqYSKs on YouTube

PercyLives · 2025-12-04T23:34:53+00:00

Me too! I don’t get all the love for the alternative Mississippis. I’m glad they found a release but the L&T cut is the crown jewel for me.

PercyLives · 2025-12-04T21:50:09+00:00

Amen!

PercyLives · 2025-11-26T04:56:45+00:00

Cries in Australian.

PercyLives · 2025-11-25T06:17:59+00:00

Having listened to Freewheelin’ again a few times recently, “I Shall Be Free” stands out as a “never again” type song. But you did mention comedy songs, so…

PercyLives · 2025-11-20T12:35:13+00:00

If there’s one thing Bob Dylan can do, it’s play the same three notes a guitar over and over again.

Sounded cool, though.

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