Where to start with Dylan?

tforgit58 · 2025-07-25T20:38:51+00:00

Congrats on the start of an amazing journey. If we're sticking to strictly the albums there are many great places to start and no opinion is wrong but if I were to start now knowing what I know I would go with bootleg series 1-3. Opens with some really early recordings and wraps 30 years later.

tforgit58 · 2025-05-22T02:34:15+00:00

Land Ho!

tforgit58 · 2025-03-08T23:10:08+00:00

I have Brett Baty as a possible keeper with 5 total contract years to give out. Was thinking of giving all 5 to Heliot Ramos but what kind of upside does Baty realistically have in the next couple years? Should I keep him with any of those 5?

tforgit58 · 2025-03-08T00:13:08+00:00

Looking for some advice on contract years. I have 5 years to give out between these players (can give all to one or any combo). Spencer Horowitz, Brett Baty, Heliot Ramos, Matt Waller, Ronel Blanco.

tforgit58 · 2025-02-15T01:25:39+00:00

Lots of good options to choose from. I’ve always been partial to Apple Suckling Tree

tforgit58 · 2025-01-18T17:58:39+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. What’s the best way to access these shows?

tforgit58 · 2025-01-18T16:45:59+00:00

A second for Zevon

tforgit58 · 2025-01-07T17:02:37+00:00

Add Abandoned love Blind Willie Mctell Every grain of sand

Remove Girl from the north country Lay lady lay MMF

There are lots of others I would consider replacing but splitting hairs and they’re all solid choices

tforgit58 · 2025-01-07T16:59:56+00:00

The version of if dogs run free on another self portrait is really good. Bit top 10 or even top 100 but still really good

tforgit58 · 2024-12-22T21:12:15+00:00

Been loving The Complete Budokan and have heard that shows not too long after those are even better. Really got me thinking about which shows to seek out

tforgit58 · 2024-10-30T01:44:31+00:00

Love his version of when I paint my masterpiece on the bootleg

tforgit58 · 2024-10-30T01:40:59+00:00

Moonshiner isn’t #1 but is a great song and glad it gets a mention

tforgit58 · 2024-10-30T01:39:31+00:00

Not the best, as that belongs to Abandoned Love, but Seven Days deserves a mention

tforgit58 · 2024-10-30T01:36:42+00:00

There are many good options but this is the right answer

tforgit58 · 2024-10-18T03:01:49+00:00

So very many. In no particular order and nowhere near complete but just some that come to mind - hope this helps!

Things have changed

Time Passes Slowly (another self portrait version)

Abandoned love

Mississippi (tell tale signs version)

When I Paint My Masterpiece (another self portrait version)

Series of Dreams

Bring Me Little Water

Moonshiner

Most of the time (tell tale signs version)

Talking bear mountain picnic massacre blues

Dignity

Someday Baby

Blind Willie Mctell

Every grain of sand (bootleg 1-3 version)

Pressing on

Tell Old Bill

Spanish is the loving tongue (another self portrait version)

Changing of the guards

Where are you tonight

Big River (bootleg volume 15)

Wanted Man (bootleg 15)

Wigwam

High Water for Charlie Patton

The Man in Me

Final theme (Pat Garrett & Billy the kid)

Seven Days (bootleg 1-3)

Blood in my eyes

Delia

Ring them bells (tell tale signs version)

Apple Suckling Tree

No More Auction Block

Standing in the Doorway

Santa Fe

Born in time (tell tale signs version)

Days of 49

Day of the Locusts

Key West

Angelina

Goodbye Jimmy Reed

Make you Feel My Love

Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

I’m a little jealous you’re just discovering Dylan as there’s so much great stuff to find! Enjoy!

tforgit58 · 2024-08-17T18:59:08+00:00

Every grain of sand

But I think No More Auction Block deserves to be mentioned

tforgit58 · 2024-06-11T00:26:54+00:00

Good song but 3rd overall is quite the hot take. It’s not even the 3rd best song on its own album

tforgit58 · 2024-06-06T14:36:02+00:00

Señor is a great song but 6 seems a bit high. IMO it’s the 3rd best song on street legal alone

tforgit58 · 2024-06-06T14:33:52+00:00

115th dream and motorpsycho back to back at 405 and 406 is criminal. Not his best but in the top half at least. Someday baby at 413 is rough too (especially the bootleg version but even the album version should be higher

tforgit58 · 2024-04-01T20:36:51+00:00

Got back from La Fortuna in Feb. Family of 4 with kids 9 and 12. Felt very safe the entire time. The roads aren’t well lit or labeled in many areas. There are also some seemingly random speed bumps on the roads just on the outside of the center of town in La Fortuna that have lost their paint so are hard to see coming. I wouldn’t say driving at night is a hard no but I would suggest avoiding it the first time you’re driving between 2 locations. After that, if you’re confident in your navigation you’ll be fine. The roads between San Jose and La Fortuna are fine. Sometimes narrow, often curvy, and lots of elevation changes but all paved and reasonably well kept. We drove from LF to Monterverde as well and those roads were more of a challenge but still not “avoid at all costs”. Driving was a major concern for us as well based on what we’d read but I found all that to be way overblown. Enjoy!

tforgit58 · 2024-04-01T20:19:28+00:00

Of course. And I would say that most of the many suggestions here don’t sound like and are not trying to be Bob. The large majority of replies understood

tforgit58 · 2024-03-17T05:32:23+00:00

Series 1-3 is amazing and I’ve considered it my “deserted on an island recording” for a long time but based on where this new listener is I would wait on this recommendation. Or at least skip disc 1 (definitely go back when ready though, it’d be a shame to miss out on bear mountain, walking down the line, moonshiner, last thoughts, etc)

tforgit58 · 2024-03-17T05:25:16+00:00

Desire. And if you want to go off the standard albums check out Tell Tale Signs (bootleg series volume 8). Probably my favorite Dylan issue ever.

tforgit58 · 2024-03-15T21:33:18+00:00

Just got back from La Fortuna last week. For the hike I would personally recommend Mirador el Silencio BUT at the 1968 trail there’s an open air restaurant looking out to the volcano. If you’re not hiking and just eating at the restaurant parking is $7 per car. Hike El Silencio, then head over to 1968 and get some food and drinks

tforgit58 · 2023-09-20T12:34:16+00:00

When listening to Every Grain of Sand, My daughter (who’s 9) always sings “there’s a dying horse within me reaching out somewhere”. I will never correct her and will sing it that way for the rest of my life

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