![]() Though Dylan wouldn’t excommunicate himself from the folk scene until he went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, “My Back Pages” was his public dismissal of his old identity as the de facto spokesman for the deeply entwined folk and protest movements, nearly a year before the fateful Newport set. And beyond the distaff side of “Sweetheart,” Dyland offers a couplet for ethos with the prescient pronouncement: “Steal a little and they throw you in jail/ Steal a lot and they make you king.” It’s a song that offers more truth to the reality of women in the workplace, as well as in love. Believed to be written about his ‘80s/’90s business associate Deborah Gold, the notion of “you could be known as the most beautiful woman to crawl across cut glass to make a deal” rings true for generations of women. “Sweetheart Like You”īob Dylan is nobody’s feminist, but with this lean ballad, he offers a truth about the challenges facing those pioneering women in the music business. Tracing his beginnings as a folky troubadour in the style of Woody Guthrie to his career-defining burst into electric guitar-based rock to his mid-career mysticisms to his later experiments and covers, here is Paste’s version of the 42 best songs by Bob Dylan. Between his recent Nobel Prize in Literature and his upcoming triple-album of classics, aptly entitled Triplicate, due on Friday, The Bard is cementing his place in the history of rock ‘n’ roll even more permanently.Īfter polling our writers, editors, freelancers, and interns, nearly 100 Dylan songs received votes. America’s most beloved musical poet is having a resurgence of cool.
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