Like A Rolling Stone

Who enjoys this song? This gets me in the best mood a song can take me. The lyrics are so awesome. Who'd think a song back in the 60's would sound like a rap song of so much of the rhyming. This is truly a great song. Probably one of my favorites. So much of the slang that you hear now from gangsters and ghetto girls with attitude actually come from back then. Like when he says "Thinking that they got it made". And one of the best lines I have ever heard in this pleasure we call music came from this song. It's when Dylan says "When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose". Who says that!? Seriously a true rock n' roll song. Who else finds this song incredible?

It's a good song. Like virtually every Dylan song, superbly written. I just wish it was originally performed by someone who could sing.

I've heard it so many times now that I can't really appreciate it anymore. I'd rather go for his more obscure stuff.

A great song indeed. A relatively poor singer indeed.

I don't find his singing poor. Maybe a little off but not poor.

It was covered by the Stones themselves, but this is one of the few Bob Dylan songs that I reckon Bob did better himself.

Anyway, great song. Comfortably in my top ten of all time.

Yeah, it's a good song. I wouldn't say it's Dylan's best, though.

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Originally Posted by Cz

Yeah, it's a good song. I wouldn't say it's Dylan's best, though.

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That goes to "My Back Pages". :)

Am I the only person who likes Dylan's voice? :{

But yeah, I really like the song.

It's Bob Dylan, and it's one of his best songs - of course it's fantastic, and he has/had one the best voices in music. I think I like Tangled Up in Blue best of his songs on a random note.

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Originally Posted by Skogs

It was covered by the Stones themselves, but this is one of the few Bob Dylan songs that I reckon Bob did better himself.

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Actually it's the only Dylan song I know but when I said favorites I meant of all time.

great tune...my fav is 4th time around

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Originally Posted by Araciel

great tune...my fav is 4th time around

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i originally named my fantasy football team that but i decided it was too obscure and didn't really sound like a team name. great song, though.

Dylan has a great voice, it just isn't traditionally beautiful.

very distinctive, which, while not aesthetically pleasing to everyone, still means it has an intrinsic beauty due to its uniqueness

well, it's possible to have a unique voice that is not very beautiful, like joanna newsom.

hahaha

a lot of people who like dylan would say they don't like his voice...which i can understand, and those who don't listen to a lot of his music tend not to notice the subtleties of what he does ... oh well

i think it's great

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Originally Posted by charliepanayi

It's Bob Dylan, and it's one of his best songs - of course it's fantastic, and he has/had one the best voices in music. I think I like Tangled Up in Blue best of his songs on a random note.

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Tangled Up in Blue is currently my favourite too. :D Beautiful song.

I think Dylan's amazing. This was the first song of his I heard, and the lyrics...amazing. The music...amazing beyond amazing. The strains of his harmonica are just so unique, especially in this song. Dylan's voice is the only voice I can ever imagine singing his songs -- he has a beautifullly unpredictable way of slurring his words and holding on; someone with a "perfect" way of singing wouldn't be able to do that, imho. :)

EDIT: NO! >:O I must rave about him more! It's just so distinctive and so trademark-Dylan, innit? His voice. His lack (until the latter years anyway) of electric gee-tar. His loverly little harmonica. You can just always KNOW it's Dylan, and it's beautiful when it's like that. ^_^

It's a great song, but it just isn't weird enough. I prefer "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again".

One of the better pop songs of the 20th century, I'd say. I love that line about how "you used to ride on your chrome horse with your diplomat who carried on his shoulders a siamese cat" and "You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used"

Yes, Bob Dylan was a genius. He's definetly the best popular musician of the 20th century in my mind.

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Tangled Up in Blue is currently my favourite too.

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Every word in that song glows like burning coal.

the song (rolling stone) is supposedly about Edie Sedgwick, an Andy Warhol acolyte who fell out of high society with drug problems and whatnot.

stuck inside of mobile is so great. I love the lines "An' here I sit so patiently/Waiting to find out what price/You have to pay to get out of/Going through all these things twice."