From: GC015@vd.seqeb.gov.au
Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
Subject: Your 5 songs over 5 minutes
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:23:43 EST
Organization: South East Queensland Electricity Board

Thought it was time to stimulate some more talk on the system.

What I'd like to know is what are your top 5 Dylan songs which are longer than
5 minutes. I have provided a list of those songs which fit the criteria from
the studio albums only, because of the obvious problems with live versions,
whether bootleg or commercial. I haven't included outtakes, because the list is
probably too bloody long now!

If you find that the list is incomplete (because I missed a song or two) please
email me ASAP.

The times next to each song and therefore their inclusion was determined by one
of the folllowing ways:
        - printed on the CD or LP cover or disk;
        - where the above wasn't available I timed it with a stop watch.

So no flames if my timing is out by a few seconds. Put it down to slow response
time as I get older ;-].

My selection is:
1. Desolation Row
2. Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts
3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
4. A Hard Rain's a-gonna Fall
5. Idiot Wind / Jokerman (couldn't decide here)

Those that just missed out were: Tangled Up in Blue, Tweeter & the Monkey Man,
Brownsville Girl, It's Alright Ma, Visions of Johanna, Shelter from the
Storm... Now you'll find out hard it is!!

A Hard Rain's a-gonna Fall     6.52   The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 5.43
With God on Our Side           7.05   Restless Farewell                    5.34
Chimes of Freedom              7.10   Ballad in Plain D                    8.14
Mr Tambourine Man              5.22   Gates of Eden                        5.35
It's Alright Ma                7.22   Like a Rolling Stone                 5.58
Tombstone Blues                5.49   Ballad of a Thin Man                 5.51
Queen Jane Approximately       5.19   Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues          5.20
Desolation Row                11.09   Visions of Johanna                   7.26
Stuck Inside a Mobile with..   6.57   Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands       11.16
Dirge                          5.40   Forever Young                        5.00
Tangled Up in Blue             5.40   Idiot Wind                           7.45
Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of.. 8.50   Shelter from the Storm               5.00
Going to Acapulco              5.25   Hurricane                            8.20
Isis                           6.46   Joey                                10.52
Romance in Durango             5.40   Black Diamond Bay                    7.18
Sara                           5.20   Changing of the Guards               6.27
No Time to Think               8.20   Senor                                5.24
Where are You Tonight          6.15   Baby Stop Crying                     5.17
Gotta Serve Somebody           5.23   Precious Angel                       6.30
I believe in You               5.08   Slow Train                           5.57
Gonna Change my way of Think.. 5.27   When You Gonna Wakeup                5.28
Every Grain of Sand            6.06   Jokerman                             6.12
Man of Peace                   6.27   Union Sundown                        5.21
I & I                          5.10   Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight       5.54
Tight Connection to My Heart   5.19   When the Night Comes Falling from..  7.18
Dark Eyes                      5.04   Brownsville Girl                    11.01
Death is not the End           5.06   Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest 5.33
Most of the Time               5.02   What was it You Wanted               5.02
Tweeter and the Monkey Man     5.30   Bob Dylan's 115th Dream              6.26
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