These Bob Dylan Deep Cuts Are Just as Good as the Hits

[@LastFewSpins]

What’s your all-time favorite Bob Dylan track?

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

Around 250 of them.

[@bigbabycenz]

Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

[@LastFewSpins]

@@Anthony-hu3rj Then is it a 350-way tie for second? 😄

[@bromley3333]

What day is it?

[@LastFewSpins]

@@bromley3333 😂 Must have a different one for each day huh?

[@patschickel8687]

Thanks for this.. I have e been a fan for 60 years so I've to see young Dylan fans.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@patschickel8687 I truly think his music will live forever through many generations! A once in a lifetime songwriter for sure. Thank you for watching!

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

Good effort!! Thank you for Digging deeper

[@LastFewSpins]

@@raindeerprojekt4119 I appreciate that! Any other artists you’d like to see covered in this format?

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

@@LastFewSpins Honestly TOM WAITS is a Fascinating Guy, Great Songwriter and Actor. I am Sure you know of him of course. lol But Tom Waits is Neat , Cheers I shall Sub

[@LastFewSpins]

@ I know a few Tom Waits tracks but he’s on my list of complete discographies to check out! That may take some time to learn all of his stuff but - challenge accepted. 😂

[@TomOHare-r4l]

Bob Dylan...hippest dude on the planet for over 60 years! Simply put-- you could have made a top 100 Deep Cuts and it wouldn't have been enough. But did appreciate and enjoy the video. Cheers.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@TomOHare-r4l He just emits coolness haha. Yeah I love seeing everyone’s different choices for songs they would have put. There’s so many but also there’s really no wrong answers either. Thank you for the kind words my guy!

[@walterbortz355]

Agree with you about Infidels. Jokerman is nothing short of sublime with just jaw dropping lyricism.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@walterbortz355 Plus I always love to exaggerate the ohhh oh whoa’s at the end of the chorus. Lol

[@gilchristhaas9865]

Dude. You’re the first Dylan fan who has ever agreed with me that Down in the Groove is way underrated. It’s probably because it consists half of covers. But the Band, arrangements, and Dylan’s vocals are solid from start to finish, and “Rank Strangers to Me” is one of Dylan’s greatest ever covers.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@gilchristhaas9865 Yeah man us Down in the Groove fans have to stick together! Lol. Definitely agree with what you said - “Death is Not The End” is another one I love on that one.

[@GaryDuBose-b7h]

Journey Through Dark Heat (Where are you tonight?) from Street Legal is fabulous. I've never understood why it doesn't get more credit from Dylan fans. That entire album is underrated.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@GaryDuBose-b7h I love Street Legal as well! That song along with True Love Tends to Forget are underrated.

[@scottsmith1712]

I was going to make (pretty much) the same comment.

[@kitdewd329]

Highway 61, Blood on the tracks, Desire, and Street Legal are my favorite Dylan albums.

[@LastFewSpins]

@ Oh yeah I could just make an entire video about Blood on the Tracks I think!

[@flyer5347]

Idiot Wind and Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again are both top 10 Dylan tracks for me

[@LastFewSpins]

@flyer5347 Nice! How good is your Dylan impression when you’re singing along to those choruses? 😄

[@flyer5347]

​@LastFewSpins I've got my Blonde On Blonde era Dylan impression down quite well!

[@LastFewSpins]

@ Haha yeah that signature nasally sound never gets old. 😂

[@junahsutton1602]

stuck inside of mobile is #1 for me

[@trudy5963]

Dirge, Hazel, I Want You. I have been a fan since I was 15 and he was 25. You came up with one I'd never heard!!! Like you, I don't know which ones are deep cuts, but I never hear anyone talk about Dirge. Hazel. I Dreamed I saw St Augustine. Angelina, to name just a few.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@trudy5963 Those are ones I’m not sure even i’m familiar with off the top of my head! Would definitely say they’re deep cuts though. I’ll be looking those up.

[@grossy25]

One of my favorite Dylan album s is Street Legal. Where are you tonight(Journey through Dark Heat) is an amazing song.

[@LastFewSpins]

Street Legal was up there in my top 10 albums of his! I really like his 80's output just as much as anything.

[@blindbiohacker]

Stuck Inside of Mobile sealed my love for Dylan. This song was featured in Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@blindbiohacker Funny how there’s always that one song that ultimately hooks you into an artist. I think Tangled Up in Blue might be that one for me.

[@trudy5963]

Impossible to name a favorite - whichever one I'm listening to, except for Lay, Lady Lay.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@trudy5963 Lay Lady Lay is one you really love or one you’re not fond of?

[@trudy5963]

@ Just never cared for it.

[@808bunky]

There's such an endless well of great deep cuts from Dylan. One of my favorites now is Roll on John from Tempest. It's the last song & it's a nice heartfelt tribute to John Lennon.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@808bunky Yeah man his more recent stuff has a real meaningful feel to it. The type of art that can only be made my someone like him who has decades of songwriting under him.

[@johnwilde164]

I don't know if it qualifies as a deep cut, but one song I like is Not Dark Yet.: "I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies / I ain’t lookin' for nothin' in anyone’s eyes / Sometimes my burden is more than I can bear / It’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin' there"

[@LastFewSpins]

@@johnwilde164 Hey we’ll count it haha. I love that song too.. kind of along the same vibe as Most of the Time I feel like.

[@cdnpicker]

Blind Wille Mctell, two from his MTV Unplugged, Dignity and my favourite version of Desolation Row, Duquesne Whistle, Dixie from the Masked and Anonymous Soundtrack, any of his humorous songs, I shall be free, Talkin’ World War III Blues, 115th Dream and his duet his with Ralph Stanley of The Stanley Brothers classic The Lonesome River (if you haven’t heard their Rank Strangers I highly recommend it) House Carpenter, especially through the lens that some see it through, the other side of the Man in The Long Black Coat. I’d better stop. Another Down in the groove fan here start to finish, Stuck Inside of Mobile is a classic.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@cdnpicker Haha you didn’t have to make yourself stop! I also really love Desolation Row and I Shall Be Free. Kind of a random side note but have you ever listened to The War on Drugs? One of their most well-known songs from a couple years ago (I Don’t Live Here Anymore) is an absolute banger and he mentions Desolation Row in his lyrics at one point. The dude kinda even sounds like Bob.

[@cdnpicker]

@@LastFewSpins no, haven’t heard War on Drugs, will try to find it. Forgot to comment on Most of the Time, I have no idea how this one slipped under the radar. The MTV unplugged Desolation Row is my favourite version. Million Miles is another.

[@LastFewSpins]

@cdnpicker It’s called I Don’t Live Here Anymore - my bad, forgot to type that before 😂

[@JackfruitMistletoe]

"Angelina" from the Bootleg Series 1-3 (from the Shot Of Love sessions, I think). Similarly "Caribbean Winds" from Biograph (1985) from the Shot of Love sessions as well. Both fantastic songs. If you're looking from something from an album - "Black Diamond Bay" from Desire is just great, lyrics, phrasing, storytelling, melody.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@JackfruitMistletoe I need to familiarize myself with more of those bootlegs! Can tell from a lot of these comments I’ve been missing out.

[@junahsutton1602]

my favorite Dylan deep cut is the 1976 live version of shelter from the storm, released on the album hard rain (live). The original take of this song from Blood on the Tracks is great, but something about this full band, amped up take of the song just adds so much to song.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@junahsutton1602 Haven’t heard that live album yet but I’ll be checking that out tomorrow! I do love the production on Blood on the Tracks but I can see how those tracks would probably translate well live.

[@mikeavera7712]

Black Diamond Bay is another great one

[@LastFewSpins]

@@mikeavera7712 Pretty good Desire track!

[@denniswinters2541]

First off, I thought Murder Most Foul was No.1 on Billboard.Queen Jane Approximately, Temporary Like Achilles,This Wheels On Fire,Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, Black Diamond Bay,Senor, Standing in the Doorway, Ain't Talkin'.Man I better stop now.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@denniswinters2541 Yeah I was shocked that nothing hit #1! Proof that you don’t need those to have a legendary career though. Haha those are some great picks!

[@johnpwrites]

Good job with digging for Dylan gold 😊

[@LastFewSpins]

@@johnpwrites Thank you! There was so much to choose from. Lol

[@bromley3333]

Summer Days from Love and Theft, Beyond Here Lies Nothing off same, Rolling and Tumbling off Modern Times are all tremendous later Dylan tracks

[@LastFewSpins]

@@bromley3333 There’s just something about the gruff in his voice in those 2000’s-Present albums that allowed his music to age pretty gracefully. Good ones!

[@StonefieldJim4]

It's odd how 'deep cut' has become a fashionable term - presumably it exists to remind people that artists make albums, something to listen to from beginning to end. This is not a new idea to most of us, so the idea of a 'deep cut' is strange. Albums tracks aren't hidden: they're right there in front of you. My brother's favourite Dylan track is 'Stuck Inside of Mobile'. He doesn't know Dylan's work well, so it can't be that 'deep' (although it certainly is by a different definition of 'deep').

[@LastFewSpins]

@@StonefieldJim4 Great points. I’m an album guy first and foremost but yeah it has became a term that’s used more often over time it seems.

[@buretto66]

Good point. I liked the Fontaines DC album last year for a couple songs, but honestly, 60% of it was still atmospheric fluff. Same with Billie Eilish. Crafting complete albums with thematic yet discretely individual tracks, is just not fashionable these days, I guess.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@buretto66 Which Fontaines songs were fluff? 😅

[@bonniedavidson936]

I really liked the 80 s Christian period. That’s when I really got to like Bob Dylan. Good list. I would add. Grain of Sand. On Shot of Love cd. Thanks

[@LastFewSpins]

@@bonniedavidson936 I need to revisit Grain of Sand, thank you for the recommendation Bonnie!

[@bonniedavidson936]

It’s a beautiful song. Love so much his stuff.

[@savoirfaire3469]

You missed Foot of Pride and Blind Willie McTell

[@LastFewSpins]

@@savoirfaire3469 Blind Willie McTell has popped up a couple times here for sure!

[@MrPhilipBallard]

Jokerman is sooooo goood.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@MrPhilipBallard I’m with you there my friend! License to Kill also has that same feel.. such an underrated era of Dylan.

[@NRMidgley]

Current favorite deep cut is Went to See the Gypsy

[@LastFewSpins]

@@NRMidgley A New Morning track! I love Day of the Locusts off of that one as well.

[@NRMidgley]

@@LastFewSpins that's a great one. And on Oh Mercy, while I absolutely love Most of the Time, Ring Them Bells is right up there as well. Absolutely incredible production and lyrics on that album.

[@maggiebryan2355]

Its hard to pick a few i love loads

[@LastFewSpins]

How about Maggie's Farm?!

[@saml302]

Stuck Inside of Mobile isn't much of a deep cut, a lot of artists have covered it. otherwise a very solid list and for folks looking for more Dylan content check out Tastes Like Music and their Discovering Bob Dylan series

[@LastFewSpins]

@@saml302 I love Tastes Like Music! Have been watching their channel since 2020.

[@alanbrown8527]

A deep cut first released as a B-Side to the single Gotta Serve Somebody was Trouble In Mind. Blistering Christian blues rock with incredible lyrics and vocals. How he did not include this on the album Slow Train Coming is mind boggling. Check it out.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@alanbrown8527 What’s up man, just gave that one a whirl! As much as he got into singing that one I’ll agree it’s crazy he didn’t put it on there. Seemed like he was into the performance in the studio at least!

[@IsisMusic]

No Dylan fan is offended, great

[@LastFewSpins]

@@IsisMusic I somehow managed to get through unscathed. 😂

[@IsisMusic]

I am an atheist but I love the Christian albums. Thats what Dylan does to your brain

[@LastFewSpins]

@@IsisMusic I definitely didn’t expect those to be as good as they were when I went into them. Not everyone could pull that off!

[@wespenre3418]

I agree. I'm a Dylan fan since early 70s, and Infidels is on my top 5 list. There are some outtake versions that are even better than the final arrangements, but the songs on this album are very strong. He was inspired. Maybe it was because of Mark Knopfler and Mick Taylor backing him up, I don't know. There is no song on this album that's not good.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@wespenre3418 yeah man Infidels has some killer guitar parts - especially in Union Sundown I feel like you can hear that extra guitar influence most.

[@xxcelr8rs]

The three seconds of Man of Peace just sounds like Waylon.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@xxcelr8rs Music-wise I can totally see that.

[@datainte]

Yeah, you are right about "Property of Jesus" being an excellently crafted song. It hasn't got much attention because of it's content, which you are right, comes on kinda strong. But isn't that what we love about Bob Dylan? He is no half way kinda of guy. If he has something worth saying, he is gonna say it, and let he is gonna let the chips fall where they may. He just ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more! There are some great jabs in this song at people like John Lennon who was upset by Dylan's conversion to Christ because it seemed to go against everything Dylan had previously represented. So Dylan writes: "Remind him of what he used to be when he comes walkin’ through." And he puts himself in the sits in the seat of scoffers: "Hope he falls upon himself, oh, won’t that be sweet." What is great in this song is that Dylan's recognition that everyone is serving some kind of king. "Because he doesn’t pay no tribute to the king that you serve." You might be a rock ’n’ roll addict prancing on the stage You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage You may be a businessman or some high-degree thief They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You’re gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody You can laugh at salvation, you can play Olympic games You think that when you rest at last [i.e. When you die] you’ll go back from where you came But you’ve picked up quite a story [a story of sin and pending judgement] and you’ve changed since the womb What happened to the real you, you’ve been captured but by whom? [You been captured by Satan, who sometimes comes as a man of peace.] A couple of wise women, understood the dynamic power latent in this great song. Chrissie Hynde used it as a closer for a couple of her concerts. You gotta love the grove that gets set up in her amazing cover: tinyurl.com/ChrissieHynde1 Then check out Sinead O'Connor on the Chimes Of Freedom Album: tinyurl.com/SineadOConnor9 These ladies knew that you can throw down some strong declamations when you attack the work of the devil and his minions.

[@LastFewSpins]

@datainte You’re right! Bob Dylan has never done anything in a weak way which says a lot considering he’s had to keep up that kind of work ethic within his song craft over decades. I honestly had no idea about the jab at Lennon so you’re teaching me quite a bit over here! Funny you mention Chrissie Hynde because I just got done going through all of the Pretenders records. Had no idea she covered that Dylan song but I’ll give it a listen!

[@bigbabycenz]

These are all great picks, some of which (the 80s stuff) I'm not familiar with. It seems we have similar taste in Dylan's music, so I'm eager to check that stuff out, especially the Infidels album. You rated the Freewheelin' album pretty highly--is it your favorite album of his like it is for me?

[@LastFewSpins]

@@bigbabycenz It definitely it! Top 3 albums for me are Freewheelin’, Infidels, Blonde on Blonde From the 80’s, Empire Burlesque is another solid one. Almost put the track “Tight Connection to my Heart” on the list from that one.

[@kitdewd329]

Not one song from “Desire?“ Sara is one of his greatest songs.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@kitdewd329 Don’t hate me but Desire just didn’t hit me as hard as some of his others! But I just went and listened to Sara again - I enjoyed it quite a bit this time around.

[@kitdewd329]

@ listen to the whole album again. It’s truly stunning.

[@LastFewSpins]

@ I will when I’m going for a walk later! Thank you 😄

[@hoot444]

High Water

[@xKillZone99]

i don't think anything on blood on the tracks could be considered a deep cut tbh

[@LastFewSpins]

@@xKillZone99 Fair point! Honestly I was tempted to talk about Tangled Up in Blue because I love that song but I thought that could cross the line. Lol

[@xKillZone99]

@LastFewSpins i think that's probably his most well known song today tbh

[@buretto66]

Idiot Wind is a deep cut? I'd say 'Standing in the Doorway' and 'I and I'.

[@bobpenny8011]

The first two of these songs were the biggest hits on their respective albums, not exactly deep cuts for a person like Dylan. On the plus side, a big "yeah" on Infidels.

[@LastFewSpins]

@@bobpenny8011 Fair point! Still probably songs that not many in the general public know though.