Number 841 - Bob Dylan



Number 841

Bob Dylan

“The Hurricane”

(1976)
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Genre:Singer/Songwriter


Now as you all know, well some of you anyway, that i am not the worlds biggest fan of the singing muse Bob Dylan.

I saw Bob Dylan in the 80’s in concert with Tom Petty. I went along to see the main man Dylan and i wasn’t to fussed about Tom Petty singing as i just wasn’t into his music. That Changed. Bob Dylan litrally fell asleep on stage bored with his audience and bored with music generally. I don’t know what was going on in his head on that day bit it was obvious he didn’t want to be there.
However i paid some good money to be there. Up to the batters plate stepped up one Tom Petty and SAVED the concert with a home run of songs.
After that concert you could say i was a convicted “Petty” thief. I lost respect in Dylan as one of the greats after that concert but at least i walked away with a better admiration for Tom Petty. However all things being equal, i do like Hurricane song very much and is a most worthy entry in “The Definitive 1000″ . I guess Bob “gave a shit” that day when he recorded it in the studio.

For more Bob Dylan see Number 929
For Tom Petty see Number 969

Rolling Stone Top 500 Songs ranked this song at Number (Rolling Stone gave 12 enties into their top 500 and considered “Hurricane” was not good enough which is nuts considering Dylan ever only sang 3 decent songs) and the Album ranked at Number 174

This song has a crowbarred rating of 61.6 out of 108

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