Yesterday I won Bob Dylan's new album. Excellent. I did it by entering a competition on Simon Sweetman's blog after Jonny said "enter this competition!"
Winner.
Here is the blog post
But here is the Ultimate Bob Dylan Concert Setlist that I came up with which won me the prize:
1 'Changing of the Guards' – the slow build of sound would be epically awesome to hear recreated loud.
2 'Idiot Wind' - Lets get our anger on.
3 'If Not For You' - Too cute. All fights started during 'Idiot Wind' would now be reconciled. Israel and Palestine, possibly…
4 'Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine' - Harmonica chaos. Fantastic.
5 'Workingman's Blues' - There are many reasons to love this song, but I pick "I sleep in the kitchen with my feet in the hall" as the best reason
6 'Journey Through Dark Heat (Where Are You Tonight?)' - I adore the epic lost-love songs. Hopefully he has bought his Street Legal era backing singers along to do the hey-hey-hey-hey bits
7 'Visions of Johanna' - any girl in the audience called Louise probably won't appreciate it, but...
8 'Talkin John Birch Paranoid Blues' - it'd be so weird.
9 'Romance in Durango' - I know, I know, he did it on the Rolling Thunder Revue and it was amazing. Maybe if I was lucky he’d say "Remember Durango, Larry?"
10 'Quinn the Eskimo' - Woah! Remember this song? Everybody now! "Come all without, come all within…"
11 'Mississippi' - This song has such a sturdy beat, I imagine an entire stadium of sweating bodies exhausted from dancing would all fall into a steady march. But not in a fascist way, you guys
12 'Love Minus Zero/No Limit' Some serious making out would go down when this started playing. We'd be making an old man very happy, I presume.
13 'Jokerman' - Shock and awe. I know I would have a minor fit of the somethings.
Encore 1 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' – Imagine that!!!! He comes out all buy himself with a rackety old acoustic and his penchant for no audience eye contact, and suddenly you’re getting "William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll, with a cane that he twirled round his diamond ring finger…" Nostalgia-rama.
Encore 2 'I Shall Be Released' - Just cos it’d be outstanding. And his backing vocalists would be Robbie Robertson, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen and Joan Baez
I know I haven't put Like A Rolling Stone on the list, or Knocking On Heaven's Door, but I'm fine with that.. For now...
Yeh-yuh! I'm the bomb!

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