History YMMV / BobDylan

** ''Blonde on Blonde'': "I Want You", with "Just Like a Woman" and "Rainy Day Women" as runner-up songs. Notably, the first one is easily the one with more commercial appeal, and is more popular on streaming services, but the other ones are widely recognized as the better ones and as more representative of him.

** ''Blonde on Blonde'': "I Want You", with "Just Like a Woman" and "Rainy Day Women" as runner-up songs.

-->'''Bob Dylan:''' [Introducing "To Make You Feel My Love"] This is a song [[SarcasmMode I wrote for Garth Brooks]]. [[Music/FrankSinatra Regrets, I've had a few...]]

* CoveredUp: All too often (this list could take its own page), with Music/JimiHendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" being the most prominent example, and it's often considered to be *better* than Dylan's version. Dylan himself seems to think so since he apparently now plays the song in Hendrix's style in live performances.

** "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Music/TheByrds

** "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Music/TheByrds)

* SignatureSong: Many, but "Like a Rolling Stone" is easily Dylan's most popular song, and is overall considered as an absolute masterpiece.

* ValuesResonance: While ''The Times They Are-a Changing" was made in TheSixties, it's basically eternally relevant, since, as the saying goes, the only constant is change.

** A more recent example is "Beyond the Horizon" on ''Modern Times'', which pretty obviously sounds like the old Tin Pan alley standard "Red Sails in the Sunset". Eventually Dylan gave a cut of the royalties to the estates of the writers of "Red Sails".

** "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (Them featuring Music/VanMorrison)

** The Bob never answered those questions; he's just more subtle now. Ed Bradley asked him in the 2000s if his latest album was a new departure, and Bob ran Bradley into the dirt with a story about how an old jazzman showed him this "mathematical chord progression" that emotionally effected the listener every time. Back in 1965, some (even more) hapless reporter asked Bob about his "message" (captured on camera in ''Film/DontLookBack'') eliciting the scathing reply:

* ArchivePanic: To date he's released thirty-six studio albums and fifty-eight singles. Then there are the many live albums, ''Bootleg Series'' albums, and other compilations.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Here's a fun game. Find any familiar rock artist from the same era. Compare their first album entirely before ''Music/Highway61Revisited'' to their first entirely after. (Even Music/TheBeatles? ''[[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially]]'' Music/TheBeatles.)

* FanNickname:
** Not universal, but His Bobness is thrown around by fans a bit.
** Some of his past tours have acquired unoffical fan nicknames, like the Alimony Tour[[note]]After he was forced to pay a big settlement to Sara Lowndes Dylan following their divorce, he went on a lengthy tour where he seemed to be trying to [[MoneyDearBoy increase his commercial appeal]] by playing mainly his Greatest Hits and adopting a Music/BruceSpringsteen-style band and stage demeanor[[/note]] in 1978 and the Musical Retrospective Tour[[note]]After refusing to play any of his older songs in his first two tours after becoming a Christian, he decided to sprinkle a few of them back into his set list. Naturally, this became a huge selling point, with radio ads promising the shows would be "a musical retrospective", when really they were still largely songs from his gospel albums[[/note]] in 1980.
** Fans regularly refer to his regular touring since 1988 as the Never Ending Tour, which was originally something Dylan said in an interview but later lampshaded:
-->'''Bob Dylan:''' Don't be bewildered by the Never Ending Tour chatter. There was a Never Ending Tour but it ended in 1991 with the departure of guitarist G. E. Smith. That one's long gone but there have been many others since then: "The Money Never Runs Out Tour" (Fall of 1991) "Southern Sympathizer Tour" (Early 1992) "Why Do You Look At Me So Strangely Tour" (European Tour 1992) "The One Sad Cry Of Pity Tour" (Australia & West Coast American Tour 1992) "Outburst Of Consciousness Tour" (1992) "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Tour" (1993) and others, too many to mention each with their own character & design.

* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: "The sun's not yellow it's chicken."

* FandomBerserkButton: Criticizing his voice and suggesting that ''Music/BloodOnTheTracks'' was his last great album.

-->Try to be pure at heart, they arrest you for robbery
-->Mistake your shyness for aloofness, your silence for snobbery
-->Got the message this morning, the one that was sent to me
-->About the madness of becomin' what one was never meant to be

** The ''Bobby Dylan and his Guitar'' 1967 satire by ''{{Magazine/Mad}}'' ([[https://thriftyvinyl.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hpc-cert2.jpg here]] and [[https://thriftyvinyl.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hpc-cert3.jpg here]]), in the wake of ''Shadows in the Night'' and ''Fallen Angels''. Dylan actually covered an Music/IrvingBerlin song on ''Shadows'' ("What'll I Do"), and did a Richard Rodgers song ("Blue Moon") only a few years after that cartoon.

** This [[https://thriftyvinyl.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hpc-cert2.jpg 1967 satire]] by ''{{Magazine/Mad}}'', in the wake of ''Shadows in the Night'' and ''Fallen Angels''. Dylan actually covered an Music/IrvingBerlin song on ''Shadows'' ("What'll I Do"), and did a Richard Rodgers song ("Blue Moon") only a few years after that cartoon.

* BrokenBase: The split between "Dylan the protest singer" and "Dylan the rockstar" is ''legendary''.

** "It Ain't Me Babe" (The Turtles, JohnnyCash)