Like A Rolling Stone (track)
by Bob Dylan
Year: 1965
From the album Highway 61 Revisited (track #1)
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Like A Rolling Stone appears on the following album(s) by Bob Dylan:
- Highway 61 Revisited (track #1) (this album) (1965)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (track #15) (1998)
- The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (track #28) (2005)
- Biograph (track #15) (compilation) (1985)
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (track #5) (compilation) (1967)
- The Essential Bob Dylan (track #9) (compilation) (2000)
- Self Portrait (track #12) (1970)
- The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 (track #31) (compilation) (1991)
- Bob Dylan At Budokan (track #8) (1978)
- MTV Unplugged (track #10) (1995)
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| ! | 07/25/2026 18:31 |  NowhereMan | 15,214 | 84/100 |
| ! | 07/02/2026 19:43 | Siromynian | 20,416 | 71/100 |
| ! | 06/26/2026 15:57 | Pollo | 509 | 81/100 |
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The song that blew all possibilities wide open. The track that made everyone else think about what they were doing. After, heartbreak hotel, and, she loves you, like a rolling stone, is the next in line that took pop music to another level. It kicked down so many barriers on so many levels. Suddenly, a song didn't need to be two to three minutes long anymore, opening up the doors to, a whiter shade of pale, and of course, hey Jude. The lyrics didn't need to be about young love between a boy and a girl anymore, opening up another door to, eight miles high, and, strawberry fields forever, and of course, it didn't have to follow a traditional verse-chorus-middle eight structure anymore(again, making, strawberry fields forever, possible). Add on to that Dylan's unconventional voice which made it possible for people such as Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young to become 'pop stars', means that it is no exaggeration to say, like a rolling stone, is arguably the most significant, most important, and most influential single of all time. Whether you think it's the best or not is almost irrelevant. By the way, I think it is. (Edited)
Evandar 03/18/2013 12:56 | #68789
One of Dylan's best songs. Even if I might be a bit tired of it these days, I've gotten so much enjoyment out of it. The vocals are venomous and filled with attitude, same with the lyrics, and the band is on fire! How does it feeeeeal! It feels great, thank you very much. (Edited)
Space-Dementia 08/11/2015 15:55 | #147505
It's a good song, but why does everyone hail it as one of the best of all time? I mean A Day in the Life has the piano chord at the end, Bohemian Rhapsody and Paranoid Android are completely unpredictable as they keep changing, Stairway to Heaven has a beautiful melody and an awesome solo. But I really don't see what's so special about this song.
eclab 01/07/2013 01:04 | #60475
Justifiably one of the best songs of all time. (Edited)
I can say, without a doubt, that this is one of the best songs of all time. Such amazing writing, such power in the vocals, and that harmonica. It gives me shudders. This is one of the few songs I believe deserves this much fame, in fact, I think it deserves more than it has gotten. I don't say this about many songs either. (Edited)
