Dylan's Greatest Songs, Not Hits

I recently wrote an article about the top ten unnoticed Bob Dylan songs. I wanted to make known songs that aren’t common knowledge for the casual Dylan fan, songs that don’t necessarily make it onto his greatest hits collections. However, the list caused a miniature uproar, with fans calling for a recount, “what about this song, what about that song” they cried! Well, as one fan pointed out, it is impossible to make every Dylan fan happy with a list of ten songs. He has hundreds of them worth mentioning. And there aren’t many Dylan songs that are truly unnoticed; he is arguably the best songwriter of all time and is also one of the most influential artistic figures of our time. So to say that any of them are “unnoticed” is really not very accurate. The point of the article was to call attention to songs that I feel don’t receive enough attention. I placed “Let me die in my footsteps” as the top song on the list. One commenter was offended, arguing that it was used in the film “Dangerous Minds.” I wasn’t aware of that because I haven’t seen the film, but I still say that if you asked a common Dylan fan, someone who just has an album or two or a greatest hits album, they have probably never heard the song. Secondly, I recommended the version from volume one of his bootlegs series. It is important to get the right version of the song.