Thread · 12 songs
Time passing
Songs that watch the clock, the years and the changes.
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1965Going Electric
1 of 12Ballad of a Thin Man
Highway 61 Revisited
Built on Dylan's piano, it became a fixture of his 1966 live shows.
↓ 1 year later
1966Going Electric
2 of 12Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Blonde on Blonde
Cut in Nashville in early 1966, it runs about seven minutes.
↓ the same year
1966Going Electric
3 of 12Visions of Johanna
Blonde on Blonde
Dylan first tried it in New York with the Hawks before cutting the album version in Nashville.
↓ 1 year later
1967Basement and Country
4 of 12All Along the Watchtower
John Wesley Harding
It became Dylan's most performed song in concert, usually played in the hard-rock arrangement Hendrix gave it.
↓ 3 years later
1970Basement and Country
5 of 12Time Passes Slowly
New Morning
A quiet song about time slowing down in a peaceful country life.
↓ 9 years later
1979Gospel
6 of 12When He Returns
Slow Train Coming
The album's closing track is just Dylan's voice and Barry Beckett's piano.
↓ 10 years later
1989The '80s
7 of 12Everything Is Broken
Oh Mercy
It was released as a single with a music video.
↓ 8 years later
1997Late Renaissance
9 of 12Highlands
Time Out of Mind
At more than sixteen minutes it closes the album and was then the longest studio track Dylan had released.
↓ the same year
1997Late Renaissance
10 of 12Not Dark Yet
Time Out of Mind
It was released as a single from the album and became one of its most praised songs.
↓ 4 years later
2001Late Renaissance
11 of 12Mississippi
"Love and Theft"
Dylan first tried it during the Time Out of Mind sessions, and Sheryl Crow released a version before his own appeared.
↓ 11 years later
2012Late Renaissance
12 of 12Long and Wasted Years
Tempest
A late look back over years gone by and a marriage that went wrong.