Thread · 10 songs
War
Songs written against war, or in its shadow.
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1963Greenwich Village
1 of 10Masters of War
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
It sets a furious attack on arms makers to the tune of the traditional "Nottamun Town".
↓ the same year
1963Greenwich Village
2 of 10Talking World War III Blues
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
A comic talking blues about dreaming he has survived a nuclear war.
↓ 1 year later
1964Greenwich Village
3 of 10With God on Our Side
The Times They Are a-Changin'
Its melody follows Dominic Behan's "The Patriot Game".
↓ 1 year later
1965Going Electric
4 of 10Tombstone Blues
Highway 61 Revisited
A fast electric blues featuring Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar.
↓ 2 years later
1967Basement and Country
5 of 10All 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.
↓ 11 years later
1978Blood on the Tracks
6 of 10Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Street-Legal
Like the rest of the album, it was recorded at his Rundown Studios in Santa Monica with his 1978 touring band.
↓ 5 years later
1983The '80s
7 of 10Neighborhood Bully
Infidels
It is widely heard as a defense of the state of Israel.
↓ 2 years later
1985The '80s
8 of 10Clean Cut Kid
Empire Burlesque
A sardonic song about an ordinary American boy sent to Vietnam and wrecked by it.
↓ 7 years later
1992Back to the Roots
9 of 10Arthur McBride
Good as I Been to You
An Irish anti-recruiting song, which Dylan learned from Paul Brady's recording.
↓ 1 year later
1993Back to the Roots
10 of 10Two Soldiers
World Gone Wrong
An old Civil War song of two soldiers who die in the same battle.