Just to prove there is some love for his later work.

That's very tough, but today my answer is Desolation Row.

I'm struggling very hard to stick to the spirit of the post, and to not mention dozens of others under the cover of, 'on another day it might be ...'.

And for pure unashamedly personal reasons "Forever Young"

RIP Stuart

but I will have to plump for Girl From The North Country.......no Ballad In Plain D! Girl/Ballad/Girl/Ballad/Girl/Ballad!!

Sod it I am going to toss a coin;

It was Heads for Girl From The North Country

Phew, I'm going for a lie down!

.....'To Ramona' both from Dylan's (contentious opinion alert) best LP.

at all. But I do rather like Jokerman.

But it would have to be Positively Fourth Street for me

From Blonde on Blonde

'Visions of Johanna'. The live version off Biograph.

Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is my favourite, but it's probably not quite his best.

I'm a big Dylan fan and have all his albums, so there are loads that I could have chosen, but I'll go with the first one I ever heard - Like a Rolling Stone.

but just for today let's go with I Threw It All Away.

The first time I listened to Blood On The Tracks I played this song six times before going on to the next track. It took me two and a half hours to listen to the whole album, which made it excellent value.

Two of my three favourite Dylan songs have already been mentioned, so I'll go for this miniature masterpiece off "Bringing It All Back Home".

Obvious I know, but in 1965 it must have sounded like it was beamed in from space. It was the first Dylan tune I heard and loved and it still sets my brain on fire...

What a lyric. Dylan recognising that the flame is dying and coming to terms with life.

I thought of a number, but if I really had to pick just one it'd be Mr Tambourine Man, wonderful song and his loveliest singing.

Just staggering that he even left it off Infidels.

The perfect blend of music and lyrics; although as ever it's a close call with 'Blind Willie McTell' as runner-up.

'Blind Willie McTell' at No 1 with Visions of Johanna as runner-up. As Doug rightly says it's staggering that this masterpiece was left off 'Infidels'. Potentially it could have been the best album of the 80s (also - see 'Foot of Pride' among other tracks).

you'd go a long way in my opinion to better "Don't think twice, it's alright". It says it all in 4 verses

I played and sang this in the jam room on the Cayamo Cruise in 2009, alongside a teenage girl who said it was her favourite song. I was flummoxed by the way her speech patterns and rhythmic delivery were so different to mine that it was almost as if we were singing 2 different songs. When I asked her how she knew it she told me it was by her favourite artistes The Indigo Girls and Brandi Carlile, both of whom were on the cruise. I'm not sure she'd heard of Bob Dylan

Their version is very good by the way, whereas I doubt his is much cop these days

and man they expect the same.
So Just like Tom Thumb's Blues for me too, but if Jude has claimed that one I will go for Black Diamond Bay, from Desire.
I have a 3rd if necessary. You can't eat only one, can you?

- but "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is the answer. OOAA as ever.

... by Mouse & The Traps.

I couldn't pick a "best" and, like lots of the above, my favourite changes from day to day. But for me, the only song sung by Dylan to bring a genuine lump to the throat and tear to the eye is a cover of a song written nearly a century ago. It's a rarity, and I can't find it on Youtube. I don't even own it any more, though it's not far from the mental pile of records that I never need to play again, because it's just... there. The B-side of Watching the River Flow, which is where I first heard it. A simple gem, beautifully sung and played:
Spanish is the loving tongue
Soft as music, light as spring
It was a girl I learned it from
Living down Sonora way
Well, I don't look much like a lover
Still I say her love words over
Mostly when I'm all alone
Mi amor, mi cora sole.

Haven't seen her since that night
I can't cross the line you know
They want me for a gamblin' fight
Like as not it's better so
Still I always kind of missed her
Since that last sad night I kissed her
Broke her heart, lost my own
Adios, mi cora sole
Broke her heart, lost my own
Adios, mi cora sole
Adios, mi cora sole
Adios, mi cora sole.

but I think that Is Your Love In Vain? is my favourite, closely followed by I Threw It All Away.

Tangled up in blue.

Wonderful song from my favourite BD album.

An amazing, personal confession of a song about life that like most of Bob's great songs the listener can at least relate to part of it and hear somebody else articulate it in poetic form. I was never in his 60's or 70's material, I got into him from Infidels onward without the prejudice of comparing everything to Blowin In The Wind et al. 'Sugar Babe' is another one too.