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"Highway 61 Revisited", Track #9

PETER: His greatest, no doubt. (01/31/09)

BILL COHEN: Escape-When your world is turned upside down U lapse into a series of paradoxes. He discusses the heart attack machine, people that he knows and does not want to know any more. In essence his world was driving him into maddness. He doesn't want to hear it anymore. He includes famous people doing rediculous things. It is like he is screaming for relief. No more letters or demands please. You're killing me. I can't think straight. He was locked in a nightmare world, and didn't want to hear anything from anyone unless they knew what he was going through. The song is magnificent and described his mixed up confused state. It was a stream of consciousness, some funny, some tragic. So uncomfortable in his own Skin (04/08/08)

QUAS: Dylan's greatest song...ever. (12/20/07)

DOUG MACKENZIE: It is the sum of all he wrote in '65. There was nothing to touch it, and they were all great. The scope, depth, and breadth of this song is huge. It's as big as a Montana sky. His evocative reading of the song only makes it more incredible. What a masterpiece!! (01/21/07)

KNIVEN: A masterpiece! And he do great liveversion of it 40 years later. Like in Gothenburg last autum! (08/09/06)

URSULA: It makes me think about people I know (08/08/06)

JENNY KELLY: my career as an artist was forged on this imagery at age 9,harsh&beautiful,i was there like it or not (04/11/06)

LITTLEFIRE: This song drips into the unconscious like a Dali clock and swims thru the mind like a Bunuel image (03/29/06)

CORNETN@FREE.FR: the ultimate song, everything gone mad, like the world we live in (03/29/06)

ISIS: His harmonica arrangement for this one is a lyric unto itself. (03/15/06)

DAN: I get lost in this song. It captures me and takes me away. (03/03/06)

JENNY: The greatest poetry ever written! (02/24/06)

JOE GAFFNEY: Unbeliveable, the greatest user of the english language. The world would be a better place if everyone listened to this song. (02/13/06)

KEVIN ADEY: This song is so amazing that I made a Cd of the 12 or so different versions that I have and when I listen to it just about every version makes me feel different. If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life , this would be it. (01/08/06)

ANDREW MCCOY: my opinion of desolation rows meaning is it is an autobiographal account of bobs time in clubs like the gaslight and pass the basket clubs in greenwich villiage where you would have many acts on stage doing theyr thing for very little to no pay and the people in the song were real people who bob nicknamed because he couldnt remember theyr real names robin hood cinderella ect wether this is true or not is nither here nor there the song is still original and will be until the end of time (12/06/05)

JOSH: The best song he ever wrote. And he did it in the back of cab! Infinite listening capabilites 'cos everytime you listen to it you hear a line that changes your mind as to what desolation row is (12/06/05)

MATTHEW: The "Dante's Inferno" of recorded music. As a song, a masterpiece. As a poem, a masterpiece. Dylan should win the Nobel prize for this song alone.... (11/25/05)

THEUNDERTAKER: a masterpiece i play everyday without fail. (08/17/05)

TBC: best song Dylan's ever written (08/17/05)

GORDON MARTIN: a surrealistic masterpiece (08/02/05)

TONI: There quite simply is NO other song like this one. My all time favourite Dylans song... and the one song that got me totally hocked. (06/05/05)