Positively Bob Dylan

In December 2008 a new Bob Dylan song rating website launched its beta version: tweedlr.com - named after “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”, the opening track on 2001’s “Love & Theft” album. The main part of tweedlr is a rating chart of the Top 100 Bob Dylan songs on officially released albums. Each song can directly be rated on this list, where each user can once rate each song with a maximum of 5 stars. You also see the average rating and the number of people who already rated the song. Each individual rating is saved, so if you return to the site you will see your previous ratings. In case the song you’re looking for is not in the Top 100 list yet, you can find it using the song search bar.
By clicking on a song title you will get a full details page, including the possibility to post a comment on that song. Also music videos are embedded many times as well. If you’re using iTunes, then you can click on a special iTunes link to get an audio sample of the song and the option to purchase the song on the iTunes music store.
Several hundreds of users have submitted their ratings and posted their comments on tweedlr.com so far, and it’s already the biggest single Bob Dylan music rating community on the web. The site is still running as a beta version, so we’re all looking forward to new features in the near future. Positively-BobDylan.com says: tweedlr.com is the website of the month!

Since a few nice features on this site are a little hidden in the menu on the right, I thought I could drag one of them out into the light. We’re in the middle of the summer festival season now and if you’re planning to go somewhere, you should take these songs with you as a Highway companion when travellin’ down some dusty road. Compile them, burn them, and play them f***ing loud!

1. Mr. Tambourine Man
2. Visions of Johanna
3. Idiot Wind
4. Like a Rolling Stone
5. Desolation Row
6. Mississippi
7. Tangled Up in Blue
8. Blind Willie McTell
9. Not Dark Yet
10. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

These songs are part of the Top 100 song rating by PBD visitors. Please feel free to participate and submit your rating as well, or post comments on the songs. You can do so by clicking on the song title in the list above or on any other song in the Recordings Revisited section. Thanks for coming back again and again, and enjoy your summer! … and let’s hope that the blogged upcoming Bootleg Series Vol. 8 release in September is more than just a rumour…

Visitors of this website have voted “Mr. Tambourine Man” Dylan’s greatest song ever. The classic 1965 album cut off Bringing It All Back Home reached the peak of the Top 100 Dylan Songs rating in April, closely followed by - and this might be a little surprise to some - Blood On The Tracks’ “Idiot Wind”. A few excerpts from user comments on the song: “the lyrics/imagery are unapproachable”, “first psychedelic vision of rock”, “last verse has been my personal touchstone for close on 42 years”, “Dylan is restless and aimless he is searching for something”, “The amazing thing about Dylan is that he can bathe himself into the sickness of a song, and then come out again.”
Feel free to vote for “Mr. Tambourine Man” as well, or post your own personal comment on the song or on any other officially released Bob Dylan tune.

Yes, you’re definitely on the right page here! You were looking for Mike Hobo’s Legendary Bob Dylan Website? Well, this is it - and it’s all shiny and new. Just take a look at the right column and you’ll find all of your favorite features there: the Top 100 Dylan Songs chart, the Recordings Revisited section where you can post your comments on all officially released Dylan songs, plus you can submit your song rating as well. Take a look at the Dylan Fans Gallery - which you might already know from MillionDylanFans.com - now it’s fully integrated into this one site. And best of all: You can publish your own fan portrait for free!

In case you’re experiencing any kind of problems or if you miss any content or feature from the old site, please let me know. Thanks for your generous support over the past 10 years, now it’s time to move on - keeping the good stuff of course…

This is a rare clip of “Positively 4th Street” live in Sydney 1966 - the song that inspired the new website’s title. Have fun!