Dylan puts down society and a woman who's not his kind in a six-minute song that not only revolutionized rock music but commercial radio, as well.

Album: "Highway 61 Revisited"

Wordy, rhyming and decidedly unstrident, this became an all-purpose social commentary.

Album: "The Times, They Are a Changing"

This song looks at a relationship at different times and in different tenses. You can tell he feels blue about the breakup.

Album: "Blood on the Tracks"

This simple, poetic, folk protest song put Dylan in the public consciousness.

One of his most scorching protest songs strikes out against impending darkness, a theme that emerged in Dylan songs throughout the years.

Album: "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"

With a nod to a line from Elvis Presley, Dylan takes on phonies, hypocrites and other artificial types that he doesn't want in his kind of world.

Album: "Bringing It All Back Home"

This rock hymn can apply to a prisoner pining for freedom or a person about to pass on to the other side.

This ground-breaking, impressionistic epic discusses one man's obsession with two different women.

Album: "Blonde on Blonde"

As gorgeous as it is haunting, this almost feels like an old-timey hymn as Dylan addresses mortality.

Album: "Time Out of Mind"

The true story of a wrongly imprisoned boxer in the spirit of other Dylan tales of racial injustice, it may not be one of his best songs but it's one of his most riveting recordings thanks to the tension and urgency from Scarlet Rivera's fiddle.

Album: "Bringing It All Back Home"

Album: "Blonde on Blonde"

Album: "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"

Album: "Blood on the Tracks"

Album: "Highway 61 Revisited"

Album: "Blonde on Blonde"

Album: "Infidels"

Album: "Nashville Skyline"

Album: "Blood on the Tracks"

Album: "Shot of Love"

Album: "Another Side of Bob Dylan"

Album: "Bringing It All Back Home"

Album: "Time Out of Mind"