How about “Love Sick” from Time Out Of Mind. That and “Standin’ In The Doorway”. Those 2 songs got me through many a breakup…

I don’t believe you (she acts like we never met)

Leopard-skin Pillbox Hat

Most Likely you go your way and I’ll go mine

Idiot Wind

Love Sick

Shooting Star

The Groom’s still waiting at the altar

what about “most of the time?”
such a great tune about lookin back on a break-up from a ways down the road

idiot wind! most mean spirited, best break up song ever, coming from the best break up album, blood on the tracks.

Some suggestions

4th Time Around (one of my favorites)
Idiot Wind
If You See Her Say Hello

I’d have to agree with everybody else; “Idiot Wind” is the best suggestion to add-on to the list.

‘Shelter from the Storm’ – ‘I offered up my innocence, I got repaid with scorn’ is one of my favorite Dylan lines.

I’m gonna vote for “Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine,” too. I’m not as familiar with his later stuff, but that one is classic.

excellent list, “Black” and “Yesterday” especially being great additions to “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”, and the Beck song is maybe his best.

“Idiot Wind” definitely belongs there but I can’t believe everyone is forgetting “What Was It You Wanted” off “Oh, Mercy.” It matches “She’s Your Lover Now” and “Idiot Wind” for seething vitriol.

Also, “To Ramona” and “When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky” but the Bootleg version. The “Empire Burlesque” version is awful in comparison.

Brian

great list. my adds would be… “Sooner or Later One of Us Must Know” and “One Too Many Mornings.”

‘abandoned love’ (from the ‘biograph’ set) is an amazing song – somehow didn’t make the cut for ‘desire’ (and ‘joey’ did!?!?!).

Some of my favorites:
You’re a Big Girl Now
Standing in the Doorway
Most Likely You Go Your Way (especially the blasting version on “Before the Flood”)
If You See Her Say Hello
Ballad in Plain D
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met)
It Ain’t Me Babe
Girl of the North Country
I Threw It All Away

have to add “Honey just allow me one more chance” because it had the line “lookin’ all over for a girl like you, can’t find nobody so you’ll have to do”.

Girl from the north country isn’t quite a break-up song, but it deserves to be on every Dylan list lol

Shelter From the Storm
Abandoned Love
Up to Me
Sooner Or Later One of Us Must Know
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Positively 4th St.
When You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine
We Better Talk This Over
Just Like a Woman
Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)

Another ten:
Standing In the Doorway
Idiot Wind
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome
Tangled Up in Blue
Buckets of Rain
Oh, Sister
Love Sick
Most of the Time
I Threw It All Away
Cold Irons Bound

What about ‘Sugar Baby’?
“You went years without me, might as well keep goin’ now…”

“Simple Twist of Fate” (he blames himself)
“Sara”
“If you see her say hello”

Well… Positively 4th Street (great song though it is) just aint a breakup song in the traditional sense. He wrote that after Newport (unless you’re talking about Dylan “breaking it off” with the whole folk movement).

I’d have to add Sugarbaby (almost as devistating as Idiot Wind), Standing In the Doorway (heartbreaking), and I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met).

What about One Too Many Mornings? Did anyone mention that? I think that it’s a great breakup song. It’s simple but you can definitely understand the feeling.

“If You See Her Say Hello” and “Idiot Wind” would be my two add-ins…depending on if moping or seething is required.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Not Dark Yet”. That’s absolutely one of Dylan’s best that you could consider in break up category.

Don’t think twice, it’s alright!

“you just wasted some of my precious time…”

Positively 4th Street…simply the best Dylan song.

One to add would be Tangled Up in Blue.

I said this with the other break-up song list, too, but you need the sad Idiot Wind from the Bootleg album. It has basically the same words but is even more devastating because it is rueful instead of vitriolic.

“If you see her, say hello” – simply the saddest song ever written, you can tell how much it hurts him to look back

oh come on!!! you cannot leave out “one too many mornings” from a list like that!

“Walk on By” Dionne Warwick.
Tears me up still.

oops wrong list

Dylan’s 10 best songs (some of them may be the breakup ones):

1.One more cup of coffe
2.Like a rolling stones
3.Lily Rosemary & The Jack Of Heart
4. Girl from a north country
5.Brownsville Girl
6.Blowing in the wind
7.Shooting Star
8.Knocking on heaven’s door
9.HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (IS THE BEST DYLAN’S SONG – IMHO)
10. I Want You

Ballad In Plain D

how is “dirge” not on this list?

“I hate myself for lovin’ you and I’m glad the curtain fell.”

Yep…Idiot Wind is the most obvious addition

Velvet Revolver – Fall to Pieces

Alt. Rock break-up songs:

The Used – Goodbye to you
Fru Fru – Let Go
Audioslave – Moth
30 Sec to Mars – The Kill
The Muse – Take a Bow
(+44) – No It Isnt
AFI – Prelude 12/21
Zebrahead – Your New Boyfriend Wears Girl Pants
Puddle of Mudd – Away From Me
Velvet Revolver – Fall to Pieces

I’m not there-Bob Dylan & the band
Not very well known since it was recorded with the basement tapes but left out for some reason. But since the release of the Dylan movie”I’m not there” anyone who’s a Dylan fan should have heard it by now.

“I’ll remember you” a hidden gem in his 80’s period