Today, believe it or not, is Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday. A man who was famously seen as the voice of America’s youth is now an octogenarian. Charles Schulz, the cartoonist, thought it was depressing when he turned 30, but that was 50 years ago!

In honor of this landmark birthday for the Grammy-winning, Oscar-winning, Pulitzer-Prize-winning, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Nobel laureate, E-Verse’s Associate Poetry Editor Luke Stromberg has ranked what he considers to be Dylan’s top 80 songs and created a Spotify playlist. With an artist like Dylan, it is difficult to limit oneself to 80 songs, let alone rank them, but he did his best.

1. Visions of Johanna
2. Like a Rolling Stone
3. Mr. Tambourine Man
4. Desolation Row
5. Tangled Up in Blue
6. Subterranean Homesick Blues
7. All Along The Watchtower
8. Ballad of a Thin Man
9. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol
10. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
11. Positively 4th Street
12. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
13. Blind Willie McTell
14. Shelter from the Storm
15. Dark Eyes
16. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
17. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
18. I Want You
19. Just Like a Woman
20. To Ramona
21. Idiot Wind
22. Love Minus Zero / No Limit
23. Jokerman
24. Brownsville Girl
25. Every Grain of Sand
26. Highway 61 Revisited
27. Chimes of Freedom
28. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
29. High Water (For Charley Patton)
30. One Too Many Mornings
31. Lily, Rosemary, and The Jack of Hearts
32. Girl from the North Country
33. Boots of Spanish Leather
34. Spanish Harlem Incident
35. Mississippi
36. Things Have Changed
37. I and I
38. Series of Dreams
39. Drifter’s Escape
40. Isis
41. If You See Her, Say Hello
42. It Ain’t Me, Babe
43. One More Cup of Coffee
44. Cold Irons Bound
45. Foot of Pride
46. Tombstone Blues
47. Not Dark Yet
48. Abandoned Love
49. The Times They Are A-Changin’
50. Buckets of Rain
51. My Own Version of You
52. Absolutely Sweet Marie
53. Most of the Time
54. Lay Lady Lay
55. Queen Jane Approximately
56. Mama, You Been on my Mind
57. Simple Twist of Fate
58. Sign on the Window
59. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
60. Masters of War
61. The Man in Me
62. She Belongs Me
63. Stuck Inside of Mobile with Memphis Blues Again
64. Red River Shore
65. Nobody ‘Cept You
66. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
67. You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
68. Trying to Get to Heaven
69. Hurricane
70. Man in the Long Black Coat
71. Maggie’s Farm
72. You’re a Big Girl Now
73. Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream
74. Gotta Serve Somebody
75. Pay in Blood
76. I Believe in You
77. Tight Connection to my Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?)
78. My Back Pages
79. Ain’t Talkin’
80. Forever Young