Bob Dylan

Trying to make sense of any Dylan song is often futile. Part of his intrigue is his music's ambiguity. Lyrics can be interpreted in dozens of different ways, ...

"Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" is a showcase for that nasal tone Dylan started using in 1969. By the time the narrator runs into Christopher Columbus at the end of the song, he has only one message: "Good luck." It's sorta like "Ugliest Girl in the World," but far more romantic. Plus there's the video that features Dylan in a wig at a raucous holiday party. It's not exactly clear what it means to "wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup" or "like a pail of milk," but according to this Dylan song, if you wiggle enough, you'll end up vomiting fire and raising the dead. "I wasn’t bringing anything at all into the studio, I was completely disillusioned," he told Rolling Stone in 2006. There's an argument to be made that all of 1970's Self Portrait, an album Dylan purposefully crafted to be " a joke," is weird. The strangest part of what could be Dylan's dirtiest song is that both his girlfriend at the time, Helena Springs, and his future wife, Carolyn Dennis, sing backing vocals. That might explain the nursery rhyme cadence of "Wiggle Wiggle." Dylan later admitted he wasn't in the strongest of songwriting places back then. Plus, the backing singers emphasize a crude sentiment: "Man, she's ugly, got to be ugly." From curious cover choices to unorthodox original numbers, we offer the 10 Weirdest Bob Dylan Songs below. When it comes to Bob Dylan, it's best to expect the unexpected.