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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 800
Released: June 1, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.21 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Blood on the Tracks Track Listing:
1. Tangled Up in Blue
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You're a Big Girl Now
4. Idiot Wind
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6. Meet Me in the Morning
7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
8. If You See Her, Say Hello
9. Shelter from the Storm
10. Buckets of Rain
Editorial Review:
Inevitably, when critics praise a new Dylan album, they label it the "best since Blood on the Tracks," and with good reason. Inspired by a crumbled marriage, and recorded after a tour with the Band had apparently re-ignited his creativity, Blood is among Dylan's masterpieces. The album's epic songs are well known, but its real high points are the shorter numbers--"You're a Big Girl Now," the flawless blues "Meet Me in the Morning," and the sweetly devastating "Buckets of Rain." These are songs of "images and distorted facts," each expressed through tangled points of view, and all of them blue. --David Cantwell
Blood on the Tracks Reviews:
Extraordinary Pain Turned Into Extraordinary Art 
2009-12-24 - No one who listens to this album remains unmoved by the pain in the songs. This is Dylan's divorce album, but its anger, as in "Idiot Wind" generously goes to both partners. Historically, the album was important because many fans had thought he had lost his magic touch after his famous 1966 motorcycle accident. This album showed they needn't have had such a concern.
It's not so much that this is an enjoyable album. The anger and hurt and despair are too palpable for that. But it provides an incredible artist showing how to take all those emotions and create an art that allows people to survive such experiences.
Many people call this a break-up album, one they listen to as their own relationships crumble. It is that. But its an album about dealing with any pain or any hurt.
Dylan does what great artists do. He takes life at its rawest, feels it at its deepest, finds words to describe what the rest of us can only sense, and in doing all that provides a way for his listeners to cope.
--Lawrence J. Epstein, author of Political Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
was his voice here caring more about its own beauty?
2009-10-18 - During my life I have met more people who told me this was their favorite album of all music than any other. It probably has something to do with my living in America for most of my life, but I do remember back in late 70ties music lovers in Europe being blown away by this record. This is also my favorite album of this prolific and ambitious musician (next to Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid and Blonde On Blonde). The way the story is told here is so powerful. It is not political nor spiritual, unlike much of his other music. The theme of Blood On The Tracks to me seems to be our loneliness and the lessons it allows us to learn. When we are heartbroken we feel low but the tempo and emotions here are running high. The lyrics are great as we've gotten used to it with this artist but music is (to me) more developed and consistent than on many other of his albums. The quality of the overall recording of instruments was never one of Dylan's strengths but his voice here sounds to me more caring about its own beauty. My favorite tracks of this album are You're A Big Girl Now, Simple Twist Of Fate, If You See Her Say Hello, and Tangled Up in Blue. Back in 1998 I put together some of my favorite Dylan songs and I have revised that compilation in 2008 to include RPWL's version of Masters Of War, which I consider to be one of the best covers of all times. I used Dylan's words to name that compilation, When I Was Deep In Poverty You Taught Me How To Give:
1. Sara
2. You're A Big Girl Now
3. A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
4. One More Cup Of Coffee
5. Hazel
6. Simple Twist Of Fate
7. Blowin' In The Wind
8. Masters Of War
9. PGABTK Main Theme
10. Masters Of War RPWL
11. Under The Red Sky
12. Senor
13. Bunkhouse Theme
14. If You See Her Say Hello
15. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
16. Going Going Gone
17. Lay Lady Lay
18. Wedding Song
I can't help it if I'm lucky
2009-10-18 - to have bought this the day it was released and it's been my favorite by Mr Zimmerman or anybody else for that matter. Don't waste any more time.... get it now
Blood on the tracks...on your mind too.
2009-08-20 - A breakthrough - Dylan's country period is over for ever (I mean, he would return to the country style occasionally, but it would never remain high on the list of his priorities). The sound he's adopted here is unlike anything he'd done previously, either. If you really need some analogies, then I'd say it's closer to the sound on his early acoustic albums than anything else, in that there is little or no electric guitar on most of the tracks. On the other hand, keyboards, drums and bass guitar are featured prominently, and that's what makes the difference - Bob wouldn't switch on to complete acoustic folk again until the Nineties. So this album is also extremely quiet, extremely sad and thoughtful, with great un-psycho, but still complicated lyrics and tons o' good songs.
Love you Bob.
One of Dylan's best works
2009-08-10 - I've been a Dylan fan since the early 60's. He has contributed greatly to the American music and cultural milieu. I own this album on vinyl (and now digitally) and it exemplifies his poetic artistry. The album features a number of loves songs and intense emotions. Perhaps one of his best works. A MUST for Dylan fans and anyone else who appreciates clever lyrics and life's "simple twists of fate".
