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List Price: $143.99 | | Label: Sony / Bmg Japan
Salesrank: 484262
Released: November 5, 2007 |
| Our Price: $66.95 |
| Used Price: $85.62 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dylan Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Song to Woody
2. Blowin' in the Wind
3. Masters of War
4. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6. The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. All I Really Want to Do
8. My Back Pages
9. It Ain't Me, Babe
10. Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Mr. Tambourine Man
12. Maggie's Farm
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
15. Positively 4th Street
16. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
17. Just Like a Woman
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
19. All Along the Watchtower
Disc 2:
1. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. If Not for You
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
6. On a Night Like This
7. Forever Young
8. Tangled Up in Blue
9. Simple Twist of Fate
10. Hurricane
11. Changing of the Guards
12. Gotta Serve Somebody
13. Precious Angel
14. The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
15. Jokerman
16. Dark Eyes
Editorial Review:
DYLAN is a career-spanning retrospective of Bob Dylan's music. This definitive Bob Dylan collection chronicles the artist's four decades of groundbreaking studio recordings, as well as his unparalleled influence on popular music and culture. DYLAN serves as both a comprehensive introduction for new fans and an expansive, cherished overview for long-time Bob Dylan devotees. The 3 CD deluxe version is housed in a red cloth covered box with a magnetic hinged lid. The DYLAN logo is debossed on the outer lid, and the inside is covered in black velvet fabric with the Columbia logo gold foiled on the inside of the lid. Each CD is housed in an individual inner and outer sleeve. The outer sleeve art is iconic Dylan imagery while the inner sleeves are replica classic Columbia LP sleeves. The CDs themselves are replica vinyl discs. The 40 page booklet is perfect bound and contains extended liner notes and rare photos. Finally each box includes 10 limited edition postcard lithograph prints focusing on pivotal moments in Dylan's career.
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Description of Dylan:
It's about time the record-buying public was offered up a decent, updated Dylan compilation! After all, artists with far less in the way of cultural influence, sales figures, or sheer release numbers have put out many more retrospective collections. Think of this, then, as your Dummies' Guide to Dylan. And for those who really aren't sure if they like the reedy Poet of a Generation® or not, there's even a single CD Cliffs Notes-sized version. For everyone else, there's a triple-disc edition with deluxe packaging and nifty artwork. Even the most marginal fan might quibble with the selection--shouldn't, like, half of it be taken from The Basement Tapes, rather than just one tune?--but there's not a mediocre song on here. It's a tad surprising that the songs are arranged chronologically, rather than grouped by grand themes, the way Johnny Cash's music was on his Love, God, Murder set. But then it is such a pleasure to watch Dylan's progression, to listen as he so quickly works through his influences, goes electric, discovers country music and then God—and then finally somehow wraps it all up together like some alchemical, one-man version of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. No matter how you wrap it up, or which commercials it acts as the soundtrack to, or what professors might try to eulogize it to death, this is music that remains as thrillingly alive today as a rattlesnake coiled and hissing in your boots tomorrow morning. --Mike McGonigal
Dylan Reviews:
Dylan's best 
2008-09-06 - This is a great "goodies" album that you can reach up and play without looking through all his albums for your favorites. I am enjoying it!! Great listening in the car, too.
Great music, but unadventurous selections (erroneous in one case)
2008-08-02 - I largely agree with many of the other reviewers who say that the 3-CD "Dylan" compilation is nothing new, so I won't re-hash those comments here. Unlike some of those reviewers, however, I give this collection five stars because the music is simply great throughout -- some of the greatest of the past 50 years.
But the folks who put it together weren't very careful. The booklet lists "You Ain't Going Nowhere" as being from the Basement Tapes album (the 1975 partial release of Dylan's 1967 recordings with The Band), which would make it the first remastering of this version of the song, as far as I know. That isn't the version that's included here, however.
The one included in this set isn't the 1967 version as listed, but instead, the early-70s version by Dylan and Happy Traum that appeared on Greatest Hits Vol. II. This later rendition is a great one, but it's already available in remastered form on the aforementioned GH Vol. II. How hard should it have been for the Sony/Columbia folks to include the right version of this song in the collection? You don't have to be an expert knowledgeable in Dylan esoterica to know the difference -- you just need a basic familiarity with his released albums.
What this says to me is that more care could have been taken with this set. The two versions of this song are not easy to confuse, as they sound very different -- it's not as though they simply confused two takes of the same song from the same recording session, which might have been understandable. Mistaking a 1967 demo recording with The Band for a much later studio recording should have been easily avoided. And when the collection is in more-or-less chronological order, as this one is, it upsets the overall organization of the set to substitute a recording that was made years later than the one that was supposed to be included.
Anyway, this is a good, if not particularly adventurous, collection. Yes, Biograph is much more interesting, covering both major releases and much previously unreleased material. And the ongoing Bootleg Series has given us many hours of great music that never saw the light of day before. So this new "Dylan" collection doesn't contain any new unreleased stuff -- I guess that just isn't the movie they were making here, so to speak. The music is still great, and it's nice to have it in one place. I just wish they had been more careful, and maybe had included a few of the less predictable songs that are just as great as these, most of which have already been anthologized.
(And how about putting out The Basement Tapes in fuller form as the next Bootleg Series release???)
Georgia Sam's favorite compilation 
2008-04-23 - The songs were written in America, not Tin Pan Alley; the marketing, however, was planned in the bleachers along Highway 61. Bob still unrolls the bedroll with Beethoven, but Columbia's trying to sell us 40 red, white, and blue shoe strings. If you're a new fan, start with Blonde on Blonde, not this. Buy the great albums and buy the singles from the iffy periods (shouldn'ta ever played with the awful Dead).
Good for Neophytes
2008-01-20 - Though I own most of these songs this is a good place to start for newcomers. With someone like Dylan, there is no way you can sum up his career if you tried ten cd's. So for people who want to know what Dylan's all about, this would be the perfect place to start.
Usual record industry Top Ten List - Pass 
2008-01-18 - Dylan's "Greatest" songs, WITHOUT Workingman Blues #2, Mississippi, I and I, Idiot Wind, Desolation Blues or Tombstone Blues, Visions of Johanna, For Ramona, Boots of Spanish Leather, Chimes of Freedom???
Some of those are the greatest songs in history!
I know they had to leave some things out, but many they put in are just plain second rate compared to so many they left out.
This is just another rehash of Greatest Hits Vol.s 1, 2 and 3, which were often based on Top 40 - radio play mentality and not on the content or artistic consideration.
Pass. Buy Biograph or his classic albums, where many of the non-radio songs are as good or better than the ones that got air play.
