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List Price: $47.98 | | Label: Tristar
Salesrank: 330251
Released: November 21, 1995 |
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| Used Price: $49.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Masterpieces Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
2. Mr. Tambourine Man
3. Just Like a Woman
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Tears of Rage
6. All Along the Watchtower
7. One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
8. Like a Rolling Stone
9. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
10. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
11. Lay Lady Lay
12. Idiot Wind
Disc 2:
1. Mixed Up Confusion
2. Positively 4th Street
3. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
4. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5. Spanish Is the Loving Tongue - Bob Dylan, Traditional
6. George Jackson
7. Rita May
8. Blowin' in the Wind
9. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
10. The Times They Are A-Changin'
11. Masters of War
12. Hurricane
Editorial Review:
AUSTRALIAN ONLY 3 CD SET.
Masterpieces Reviews:
A useful introduction to Bob Dylan's discography 
2008-11-19 - Considering that putting together a Bob Dylan compilation is extremely hard, this three disk Japanese import does the job pretty well for Dylan's early to mid career. I guess I'm not a huge Dylan fan so I'm not familiar with all of his albums, but this was a good launching point for me into a downright imposing discography. Any release like this runs the risk of not including enough or including too much, and this does miss a few really good ones while including a few questionable songs too (I personally loathe Tears of Rage). But when it comes to Bob Dylan, really it is all about personal preference, and people are going to find songs they love that most are indifferent about and songs they hate that most love. If you want to get into Bob Dylan, stopping here would be the worst thing you could do, because the albums themselves are what hold strength. With that said, you will never get a definitive answer as to where to start in that respect. People will say Freewheelin', Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61, Bringing it All Back Home, Blood on the Tracks... There is no easy way to dig into this artists body of work, and the only options are to dig and keep digging or simply not get a full picture. But this compilation rustles up some essentials to round off whenever you decide to stop digging, which will happen if this is justified in the first place.
A great tribute to the greatest of American musical geniuses 
2008-02-01 - "Masterpieces" is an excellent survey of Bob Dylan's music up until 1978.
It's choice of exciting studio and live recordings is impeccable and the poetry, melody, and rhythmic variety of Dylan's songs are simply awe-inspiring. A great tribute to this greatest of American musical geniuses.
Some say it's the best collection ...
2004-09-16 - ... and I'm not about to disagree. It was released on vinyl only in New Zealand, Australia and Japan in 1978. I listened to my vinyl version again a few days ago and on the basis of that was moved to track it down on CD. Mission accomplished! (If you're ever in Auckland, New Zealand, Real Groovy Records is well worth a visit).
The version of Spanish is the Loving Tongue on this is superb and I haven't seen it on anything else.
Don't buy it for the sleeve notes though!
A Hard to Find Must Have CD for the Collector
2003-09-28 - When this album came out all those years ago in Australia, American Dylan fans went nuts trying to get it, because of all the stuff on it that you couldn't get anywhere else, unless of course you owned the singles
A lot of that extra stuff was B sides or in the the case of "George Jackson," a single that never made it to an LP in the States or Europe, but the Aussies, canny individuals that they were, saw a chance to make a different kind of Dylan record and they did.
A great CD and well worth owning if you can find it.
Reviewed by Stephanie Sane
Bob Dylan Masterpieces
2003-09-14 - This album is one of my favorite Bob Dylan Titles that I own, I have almost every album printed. I am very happy with the quality of service and material from CD Now they do a great job ..
Thanks Again CD Now
