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The Essential Bob Dylan
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Blowin' in the Wind |
2 | Don't Think Twice, It's All Right |
3 | The Times They Are A-Changin' |
4 | It Ain't Me, Babe |
5 | Maggie's Farm |
6 | It's All over Now, Baby Blue |
7 | Mr. Tambourine Man |
8 | Subterranean Homesick Blues |
9 | Like a Rolling Stone |
10 | Positively 4th Street |
11 | Just Like a Woman |
12 | Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 |
13 | All Along the Watchtower |
14 | Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) |
15 | I'll Be Your Baby Tonight |
Disc: 2
1 | Lay, Lady, Lay |
2 | If Not for You |
3 | I Shall Be Released |
4 | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere |
5 | Knockin' on Heaven's Door |
6 | Forever Young |
7 | Tangled up in Blue |
8 | Shelter from the Storm |
9 | Hurricane |
10 | Gotta Serve Somebody |
11 | Jokerman |
12 | Silvio |
13 | Everything Is Broken |
14 | Not Dark Yet |
15 | Things Have Changed |
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Product Description
Includes Blowin' in the Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me Babe; Maggie's Farm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; Just Like a Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along the Watchtower; Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn); Lay, Lady, Lay , and more. 30 tracks!
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Two discs of music don't exactly provide for a thorough overview of four decades of recording, particularly if the subject of the retrospective is one of the most important and prolific performers of his time. So The Essential Bob Dylan definitely skates over the leagues-deep oeuvre of Dylan, summarizing his monumental first half-dozen years in disc one and skirting over the following 34 years in disc two. Delving into Columbia's three Dylan greatest-hits packages (though curiously purging "I Want You," a genuine hit single in its day), Essential offers only a few surprises, opting for The Basement Tapes version of "Quinn the Eskimo" over the Self Portrait remake that made it onto Greatest Hits Volume II and tossing in "Things Have Changed" from the Wonder Boys soundtrack for completists. But this 30-track overview is designed with newcomers, not Dylanologists, in mind. --Steven Stolder
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 4 ounces
- Manufacturer : Columbia
- Original Release Date : 2000
- Run time : 2 hours and 4 minutes
- Date First Available : December 15, 2006
- Label : Columbia
- ASIN : B000050HTO
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,963 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #28 in Contemporary Folk (CDs & Vinyl)
- #53 in Pop Oldies
- #67 in Country Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Last year before Christmas, for about the price of a Happy Meal I got this 2-CD collection plus the free AutoRip. This woulnd up in my daughter's Christmas stocking. At 30 tracks, this is not definitive but it does give you a representative sample of Dylan's career from his 1963 debut THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN through "Things Have Changed" from the 2000 soundtrack album WONDER BOYS. [Note: THE ESSENTIAL was released in 2000, so nothing from his post-2000 releases.]
You get all of his Top 10 hits "Like a Rolling Stone," "Positively 4th Street," "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35," and "Lay Lady Lay," along with key album tracks like "Maggie's Farm," "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight," and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere."
You could go on and on about what songs should have been included/excluded on this collection. For me, this was an opportunity to give my daughter a sense of the importance of this gifted songwriter. Some of the artists that I grew up with will still be relevant in another 50 years. Dylan is one of those artists.
The packaging is nothing special. An 8-page booklet. A handful of photos, two pages of album covers, and two pages of track listings/recording dates/and the album it came from. No essay, no interview, no commentary. The music speaks for itself. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Was W.C. Fields easy on the eyes? No. Did he seem like somebody you might want as your next-door neighbor? Not especially. Was he outrageosly hilarious? I don't think so; but there was some quality about him that keeps your eyes glued to him when you watch one of his movies.
Dylan is similar to me: Is he a great musician? No -- all his harmonica "solos" sound pretty much the same, for example. Does he seem like the kind of guy you'd want as your best buddy? Not necessarily -- he seems a little aloof and self-absorbed to me. Is he a great singer? Hardly. Sometimes you wonder if when he's singing he's making fun of somebody else (Woody Guthrie?) or he's putting everybody on with this vocal style. And yet ... there's something sort of addictive about it all.
His vocal phrasing and timing are amazing - maybe that's one of the things that makes him so fascinating - he keeps you on your toes that way, constantly changing up the time value of the notes and his intonation.
Anyway, Mr. Bob IS a great songwriter, and that's so obvious that it's barely an opinion, but practically an established fact; as proof just take a look at a small subset of the artists who have covered his songs:
Johnny Cash
Eric Clapton
Sam Cooke
Flatt & Scruggs
Green Day
Burl Ives
Wyclef Jean
B.B. King
Dave Matthews Band
John Mellencamp
Van Morrison
Willie Nelson
Aaron Neville
Ozzy Osbourne
Elvis Presley
The Ramones
Rage Against the Machine
The Rolling Stones (Who do a cover of "Like a Rolling Stone")
Bruce Springsteen
George Thorogood
U2
...and of course The Byrds (who did better versions of many of his songs than he did himself), Joan Baez, etc.
Getting back to the earlier comparison, I guess Fields was a comic genius, although it's hard to dissect his work and come up with a plain analysis on just why it can be said he was so talented; the same can be said of Dylan, perhaps: he's a monster, but just why is a bit of a conundrum.
All collections of this type leave out at least one song that makes you say, "What were they thinking? Why isn't ___ on here?" In this case, for me, it's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." There are many great Dylan tunes missing that are probably better covered by someone else (such as "My Back Pages" by The Byrds and "Wanted Man" by George Thorogood), but the original of "A Hard Rain" is THE definitive version of that particular song.
In summary, I think Dylan is one of the best songwriters ever, and this is a good introduction to and /or representation of his music.
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Reviewed in Brazil on January 17, 2023