Biograph (3 Cds in Double Jewel Case)

Bob Dylan - Biograph (3 Cds in Double Jewel Case)

Biograph (3 Cds in Double Jewel Case)
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1997-08-19
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Lay Lady Lay
  2. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
  3. If Not for You
  4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
  5. I'll Keep It With Mine [#]
  6. The Times They Are A-Changin'
  7. Blowin' in the Wind
  8. Masters of War
  9. Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
  10. Percy's Song [#]
  11. Mixed Up Confusion
  12. Tombstone Blues
  13. Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar
  14. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
  15. Like a Rolling Stone
  16. Lay Down Your Weary Tune [#]
  17. Subterranean Homesick Blues
  18. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) [Live][#]
Music CD 2
  1. Visions of Johanna [Live][#]
  2. Every Grain of Sand
  3. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) [#]
  4. Mr. Tambourine Man
  5. Dear Landlord
  6. It Ain't Me Babe
  7. You Angel You
  8. Million Dollar Bash
  9. To Ramona
  10. You're a Big Girl Now [#]
  11. Abandoned Love [#]
  12. Tangled Up in Blue
  13. It's All over Now, Baby Blue [Live][#]
  14. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
  15. Positively 4th Street
  16. Isis [Live][#]
  17. Jet Pilot [#]
Music CD 3
  1. Caribbean Wind [#]
  2. Up to Me [#]
  3. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You [#]
  4. I Wanna Be Your Lover [#]
  5. I Want You
  6. Heart of Mine [Live][#]
  7. On a Night Like This
  8. Just Like a Woman
  9. Romance in Durango [Live][#]
  10. Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)
  11. Gotta Serve Somebody
  12. I Believe in You
  13. Time Passes Slowly
  14. I Shall Be Released
  15. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  16. All Along the Watchtower
  17. Solid Rock
  18. Forever Young [#]

Free Music Notes for Biograph (3 Cds in Double Jewel Case)

Free Music Review: Remains the finest overview of Dylan's genius
Hit: 5 Stars

By any measure, Bob Dylan is one of the two to three most crucial figures in the creation of modern rock and popular music. It wouldn't be too simplistic to say that rock as we eventually came to know it was the result of the meshing of the way Chuck Berry wrote music and Bob Dylan wrote lyrics. For several years, I told friends that I was going to write a book about the way music changed when Dylan released the most important single in the history of rock: "Like a Rolling Stone." Otis Redding heard it and felt compelled to write something more "meaningful" than his prior compositions, and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" resulted. Sam Cooke responded to it by attempting to deepen his lyrics, and penned "A Change is Gonna Come." Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, and Pete Townshend responded to the challenge by writing more complex and lyrically sophisticated songs. After Dylan, absolutely no one could ignore lyrics. (The book, by the way, was eventually written by someone vastly more qualified than I am: Greil Marcus, in his 2005 book BOB DYLAN: AT THE CROSSROADS, a book on my Summer 2005 reading list.)

This boxed set provides a magnificent overview of Dylan's work, but is also significant for being arguably the first great boxed set to appear after the CD format appeared. It was the first such set to blend both previously unreleased cuts (such as his famous 1966 London solo recording of "Visions of Johanna"), hard-to-find singles (such as "Positively 4th Street," previously only on the BOB DYLAN'S GREATEST HITS album, which was otherwise useless for those who owned all of Dylan's albums), overlooked songs from neglected albums (most notably the stunning "Every Grain of Sand," from his Christian album SAVED), as well as a couple of handfuls of hits. Because Dylan has been the most prolific musical figure of the rock era, it is impossible to do anything approaching a comprehensive collection (unless one would to do a 25-CD boxed set), so this box represents merely a taste, but a very good taste it is. Of how many artists could it be said that a 3-CD set represented only an introduction? It is instructive that one of the Beatles in an interview (I believe it was George Harrison) was asked whether he thought the Beatles would be listened to five hundred years from now. He replied that he didn't know, that the only contemporary artist he was certain would still be familiar would be Bob Dylan.

The cuts on the albums are arranged non-chronologically, which seems to bother some listeners, and I can understand their reasoning. But musically I think arranging the songs by contrast and variation probably results in easier listening. Also, so ordering the songs results in unexpected insights. For instance, it is generally thought (on the whole, quite correctly) that Dylan wrote most of his good music in the sixties, rebounded in the mid-seventies to produce a couple of stunning albums (including the amazing BLOOD ON THE TRACKS), suffered a permanent decline only occasionally interrupted by gems like EMPIRE BURLESQUE in 1985 and TIME OUT OF MIND in 1997. But BIOGRAPH showed that Dylan had written songs after BLOOD ON THE TRACKS that could stand up to his best sixties and seventies work. If BIOGRAPH doesn't change one's mind about the primacy of the earlier work, it helps make one less dismissive of the later.

Dylan's output has been so massive that arguing that this or that song should have been put in rather than another. My only complaint is instead of the version of "Isis" from DESIRE, they included a previously unreleased version that lacked all of the subtlety and charm of the original. It does serve to illustrate how dramatically Dylan will perform his songs. Still, whenever I hear this "Isis" I end up pulling out DESIRE and listen to that one instead.

For reasons I won't go into, I have owned both the original 1985 release of BIOGRAPH and the 1997 repackaging. The latter is greatly to be preferred because they upgraded the recordings for the re-release. If you compare CDs from the respective sets, the quality of the more recent set is obvious.
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