Bob Dylan - Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition)
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Free Music Notes for Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition)
Free Music Review: Shame
Hit: 2 Stars
An album is not a "collector's edition" just because the record company says it is. "Collectors" are people who prowled the streets for those vinyl copies of Neil Young's "The Beach" or "Reactor" before he finally re-released them on CD. They are the ones who frothed at the mouth when Tom Waits released "Orphans"; they sniff around in underground record shops for volumes of "The Genuine Bootleg Series". A "Collector's Edition," in short, is valuable to "collectors" because it allows them access to prized moments in a songwriter's career that they could not have procured on their own.
Far from a "collector's" edition, this is a shamelessly cheap marketing stunt that contributes absolutely nothing to Dylan's legacy, and the only way to NOT see that is if you're consciously deluding yourself. But, hey, it's out just in time to take advantage of the imminent holiday shopping season, and that, plainly, is all these clowns in midtown care about.
Good job, Columbia: keep regurgitating recycled glories while those that languish under a film of dust in the vaults remain unheard.
The single redeeming attribute of this otherwise offensive gesture is that it will introduce lost gems like the incomparable "Dark Eyes" to new ears. But "Collector's Edition"? Puh-leeze! If "Dylan" is a collector's prize, then I'm a sea otter.
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Free Music Review: Thinking inside the box
Hit: 2 Stars
With tons of unreleased Bob Dylan material apparently still gathering dust in the vaults (including live gems like the 1980 gospel concert from Toronto), Columbia simply can't resist recycling the same recordings over and over again for "new" compilations. The latest is "Dylan," another boxed set that fails to either challenge or compliment 1985's superb "Biograph," still the best overview of Dylan's career available.
Even the title of this set lacks originality. "Dylan" was used in 1973 for a single disc of covers that Columbia spitefully released after their most important artist made a brief (two album) move to Asylum Records. That disc, never available on CD, doesn't qualify as one of the man's best albums, but its release would make more sense than this redundant boxed set collecting material that, for the most part, is already available on "Greatest Hits," "Greatest Hits Vol. II," "Biograph," "Greatest Hits Vol. III," "The Essential Bob Dylan," and the recent "Best of Bob Dylan."
The packaging isn't particularly interesting either. That red cover with the name "Dylan" in black letters is as unimaginative as everything else about this project. Give us more editions of "The Bootleg Series," not another "hits" collection.
Brian W. Fairbanks
Free Music Review: Usual record industry Top Ten List - Pass
Hit: 2 Stars
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.
Free Music Review: Lame, Lame, Lame
Hit: 1 Stars
Like many below here, as a Dylan fan I'm sorely disappointed (where, oh where is the complete Basement Tapes, for instance? I mean, aside from the bootleg). As someone recommending Dylan to a newcomer, I have to disagree with those below who feel this is an adequate representation. Better to go straight to the albums themselves, particularly "Highway 61 Revisited", "Blonde on Blonde", "Blood on the Tracks" and "Love and Theft", just to get started (and that obvious short list doesn't include my personal favorites, "Street Legal" and "Shot of Love"!). It seems you either love the music or you don't. Greatest Hits collections are a dime a dozen and best suited for housewives and teenage girls and I don't see many of them running out to buy a Dylan album. If this is a Christmas gift I can expect a number of disappointed 50-something males who already own most of this stuff on CD or perhaps on vinyl they haven't gotten around to selling on ebay or handing over to the Salvation Army. A pox on Columbia for this shameless attempt to milk the classics for a few more pennies. Don't they realize thousands, nay, millions of Dylan fans are pining to hear those Fox Warfield concerts from '79 or New Orleans circa 1981? The Bootleg Series, for all their benefit, also suffer from this "greatest hit"-itis, selecting only those tracks that meet top ten criteria (witness "No Direction Home" or "Live '75"). Here's a suggestion: fire Jeff Rosen, hire Paul Williams and open them vaults! Let the tapes roll!Free Music Review: What a Disapointment!
Hit: 1 Stars
A few Months ago Columbia had announced this project as a retrospective of Dylan's career spaning four decades and this was to be a collection for the fans of Bob Dylan. Well, it aint! This is just Bob Dylan's Greatist Hits Volume 1, 2, and 3 with a few extra songs. This is a good set for someone who doesn't have any Bob Dylan albums but for the fans this is not worth the time or money.
Also, who chose this set list? Was it really necessary to include "Hurricane" and "Gotta Serve Somebody" again? What about "Gates of Eden", "Chimes of Freedom", "The Hour When the Ship Comes In",or even "Every Grain of Sand"? Also, Where is "Series of Dreams"? I just dont understand this.
I would have rather Columbia release another "Bootleg Series Release" How about Bob Dylan Live 1986? That great tour he did with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Queens of Rythm. That would be a great album.
Trust me, there is no one that loves Bob more than myself. I have seen him live at least 17 times , I own his entire catalog plus own several "boots". I was really looking forward to this and to my dismay, it is just another greatist hits album, and with a bad album cover to top it off.
"Biograph" is infinitely superior as so is "Bootleg Series- Volume 1,2.3".
Save your $50.00 and spend it on a Bob Dylan concert ticket instead.