Bob Dylan - Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition)
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Free Music Review: Yet another Dylan box set
Hit: 1 Stars
My one-star rating is for the business concept behind this set, not the music itself. Obviously so many of these songs are legendary and amazing, so it would be 5 stars for the music itself. Here's the thing about this set... There have been SO MANY Dylan collections already -- this new one is really just the latest blatant case of the record companies endlessly re-packaging the same songs over and over to make a few extra bucks. Let me list just a few of the existing Dylan collections and box sets that are already available. There's The Essential Bob Dylan (2000); the Biograph 3-CD box set, remastered and reissued in 2002; plus the Greatest Hits Vol. 1-3, remastered and reissued in 2003 as a 3-CD box. And those mostly all contain the SAME SONGS as this new "Dylan" collection! True, this new one does have a few nice extras, and a book, but it's a sad thing if you have to buy the set just for those. I'll also acknowledge that the addition of a few more recent songs makes this new one the most "career-spanning" set of the many available ones, but won't the same thing be true when more new Dylan box sets are put out in 2010, 2014, etc.? There will always be an anniversary date to justify yet another re-packaging. And that's only while he's alive! Just think of what endless milking of the man's work will happen after he's gone!Free Music Review: Shameless Marketing
Hit: 1 Stars
Simply put there is absolutely no need for this collection. As others have stated here there are plenty of other Greatest Hits collections that are a very close duplicate. Bob Dylan has been making great and truly listenable music for the last 45 years. If you don't have anything by Bob Dylan don't kid yourself that this is the way to go, that if you have this you'll have a nice representation of his best work. You won't. Every Dylan fan's list of favorite Bob songs is different. You can not (and should not!) try to condense his best work to a mere 3 cd's. There are plenty of people who don't care for Bob Dylan at all and I can understand that, but if you happened to buy this set and really enjoy it let me assure you that there are dozens of other songs that you will like as well or better. There are great songs on poor albums. There are albums that are so good all the way through that you will enjoy them as much as another artist's Greatest Hits album. Don't get this. Buy his major albums by themself. For the others go to the library, borrow them from friends. If you like Bob there is almost no album that doesn't have at least a couple gems. Enjoy yourself - take your time. He's been creating arguably some of the world's greatest music for a lifetime. You can't get a handle on it by listening to this thing for a week.Free Music Review: An abomination
Hit: 1 Stars
As someone who has seen Dylan many, many times (and who is about to see he once again with Elvis Costello) , who owns many, many albums - legitimate and boots - let me say that there is absolutely no need for this set. The songs range from the obligatory to the mundane, some absolute necessities from the past 10 years have been left off, and the overall selection - based in part, from feedback at Columbia's official bobdylan.com site are haphazard to say the least.
Save your money. If youre new to Dylan, by Highway 61 Revisted, Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks, Greatest Hits 3, and Time Out Of Mind - you can probably pick all of them up used on amazon for close to the price of this set.
There are such treasures in the vault - such historic, meaningful, musical live performances available for Columbia to issue a true career summation - this is simply a travesty.
Let's hope that Columbia issues another set in the "Offical Bootleg Series" from the vastly underated "Gospel Years" , or the touring years of the Dylan renaissance in the late 90s. Until then save your money.
Free Music Review: baby boomers, rejoice!
Hit: 1 Stars
if you have no dylan in your collection, this is the set for you. the music is fine, but this is another one of columbia's cheap marketing ploys. save your money up and buy dylan's cd's individually. i can't believe how disappointed i am that there is absolutely nothing not previously released on this. everything is readily available elsewhere, and this pointless collection drives that point home. current and former presidents would love this. i, for one, think that i wasted $42. and is there anyone out there who actually likes "brownsville girl?"
but kudos to whoever allowed "dark eyes" on here. an underrated gem.
Free Music Review: Almost Despicable
Hit: 1 Stars
There are already, at least 3 Dylan compilations, for sale and readily available. Why in the world would they release another, absolutely unnecessary, mish-mosh, waste of good plastic.
It's almost blasphemous, this squueezing more product from past milestones.
Go out and buy a dozen Dylan CD's, and enjoy the incredible music, and listen to what dwarfs all other musical artists, and be grateful for his existence.
Don't buy this re-packaging, which only cheapens it.