The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD)

Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD)

The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD)
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-07-09
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
Music CD 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. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
  15. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Music CD 2
  1. Lay Lady Lay
  2. If Not for You
  3. I Shall Be Released
  4. You Ain't Going Nowhere
  5. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
  6. Forever Young
  7. Tangled Up in Blue
  8. Shelter from the Storm
  9. The 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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Free Music Review: Essential Bob Dylan Import, Six Reviews in One
Hit: 5 Stars

Throughout the years the suits at Columbia, then Sony have tried to make more money of Mr. D by mixing and matching his material, not just in a Greatest Hits compilation, but as a "Best of Import" from Japan, Holland, Sweden, or some other far away place. They tout them as better, different, remastered, a gold version and lots of times they'll build these compilations around a song that hadn't appeared on any other album.

The current favorite is the wonderful song, "Things have changed," which shows up on five different sets available today.

"The Best of series Vol. 1 and Vol. 2" Imports are the only one of the 5 sets that you can get separately and, since they couldn't put "Things Have Changed on both CDs, they put "Shelter From The Storm," from the Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding move "Jerry Maguire" on the first disc. If you were to buy both discs in this set you'd be out over fifty bucks. Of course, there isn't a bad song on the discs, but if you're like me, you already own most of them.

"The Very Best of Vol. 1 & 2" Swedish version has 33 songs on it, all available elsewhere except, of course "Things Have Changed." The songs are about the same as on the other compilations and this one will set you back thirty-three dollars.

"The Ultimate Collection," is of course not the ultimate collection, but it is a collection of 33 songs, very similar in scope to the songs in the other collection and built around, "Things Have Changed." This version will shrink you wallet by thirty-nine dollars.

"The Essential Bob Dylan" double CD set has 30 songs on it and has a nice flow to it. Like the other compilations mentioned here it features "Things Have Changed." You'll have to fork over twenty-one dollars to get this one. It's the most reasonably priced of the bunch, and so it's the only one I'm giving five stars to.

"The Essential Bob Dylan" Import has six more songs on it and it'll cost you 16 more dollars. That's a lot of money to pay to get those extra six songs.

Okay after rounding them up and telling you a little about them, I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed in Sony about this group. Unlike "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" which like these isn't really a Greatest Hits compilation, these CDs cost a whole gang of money and give us only one new song. "GH 2" gave us a half dozen new tunes, so we (not me, cuz I wasn't born yet) didn't feel ripped off when we bought it. Also, the "Biograph" compilation was stuffed with new songs. Ah well, my recommendation would be to buy the American version of "The Essential Bob Dylan" for twenty-one dollars and shine the rest of them on. Five stars for that one, four for the rest.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD) Poster

UK only pressing packaged in a metal tin. Digitally remastered career-spanning two CD compilation featuring six additional tracks over the US equivalent: 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window', 'I Want You', 'Changing Of The Guard', 'Blind Willie McTell', 'Tight Connection To My Heart' and 'Dignity' (Original Version). Every ebb and flow in popular music over the past 40 years can be heard here! 36 tracks total including 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'Like A Rolling Stone', 'All Along The Watchtower', 'Maggie's Farm', 'Lay Lady Lay', 'Jokerman' and many more. Columbia.

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