Blood on the Tracks (Hybr) [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered]

Bob Dylan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1975
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000C8AVM
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (90 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,361 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tangled Up in Blue

2. Simple Twist of Fate

3. You're a Big Girl Now

4. Idiot Wind

5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

6. Meet Me in the Morning

7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

8. If You See Her, Say Hello

9. Shelter from the Storm

10. Buckets of Rain

Editorial Reviews

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Inevitably, when critics praise a new Dylan album, they label it the "best since Blood on the Tracks," and with good reason. Inspired by a crumbled marriage, and recorded after a tour with The Band had apparently re-ignited his creativity, Blood is among Dylan's masterpieces. The album's epic songs are well known, but its real high points are the shorter numbers--"You're a Big Girl Now," the flawless blues "Meet Me in the Morning," and the sweetly devastating "Buckets of Rain." These are songs of "images and distorted facts," each expressed through tangled points of view, and all of them blue. --David Cantwell

Product Description

This disc is designed for use in both CD compatibale and super audio CD players**It has 10 soundtracks**

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102 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The album that set the benchmark in confessional songwriting, March 5, 2004

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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It has been thirty years since "Blood on the Tracks" was released and of all of the albums recorded by Bob Dylan it is the one that has most increased in stature simply because every album produced since then has failed to rise to this level. I think the reason for this is mainly because it was born in a creative burst of pointed lyricisim as his marriage to Sara Lowndes collapsed, with all the songs written in two months in the middle of 1974. I would no more expect any personal turmoil to provide similar inspiration any more than I would have expected any of the songs on this album to rise to the level of social rhetoric found in his greatest songs of the Sixties.

In "Blood on the Tracks" Dylan also turned his back on his greatest backing band, returning to his artistic routes on an album that is largely acoustic-based. The songs run the emotional gamut from sorrow and regret to bitterness and pain. At the same time, despite the obvious point of origin for most of these songs, this is not an openly confessional album (cf. Courtney Love's "America's Sweetheart"). After all, we are talking the lyrics of Bob Dylan, which means cryptic riddles and allegories abound all laid out in ten classic tracks:

"Tangled Up in Blue" is the best song on the album and the ambguity about the characters and relationships Dylan sings about has only increased over the years with the shifting lyrics in various performances. The cover version by the Indigo Girls remains my favorite Dylan cover.

"Simple Twist of Fate" is another great four-word phrase in a song that represents the most overtly personal song on the album. The stark instrumentation only serves to highlight the heartbreak of the existentialist lyrics and the mournful sound of the vocals.

"You're A Big Girl Now" is a ballad on the end of a relationship and a sort of benediction in that clearly the woman is right to move on, but Dylan is still haunted by their physical encounters. You would think that this would have been the logical final track for the album, but it is not.

"Idiot Wind" is song on the album that most reminds me of an earlier Dylan composition, namely "Like a Rolling Stone," the pair being a set of put-down songs. The difference is that while both song lash out in lots of directions, this one keeps coming back to a certain "babe." This is another song that has changed over the year for various reasons that could well inspire a doctoral dissertation.

"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" is a rather upbeat track, despite the descending chord progressions, and is usually considered a song hopeful of reconciliation rather than one eulogizing the breakup.

"Meet Me in the Morning" stands out musically as the most blues oriented track that always struck me as cleansing the palatte for what was coming next on the album.

"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" is a 8:50 story song that basically wears down the listener's insistence that this is a biographical album. It also has a line that Dylan seems to sing with nice pitch and without affection, to wit, "and Lily had already taken all of the dye out of her hair." Pay attention next time through to that one phrase.

"If You See Her, Say Hello" probably represents the emotional low point of the album, with lyrics reflecting a singer who is crushed and embittered by the end of the relationship, turning his anger in on himself.

"Shelter from the Storm" is a song of simple beauty, based on three chords and a simple melody, underscoring a profound sense of loss. The song provides an avalanche of symbols and metaphors, but actually seems to end on an optimstic note.

"Buckets of Rain" provides a fitting finale, suitably depressing lyrics against a rather upbeat melody as irony once again abounds. After this song there is no where left to go.

"Blood on the Tracks" is listed by "Rolling Stone" magazine as the #16 record on the list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, between #15 "Are You Experienced?" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and #17 "Nevermind" by Nirvana. It is one of ten Dylan albums on the list, behind #4 "Highway 61 Revisited" and #9 "Blonde on Blonde." This For pretty much the complete story on the making of this classic album, check out "A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks" by music journalist Andy Gill and guitarist Kevin Odegard, who played on the five tracks recorded in Minneapolis. You can also listen to "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3" to hear the original version of "Tangled Up in Blue," "Idiot Wind," and "If You See Her, Say Hello" recorded in New York City in September to compare with the Twin Cities versions from December of 1974.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dylan back on track, March 14, 2007

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Robert S. Estes "othrzone" (Santa Rosa, Ca) - See all my reviews
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Blood on the Tracks stands with the best of Bob Dylan the best of American music. This is latter day saint Dylan Bob after poet for the masses Bob after RnR hero Bob pre- country crooner Bob 70's comeback as wished by Elvis.
This 5.1 recording stands fine up against the other 5.1 re-mixes of "Bringing It All Back Home" and "Blond on Blond".
The guitars are sharp, clear and in your ear. The vocals whisper when they want and shout when they should.
This is as good as it gets.......

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bob Dylan's "divorce album" is a masterpiece, September 30, 2003

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Eric Edelin (Baltimore, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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I discovered Bob Dylan a few years back and grew a heavy liking to his 1960s material (especially the electric albums). I was delighted to hear about his back catalogue being remastered and quickly bought 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Blonde On Blonde', then about a week later decided to change things up and buy 'Blood On The Tracks'. I knew 'Tangled Up In Blue' and 'Shelter From The Storm' from the retrospective discs I had, but then discovered other gems on the album (my new favorite might just be 'Buckets Of Rain' for just its sheer depressive emotional quality). Musically this is a simple album, somewhere in-between 'John Wesley Harding' and 'Highway 61 Revisited', mostly jangly acoustic guitars with organ backing. Lyrically, this is a very personal outing, mostly based on his recent, at the time, divorce. There's nothing much to say that hasn't been said before, this is just as good as any other Dylan release from his mid-1960s prime. 'Idiot Wind' wouldn't sound out of place on 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts' is a folk ballad epic (almost 9 minutes) much like something from 'John Wesley Harding'.

Sonically, the cd's audio quality is just as good, if not a little clearer than the other releases I've gotten, and is a definite improvement over the 'Essential Bob Dylan' disc I bought a few years back. The vocals aren't quite as separated and centered as on 'Highway 61', but the clarity of Dylan's acoustic guitar is crystal and his harmonica fills are balanced perfectly, and not overpoweringly, into the mix. After this, I definitely want to give 'John Wesley Harding' a try despite the bad reviews on the site. This is a five-star release all the way.