The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD) [Import, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks]

Bob Dylan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 9, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
• ASIN: B00006830P
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,024 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 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

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 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

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pick this one over the American version, February 26, 2003

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Ken Berglund (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD) (Audio CD)

Pay the extra $...bucks and get this version over the American one. The American version is skimpy, with less than an hour on disc 1, and just barely over an hour on disc 2, while this Australian version has over 77 minutes per disc, and includes more of his best material, including "I Want You", a hit that was left off of the American version.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Introduction To Dylan, December 31, 2002

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paulisdead (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD) (Audio CD)

Featuring six bonus tracks (Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?, I Want You, Changing Of The Guards, Blind Willie McTell, Tight Connection To My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love?), Dignity (Original Version)) this is obviously the superior version.

The haunting Blind Willie McTell, recorded in 1983, stands out better than anything else he did in that era. The original version of Dignity is a much livelier mix than the one on Greatest Hits Vol 3. The snare and the lead guitar are now brought froward, which gives the song more of a groove, and everything sounds cleaner than the sludgy mix on the earlier version.

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Has Never Been So Appropriate, Mr Jones!, March 22, 2010

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J. Thompson (Essex UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Essential Bob Dylan (6 Bonus Tracks) (2CD) (Audio CD)

Who are the top three rock artists of all time ?
To my mind they are Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
And the top act is ... Bob Dylan!
Elvis started it all, but hardly wrote any of his songs.
His 1960s and 1970s recordings rarely matched his bomb shells of the 1950s.
The Beatles took the world by storm from 1963/1964 to their split in 1970.
They had 2 and then 3 top songwriters to propell them to the top.
Bob Dylan first significant recording, Blowin' In The Wind, proved to be just the tip of the iceberg as he has released more meaningful songs than either of his named rivals.
Highlights are nearly all the 36 tracks, although my wife thinks Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 is fun and carefree, I don't agree!
Apart from the more odvious choices I love Positively 4th Street, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window, I Shall Be Released and Blind Willie McTell.
Missing are I Threw It All Away, I Beleive In You and Every Grain Of Sand.
5 stars are not enough, I'd like to give it 10 !