The Very Best of Bob Dylan [Extra tracks][Import][Limited Edition]

Bob Dylan

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Sony Bmg Europe
• ASIN: B00004TLLQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #241,566 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blowin In The Wind

2. Don't Think Twice It's All Right

3. A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall

4. The Time They Are A Changin'

5. It Ain't Me Babe

6. Subterranean Homesick Blues

7. It's All Over Now Baby Blue

8. She Belongs To Me

9. Mr Tambourine Man

10. Positively 4th Street

11. Like A Rolling Stone

12. I Want You

13. Rainy Day Woman Nos 12 & 35

14. Just Like A Woman

15. All Along The Watchtower

16. I'll Be Your Baby Toight

17. Lay Lady Lay

18. If Not For You

19. I Shall Be Released

20. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Swedish exclusive limited edition double CD 'Best Of' for the rock icon. Includes the latest single 'Things Have Changed' plus a bonus track 'Things Have Changed' (Live Grammy Version). 32 tracks in all including the classics 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'Subterranean Homesick Blues', 'All Along The Watchtower' and many more. 2000 release. Slimline double jewel case.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Place to start your collection, July 17, 2000

By	Jim McKenna (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This is an excellent buy for new Dylan fans or people like me who are trying to replace their old vinyl collections with CD's. It has all of the tunes from Greatest Hits #1 and the most popular songs from 2 and 3. Of course, you can always quibble about some of the selections, but overall the songs are well chosen. Another nice feature, at least to my way of thinking, is that the tracks are arranged chronologically.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Best of Bob Dylan, Six Reviews in One, October 1, 2003

By	Stephanie Sane (from the Asylum) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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

5.0 out of 5 stars The Very Best of Bob Dylan, April 7, 2009

By	Bjorn Viberg (European Union) - See all my reviews

The Very Best of Bob Dylan being a Swedish exclusive compilation is an amazing collection of tracks with many of my favorite Dylan tracks, e.g., "A hard rains a-gonna fall", "Just like a woman", "Gotta Serve Somebody". Lennart Persson has written very interesting linernotes and the cd booklet is quite nice with great photos. 5/5.