The Essential Bob Dylan [Import][Original recording remastered]

Bob Dylan

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 28, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00005JICE
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #550,367 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Blowin' in the Wind

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

3. 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. Hurricane

10. Gotta Serve Somebody

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Limited edition digitally remastered 2 CD collection includes 'Blowin' in the Wind', 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door', 'Jokerman', 'Hurricane', 'Not Dark Yet' and more. 36 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate Collecton, 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

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Is What Is Says It Is, July 11, 2002

By	Daniel Ahern (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

Hands down, this import version is the best Dylan comp you'll find on the market today (but why couldn't they find it in them to include, "All I Really Want To Do?").