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The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
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Tracks (Click song title for lyrics)
Disc 1
- Blowin' In The Wind
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- It Ain't Me, Babe
- Maggie's Farm
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Positively 4th Street
- Just Like A Woman
- Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
- All Along The Watchtower
- Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
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Been to his show and bought this one the evening was great and so is this album wiht the extras!!!
A good comp.
This is a good starter to Dylan and this where I first heard his biggest songs so this is a good album for me.
Bob Dylan is the greatest
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Bob Dylan is the greatest living American composer. As essential to his generation as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were to theirs and sure to be remembered with the same reverence. This is a great collection of most of his finest work -- all remastered. An avid Dylan fan, I can't help but notice the absence of some of my favorites, like Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You, from Nashville Skyline and One More Cup Of Coffee, from Desire. I guess I would have liked to see a three disk Essential -- he certainly deserves one. That said, it is hard to argue with the song selections. For example, other than the original Greatest Hits collection, which was originally released in the '60's, this is the only other place you can find Positively 4th Street -- his follow-up single to Like A Rolling Stone.
If you want to purchase one disk for your CD collection that best represents Bob Dylan's body of work, this is the one to get.
The Essential Bob Dylan (2000)
This is maybe the first place I listened to Bob Dylan - so these 2 CDs are special to me - however - in my opinion - the selection of tracks could have been different.
The compilation focuses heavily on the 1960s - with 18 songs from the 60s - and then only 18 songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
Here is the track list I would have chosen (I don't actually know whether this would be too long or not - I'm just going on the number of songs that are on each disc):
Disc 1:
1. No More Auction Block
2. Walls of Red Wing
3. Blowin' In the Wind
4. Masters of War
5. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
6. Only a Pawn In Their Game
7. Chimes of Freedom
8. Farewell, Angelina
9. Love Minus Zero/No Limit
10. Mr. Tambourine Man
11. Gates of Eden
12. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
13. Like a Rolling Stone
14. Tombstone Blues
15. Ballad of a Thin Man
16. Desolation Row
17. Visions of Johanna
18. I Want You
19. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
20. As I Went Out One Morning
21. All Along the Watchtower
22. The Wicked Messenger
Disc 2:
1. Forever Young
2. Tangled Up In Blue
3. Shelter From the Storm
4. Changing of the Guards
5. Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
6. Gotta Serve Somebody
7. Slow Train
8. The Groom's Still Waiting At the Altar
9. Jokerman
10. Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
11. Ring Them Bells
12. Born In Time
13. Love Henry
14. Things Have Changed
Puttin' her in a wheelbarrow...
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I love the song: Things have changed. The imagery in it is amazing.
One part that I identify with is the lines:
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet.
Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.
Being alone for awhile drives a person to such extremes in their imagination.
Just How 'Essential' is This?
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I hate to be a ram among the sheep here, but I honestly have to question just exactly how 'essential' a compilation really is when it is void of anything from off of Street Legal, which I consider to be one of Dylan's best albums ever (right up there with Blood on the Tracks, Bringing it All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, Desire, and (believe it or not. . .) Oh Mercy. As a matter of fact, given the mood I am in on any given day, my 2 favorite Dylan (cd) albums continue to be Blood on the Tracks and Street Legal. But this compilation makes no attempt at offering anything at all from Street Legal, despite the fact that it offers material from many of his other works, some of which I consider to be not his finest hour (for example I have never been a big fan of The Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding, Nashville Skyline, New Morning or Planet Waves --- ALL with the EXCEPTIONS of All Along the Watchtower, You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Lay, Lady, Lay, If Not for You, Forever Young, and On a Night Like This, which are all masterpieces of his, of course)) --- But to leave material from one of his all time best cd albums, Street Legal --- just seems unthinkable to me, personally. Makes me wonder just exactly how 'essential' this really is.
tight connection 2 my heart (has anybody seen my love)
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brilliant brillant compilation. thought "tight connection..." was featured on the Essentail BD though? this is one of my favs. I want to be at my wedding and my funeral!!! and I want to fall in love to it!!!
great compilation
This is a great compilation of Dylan songs from the very beginning to the present time. It is interesting to hear how his voice and style changed over the decades but still some elements remained and will always remain the same. These are probably the most popular songs along with some others that are not heard as much. The newer songs on the track are so melancholy and heartfelt they sometimes make me cry.
great compilation
This is a great compilation of Dylan songs from the very beginning to the present time. It is interesting to hear how his voice and style changed over the decades but still some elements remained and will always remain the same. These are probably the most popular songs along with some others that are not heard as much. The newer songs on the track are so melancholy and heartfelt they sometimes make me cry.
Three weeks ago I got this CD
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I bought this CD 3 weeks ago. I haven't listened to Dylan since the stoner days of the late 60's. But I felt a bit nostalgic, and had read an excerpt of Chronicles in Newsweek. Up till then, I thought he was a cautionary tale.
Anyway, I put it in and was blown away by how great this music is. It made me curious about this man who could move me with his songs.
So, now I've read the entire book of chronicles, watched all the DVD's I could find, read interviews, a couple of biographies, etc.
Now I have Blood on the Tracks, Greatest Hits 1971, Bootleg Series # 7, Hwy 61 Revisited, Modern Times, Playlist (Very Best..) And Time Out of Mind.
I could have saved my time and money on all the biographies etc. His songs make him an open book.
I have never been a "fan" type, but I feel like I've missed so much. The press has been very unfair .
BAIT!!!
Again, you can't argue with the songs, plus it's got the excellent "Things Have Changed" giving the completist a reason to buy it. Essential, perhaps.
Gett'n In
When I turn people on to Bob, many of them are afraid to tell mw that they I-tuned this one.... I give them albums, not songs... and I am a promoter of uncompressed audio. (Though the Dylan collection on I-tunes has everything... even singles like George Jackson and soundtrack songs like the one from Natural Born Killers)
This is where I started - I loved the vinyl of Blood on the Tracks.... I consider this my first Dylan cd.... even though my Dylan timeline has jumped around, at first listen - I loved disk two.