Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD)

Bob Dylan - The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD)

Band: Bob Dylan Title: The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD) Rating: Release Date: 31 October, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 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 11: Just Like A Woman 12: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 13: All Along The Watchtower 14: Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) 15: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 16: Lay, Lady, Lay 17: If Not For You 18: I Shall Be Released 19: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 20: Knockin' On Heaven's Door 21: Forever Young 22: Tangled Up In Blue 23: Shelter From The Storm 24: Hurricane 25: Gotta Serve Somebody 26: Jokerman 27: Silvio 28: Everything Is Broken 29: Not Dark Yet 30: Things Have Changed

Editoral Review So The Essential Bob Dylan definitely skates over the leagues-deep oeuvre of Dylan, summarizing his monumental first half-dozen years in disc one and skirting over the following 34 years in disc two. Two discs of music don't exactly provide for a thorough overview of four decades of recording, particularly if the subject of the retrospective is one of the most important and prolific performers of his time. Delving into Columbia's three Dylan greatest-hits packages (though curiously purging "I Want You," a genuine hit single in its day), Essential offers only a few surprises, opting for The Basement Tapes version of "Quinn the Eskimo" over the Self Portrait remake that made it onto Greatest Hits Volume II and tossing in "Things Have Changed" from the Wonder Boys soundtrack for completists. But this 30-track overview is designed with newcomers, not Dylanologists, in mind. --Steven Stolder .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs