Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan - Dylan

Bob Dylan - Dylan

Band: Bob Dylan Title: Dylan Rating: Release Date: 02 October, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Blowin' in the Wind 2: The Times They are A-changin' 3: Subterranean Homesick Blues 4: Mr. Tambourine Man 5: Like a Rolling Stone 6: Maggie's Farm 7: Positively 4th Street 8: Just Like a Woman 9: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 10: All Along the Watchtower 11: Lay Lady Lay 12: Knockin' On Heaven's Door 13: Tangled Up In Blue 14: Hurricane 15: Make You Feel My Love 16: Things Have Changed 17: Someday Baby 18: Forever Young

Editoral Review Think of this, then, as your Dummies' Guide to Dylan. It's about time the record-buying public was offered up a decent, updated Dylan compilation! After all, artists with far less in the way of cultural influence, sales figures, or sheer release numbers have put out many more retrospective collections. And for those who really aren't sure if they like the reedy Poet of a Generation® or not, there's even a single CD Cliffs Notes-sized version. For everyone else, there's a triple-disc edition with deluxe packaging and nifty artwork. Even the most marginal fan might quibble with the selection--shouldn't, like, half of it be taken from The Basement Tapes, rather than just one tune?--but there's not a mediocre song on here. It's a tad surprising that the songs are arranged chronologically, rather than grouped by grand themes, the way Johnny Cash's music was on his Love, God, Murder set. But then it is such a pleasure to watch Dylan's progression, to listen as he so quickly works through his influences, goes electric, discovers country music and then God—and then finally somehow wraps it all up together like some alchemical, one-man version of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. No matter how you wrap it up, or which commercials it acts as the soundtrack to, or what professors might try to eulogize it to death, this is music that remains as thrillingly alive today as a rattlesnake coiled and hissing in your boots tomorrow morning. --Mike McGonigal .. You can see a complete list of all Bob Dylan discography, or go back to the Bob Dylan tabs