Audio CD review:
Bob Dylan - Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition)

Bob Dylan - Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition)

Band: Bob Dylan Title: Dylan (3CD) (Deluxe Edition) Rating: Release Date: 02 October, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Song to Woody 2: Blowin' in the Wind 3: Masters of War 4: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 5: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6: The Times They Are A-Changin' 7: All I Really Want to Do 8: My Back Pages 9: It Ain't Me, Babe 10: Subterranean Homesick Blues 11: Mr. Tambourine Man 12: Maggie's Farm 13: Like a Rolling Stone 14: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 15: Positively 4th Street 16: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 17: Just Like a Woman 18: Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 19. All Along the Watchtower 19: You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 20: Lay, Lady, Lay 21: If Not for You 22: I Shall Be Released 23: Knockin' on Heaven's Door 24: On a Night Like This 25: Forever Young 26: Tangled Up in Blue 27: Simple Twist of Fate 28: Hurricane 29: Changing of the Guards 30: Gotta Serve Somebody 31: Precious Angel 32: The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar 15. Jokerman 16. Dark Eyes 33: Blind Willie McTell 34: Brownsville Girl 35: Silvio 36: Ring Them Bells 37: Dignity 38: Everything Is Broken 39: Under the Red Sky 40: You're Gonna Quit Me 41: Blood in My Eyes 42: Not Dark Yet 43: Things Have Changed 44: Make You Feel My Love 45: High Water (For Charley Patton) 46: Po' Boy 47: Someday Baby 48: When the Deal Goes Down

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