Biograph Music Cd

Bob Dylan - Biograph

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Biograph      Artist : Bob Dylan      List Price : $39.98 USD        Your Price : $24.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1997-08-19      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (32 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Biograph      All the great Dylan tunes are here      Rating:      I have a dozen or so regular Bob Dylan albums, my favorite being "Nashville Skyline". I've been a casual fan for many years (since the 60s) and I've seen him in concert. But this three-CD set is the gold. Compare it, on a larger scale, to Eric Clapton's "Crossroads" and you'll grasp the idea of the set. Rather than to sit here in praise of Bob Dylan songs, I'll just tell you what my favorites are, all found in this package: Lay Lady Lay Like a Rolling Stone Mr. Tambourine Man It Ain't Me Babe It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Positively 4th Street Gotta Serve Somebody I Shall be Released Knockin' on Heaven's Door All Along the Watchtower That last entry (having been written by Dylan) is an interesting alternative to the Jimi Hendrix version which I also like, but the two have very different tempos. With the set comes a nice little 63-page biographical booklet about Dylan, punctuated with lots of photos -- it's small but still readable. I give it my highest recommendation.     Customer Reviews for Biograph Cd      Worth the Price for the Extra Songs Alone      Rating:      Over the years a lot of Bob Dylan's studio work got left behind for one reason or another. Sometimes because you can only fit so much on a record and sometimes because Dylan didn't think the song was right for the particular record he was recording at the time. So, to celebrate his 24th year with Columbia, they released "Biograph" which aimed to plug a few holes in his career, or rather to release some of the good stuff that got left by the wayside. It's nice that they did this, but it would have been better if all of the fifty-three tracks would have been new or different recordings. Still there were nine unreleased songs and four very hard to get singles included on the set and that was good. The rest of the set (five records when it originally came out) was a compilation of what they (Bob Dylan and/or Columbia) decided was representative of his career, not necessarily greatest hits. So this is really a good place for someone brand new to Dylan to start. I might have preferred it if they put the stuff on in chronological order like they did with the Bootleg Series, Vol. 1 - 3, but that's just me. My good friend Sophie likes the album the way it is, with a different sounding Bob Dylan on song after song. Anyway, the extra songs alonE make this set a must own and as I said, if you're new to Bob Dylan, you won't be throwing money away here, because you will be playing these CDs over and over again, till you wear them out. Wait, I don't think you can wear out CDs, so you'll be playing this set for a long, long time and enjoying every minute of it.