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by: Bob Dylan List Price: $24.98 Amazon.com's Price: $14.97 You Save: $10.01 (40%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
EAN: 0696998516823 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 2 Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Sony Release Date: October 31, 2000 Sales Rank: 623 Studio: Sony Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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. 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. 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - How does talentless trash like this get an 'Essential' album?It's amazing how money hungry artists like this put out greatest hits when they were never even on MTV or BET. Bob Dylan is a great example of this. Stupid anti-war hippy music! For good classic rock check out Nickelback, Green Day, or the Hives. Rating: - Ugh, this is poetry?Why oh why is this clown considered a poet? REAL poets are Lil' Wayne, Britney Spears, Nickelback, Staind or 50 Cent. I bet ol' Bob couldn't write poetry like "I sit alone and watch the clock/Trying to collect my thoughts/All I think about is you". See that poetry? It's "Believe" by Staind. And why doesn't this Dylan folk have any lyrics about clubs and booty-shakin'? What an old-timer. Tell him to get with the times or he's never going to get any BET airplay. Rating:  - awesome CDawesome CD, no time to write more right now, but a great CD from a great artist! Rating: - Dylan's BestI had forgotten how badly Dylan sings while being so good at it. A nice collection of his work. Rating: - a great introthis is a great album for what it is and it is a career spanning compilation and as such is meant to include the finest tracks and is meant to give a sampler of an artist work which it does exceptionally well. no it doesn't have all his best tracks and yes everybody has their little probelems,but for those uniniated or just starting out with a minimal dylan collection its a great starter i guarantee you'll come back too time and again. |
