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Bob Dylan - Biograph

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Lay Lady Lay 3:18
  2. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:34
  3. If Not For You 2:42
  4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 2:39
  5. I'll Keep It With Mine 3:45
  6. The Times They Are A Changin' 3:14
  7. Blowin' In The Wind 2:46
  8. Masters Of War 4:32
  9. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 5:45
  10. Percy's Song 7:43
  11. Mixed-Up Confusion 2:22
  12. Tombstone Blues 5:58
  13. Groom's Still Waiting At The Alter 4:05
  14. Most Likely You Go Your Way 3:29
  15. Like A Rolling Stone 6:08
  16. Lay Down Your Weary Tune 4:36
  17. Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:19
  18. I Don't Believe You (She acts like we never have met) 5:18
Volume 1
  1. Lay Lady Lay 3:18
  2. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:34
  3. If Not For You 2:42
  4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 2:39
  5. I'll Keep It With Mine 3:45
  6. The Times They Are A Changin' 3:14
  7. Blowin' In The Wind 2:46
  8. Masters Of War 4:32
  9. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll 5:45
  10. Percy's Song 7:43
  11. Mixed-Up Confusion 2:22
  12. Tombstone Blues 5:58
  13. Groom's Still Waiting At The Alter 4:05
  14. Most Likely You Go Your Way 3:29
  15. Like A Rolling Stone 6:08
  16. Lay Down Your Weary Tune 4:36
  17. Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:19
  18. I Don't Believe You (She acts like we never have met) 5:18
Volume 2
  1. Visions of Johanna 7:33
  2. Every Grain of Sand 6:13
  3. Quinn the Eskimo 2:19
  4. Mr. Tambourine Man 5:29
  5. Dear Landlord 3:17
  6. It Ain't Me, Babe 3:34
  7. You Angel You 2:53
  8. Million Dollar Bash 2:33
  9. To Ramona 3:53
  10. You're a Big Girl Now 4:23
  11. Abandoned Love 4:29
  12. Tangled Up in Blue 5:43
  13. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 5:42
  14. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 3:34
  15. Positively 4th Street 3:55
  16. Isis 5:20
  17. Jet Pilot 0:49
Volume 2
  1. Visions of Johanna 7:33
  2. Every Grain of Sand 6:13
  3. Quinn the Eskimo 2:19
  4. Mr. Tambourine Man 5:29
  5. Dear Landlord 3:17
  6. It Ain't Me, Babe 3:34
  7. You Angel You 2:53
  8. Million Dollar Bash 2:33
  9. To Ramona 3:53
  10. You're a Big Girl Now 4:23
  11. Abandoned Love 4:29
  12. Tangled Up in Blue 5:43
  13. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 5:42
  14. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 3:34
  15. Positively 4th Street 3:55
  16. Isis 5:20
  17. Jet Pilot 0:49
Volume 3
  1. Caribbean Wind 5:54
  2. Up to Me 6:18
  3. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You 2:57
  4. I Wanna Be Your Lover 3:29
  5. I Want You 3:07
  6. Heart of Mine 3:43
  7. On a Night Like This 2:57
  8. Just Like a Woman 4:56
  9. Romance in Durango 4:39
  10. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) 5:44
  11. Gotta Serve Somebody 5:25
  12. I Believe In You 5:10
  13. Time Passes Slowly 2:37
  14. I Shall Be Released 3:05
  15. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2:31
  16. All Along the Watchtower 3:05
  17. Solid Rock 3:57
  18. Forever Young 2:01
Volume 3
  1. Caribbean Wind 5:54
  2. Up to Me 6:18
  3. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You 2:57
  4. I Wanna Be Your Lover 3:29
  5. I Want You 3:07
  6. Heart of Mine 3:43
  7. On a Night Like This 2:57
  8. Just Like a Woman 4:56
  9. Romance in Durango 4:39
  10. Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) 5:44
  11. Gotta Serve Somebody 5:25
  12. I Believe In You 5:10
  13. Time Passes Slowly 2:37
  14. I Shall Be Released 3:05
  15. Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2:31
  16. All Along the Watchtower 3:05
  17. Solid Rock 3:57
  18. Forever Young 2:01

Notes

YEAR: 1985 ID3G: 17
Historically, Biograph is significant not for what it did for Dylan's career, but for establishing the box set, complete with hits and rarities, as a viable part of rock history. Following Biograph, multi-disc box sets for veteran rockers became accepted and almost the norm, but that doesn't discount this set's strengths as a summary of Dylan's career, using the familiar and the rare to draw a fully rounded portrait of his strengths as a songwriter, musician, and record-maker in a way that conventional choices alone couldn't achieve. Certainly, the chief attraction of this set, even years after its initial release, is its smattering of rarities that aren't just rare, but revealing — ranging from forgotten rock B-sides and singles to demos, alternate takes, and unreleased songs that rival official releases. But Biograph is really remarkable for weaving these songs into a fabric that reveals the true trajectory of Dylan's career, offering as much to the curious as it does to the dedicated. That sets a standard for box sets that has rarely been matched, making Biograph all the more impressive in retrospect. [In 1997, Columbia Records issued an upgraded, reconfigured version of Biograph, with a new catalog number (65298), a lower list price, and with its packaging and booklet reduced from an LP-size box to a CD-size slipcase. The original 1985 set in the large-size box, which marked the first time that the label had gone back to original first-generation tapes on a Dylan CD, was pretty impressive; but the 1997 CD-size box version, remastered in Sony's Super Bit Mapping process, is a significant improvement over that, and is to be preferred.]