1. Blowin' in the Wind
2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
3. The Times They Are A-Changin'
4. It Ain't Me Babe
5. Maggie's Farm
6. It's All over Now, Baby Blue
7. Mr. Tambourine Man
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. Like a Rolling Stone
10. Positively 4th Street
11. Just Like a Woman
12. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
13. All Along the Watchtower
14. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)
15. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
16. Lay Lady Lay
17. If Not for You
18. I Shall Be Released
19. You Ain't Going Nowhere
20. Knockin' on Heaven's Door
21. Forever Young
22. Tangled Up in Blue
23. Shelter from the Storm
24. The Hurricane
25. Gotta Serve Somebody
26. Jokerman
27. Silvio
28. Everything Is Broken
29. Not Dark Yet
30. Things Have Changed
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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
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The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD)
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2000-10-31)
- Publisher: Sony; 2005
- Label: Sony
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 141 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #846
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Summary: awesome CD 2008-11-24
Comment: awesome CD, no time to write more right now, but a great CD from a great artist!
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Summary: Dylan's Best 2008-11-14
Comment: I had forgotten how badly Dylan sings while being so good at it. A nice collection of his work.
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Summary: a great intro 2008-06-23
Comment: this 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.
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Summary: Dylan Review 2008-05-19
Comment: This was my first CD of Bob Dylan's good CD with songs that make you think. Good melodies, typical Dylan voice.
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Summary: GREAT COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW 2008-02-29
Comment: Bashing Dylan's vocal skills as a means of arguing that he's not a great artist is kind of like complaining that Woody Allen isn't a versatile actor. If you have to resort to that, his talent is completely over your head. Look at this track list - 30 of the greatest songs in American popular music & he wrote every single one & had huge radio hits with many of them. Granted, there are versions of these tunes out there that surpass the original recordings in terms of sing-along-ability & pleasing listening. But that's hardly the point. So his poetry is not your thing? Then why come here & review an album you obviously haven't even purchased or listened to?? If anyone wants a wonderful summary of Dylan's repertoire, this is a CD set that can't be beat. And just look at that price! A+
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The Essential Bob Dylan (Rm) (2CD)
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