BOB DYLAN - BIOGRAPH - 5LP BOX SET - DELUXE EDITION - NM/MINT -Vinyl LP's
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BOB DYLAN "BIOGRAPH"
5LP BOX SET - DELUXE EDITION INCLUDING 1X36 PAGE BOOKLET
AND ANOTHER 1X12 PAGE BOOKLET
5 LP BOX SET
Vinyl LP's
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1985 original release vinyl LP on the COLUMBIA record label Cat n# CBS 66509 Made in HOLLAND
The album Box is in NM/MINT condition. No problems, the inner sleeves are in NM/MINT condition, the 32 and 12 page booklet is in NM/MINT condition no tears or splits
The vinyl itself is in NM/MINT condition there no problems, these LP'S have only been played once or twice at the most.
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Sorry if the shipping charges seem a bit high, the reason being i use heavy/strong packaging and the high cost of the Royal Mail price structure
THIS IS AS GOOD EXAMPLE OF WELL LOOKED AFTER OLD LP RECORD
Full track list
Side One
1."Lay Lady Lay" Nashville Skyline 3:18
2."Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" Bob Dylan 2:34
3."If Not for You" New Morning 2:42
4."I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" John Wesley Harding 2:38
5."I'll Keep It with Mine" previously unreleased; 1965 3:45 .
Side Two
1."The Times They Are a-Changin'" The Times They Are A-Changin' 3:13
2."Blowin' in the Wind" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 2:47
3."Masters of War" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan 4:32
4."The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" The Times They Are A-Changin' 5:46
5."Percy's Song" previously unreleased; 1963 7:42 .
Side Three
1."Mixed-Up Confusion" A-side single November 1962 2:28
2."Tombstone Blues" Highway 61 Revisited 5:57
3."Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" b-side single September 1981 4:04
4."Most Likely You Go Your Way" Before the Flood 3:29
5."Like A Rolling Stone" Highway 61 Revisited 6:09
6."Jet Pilot" previously unreleased; 1965 0:49 .
Side Four
1."Lay Down Your Weary Tune" previously unreleased; 1963 4:36
2."Subterranean Homesick Blues" Bringing It All Back Home 2:20
3."I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"previously unreleased; live 1966 5:18
4."Visions of Johanna" previously unreleased; live 1966 7:33
5."Every Grain of Sand" Shot of Love 6:15 .
Side 5
1."Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" previously unreleased; 1967 2:20
2."Mr. Tambourine Man" Bringing It All Back Home 5:29
3."Dear Landlord" John Wesley Harding 3:16
4."It Ain't Me, Babe" Another Side of Bob Dylan 3:34
5."You Angel You" Planet Waves 2:54
6."Million Dollar Bash" The Basement Tapes 2:33 .
Side 6
1."To Ramona" Another Side of Bob Dylan 3:54
2."You're a Big Girl Now" previously unreleased; New York 1974 4:23
3."Abandoned Love" previously unreleased; 1975 4:29
4."Tangled Up in Blue" Blood on the Tracks 5:45
5."It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" previously unreleased; live 1966 5:40 .
Side 7
1."Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" A-side single December 1965 3:34
2."Positively 4th Street" A-side single September 1965 3:54
3."Isis" previously unreleased; live 1975 5:21
4."Caribbean Wind" previously unreleased; 1981 5:54
5."Up to Me" previously unreleased; 1974 6:18 .
Side 8
1."Baby, I'm in the Mood for You" previously unreleased; 1962 2:56
2."I Wanna Be Your Lover" previously unreleased; 1965 3:27
3."I Want You" Blonde on Blonde 3:07
4."Heart of Mine" previously unreleased; live 1981 3:43
5."On A Night Like This" Planet Waves 2:58
6."Just Like a Woman" Blonde on Blonde 4:55 .
Side 9
1."Romance in Durango" previously unreleased; live 1975 4:39
2."Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" Street-Legal 5:41
3."Gotta Serve Somebody" Slow Train Coming 5:25
4."I Believe in You" Slow Train Coming 5:10
5."Time Passes Slowly" New Morning 2:36 .
Side 10
1."I Shall Be Released" Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II 3:04
2."Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 2:30
3. "All Along the Watchtower" Before the Flood 3:04
4."Solid Rock" Saved 3:58
5."Forever Young" previously unreleased; demo 1973 2:02 .
.The Band
Various .
Biograph is a 53-track box set compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 release Shot of Love. Released in 1985 by Columbia Records, as both a five-LP and a three-compact disc set, it was the first compact disc box set retrospective issued for a musical artist.[citation needed] It reached #33 on the Billboard 200 in the US and has been certified platinum by the RIAAContent
The recordings on Biograph are a mix of rarities, hit singles, and album tracks. They are not presented in chronological order; 18 of its 53 tracks had not been previously issued, and three more had only been previously available on singles. The set comes accompanied with a 42-page booklet, containing rare photos and liner notes by Cameron Crowe, who interviews Dylan about each of the tracks. Nine of the ten tracks from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits appear on this compilation.
Initially released in all formats in a box conforming to the dimensions of a vinyl long-playing album, on August 19, 1997, it was reissued by Legacy Records in a smaller compact disc-sized package, the tracks remastered using Sony's Super-Bit Mapping process.
Track listing
All tracks written by Bob Dylan except "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" by Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Eric von Schmidt, and both "Isis" and "Romance in Durango" by Dylan and Jacques Levy. The compact disc running order is the same, except disc two ends with "Jet Pilot" inserted after "Isis." Disc one ends with "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)," and disc two begins with "Visions of Johanna." Disc three begins with "Caribbean Wind."
ROLLING STONE REVIEW
By Tim Holmes
January 16, 1986
To celebrate Bob Dylan's twenty-fourth year on record, Columbia has released Biograph, a five-record set that is not only a major retrospective but also a reassuring, sometimes startling, overview of Dylan's contributions to our culture. With its fifty-three recordings (nine officially unreleased songs, three unreleased studio versions, six unreleased live tracks and four hard-to-find singles), Biograph is a scratch on the surface of the tip of the iceberg, a tantalizing invitation to explore anew the rest of the Dylan catalog.
The album's title suggests a life's history under examination, and Biograph provides as comprehensive, revealing and fulfilling a text as a mere ten sides of Dylan will allow. It tells the story of a man's complex and inexhaustible romance with his mentors, influences and heroes: rustic minstrels (Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams); haunted blues singers (Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith); romantic, visionary and hipster poets (John Keats, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg); roots rock cats and media superstars (the Reverend Richard Penniman, Elvis Presley).
Despite this plethora of sources — acknowledged or interpreted — the songs on this set give incontrovertible evidence of a continuing explosion of genius. He blew away all restrictions on content in popular songwriting. Even in the wake of the New Wave, any songwriter who veers into abstract, surrealistic or associative imagery owes a debt to Bob Dylan. In the lavish booklet that accompanies Biograph, Dylan makes a simple claim: "Tin Pan Alley is gone. I put an end to it." (Which isn't to say Bob's not capable of some old-school songwriting himself, as the "moon" --"spoon" rhymes in "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" demonstrate.) Though his association with the protest movement of the Sixties produced the enduring anthems "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are A-Changin'," the songs from this period skirted the obsolescence of topicality. Even the mournful outrage of "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" stands up more than twenty years later. Dylan's most important political act was to liberate radical perception and consciousness and put it into jukeboxes.
The assemblers of Biograph obviously knew Dylan's catalog extremely well, enjoyed access to the complete work and cared enough about the project to worry about its cumulative impact. Biograph — with its intelligent and sensitive mix of greatest hits, best songs and fine rarities — serves both hard-core Dylanphiles and neophytes. The album is thematically, albeit loosely, structured. The setting of the greatest hits — "Lay Lady Lay," "Like a Rolling Stone," "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'" — alongside less familiar songs creates a feeling of rediscovery. Since the album avoids chronological ordering, the listener is made less aware of Dylan's "reinventions" and is drawn instead to the incredible consistency of his vision and themes.
Side one is devoted to love songs and includes "I'll Keep It with Mine," a long-time favorite of bootleggers. Recorded by Nico — it appears on Chelsea Girl — the tune is one of Dylan's best examples of the compression of contradictory attitudes. Side two is solid Sixties protest folk music. Sounding as relevant in Ronald Reagan's America as it did in the Sixties, "Masters of War" damns the munitions-industry conspiracy. The unreleased "Percy's Song" spins the poignant saga of a victim of an unfeeling court system. Side three includes Dylan's first experiment with an electric band, 1962's "Mixed-Up Confusion"; the hottest Jesus rant ever recorded, "Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar"; and a sample of Dylan's punchline existentialist humor, "Jet Pilot."
Just as he had been castigated by folk purists when he had gone electric in 1965, Bob Dylan came under fire for his overtly Christian albums, Slow Train Coming, Saved and the underrated and overlooked Shot of Love. Placed in the structure of Biograph, the songs from these albums echo and reinforce the sense of deep spiritual commitment apparent in Dylan's earlier, more secular songs. The act of creation has always been an auto-da-fé in Dylan's case. One hears it anew in the unreleased "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" (recorded in 1963), wherein all God's creation is metaphorically broken down into musical instruments. A newly available 1966 live acoustic version of "Visions of Johanna" finds the poet in the predawn hours alone with the heat pipes and the image of the "ghost of electricity" burning her way into his brain. The faint echo of Dylan's voice in the concert hall adds an eerie, spectral dimension to the performance. Dylan's singing on this recording renders the Blonde on Blonde version nearly obsolete.
The otherworldly presence active in Dylan's best performances translates well into the uplifting conviction of the faith-in-God numbers "I Believe in You" and "Every Grain of Sand." On the yowling live version of "Isis," he marries the Egyptian goddess of fertility and does not emerge unscathed. In contrast to the blazing firepower of his impassioned love-as-entrapment yarns, Dylan is also capable of the mournful bittersweet croon that surfaces on "Up to Me" (a rough draft of "Shelter from the Storm") and a rollicking live version, of "Heart of Mine."
Included with Biograph are extensive notes on every song, with Dylan providing rare and insightful commentary on background and inspiration. The accompanying booklet features a lengthy interview wherein Dylan, in an uncharacteristically straightforward manner, talks about various aspects of his career and family, his childhood in Hibbing, Minnesota, and his early days in New York, his albums and tours and all points in between.
If there is a fault with Biograph, it's the obvious and unavoidable one: the omission of personal favorites. Every aficionado will notice a few, but every aficionado's will be different. After all, my Bob is not your Bob.
This story is from the January 16th, 1986 issue of Rolling Stone.
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