BOB DYLAN - The Essential (2000)
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.
CD1
* 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.Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
* 12.I Want You
* 13.Just Like A Woman
* 14.Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
* 15.All Along The Watchtower
* 16.Quinn The Eskimo
* 17.I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
* 18.Lay, Lady, Lay
* 19.If Not For You
* 20.I Shall Be Released
* 21.You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
* 22.Knockin' On Heaven's Door
CD 2
* 1.Forever Young
* 2.Tangled Up In Blue
* 3.Shelter From The Storm
* 4.Hurricane
* 5.Changing Of The Guards
* 6.Gotta Serve Somebody
* 7.Blind Willie McTell
* 8.Jokerman
* 9.Tight Connection To My Heart
* 10.Silvio
* 11.Everything Is Broken
* 12.Dignity
* 13.Not Dark Yet
* 14.Things Have Changed
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