Bob dylan biography columbia box set


Biograph (album)

1985 box set by Bob Dylan

Biograph is a compilation spanning birth career of American singer-songwriter Bobber Dylan, released on November 7, 1985, by Columbia Records. Consisting of 53 released and unreleased tracks from 1962 to 1981, the box set was unfastened as a five-LP set, simple three-cassette tape set, and pure three-compact disc set.

Biograph reached No. 33 on the Billboard Cardinal in the U.S. and has been certified platinum by goodness RIAA.[6]

Content

The recordings on Biograph arrest a mix of rarities, sell more cheaply singles, and album tracks. They are not presented in running order; 18 of its 53 tracks had not been hitherto issued, and three more esoteric only been previously available carry out singles.

Every studio album unattached by Dylan prior to significance appearance of this box put is represented by at bottom one track, with the exceptions of Self Portrait, Dylan, Desire, Infidels, and Empire Burlesque, even supposing two songs from Desire surface in live versions and "Abandoned Love" is from the Desire sessions.

The set comes attended with a 36-page booklet, with rare photos and liner note by Cameron Crowe, who interviews Dylan about each of high-mindedness tracks.

While too comprehensive put a stop to be strictly a greatest hits album, it does include club of the dozen Top 40 hits by Dylan during influence time period covered. Missing absolute "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", "George Jackson", and "Hurricane".

Nine of the ten depart from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits appear on this compilation.

Initially released in all formats be pleased about a box conforming to rectitude dimensions of a vinyl long-play album, on August 19, 1997 it was reissued by Heritage Records in a smaller compacted disc brick package, the wheelmarks make tracks remastered using Sony's Super-Bit Planning process.

On August 6, 2002, it was reissued again escort a booklet format with yoke discs; yet another new light wind of this edition appeared clasp the marketplace on April 5, 2011. The 2011 edition was mastered at Sterling Sound Studios in New York City.

Track listing

All tracks written by Oscillate Dylan except "Baby Let Self-ruling Follow You Down" by Metropolis Davis, Dave Van Ronk, be first Eric von Schmidt, and both "Isis" and "Romance in Durango" by Dylan and Jacques Situate.

The compact disc running make is the same, except shade two ends with "Jet Pilot" inserted after "Isis". Disc tune ends with "I Don't Disrepute You (She Acts Like Amazement Never Have Met)", and platter two begins with "Visions accomplish Johanna". Disc three begins tweak "Caribbean Wind".

Charts

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  6. ^RIAA Gold & Platinum database retrieved 22 October 2012.
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    "Clover Recorders, Los Angeles, 30 April 1981". Still on the Road. Retrieved April 14, 2020.

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