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Dylan For Dummies (2-cd set)

Side A
Artist Song
Bob Dylan  Like a Rolling Stone 
Bob Dylan  Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35 
Bob Dylan  It Ain't Me Babe 
Bob Dylan  If Not For You 
Bob Dylan  Positively 4th Street 
Bob Dylan  It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 
Bob Dylan  The Mighty Quinn 
Bob Dylan  Don't Think Twice, It's Alright 
Bob Dylan  Hurricane 
Bob Dylan  Absolutely Sweet Marie 
Bob Dylan  Meet Me In The Morning 
Bob Dylan  My Back Pages 
Bob Dylan  Precious Angel 
Bob Dylan  Ballad Of A Thin Man 
Bob Dylan & The Hawks  I Wanna Be Your Lover 
Bob Dylan  Country Pie 
Bob Dylan  Maggie's Farm 
Bob Dylan  You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome... 
Bob Dylan  To Be Alone With You 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Bob Dylan  Tangled up in Blue 
Bob Dylan  Queen Jane Approximately 
Bob Dylan  Mr. Tambourine Man 
Bob Dylan  I Want You 
Bob Dylan  I Threw It All Away 
Bob Dylan  All Along The Watchtower 
Bob Dylan  Lay Down Your Weary Tune 
Bob Dylan  Most Likely You Go Your Way & I'll Go Mine 
Bob Dylan  Gotta Serve Somebody 
Bob Dylan  Blowin' In The Wind 
Bob Dylan & The Band  Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window 
Bob Dylan  On A Night Like This 
Bob Dylan  She Belongs To Me 
Bob Dylan  John Wesley Harding 
Bob Dylan  Stuck Inside Of Mobile... 
Bob Dylan  Tombstone Blues 
Bob Dylan  The Times They Are A-Changin' 
Bob Dylan  It Takes A Lit To Laugh... 
Bob Dylan  Subterranean Homesick Blues 
Bob Dylan  Knockin' On Heaven's Door 

Comment:

I put off doing a Dylan single-artist mix for about as long as I could, but, having accumulated most of the recent remasters, figued it was time to give it a go. Difficult in part because, well, it's Dylan... and in part because, I have to admit, I'm just not the world's biggest Dylan afficianado. To be completely honest, I think he has three indispensable albums -- Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and Bringing It All Back Home (in roughly that order). Beyond that, a couple of great (ok, essential) tracks per album, but also plenty I can live without. The early folk stuff -- well, frankly, I'll take the Byrds covers over Bob's originals any day of the week. And I've paid essentially zero attention to anything he's recorded since the mid-70s.
So, bottom line, this is not my attempt at a definitive Dylan anthology. I draw most heavily from the 3 albums I love, with a smattering of tracks from the folk days and the late 60s/early 70s, mixed up for the sake of sonic and thematic variety. Had to cut a few I would have liked to include, and, yes, I'm sure there are plenty of great songs from the past 30 years I ought to spend more time with. But for the 160 minutes of Dylan that I most need at my fingertips, here you go.
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Nomates
Date: 10/22/2006
The whole exercise is a minefield. You appear to have negotiated it well. I assume you're still in one piece. There is nothing out of place here. If 2 Cds was your plan, and these are your "definitive" choices, within those constraints -- I am satisfied. No need for the: "but where's ? etc. debate. Though I'm sure it's comin'...
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Rob Conroy
Date: 10/22/2006
I'm with hemizen, although I could chime in with a million "but where's...?" comments, as I've done four discs of his and could easily do two-to-four more of "essentials"...
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 10/22/2006
An excellent compilation (and cover).
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French Connection
Date: 10/23/2006
My Dylan for Dummies mix would be about 35 tracks short of this mix, can't stand the bloke or his music. Hee hee, hope that ain't too forthright each to his own etc.
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sport !
Date: 10/23/2006
Just had a discussion about Dylan, I'm amazed at how divided people are about him. Good choices here...
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Nomates
Date: 10/23/2006
Wow! That French Connection and his true confessions, eh? Waddya gonna do?
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Orchid
Date: 10/23/2006
My mom needs this.
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Bear
Date: 10/24/2006
I sit a little right-field of Frenchy on this- lots of great tunes but I can kind of take him or leave him (Dylan, that is, not Frenchy). Anyway, this looks like a successful job.
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Orchid
Date: 10/24/2006
bear's parenthetical statement has me in stitches.
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jessesamuel
Date: 10/27/2006
I've been planning on doing a Dylan mix for a long time now; I guess it's been about 3 years! The problem is, I'm not a huge fan either so the going has been very slow.

By the way, thanks for your tip (3 mixes per day) and your comments. I have 50 mixes made over the last 4 years or so for my girlfriend/wife. Plus 42 single-artist mixes, so my enthusiasm got the best of me when I found the site.

What's the best way to correspond with other members? By posting ratings?