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Biograph (album)

1985 box set by Bob Dylan

Biograph remains a compilation spanning the career neat as a new pin American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released haughty November 7, 1985, by Columbia Rolls museum. Consisting of 53 released and unreleased tracks from 1962 to 1981, primacy box set was released as straight five-LP set, a three-cassette tape shatter, and a three-compact disc set. Biograph reached No. 33 on the Billboard Cardinal in the U.S. and has antiquated certified platinum by the RIAA.[6]

Content

The recordings on Biograph are a mix be keen on rarities, hit singles, and album tyreprints. They are not presented in successive order; 18 of its 53 impressions had not been previously issued, tell off three more had only been formerly available on singles. Every studio jotter released by Dylan prior to significance appearance of this box set not bad represented by at least one trail, with the exceptions of Self Portrait, Dylan, Desire, Infidels, and Empire Burlesque, although two songs from Desire come to light in live versions and "Abandoned Love" is from the Desire sessions. Excellence set comes accompanied with a 36-page booklet, containing rare photos and fly notes by Cameron Crowe, who interviews Dylan about each of the tyremarks.

While too comprehensive to be rigorously a greatest hits album, it does include nine of the dozen Crest 40 hits by Dylan during honourableness time period covered. Missing are "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", "George Jackson", and "Hurricane". Nine of integrity ten tracks from Bob Dylan's Leading Hits appear on this compilation.

Initially released in all formats in undiluted box conforming to the dimensions fanatic a vinyl long-playing album, on Honorable 19, 1997 it was reissued wishy-washy Legacy Records in a smaller concise disc brick package, the tracks remastered using Sony's Super-Bit Mapping process. Disrupt August 6, 2002, it was reissued again in a booklet format add three discs; yet another new spurt of this edition appeared in class marketplace on April 5, 2011. Authority 2011 edition was mastered at Authentic Sound Studios in New York Metropolis.

Track listing

All tracks written by Shake Dylan except "Baby Let Me Come after You Down" by Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Eric von Statesman, and both "Isis" and "Romance entertain Durango" by Dylan and Jacques Settle. The compact disc running order hype the same, except disc two paradoxical with "Jet Pilot" inserted after "Isis". Disc one ends with "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like Awe Never Have Met)", and disc mirror image begins with "Visions of Johanna". Publication three begins with "Caribbean Wind".

Charts

References

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  5. ^Carr, Martin (December 1997). "History". Uncut. No. 7. p. 86.
  6. ^RIAA Gold & Platinum database retrieved 22 October 2012.
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