Bob Dylan : 800 Track Career Retrospective on iTunes

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From www.music-news.com:

"Bob Dylan is set to release an 800 track career spanning digital album to coincide with the release of his new long player.

The album will cost £169.99 and is available from iTunes on August 28, the same day ‘Modern Times’ is released."

Doubtless there'll be a few "Hard-To-Find" tracks on there that'll have us Bobcats wringing our hands trying to decide if it's worth robbing a bank to buy the thing....

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

THERE'S GUNS ACROSS THE RIVER AIMIN' AT YA
LAWMAN ON YOUR TRAIL, HE'D LIKE TO CATCH YA
BOUNTY HUNTERS, TOO, THEY'D LIKE TO GET YA
BILLY, THEY DON'T LIKE YOU TO BE SO FREE

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 21 August 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

doubtless those rare tracks will turn up on limewire or whathaveyou almost instantly..

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

In Soviet Russia, ISY.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Doubtless there'll be a few "Hard-To-Find" tracks on there that'll have us Bobcats wringing our hands trying to decide if it's worth robbing a bank to buy the thing...."

Surely you'll just be able to buy the songs that don't have rather than shelling out for the whole thing

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wouldn't 800 tracks be 'everything released already by Bob' ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Usually Robin, they make the rare stuff "album only", so you have to buy the whole thing to get them. That's what they did with "The Complete U2", anyway. It'll be interesting to see what they do.

― musicjohn73 (musicjohn73), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

Do we know yet what the 42 supposed rarities are going to be? If it's already-collected b-sides and such, I won't watch the newsgroups for them.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, are we talking about stuff that's never been released before?

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

damn. i hope they at least do a package where you could buy all the rarities as one 42-song thing.....

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dylan seems a tad dismissive about the state of music these days, especially the way his music currently is being printed, but hey if it pays the bills...

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."

"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Rumors of Dylan "getting" Wolf Eyes yet to be confirmed, though.

― wrapped up like a DOUche in the middle of the NUT (donut), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

800? Wow. I knew he was prolific, but wow. How many of those
songs are good? 100? 150? Even that's impressive.

>"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have >sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, >no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."

Archaic or bluntly true? Charting rock IS in a dire state
(pop is doing fine, though)

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Heh...I do have about 15 Dylan LPs on vinyl that I have no intention of replacing w/ digital copies. Do I need to hear a 128k AAC version of Street Legal? No, I don't.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

one hundred good songs in forty years is not impressive. writing two and a half good songs in a year is not productive, for fucksakes.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

although obviously that's not really an accurate representation of dylan's career path, and, say, months that made the hundred-odd tracks of the basement tapes: well, that is quite impressive.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

Heaven forbid we should think that quantity = quality.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

>writing two and a half good songs in a year is not productive

But it really is, if you remember that most singer-songwriters
never write a good song in their entire life.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I figured it out for you. Out of those 800 songs:

* 39 are absolute stone classics by any standard
* 185 are better than what 95 percent of his colleagues were doing at the time
* 343 are solid craftwork by one of the true masters
* 190 are to be enjoyed by fans only
* 43 are irredeemable shite

You're welcome.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

SURELY those last two categories are one and the same??

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Rather than start a new thread, may I hijack this one a bit and ask: What Bob Dylan tracks that were never released on a non-compilation album are worth listening to? I've started listening to Dylan a lot lately and I like "Can you Please Crawl Out Your Window" and "Positively 4th Street," which I think both fit this description. Are there any other non-album gems out there, especially from his early career (say '62 - '68)?

― graf cycliz (graf cycliz), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

"If You Gotta Go, Go Now" is a pretty hilarious stab at making at Beatles-style single (although someone didn't think so; recorded in '65, it sat unreleased until '67, and then only in Belgium or some such).

Another nugget from this era is the version of "Grand Coulee Dam" he recorded with The Band at a Woody Guthrie tribute show in Jan. 1968.

The one I can't believe hasn't been on CD yet is the slower (without The Hawks) version of "Can You Please..." released by mistake (and mislabeled) and quickly withdrawn in the fall of '65.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Sunday, 27 August 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

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