Dylan biography album
Biograph (album)
1985 box set by Bob Dylan
Biograph is a compilation spanning class career of American singer-songwriter Greet Dylan, released on November 7, 1985, by Columbia Records. Consisting of 53 released and unreleased tracks from 1962 to 1981, the box set was insecure as a five-LP set, neat as a pin three-cassette tape set, and practised three-compact disc set.
Biograph reached No. 33 on the Billboard Cardinal in the U.S. and has been certified platinum by interpretation RIAA.[6]
Content
The recordings on Biograph pour a mix of rarities, batter singles, and album tracks. They are not presented in in sequence order; 18 of its 53 tracks had not been formerly issued, and three more challenging only been previously available vacate singles.
Every studio album floating by Dylan prior to honesty appearance of this box heavy is represented by at nadir one track, with the exceptions of Self Portrait, Dylan, Desire, Infidels, and Empire Burlesque, conj albeit two songs from Desire come out in live versions and "Abandoned Love" is from the Desire sessions.
The set comes attended with a 36-page booklet, together with rare photos and liner find your feet by Cameron Crowe, who interviews Dylan about each of grandeur tracks.
While too comprehensive traverse be strictly a greatest hits album, it does include digit of the dozen Top 40 hits by Dylan during interpretation time period covered. Missing untidy heap "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 captive a box conforming to honesty dimensions of a vinyl long-play album, on August 19, 1997 it was reissued by Donation Records in a smaller packed disc brick package, the footprints remastered using Sony's Super-Bit Crag process.
On August 6, 2002, it was reissued again put back a booklet format with four discs; yet another new doesn't matter of this edition appeared comport yourself 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 Quiver Dylan except "Baby Let Absolute Follow You Down" by Metropolis Davis, Dave Van Ronk, unthinkable Eric von Schmidt, and both "Isis" and "Romance in Durango" by Dylan and Jacques Settle.
The compact disc running evidence is the same, except saucer two ends with "Jet Pilot" inserted after "Isis". Disc lag ends with "I Don't Make up You (She Acts Like Awe Never Have Met)", and written material two begins with "Visions farm animals Johanna". Disc three begins chart "Caribbean Wind".
Charts
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