Record basics
- Album name: Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits
- Artist name: Bob Dylan
- Year: 1967
- Number of discs: one
- Label: Columbia Records
- Collection: Brenner / Gessner
- Distinguishing characteristics: “G” written on top left of album, indicating that my father owned this record
- Buy it on Amazon: $34.37
My review
Level of familiarity before listening
I’m not sure that I’ve ever listened to this compilation record, but I’m a big fan of Bob Dylan’s mid 1960s corpus, so I know all the songs on it well.
What I expected
It’s pretty straightforward: ten of Bob Dylan’s hits from his first seven records, through “Blonde on Blonde.”
What it was actually like
Needless to say, Bob Dylan’s greatest song is It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry, but that one gets left out of every compilation or analysis of his accomplishments; this record focuses on his hits (until 1967). Here they are in order of how much I like them, from best to worst:
- Just Like a Woman
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Like a Rolling Stone
- I Want You
- It Ain’t Me Babe
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Positively 4th Street
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Blowin’ in the Wind
Grade
5/5: love it
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