Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits (Vinyl record album review)

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