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Blood On The Tracks [Original recording remastered]

Bob Dylan Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (29 Mar 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Columbia / Sony
  • ASIN: B0001M0KE8
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  Mini-Disc  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 599 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  4. Idiot Wind 7:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 2:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts 8:50£0.89  Buy MP3 
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BBC Review

Bob Dylan as an artist had a tough early 70s. By 1974 our Bob was in the strange position of being still regarded as the next Messiah while seeming bored with himself. This was, remember, the era of Planet Waves and Self Portrait – not his brightest moments - while his tour the previous year with the Band was also fairly iconoclastic. In the end two factors got Dylan back on (hem hem) track: painting and a very messy breakdown of his marriage.

In fact, one seemed to lead to the other. Dylan had spent two months in the spring of 1974, studying painting under Norman Raeben in New York. Afterwards he claimed: ‘It changed me. I went home after that and my wife never did understand me ever since that day’. While the album has a confessional sense of hurt Dylan’s always denied the connection but still admits that there’s a lot of pain on the album.

Initially sessions were held in familiar surroundings in New York. What’s more he was back with his old record company following an unsatisfactory sojourn with David Geffen’s Asylum label. Bob used Eric Weissberg’s band, Deliverance, to rush through the recording process and have the album finished in one week. In typical Bob form he showed scant regard for polish, leaving the sounds of his buttons and nails rattling against the guitar strings on many tracks. All was set for an Autumn release until, back in Minnesota, he played an acetate to his brother who suggested that it did need a more commercial sheen. Hastily assembling a cast of local musicians, Dylan re-recorded about half of the album and from these two halves this masterpiece was born.

From the opening track, “Tangled Up In Blue”, Dylan embarked on a whole new era in his work. Seemingly autobiographical, these tales of a lover relating a series of unrelated events all set in a mythical America used the impressionist method that he’d learned from Raeben: ‘I wanted to defy time, so that the story took place in the present and the past at the same time. When you look at a painting, you can see any part of it, or see all of it together. I wanted that song to be like a painting.‘ The same trick is pulled on the gorgeous “Simple Twist Of Fate.”

Over ten songs Dylan alludes to heartache, deception, angry name-calling and poignant regret and loneliness. While on the searing “Idiot Wind” he seems to have no mercy for his ex (‘It’s a wonder you can even feed yourself’ on “You’re A Big Girl Now” he pleads with her : ’I can change I SWEAR’. It’s different from his previous work because suddenly he’s singing about things that don’t pertain to youth anymore. Gone is the clever, sneering tone of the mid-60s or the haranguing of his protest years. It’s a world-weary, nostalgic and ultimately more poetic Dylan we hear, and that is what makes Blood… a timeless record. --Chris Jones

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars AN ENCAPSULATION OF ALL EMOTIONS 12 Oct 2006
Format:Audio CD
Listen to this loud and alone,without distractions,and have the lyric sheet near at hand.This will make you think,listen again and think some more.In possibly his greatest work Dylan expresses one or more emotions to which we can all relate somewhere or at sometime.If you want the antithesis of manufactured image driven substanceless pop you have found it.

Although there was some very good intervening material,Dylan would not produce anything of this quality again until 1997 when Grammy winner Time Out of Mind enriched our lives and on which his masterpiece Not Dark Yet appears.

One of these two is his best and which may depend on your mood when you listen.

Blood On The Tracks best track? That is a very difficult question and in many ways it only exists as a whole work but,if pressed, Shelter From The Storm. Pure Genius
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80 of 82 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Tangled up in a 5-star 30 year old classic 30 July 2005
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Format:Audio CD
Some personal stuff first: hearing Tangled Up In Blue under the bedclothes on late night radio, when I should have been revising for O' Levels, first turned me on to this album - and to the power of poetry and the blues. Until punk came along and shifted my musical axis, this album was rarely off my turntable...ultimately the turntable broke and got replaced by a CD player, so that it has been twenty years since I listened to this album. I finally got around to buying it on CD 6 months ago - and it sounds as great and moving as it first did to the callow teenager under the bedclothes.

There's never been a doubt about Dylan's lyrical ability, but the poetry, combined with narrative flow, of Tangled Up in Blue, Simple Twist of Fate and Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts turn them into real "tours de force". The emotional connection that You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, If You See Her, Say Hello and Shelter From the Storm make - and the sweet bitterness of Idiot Wind and Buckets of Rain - really hit the spot. Oh - and the melodies are strong too. These are Dylan tunes you can hum along too, if you're so inclined.

Surely every music lover has this album already?

Dylan may not be my favourite artiste of all time - but if I could take just one album with me when I die, it would be this one.

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68 of 70 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A timeless Classic 19 May 2004
By Mr. M. L. Hawes VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of the most talked about albums of all time and having recently discovered it's contents I can now understand why.

To me Bob Dylan was the whining voice that played incessantly in my frequent visits to hippy run record shops in my punk days of youth. An endless drone that seemed directionless and empty.

Now, at the grand old age of 37, I decided it was about time that I investigated the work of the great man and what a work this is.

Essentially folk / blues in it's make up, this is a collection of songs of intense quality and breathtaking emotion. Dylan is on spectacular form and delivers each track with the depth of feeling that suggests he was personally involved with the story line of each one.

This is one of the finest albums I have ever heard and has been played to death since I bought it. I defy anyone not to connect with one or two of the songs and would describe it as educational and essential for any music lovers collection.

Wonderful

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry Bob....
Not a classic, but enjoyed the honour to Lennon.

But not to worry, I'm a Dylan fan of old - You can be in my dream if I can be in yours. WW3 Blues. Read more
Published 14 days ago by just Jack
5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite Dylan album revisted
Had it on vinyl for years but nice to have it ripped form CD and on the Sonos. For me this is the best Dylan album, but then it was my first...
Published 17 days ago by Tim1958
5.0 out of 5 stars Just superb
Bought as an MP3 download, top quality sound.

The album itself? Far and away the best Dylan album I've listened to... musically, lyrically - just superb. Read more
Published 22 days ago by nik26
5.0 out of 5 stars She can look me up, if she's got the time
Oh yes Mr Dylan, I do have the time !

This is a terrific cd and if it only contained Idiot Wind and If you see her, say hello, it would still have been worth every cent... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Girl Who Walks a Lot
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous
I recently bought this album along with 'desire'. I had heard both albums, but never really listened! As soon as the first track , 'tangled up in blue' starts playing, your hooked. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Balderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Good purchase
Pleased with the cd. Received as described.- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Published 1 month ago by Tom Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody vintage
Bob is God what more can you say? This seems as fresh as the day it was released but I wonder where his creative genius went some years later?
Published 1 month ago by monty ripper
5.0 out of 5 stars Downloaded instantly
If you like Dylan, you will like this album I'm sure. At the download price it is worth listening to to find out if you might be a fan!
Published 2 months ago by Jackinthebox
5.0 out of 5 stars An old favorite
I used to own this on LP, but my record player broke completely. So I bought the CD version - I absolutely love these songs, have listened for years.
Published 2 months ago by Francis
5.0 out of 5 stars Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
This was one of the few Bob CDs I didn't have. It's very good. I believe that Jakob Dylan once said "This was about my parents" which is an interesting observation to... Read more
Published 2 months ago by maximus
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