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Summary: The poetic genius of modern times
Comment: Love this package. Worth every penny. I bought the 1CD version at an airport en route to Tokyo and loved it so much that I bought the 2CD version once I got there. That was already a whole new dimension (because some of the songs make their appearance in vastly different or alternate takes). On that basis I ordered the 3CD deluxe boxset for the music - and the third CD far exceeded my expectations. Insanely creative experience. The two books are equally enjoyable. I liked the compendium of singles picture sleeves but it would have been better with a sentence of facts to accompany the photos.
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Summary: Brilliant
Comment: this boxset was a present for my husband a life long Dylan fan. The sound is superb on the vinyl and the quality of the accompanying books and materials is first class
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Summary: BOB DYLAN TELL TALE SIGNS (DELUXE)
Comment: Gave to my BIL for Christmas -- he's a big Dylan fan and seemed thrilled with this deluxe set. Great price at AMAZON too -- more than $50 less than the next best Online store.
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Summary: Volume Eight from the Eighth Wonder of sorts ...
Comment: Twenty two years back I bought the Biograph series which simply blew my mind; living in Calcutta, getting an LP was difficult - although there were these little stores on Free School Street that sold used records of everything we liked - Stones, Beatles, Floyd, Who, Young, Zep and other Gods of Rock & Roll. Crowning glory of ones listening repertoire were Dylan & Cohen - an easy way to be regarded an elite listener of sorts. The prices however were astronomical (250 rupees per record - which was a lot of money). So we shared records among friends - I had the Biograph series on tape without the regular inserts - I believe they were pirated. We took particular note that more than half of the songs on Biograph were not available elsewhere; Biograph was a testimony to Dylan's recording talent - without repetition of any kind.
Twenty years & six bootleg series later we all know there is probably another eight CD worth of quality recording that can be unearthed (including expansive Basement Tapes, live circa Before the Flood, Toronto live recordings circa the born again time, the classic electric era of the white hot noise and God knows what else.
This collection is spectacular and in some ways gives the feel of a more consistent studio record as opposed to a group of songs spanning some seventeen years. With Oh Mercy in 1989, and the resurrection that followed, it is perhaps not a surprise that there are many outtakes that are worthy of a regular official release for any lesser artist. Who knew growing old for Mr. Dylan could be so much fun for us?
I wonder if Columbia would release a record of just one song (Mississippi comes to mind) just to show that how each reading can sound so engrossing & can be so different from the other - and to prove a point that I have been saying for years - genius never repeats - a repeater of the same stuff day after day is a performer - not an artist.
With me getting no younger anymore, and the world the strange abode of tastelessness that it is today, I am ecstatic to own this collection - to be savoured, like good wine, in moderation and over many years. And I hope that there is more to come.
Thanks Bobby, this one's from Free School Street!
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Summary: better than the originals
Comment: only bob dylan could surpass his own established work from previous albums his versions of "everything's broken", not to mention a wonderful rendition of "dignity", just dylan and his piano, a five star pouring out of a old civil rights anthem "Ring them Bells" tops off "Tell Tale Signs"....
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