Biograph

by Bob Dylan

Biograph cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 November 1985
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 3:35:00
  • Community rating: 4.45/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Widely credited with pioneering the modern multi-disc retrospective box set, 'Biograph' non-chronologically weaves together Bob Dylan's iconic hits with highly sought-after live cuts and unreleased studio outtakes. The ambitious sequencing deliberately highlights thematic and lyrical connections across his numerous stylistic reinventions, from acoustic protest folk to surrealist rock. It effectively established a new standard for archival releases, offering profound new context to the most intensely scrutinized catalog in popular music.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk

Tracklist

  1. Lay Lady Lay (3:20)
  2. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (2:34)
  3. If Not For You (2:40)
  4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (2:40)
  5. I'll Keep It With Mine (3:44)
  6. The Times They Are A-Changin' (3:12)
  7. Blowin' In The Wind (2:49)
  8. Masters Of War (4:30)
  9. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (5:47)
  10. Percy's Song (7:30)
  11. Mixed-Up Confusion (2:22)
  12. Tombstone Blues (5:54)
  13. Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar (4:03)
  14. Most Likely You Go Your Way (3:27)
  15. Like A Rolling Stone (6:09)
  16. Jet Pilot (0:51)
  17. Lay Down Your Weary Tune (4:34)
  18. Subterranean Homesick Blues (2:19)
  19. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (5:15)
  20. Visions Of Johanna (7:24)
  21. Every Grain Of Sand (6:09)
  22. Quinn The Eskimo (2:17)
  23. Mr. Tambourine Man (5:29)
  24. Dear Landlord (3:18)
  25. It Ain't Me Babe (3:29)
  26. You Angel You (2:59)
  27. Million Dollar Bash (2:33)
  28. To Ramona (3:54)
  29. You're A Big Girl Now (4:20)
  30. Abandoned Love (4:29)
  31. Tangled Up In Blue (5:39)
  32. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (5:40)
  33. Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (3:30)
  34. Positively 4th Street (3:53)
  35. Isis (5:17)
  36. Caribbean Wind (5:52)
  37. Up To Me (6:16)
  38. Baby, I'm In The Mood For You (2:57)
  39. I Wanna Be Your Lover (3:26)
  40. I Want You (3:05)
  41. Heart Of Mine (3:40)
  42. On A Night Like This (2:52)
  43. Just Like A Woman (4:50)
  44. Romance In Durango (4:44)
  45. Se帽or (Tales Of Yankee Power) (5:43)
  46. Gotta Serve Somebody (5:23)
  47. I Believe In You (5:03)
  48. Time Passes Slowly (2:37)
  49. I Shall Be Released (3:03)
  50. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (2:33)
  51. All Along The Watchtower (3:00)
  52. Solid Rock (3:57)
  53. Forever Young (1:59)

Credits

  • Bob Dylan - primary artist, written-by
  • Eric Von Schmidt - written-by
  • Jacques Levy - written-by

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