Bob Dylan: Complete Album Collection

Bob Dylan and The Times They Are a-Changin' were remastered in 2005. New Morning, Before the Flood, The Basement Tapes and Dylan and the Dead followed in 2009 and Self Portrait is about to get the remaster treatment in the new Bootleg Series box set.

I would guess it would be these fourteen:

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Dylan (1973)
Hard Rain
Bob Dylan at Budokan
Saved
Shot of Love
Real Live
Empire Burlesque
Knocked Out Loaded
Down in the Groove
Under the Red Sky
Good As I Been to You
World Gone Wrong
Time Out of Mind

I suppose MTV Unplugged could be one of the fourteen rather than Dylan... I'd be surprised if any of the last four albums were remastered.

 

Considering the absence of reliable info about total number of discs versus albums topic, we are only toying with speculation here. However, I would like to point out that the "minus one" theme is, in my opinion, all too easily directed towards the 'Dylan' (1973) record. The '41' list, as enumerated here before by another contributor, seemed pretty accurate and logical to me. And if that is the basis indeed, then I would rather think that a serious contender for the 'minus one' label might be the Christmas record, not because the artist disclaims it, but because it was (and is) a non-commercial project for which all author's rights are transferred to some welfare organisations. If someone had already mentioned this possibility here without me noticing, then I apologize for the redundancy.

 

Actually Time Out of Mind was apparently remastered.
http://www.searchingforagem.com/1990s/International042.htm

 

Thanks, I would imagine that a remastered TooM would be a 'carrot' for a lot of fans, along with the 2CD of non album tracks.
The price is going to be the main factor, although the Miles Davis box was a fair price I don't expect this one to be.

 

I remember being surprised (and impressed) by how good the SACD "Love and Theft" was.

 

Good thing you guys are rich.

 

As much as I want Dylan (1973) to be a part of this set, I don't think it is going to happen.

Let's hope I am wrong.

 

As for the use of the word "rarities", this might be a wishful thinking type of characterization. In Derek Barker's ISIS announcement I do not read the word "rarities" but "previously released songs that were not featured on the original albums". If the idea is to make a package of the enire "official output", I think we rather have to think about songs that were released as singles or on compilations, e.g. "Positively 4th Street", "Watching the river flow", "Tomrorrow is a long time", "If you gotta go, go now", "Dignity", "Things have changed", "Series of Dreams", and not about "Couple more years" or "Ring of Fire". I would be curious, though, if this would imply a resurrection of a song like "George Jackson", a song that sounds so great but that has been officially unavailable for a long time now to the extent of seeming to be entirely cancelled from the official catalogue.

 

It would be a major omission from the box set and hurt its marketability. No casual fan is plunking down several hundred dollars for an incomplete box set. This will mainly be sold to diehard fans that own most of the popular albums.

 

Re: Dylan, maybe the tracks will all or in part be squeezed into the contents of the 2-CD disc of rarities. That would a) give the fans access to those songs (or at least the ones Dylan deems worthy), and b) once and for all clarify how he feels about how that record fits into his canon. Longshot, but just maybe...

I'm holding onto my Japanese release in any case.

 

Harold Lepidus is reporting that the Another Self Portrait CD includes an insert about “Bob Dylan: The Complete Album Collection.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/bob...rtrait-first-look-first-listen-first-thoughts

 

Here's the info from the insert:

COMING FALL 2013

INCLUDES:
• All 41 official albums, including 14 newly remastered titles.
• Side tracks - 2 CD compilation of preciously released songs not included on the original albums.
• All the original artwork reproduced.
• Hardcover booklet with extensive new liner notes and rare photos.

 

Initial thought -- since 2 CDs isn't anywhere near enough space to include ALL of his non-album tracks, I hope they at least give us all the stray singles and b-sides -- like the Beatles' Past Masters CDs.. That will make keep his "proper" catalog intact and all of his albums and singles will be consistently mastered. All of the other tracks -- contributions to compilations, tributes, soundtracks, etc. -- would require a box set of their own, as documented by several people here.

 

From Expecting Rain:

 

Great looking set but i'll pass. 41 albums is about 20 more than I want or need.

 

Wow. I was sceptical this was coming - & certainly that it was coming this soon - but obviously I was wrong.

I hope that Side Tracks two-disc gets individual release, and ditto for the 14 newly remastered albums.

 

Given that it's previously released material, I can do without that two CD set as long as they release the 14 newly remastered albums individually. I don't like my chances...

 

Will this be under $200?

 

Prime candidate for Pop Market.

 

Outside of Blood On The Tracks, Time Out Of Mind and Love And Theft, I don't own any Dylan on CD. This would be a nice way to upgrade/catch up.

 

"George Jackson" is a terrific song! For those who missed it, the acoustic version is officially available again on the compilation CD "Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-74" "that was released in 2012 (see http://www.searchingforagem.com/2010s/2012.htm for more details).

 

Can anyone read the spines so that we can solve the "minus one" mystery?

 

All is revealed!

Tim