Dylan [2007 3-CD Deluxe Edition]

Disc 1
1	Song to Woody 2:41
2	Blowin' in the Wind 2:48
3	Masters of War 4:33
4	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 3:39
5	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 6:51
6	The Times They Are A-Changin' 3:14
7	All I Really Want to Do 4:05
8	My Back Pages 4:23
9	It Ain't Me, Babe 3:34
10	Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:19
11	Mr. Tambourine Man 5:26
12	Maggie's Farm 3:56
13	Like a Rolling Stone 6:09
14	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 4:14
15	Positively 4th Street 3:54
16	Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 4:35
17	Just Like a Woman 4:52
18	Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) 3:29
19	All Along the Watchtower 2:31
Disc 2
1	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere 2:44
2	Lay Lady Lay 3:19
3	If Not for You 2:41
4	I Shall Be Released 3:03
5	Knockin' on Heaven's Door 2:31
6	On a Night Like This 2:58
7	Forever Young 4:56
8	Tangled Up in Blue 5:41
9	Simple Twist of Fate 4:17
10	Hurricane 8:34
11	Changing of the Guards 6:34
12	Gotta Serve Somebody 5:24
13	Precious Angel 6:33
14	The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar 4:05
15	Jokerman 6:17
16	Dark Eyes 5:07
Disc 3
1	Blind Willie McTell 5:53
2	Brownsville Girl 11:05
3	Silvio 3:07
4	Ring Them Bells 3:01
5	Dignity Alternate Version 5:37
6	Everything Is Broken 3:15
7	Under the Red Sky 4:10
8	You're Gonna Quit Me 2:48
9	Blood in My Eyes 5:04
10	Not Dark Yet 6:30
11	Things Have Changed 5:09
12	Make You Feel My Love 3:34
13	High Water (For Charley Patton) 4:04
14	Po' Boy 3:07
15	Someday Baby 4:56
16	When the Deal Goes Down 5:01

Barnes & Noble

Dylan is a career-spanning 3-CD retrospective of Bob Dylan's music. Featuring all previously-released material, this 51-track box set serves as both a comprehensive introduction for new fans and an expansive overview for long-time devotees. This deluxe version of Dylan is housed in a cloth-covered box, and the CDs are presented in replica classic LP sleeves featuring iconic Dylan and Columbia imagery. Also included is a 40-page booklet with expanded liner notes and rare photographs, plus 10 limited-edition postcard lithograph prints.

All Music Guide

In 1985 Bob Dylan's Biograph established the blueprint for weighty rock & roll retrospectives, blending rare and unreleased material with classics over the course of a three-disc set that wound up being the template for rock & roll boxes for the next 20 years or so. Twenty-two years later, Dylan's second triple-disc retrospective arrived, and it's quite a different beast, bucking all the conventions that Biograph instituted. Simply called Dylan, thereby creating confusion with the 1973 rarities set Dylan that Columbia released in a pique of anger as he recorded with Asylum briefly, the set is nothing more and nothing less than a concise introduction to Bob, with all the rarities trimmed away. As befitting its companion status to Todd Haynes' impressionistic biopic I'm Not There -- where no less than six actors played the Bard, including actress Cate Blanchett -- Dylan comes in a multitude of forms, beginning with a terse single disc, then expanding out to a three-disc set, which is then offered in a variety of limited-edition sets. Although the single disc is good, it's the three-disc set that commands attention for it's a truly exceptional encapsulation of his work.

Yes, there are great, even significant, songs missing -- no other songwriter has quite as deep a catalog -- but the remarkable thing is that there is no dip in quality here, thanks to judicious selections from the '80s but also Dylan's remarkable comeback of the late '90s/2000s. It was the great third act that his great career needed, and while he is sure to make more great music, the 22 years uncovered by Biograph but present her turn Dylan into a richer aural biography. It hits many, but not all, of the '60s and early-'70s highlights, soft-sells the scatteredness of the '80s albums by picking the best songs (including "Blind Willie McTell," unearthed on the first Bootleg Series; nothing can quite save those slick, cavernous productions), and in this context the '90s and 2000s work sounds even more impressive. This doesn't give you everything you should hear, but as an introduction to Dylan in his entirety, this can't be beat. Stephen Thomas Erlewine