Collection 3: Blonde on Blonde / Blood Tracks / Infidels [Box set]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35

2. Pledging My Time

3. Visions of Johanna

4. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)

5. I Want You

6. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again

7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

See all 14 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2

1. Tangled Up in Blue

2. Simple Twist of Fate

3. You're a Big Girl Now

4. Idiot Wind

5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

6. Meet Me in the Morning

7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

See all 10 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3

1. Jokerman

2. Sweetheart Like You

3. Neighborhood Bully

4. License to Kill

5. Man of Peace

6. Union Sundown

7. I and I

See all 8 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Pledging My Time
Visions of Johanna
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
I Want You
Stuck Inside of a Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Just Like a Woman
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Temporary Like Achilles
Absolutely Sweet Marie
4th Time Around
Obviously 5 Believers
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Tracks:

Tangled Up in Blue
Simple Twist of Fate
You're a Big Girl Now
Idiot Wind
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Meet Me in the Morning
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
If You See Her, Say Hello
Shelter from the Storm
Buckets of Rain

Tracks:

Jokerman
Sweetheart Like You
Neighborhood Bully
License to Kill
Man of Peace
Union Sundown
I and I
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Customer Reviews:

Here are the Songs that Paint Pictures on the Inside of Your Eyeballs.......2006-08-27

Close your eyes and listen to "Blonde on Blonde." Every song on the album is so jammed with imagery that they paint pictures on the inside of your eyeballs. Though "Blonde on Blonde" was recorded way back before I was even a twinkle in my daddy's eyes, you can still listen to it today and be amazed. From the first note all the way to the end of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" this is a record so full in imagery, power and raw poetry that it will never cease to stun. Sooner or Later, if you play Bob Dylan records, you're going to have to admit that this is one of his best.

"Blood on the Tracks" is one of Bob Dylan's better known records and one I really love. I've been listening to it as long as I can remember, thanks to my dad, who is a huge Dylan fan. I am as well. How can you not be. Just give a listen to "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" with your eyes closed. If that eleven minute long cowboy ballad doesn't paint pictures on the inside of your eyeballs. A couple other picture painters are "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Idiot Winds," though I must say, I prefer the version of "Idiot Winds" on the official "Bootleg Series." Then there is the pain of Dylan's separation from his wife Sara throughout this album. Bob Dylan has always been right out front with his feeling on his albums, especially so on "Blood On the Tracks." I've read that this is considered one of the best albums ever made and I have to say that I agree.

I really like the way "Infidels" rocks out. I also like the imagery in the songs, especially in "Jokerman." The just keep coming after you, burning themselves into you eyes, etching themselves into your hear, impinging themselves on your mind. Once heard "Jokerman" is never forgotten. Dylan has had several bands throughout his long and prolific career, but I think the group he has on "Infidels" is the best ever. You really feel that they click as a unit and the music is all the better for it. Some other songs I really like on "Infidels" are "Man of Peace," "Sweetheart Like You" and the album's closer, "Don't fall apart on me Tonight." "Infidels" is Bob Dylan at his very best.

Three Masterpieces in This Collection.......2006-06-02

Three Masterpieces in This Collection

I own the record, the cassette and the CD of "Blonde on Blonde." The album was a double gatefold with a startling, good looking picture of Dylan on the cover. From looking at this cover, you get the impression of a young Brando. And like the defiant Brando of those early years, we see a defiant Dylan here, making music his way and damn the critics. This is a rocker, just witness the lead off song. It's also got the long "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" taking up the whole last side on the second disc of the double record. That must have really blown some minds back then. There is dynamite organ work, terrific piano work, knock 'em dead guitar work on this record. Every song is a gem and every song seems to redefine Dylan, a man who has been defined and redefined so many times in his career. Not only is this record one of his best, but it's one of the best records ever made. I know that's been said before, but it's true.

From the first chord of "Tangled Up In Blue" on "Blood on the Tracks" you know you're listening to something special. The song draws you in, sends chills up your spine, it's so good. Then it chews you up and spits you out right into "Simple Twist of Fate", another chiller of a song. I've read that Dylan was going through rough times when he recorded this record and in typical Dylan fashion he's put his life on his sleeve for all to see. He's in pain and you really feel it when you listen to these songs.

Like my friends, I just love the pulsating power of "Infidels." I also appreciate the way Dylan gets his spiritual message across without jamming it down your throat. "Jokerman" for me is reminiscent of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and I can just picture a younger Dylan with those signs tossing them away during the singing of "Jokerman" the way he did in "Don't Look Back." I'm not a very spiritual person, but the biblical references in "Jokerman" did have me going to my Bible (everybody has one, religious or not, right?) and checking them out. Then there is "Sweetheart Like You," a song covered so well by Rod Stewart, but even more sentimental when you hear it sung by the writer himself. This is just a super rock and roll record, every song a gem.

Three Records for the Ages.......2006-06-02

"Blonde on Blonde" opens with "Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 36" and I can remember driving from LA to TJ with that record on the cassette player. I was riding with three friends and we played that record all the way there. Over and Over listening to that refrain, "Everybody must get stoned." We were college girls out for a good time. We did tequila shooters south of the border, but we were back Stateside by dark, I guess we weren't quite as daring as we thought we were. In the motel in Chula Vista we played the whole album on my portable cassette player. We cried during "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" even though it's probably not a crying song. "Vision of Johanna" is just the best. "I Want You," is a gripping rocker. "Just Like a Woman," is just like this whole record, Just outstanding, superb, really.

"Blood on the Tracks" is an album of broken love. There is so much sadness here. But there is also the best cowboy ballad on this record since Marty Robbins' "El Paso" and "Big Iron." "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" just goes on and on, seemingly without end, then poof, it's over and the Jack of Hearts has gotten away with all the cash. You need a refreshing, uplifting song like this to balance out all the heartbreak. Once again, Bob Dylan has proven that he is the absolute best at whatever he attempts. Once again he's turned out a record that once listened to, becomes a part of you. It seems he's done that a lot, is still doing it.

On "Infidels" I just love the way Dylan says, "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" in the song "Sweetheart Like You." That phrase is timeless, more true today than ever. But than that's the way with a lot of Bob Dylan's songs, they never seem to age. I saw Dylan when he was touring for this record and he did a rocking version of "Masters of War," that is just ripping. "Neighbor Hood Bully" on this record is performed pretty close to the way he did that song, "Sundown On the Union" is too. This is a rock and roll record and I just love it!

Three Dylan Rockers that will Knock the House Down.......2006-06-02

"Blonde on Blonde" builds on the excellent "Highway 61 Revisited" enhancing not only Dylan's musical genius, but his mystique as well. What is he here? I mean what did they think of him back then, back when this record came out. Rock and Roll star, sure. Poet, sure. No longer involved in the politics of the day, but involved in so much more. Mr. Jones didn't get it on the last record and he's probably not getting it now. However lots of folks did get it, or thought they got it. I like to think I would've, but I don't know if I understand this record even now, after all this time, but I plan on listening to it over and over till I do finally understand this musical masterpiece, because I know it's important and it is just so very good, so wonderful.

I must have worn out a dozen copies of "Blood on the Tracks on record before I got the CD and I've gone through a couple of those. This record simply never gets old. It's as fresh now as the day Bob Dylan recorded it. It sends chills up my spine every time I hear it and I can't hear it enough. I play it in the car, at home, have it on my iPod and on my iBook. This is the kind of record that sets the standards for all the rest. It's on the top of the heap, rivaled only by Dylan's own "Highway 61 Revisited", "Blonde on Blonde," the Rolling Stones powerful bootleg "LiveR Than You'll Ever Be and the Beatles' two wonderful records, "The White Album" and "Abbey Road." That's a pretty powerful group of records. You should own them all, "Blood On the Tracks" especially.

Supposedly "Infidels" is another in a series of comeback records for Bob Dylan. It seems many thought he'd abandoned them when he did the Gospel flavored "Slow Train", "Shot of Love" and "Saved", but there are those like me who thought he never went away. I thoroughly enjoyed those records. This one I like better though as I think it's one of the best Dylan has done. Perhaps it's ex Rolling Stone henchman Mick Taylor's driving guitar, I don't know, but this record is a rocker through and through. It just makes you want to get up and jump. It's got that raw rock and roll power my friend Sara is always going on about.

Raw Rock and Roll Power.......2006-06-02

Listening to "Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 36" on "Blonde on Blonde" one almost gets the sense of Bob Dylan rolling on the floor laughing as he's singing. You really get the sense that Dylan is feeling pretty good about himself, even though there were many of his fans who were upset with the fact that he'd gone all electric on them. This ain't no folk record, that's for sure, but then again, the last couple weren't folk records either, but they came so close together and the some of the folkies of the day were apparently a little slow in getting the picture. From "Rainy Day Woman" Dylan seques right into the rockin' bluesy "Pledging My Time," which is my favorite song on the record, though I really like rollickin', rockin' "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat" as well. Oh heck, I like the whole bloody record. What's not to like?

Bob Dylan pulled out all the stops when he made "Blood on the Tracks." His voice is as good as or better than it is on anything he's ever done. Both bands play their hearts out (He pulled the record just before release and rerecorded half the songs with a different band) and Dylan sings like he's singing the blues and means every line. There is not a misstep on this record. It is just impossible to have a favorite song, they are all so good. This album is just too good for me to describe. I just don't have the words.

Supposedly "Infidels" is another in a series of comeback records for Bob Dylan. It seems many thought he'd abandoned them when he did the Gospel flavored "Slow Train", "Shot of Love" and "Saved", but there are those like me who thought he never went away. I thoroughly enjoyed those records. This one I like better though as I think it's one of the best Dylan has done. Perhaps it's ex Rolling Stone henchman Mick Taylor's driving guitar, I don't know, but this record is a rocker through and through. It just makes you want to get up and jump. Like all three records in this set, Infidels has that raw rock and roll power.

Collection 3: Blonde on Blonde / Blood Tracks / Infidels

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5 Star music but note "new" packaging format
Three Astonishing Records in One Collection

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ASIN: B0007X9UJW
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35
Pledging My Time
Visions of Johanna
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
I Want You
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Just Like a Woman
Most Likely to Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
Temporary Like Achilles
Absolutely Sweet Marie
4th Time Around
Obviously 5 Believers
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Tracks:

Tangled Up in Blue
Simple Twist of Fate
You're a Big Girl Now
Idiot Wind
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Meet Me in the Morning
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
If You See Her, Say Hello
Shelter from the Storm
Buckets of Rain

Tracks:

Jokerman
Sweetheart Like You
Neighborhood Bully
License to Kill
Man of Peace
Union Sundown
I and I
Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Customer Reviews:

5 Star music but note "new" packaging format .......2005-07-17

Rather than review these 3 cd's by Bob Dylan (it's been done well here and in numerous other places on Amazon)....I'm gonna let you know about the way this 3-fer is packaged.

All 3 cds are included here but this is not the preferred (IMO) slip box with individual jewel cases.

This is a book style long box made of cardboard and molded plastic, where the 3 cds are housed on 3 separate "nubs", and a 4th square indent houses the 3 COVER inserts which would normally fit ina jewel case and probably were on the original cd releases.

The overall effect is a bare-bones packaging format for the 3 previously released albums. I suppose this is cheaper for Sony, and though it suffices for me I still get the overall impression that a regular jewel case would offer more (liner notes, pix, etc).

Mercury records is also repackaging several music acts with a 3cd long box of preselected albums (rod stewart, Kiss, for example) called the 'Chronicle Series', but I am unsure of the quality of their 'long box' packing.

If this series has a name I suppose it would be called 'The Collection Series'...and Sony has the same format for another Bob Dylan 3-fer which contains: Oh Mercy/Time Out of Mind/Love and Theft.

Though I prefer the jewel cased originals, I will admit that these cds are identical to what Sony had released individually. These are NOT remastered however.

Three Astonishing Records in One Collection.......2005-05-07

Blonde on Blonde - Thin Wild Mercury Music

Blonde on Blonde came out as a double album in May, 1966. Two months later Bob Dylan broke his neck in a motorcycle accident. Till then, every album was better than the last except this one. Blonde on Blonde just about equals Highway 61, which in my opinion is the best rock album of all time. I guess that would make Blonde number 2. Still with the Beatles, Stones, Zep, Eric and the Boss out there making music, having the number 2 record is pretty good, especially if you already hold the number one spot. Rolling Stone Magazine calls the record number ten, but hey, what's eight places when you're talking about the hundreds of thousands of rock records out there.

This amazing record was the third electric album done by Dylan and by now he'd won over many of his fans, though some did boo him when he toured in Europe in Sixty-six, but those Europeans, what do they know? And do any of us know what would direction Dylan's music would have taken, had he not been in that accident, would he have built on this record, delivering more of the same? Who knows? But what I do know is that this record opens with a dynamite song. Can you imagine what it must have been like for those establishment types hearing the lyrics, "Everybody must get stoned," blaring from their car radios.

The backing band on this record is both tight and loose, if that makes any sense, ripping through songs like "Stuck Inside a Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again," like a meteor streaking across a desert sky. This record is Thin Wild Mercury Music at its very best. Just incredible.

Blood on the Tracks - It's Like Bob Dylan Burst Upon the Scene All Over Again

It seems Bob Dylan's career has been studded with comebacks. "JWH" after the motorcycle accident. "Blood on the Tracks" after the lapse into country. "Infidels" after the lapse into religious territory. "Oh Mercy" after all those records with the girly backup singers (some of them were pretty good though). However, "Tracks" was so much more than a comeback. It's like Bob Dylan burst upon the scene all over again.

And now I'm going to say something that may or may not make any sense. I believe "Highway 61" to be the best rock & roll record ever made, but I think "Blood on the Tracks" is the best record Dylan has ever done. I know it doesn't make sense, kind of oxymoronic, but "Tracks" to me is more than just a rock record, more than poetry put to music, more than fine musicianship. It's chocked full of emotion, mostly tears. It's gritty and rough and it's got the best damned cowboy ballad ever sung on it to boot.

Infidels - Good Old Fashioned Rock 'n' Roll, this Record is

Mike Taylor's fine guitar work on this record is reminiscent of the work he did with the Stones on five studio and one live record. Mark Knopfler, another fine guitarist plays on this record too, as well as Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespherre and Alan Clark. This excellent band is backing a Dylan who is in fine voice on an album that marks Dylan's return to good old fashioned rock `n' roll. No more religion, no more God stuff, no more Bible. Well, okay I'll admit there are biblical references here, but boy what a record.

I know a lot of people have panned this record, called it pop, called it inferior. Well, their wrong. "Jokerman" is about as hard driving a rock song as you could ever find. "Sweetheart Like You," an infectious ballad, "Neighborhood Bully" a commentary, ala Dylan of the Sixties, about Israel and her problems with her neighbors who would like to stamp out her existence.

And I know others have complained about "Blind Willie McTell" not being on this record, but there were hours of these sessions, lots of songs left off. Dylan had to choose and fortunately he later chose to give us "Willie McTell" and some of the other outtakes on "The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1-3". This record, however, is whole without those outtakes. It's always been one of my favorites and if you give it a listen, I think it'll be one of your favorites, too.

Jack Priest, Writer from the Darkside

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1. Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions of Johanna
4. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
5. I Want You
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

1. Tangled Up in Blue
2. Simple Twist of Fate
3. You're a Big Girl Now
4. Idiot Wind
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
6. Meet Me in the Morning
7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

1. Jokerman
2. Sweetheart Like You
3. Neighborhood Bully
4. License to Kill
5. Man of Peace
6. Union Sundown
7. I and I