Bob Dylan-Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967)
Artist: Bob Dylan
Title: Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Label: Columbia
Format: CD
Cat #: CK 65975
Year of Release: 1967
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 3/22/25
Sell Price: $9.99
Discogs Last Sold: 3/27/25 VG+/VG+ $1.59
Low: $0.55
Media: $2.00
Average: $2.80
High: $9.99
Current low price: $0.48
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 91
Have/Want: 1064/64
Where Sold: Durham, NC
Time it took to sell: 1 year
Where and When Bought: Facebook $2 cd lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
Bob's first greatest hits album is insanely difficult to review. Of course, all the material is top tier, but as a start to finish listen, even as a child, I found it lacking something.
Since I had all the albums on the back cover, the only song that wasn't anywhere else of the ten tracks was "Positively 4th Street." That song was a hit issued between Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde. #7 Billboard Hot 100 in fact! Great track and ultimately why I gave this in-it's-day compilation an A instead of the A- my heart was telling me. My heart seems to have Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy inherited from my grandfather which resulted in me being in the hospital a couple weeks back for a 5-day pneumonia run and I've got a battery size monitor over it right now to see if I'm falling back into AFIB so i guess I'm gonna trust my head more on this one while things get sussed out.
I remember the Greatest Hits vinyl got into my household by one of my mother's friends bringing it over sometime in the mid-70's and leaving it behind. My mother would listen to it from time to time because it was in better shape than the copies of the early albums I had been given as a 3-year-old. This 1999 CD master was given to my mother by my grandmother as a gift and my mother complained about it because she didn't want to listen to nostalgia. She was more interested in hearing the Black Crowes in a bar or Woman's music on the left of the dial in that time period, though she did listen to the copy of Time Out Of Mind I gave her. Usually, she was fine with some crappy contemporary hits radio on in the background "for noise."
So, for me, I prefer the Folk songs on the Folk albums and the Rock songs on the Rock albums. I don't and didn't care about this distinction on the Volume II double from the early 70's that I had on cassette as a kid. This is just a quirk of the 9 of 10 songs that were on the albums I had. I didn't grow up in the AM radio era but I'm sure "I Want You" and "Like A Rolling Stone" sounded great on those stations. I don't think I ever remember hearing Bob Dylan on AM radio in the 70's even the hits like "Hurricane" and "Tangled Up In Blue" and "Gotta Serve Somebody." It was all either FM rock or on a record in my memory.
"You've got a lot of nerve!"
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