Greatest Hits – BOB DYLAN*****

Rainy Day Women 12 & 35/Blowin’ In The Wind/The Times They Are A Changin’/It Ain’t Me Babe/Like A Rolling Stone/Mr Tambourine Man/Subterranean Homesick Blues/I Want You/Positively 4th Street/Just Like A Woman

First hits collection from Bob Dylan which features most of his best known songs from the 1963-66 period. These are the songs that changed the musical direction of a generation. (US:10 UK:6)

"This was the album that got me into Dylan. It has some of Dylan's best and most famous songs. If you don't really know Dylan, but are interested in him, you need to get this album."

"Bob Dylan recorded so many classic songs in the 1960s that trying to pick out a single disc's worth as being definitive is a fool's errand at best. Fortunately, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was followed by a double disc Volume 2 that together make for two incredibly strong anthology albums. This album does contain perhaps the most well known songs of Dylan's incredible output from the 60s. This is a great disc to start your Dylan collection and will ultimately leave you wanting more."

"No point in going over each song. There is no greatest hit collection to compare to this one. If you're clueless to Dylan and his music, and you're a thinking human being with the slightest sense of humanity and poetry in your soul, buy it and listen to it. He was the voice of the 60s that stretches beyond, above, behind and everywhere else. So many have given their interpretations of his songs."

"There's absolutely no filler here; every cut is a stone-cold classic. It functions admirably well as a 'starter kit'; I, for one, was first introduced to Dylan's work though this album; if not for Greatest Hits to whet my appetite I might never have gone on and discovered his 'real' albums."

"It isn't definitive. Not by a long shot. I mean, it only covers the early phase of Dylan's career, starting with a cut from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) and ending with a selection from Blonde On Blonde (1966). And even then, it hardly tells the full story: Bob Dylan's early days were as tumultuous and groundbreaking as anything else in the history of popular music, a heady period which saw him evolve from an idealistic young folk troubadour to rock 'n' roll's cynical poet laureate. Dylan was discovering his voice and developing his genius all the while, in the process creating some of the greatest music ever."