Biograph (album)

Biograph is a 53-track box set compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan, from his 1962 debut album to the 1981 release Shot of Love. Released in 1985 by Columbia Records, as both a five-LP and a three-compact disc set, it was the first compact disc box set retrospective issued for a musical artist.^{[citation needed]} It reached #33 on the Billboard 200 in the US and has been certified platinum by the RIAA.^[3]

Content

The recordings on Biograph are a mix of rarities, hit singles, and album tracks. They are not presented in chronological order; 18 of its 53 tracks had not been previously issued, and three more had only been previously available on singles. The set comes accompanied with a 42-page booklet, containing rare photos and liner notes by Cameron Crowe, who interviews Dylan about each of the tracks. Nine of the ten tracks from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits appear on this compilation.

Initially released in all formats in a box conforming to the dimensions of a vinyl long-playing album. On August 19, 1997, it was reissued by Legacy Records in a smaller compact disc-sized package, the tracks remastered using Sony's Super-Bit Mapping process. In 2011, the album was repackaged as a book containing 3 CDs. The 2011 edition was mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.

Track listing

All tracks written by Bob Dylan except "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" by Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, and Eric von Schmidt, and both "Isis" and "Romance in Durango" by Dylan and Jacques Levy. The compact disc running order is the same, except disc two ends with "Jet Pilot" inserted after "Isis." Disc one ends with "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)," and disc two begins with "Visions of Johanna." Disc three begins with "Caribbean Wind."

Side one

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Lay Lady Lay"	Nashville Skyline	3:18
2.	"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down"	Bob Dylan	2:34
3.	"If Not for You"	New Morning	2:42
4.	"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"	John Wesley Harding	2:38
5.	"I'll Keep It with Mine"	previously unreleased; 1965	3:45

Side two

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"The Times They Are a-Changin'"	The Times They Are A-Changin'	3:13
2.	"Blowin' in the Wind"	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	2:47
3.	"Masters of War"	The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	4:32
4.	"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"	The Times They Are A-Changin'	5:46
5.	"Percy's Song"	previously unreleased; 1963	7:42

Side three

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Mixed-Up Confusion"	A-side single November 1962	2:28
2.	"Tombstone Blues"	Highway 61 Revisited	5:57
3.	"Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar"	b-side single September 1981	4:04
4.	"Most Likely You Go Your Way"	Before the Flood	3:29
5.	"Like A Rolling Stone"	Highway 61 Revisited	6:09
6.	"Jet Pilot"	previously unreleased; 1965	0:49

Side four

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"	previously unreleased; 1963	4:36
2.	"Subterranean Homesick Blues"	Bringing It All Back Home	2:20
3.	"I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)"	previously unreleased; live 1966	5:18
4.	"Visions of Johanna"	previously unreleased; live 1966	7:33
5.	"Every Grain of Sand"	Shot of Love	6:15

Side five

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"	previously unreleased; 1967	2:20
2.	"Mr. Tambourine Man"	Bringing It All Back Home	5:29
3.	"Dear Landlord"	John Wesley Harding	3:16
4.	"It Ain't Me, Babe"	Another Side of Bob Dylan	3:34
5.	"You Angel You"	Planet Waves	2:54
6.	"Million Dollar Bash"	The Basement Tapes	2:33

Side six

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"To Ramona"	Another Side of Bob Dylan	3:54
2.	"You're a Big Girl Now"	previously unreleased; New York 1974	4:23
3.	"Abandoned Love"	previously unreleased; 1975	4:29
4.	"Tangled Up in Blue"	Blood on the Tracks	5:45
5.	"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"	previously unreleased; live 1966	5:40

Side seven

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"	A-side single December 1965	3:34
2.	"Positively 4th Street"	A-side single September 1965	3:54
3.	"Isis"	previously unreleased; live 1975	5:21
4.	"Caribbean Wind"	previously unreleased; 1981	5:54
5.	"Up to Me"	previously unreleased; 1974	6:18

Side eight

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Baby, I'm in the Mood for You"	previously unreleased; 1962	2:56
2.	"I Wanna Be Your Lover"	previously unreleased; 1965	3:27
3.	"I Want You"	Blonde on Blonde	3:07
4.	"Heart of Mine"	previously unreleased; live 1981	3:43
5.	"On a Night Like This"	Planet Waves	2:58
6.	"Just Like a Woman"	Blonde on Blonde	4:55

Side nine

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"Romance in Durango"	previously unreleased; live 1975	4:39
2.	"Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)"	Street-Legal	5:41
3.	"Gotta Serve Somebody"	Slow Train Coming	5:25
4.	"I Believe in You"	Slow Train Coming	5:10
5.	"Time Passes Slowly"	New Morning	2:36

Side ten

No.	Title	Source	Length
1.	"I Shall Be Released"	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II	3:04
2.	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	2:30
3.	"All Along the Watchtower"	Before the Flood	3:04
4.	"Solid Rock"	Saved	3:58
5.	"Forever Young"	previously unreleased; demo 1973	2:02

References

↑ Erlewine, Stephen. "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-02-07.
↑ Rolling Stone review
↑ RIAA Gold & Platinum database retrieved 22 October 2012.

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Studio albums	Bob Dylan The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan The Times They Are a-Changin' Another Side of Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home Highway 61 Revisited Blonde on Blonde John Wesley Harding Nashville Skyline Self Portrait New Morning Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Planet Waves Blood on the Tracks Desire Street-Legal Slow Train Coming Saved Shot of Love Infidels Empire Burlesque Knocked Out Loaded Down in the Groove Oh Mercy Under the Red Sky Good as I Been to You World Gone Wrong Time Out of Mind Love and Theft Modern Times Together Through Life Christmas in the Heart Tempest

Live albums	Before the Flood Hard Rain Bob Dylan at Budokan Real Live Dylan & the Dead The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration MTV Unplugged Live 1961–2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances Live at The Gaslight 1962 Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 In Concert – Brandeis University 1963

Compilations	Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II Dylan The Basement Tapes Masterpieces Biograph Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 The Best of Bob Dylan (1997) The Essential Bob Dylan Bob Dylan: The Collection The Best of Bob Dylan (2005) Blues Dylan The Original Mono Recordings The 50th Anniversary Collection

The Bootleg Series	Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975, The Rolling Thunder Revue Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall Vol. 7: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 Vol. 10: Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)

Concert tours	England Tour (1965) World Tour (1966) Tour with The Band (1974) Rolling Thunder Revue (1975–1976) World Tour (1978) Gospel Tour (1979–1980) World Tour (1981) European Tour (1984) True Confessions Tour (1986) Tour with the Grateful Dead (1987) Temples in Flames Tour (1987)

Never Ending Tour	1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Films	Madhouse on Castle Street Dont Look Back Eat the Document Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Renaldo and Clara Hearts of Fire Masked and Anonymous No Direction Home I'm Not There 65 Revisited The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965 Inside Llewyn Davis

Writings	Tarantula Writings and Drawings Lyrics: 1962–1985 Drawn Blank Chronicles: Volume One Lyrics: 1962–2001 The Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook

Books about Dylan	The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Bob Dylan, Performing Artist Invisible Republic The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan

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