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Biograph
Release Date: 1985 10 28
Running Time: 214:50
Label: Columbia

Historically, Biograph is significant not for what it did for Dylan's career, but for establishing the box set, complete with hits and rarities, as a viable part of rock history. Following Biograph, multi-disc box sets for veteran rockers became accepted and almost the norm, but that doesn't discount this set's strengths as a summary of Dylan's career, using the familiar and the rare to draw a fully rounded portrait of his strengths as a songwriter, musician, and record-maker in a way that conventional choices alone couldn't achieve. Certainly, the chief attraction of this set, even years after its initial release, is its smattering of rarities that aren't just rare, but revealing -- ranging from forgotten rock B-sides and singles to demos, alternate takes, and unreleased songs that rival official releases. But Biograph is really remarkable for weaving these songs into a fabric that reveals the true trajectory of Dylan's career, offering as much to the curious as it does to the dedicated. That sets a standard for box sets that has rarely been matched, making Biograph all the more impressive in retrospect. [In 1997, Columbia Records issued an upgraded, reconfigured version of Biograph, with a new catalog number (65298), a lower list price, and with its packaging and booklet reduced from an LP-size box to a CD-size slipcase. The original 1985 set in the large-size box, which marked the first time that the label had gone back to original first-generation tapes on a Dylan CD, was pretty impressive; but the 1997 CD-size box version, remastered in Sony's Super Bit Mapping process, is a significant improvement over that, and is to be preferred.] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Lay Lady Lay	Dylan	3:18
2	Baby, Let Me Follow You Down	Davis	2:34
3	If Not for You	Dylan	2:42
4	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight	Dylan	2:38
5	I'll Keep It With Mine [#]	Dylan	3:45
6	Times They Are A-Changin'	Dylan	3:13
7	Blowin' in the Wind	Dylan	2:47
8	Masters of War	Dylan	4:32
9	Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll	Dylan	5:46
10	Percy's Song [#]	Dylan	7:42
11	Mixed Up Confusion	Dylan	2:28
12	Tombstone Blues	Dylan	5:57
13	Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar	Dylan	4:04
14	Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)	Dylan	3:29
15	Like a Rolling Stone	Dylan	6:09
16	Lay Down Your Weary Tune [#]	Dylan	4:36
17	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Dylan	2:20
18	I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) [Live][#]	Dylan	5:18
19	Visions of Johanna [Live][#]	Dylan	7:33
20	Every Grain of Sand	Dylan	6:15
21	Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo) [#]	Dylan	2:20
22	Mr. Tambourine Man	Dylan	5:29
23	Dear Landlord	Dylan	3:16
24	It Ain't Me Babe	Dylan	3:34
25	You Angel You	Dylan	2:54
26	Million Dollar Bash	Dylan	2:33
27	To Ramona	Dylan	3:54
28	You're a Big Girl Now [#]	Dylan	4:23
29	Abandoned Love [#]	Dylan	4:29
30	Tangled Up in Blue	Dylan	5:45
31	It's All over Now, Baby Blue [Live][#]	Dylan	5:40
32	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?	Dylan	3:34
33	Positively 4th Street	Dylan	3:54
34	Isis [Live][#]	Dylan, Levy	5:21
35	Jet Pilot [#]	Dylan	0:49
36	Caribbean Wind [#]	Dylan	5:54
37	Up to Me [#]	Dylan	6:18
38	Baby, I'm in the Mood for You [#]	Dylan	2:56
39	I Wanna Be Your Lover [#]	Dylan	3:27
40	I Want You	Dylan	3:07
41	Heart of Mine [Live][#]	Dylan	3:43
42	On a Night Like This	Dylan	2:58
43	Just Like a Woman	Dylan	4:55
44	Romance in Durango [Live][#]	Dylan, Levy	4:39
45	Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)	Dylan	5:41
46	Gotta Serve Somebody	Dylan	5:25
47	I Believe in You	Dylan	5:10
48	Time Passes Slowly	Dylan	2:36
49	I Shall Be Released	Dylan	3:04
50	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Dylan	2:30
51	All Along the Watchtower	Dylan	3:04
52	Solid Rock	Dylan	3:58
53	Forever Young [#]	Dylan	2:02