Blood on the Tracks | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia Europe
Category: Music
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Rating:  252 reviews
Sales Rank: 34383
Format: Import
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 11.6 x 0.4
UPC: 886971594812
EAN: 0886971594812
ASIN: B000VAHBIS
Release Date: October 8, 2007
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| 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 |
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Amazon.com essential recording
Inevitably, when critics praise a new Dylan album, they label it the "best since Blood on the Tracks," and with good reason. Inspired by a crumbled marriage, and recorded after a tour with The Band had apparently re-ignited his creativity, Blood is among Dylan's masterpieces. The album's epic songs are well known, but its real high points are the shorter numbers--"You're a Big Girl Now," the flawless blues "Meet Me in the Morning," and the sweetly devastating "Buckets of Rain." These are songs of "images and distorted facts," each expressed through tangled points of view, and all of them blue. --David Cantwell
Album Description
Japanese remastered reissue packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS/Sony. 2004.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
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Pick your precious poison... September 23, 2008
R. M. Fantham (Christchurch, NZ)
In the slighted reflection of a time gone by, where progressive blue-rock was the soul and voice of a generation, perhaps this album is easily lost amongst the tide of masterpieces that flooded in seemingly from all directions. Indeed, 'Highway' and 'Blonde on Blonde' can be seen as far more 'important' albums, at least as far as musical - as well as social - evolution is concerned.
But as the dust settles on those days, we begin to form a clearer picture of that which owes itself truly to the music. For Dylan, there was no greater moment than Blood On The Tracks. Released at a time when Vietnam, Woodstock, and the swingin'-60's were blemishes in the rear-view mirror, the Man somehow tapped into something quite magical - something greater than social or political despair, something more significant than electric folk and blues laden rock riffs. He tapped into love.
Never since, before, or during, have I ever witnessed such a concentrated and definitive exploration of the soul: where love is born, and where it goes to die. We are taken on an intensely personal journey into one man's mind, into his emotions - through a chiaroscuro of pleasure and despair, of hopefulness and hopelessness, of humor, anger, fear, fate, delusion, death.
Like I said in the title, pick your poison. There is much littered through this album (in a good way, obviously). And if this poison happens truly to be fatal, I will have died happily.
"Shelter from the storm" and excellent on sunny days too July 6, 2007
Craig Fenton (Airplaneville, New Jersey)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
I recall early 1975 as if it were yesterday. Progressive Rock radio led by WNEW-FM in New York City was alive and well. The moment Columbia Records dropped off "Blood On The Tracks" the grooves would be worn out long before its time.
Critics of Dylan were muzzled after experiencing the ten tracks. The group that loved to say he was a man from the sixties now a fish out of water, ate their own words a plethora of times. On another side of the fence were those that didn't like Dylan. After "Tangled Up In Blue" became entrenched in their minds they couldn't help come up with the five bucks for the LP.
A record full of masterpieces doesn't necessarily grab your attention the first time. It may need several spins before you comprehend the message. That wasn't the case with "Blood On The Tracks." Do you recall the initial listening to "Idiot Wind" with Dylan's phrasing of the word idiot? It was authoritative, haunting, and brilliant, and that was only verse one. "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" didn't simply command your attention, it put you in the role. You seemed glued in your tracks, unable to move until the final notes were played. "Shelter From The Storm" and "Buckets Of Rain" were a marvelous combination of tracks from the genius of Bob to end one of his most important records ever.
If you never experienced this on CD or need a better pressing than the oldest version, it sound magnificent as she gives you shelter from the storm.
For those that thought this may be hard to parallel even by Dylan, "Desire" took care of any self-doubt!
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
"Shelter from the storm" anytime you seek some sanctuary July 6, 2007
Craig Fenton (Airplaneville, New Jersey)
As the author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent" and a former radio disc-jockey, I am often asked to write and or discuss various music supplies and recordings from the 60's and 70's.
I recall early 1975 as if it were yesterday. Progressive Rock radio led by WNEW-FM in New York City was alive and well. The moment Columbia Records dropped off "Blood On The Tracks" the grooves would be worn out long before its time.
Critics of Dylan were muzzled after experiencing the ten tracks. The group that loved to say he was a man from the sixties now a fish out of water, ate their own words a plethora of times. On another side of the fence were those that didn't like Dylan. After "Tangled Up In Blue" became entrenched in their minds they couldn't help come up with the five bucks for the LP.
A record full of masterpieces doesn't necessarily grab your attention the first time. It may need several spins before you comprehend the message. That wasn't the case with "Blood On The Tracks." Do you recall the initial listening to "Idiot Wind" with Dylan's phrasing of the word idiot? It was authoritative, haunting, and brilliant, and that was only verse one. "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" didn't simply command your attention, it put you in the role. You seemed glued in your tracks, unable to move until the final notes were played. "Shelter From The Storm" and "Buckets Of Rain" were a marvelous combination of tracks from the genius of Bob to end one of his most important records ever.
If you never experienced this on CD or need a better pressing than the oldest version, it sound magnificent as she gives you shelter from the storm.
For those that thought this may be hard to parallel even by Dylan, "Desire" took care of any self-doubt!
Enjoy the music and be well,
Craig Fenton
Author of the Jefferson Airplane book "Take Me To A Circus Tent"
One of the quitesential albums of all time. March 11, 2007
Some guy (Columbus, Ohio)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
My title says it all. If you haven't heard this, buy it now. Even if you aren't a Dylan fan, you will be hard pressed to not find something that you appreciate on this one.
Mature Masterpiece January 15, 2007
Rocky Raccoon (Boise, ID)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dylan scored big on 'Blood on the Tracks,' perhaps the first of many comebacks. The subject matter of love gone wrong has been taken elsewhere, especially with his wild, majestic 'Blonde on Blonde,' but 'Blood on the Tracks' finds him in fine folk form, able to draw more from experience and quiet passion. The known songs are all great, including the mesmerizing hit "Tangled up in Blue," the excellent and hypnotic "Simple Twist of Fate," and the pensive "Shelter from the Storm". Less heralded are other great songs, like, arguably the album's best, "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts". Complete with a fine story and a rollicking accompaniment, "...the Jack of Hearts" comes up with aces musically and lyrically. Quieter moments are highlighted with the beautiful serenade of "You're a Big Girl Now," which only reminds one in style of another classic "Just Like a Woman". There's also the acoustic ballad excellence of "If You See Her, Say Hello," which is written like a letter to his lover's successor. Still, there are moments when qualified brilliance is present. "Idiot Wind" seems to gather more pungency from the delivery than the lyrical development. "Buckets of Rain," which ends the album caps off his folk excellence. According to his memoir autobiography, 'Chronicles, Vol. I, Dylan wrote that he, to paraphrase, sabotoged his career to escape becoming a messiah. In the liner notes, he is defined as a "troubadour". Indeed, he truly found himself again on 'Blood on the Tracks'. Too bad he had to find love gone sour to find his true footing once again.
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