This past Tuesday, Bob Dylan released a greatest hits CD, simply titled DYLAN. While I myself am a devout Dylan fan, I have absolutely no intention of buying this album. The reasoning behind this can best described by a review of the album on Pitchfork : "Bob Dylan's recording career has been compiled and re-compiled so many times that his new 3xCD box set needed to have some kind of serious reason to exist-- it's got the responsibility to give us some kind of fresh take on him. Instead, it's the same damn songs they've been feeding us over and over for 40 years."
Yes, this new greatest hits album has absolutely nothing new to offer. While all of the songs belong to be on a greatest hits album, every single one of them have already been on one of Dylan's greatest hits albums. In fact, 15 out of the 16 tracks from The Best of Bob Dylan, released in 2005, appear on DYLAN. After finding this out, I have to sit down and just wonder why this album is even being released. Despite this, there is one upside of the release of DYLAN. For promotion of the new album, British producer Mark Ronson has decided to make a remix of the track "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)". The track can be previewed on the official website for DYLAN.
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