Blood on the Tracks

Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony Japan
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4562109408423
ASIN: B0002J54JG

Release Date: 2005-01-04

Blood on the Tracks

Related Categories:

Singer-Songwriters

| Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock

| Pop | Styles | Music

Folk Rock

| Rock | Styles | Music

General

| Rock | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)

| Classic Rock | Styles | Music

Rock

| Imports | Stores | Music

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

Similar Items:

John Wesley Harding
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Nashville Skyline (Japan LP Sleeve)
Another Side of Bob Dylan

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.

Customer Reviews:

Mature Masterpiece.......2007-01-16

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.

From Zimmerman to Deutschendorf.......2006-12-31

The carpenter revisits his hometown, without his lady or his five children, and considers where he's at. A song comes to mind, "Leaving on a Jet Plane," whose powerful melody and insightful words have lingered in his consciousness since he heard his friends Peter, Paul, and Mary sing them. He ponders the chords, lets his own experience resonate to the words, and crafts a brand new bag of tricks--a temporary home for his neverending restlessness, something to fiddle with and while away the time, a masterpiece for millions to cherish on their own.

"Leave-ing," from the chorus, provided the chord relationship for "Tangled Up in Blue."
The melody has a native son in "Buckets of Rain."
Between these bookends, a library of leavings: of love lost, missed, yearned for, investigated, denigrated, and given.

Tribute albums don't come any better than this. There have been tribute songs, of course, like Lou Reed's "Sweet Jane," a commentary on (and revision of) T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land.' But nothing that I know of in popular music on such a subtle, significant scale.

Gut gemacht, meine Herrn!

Songs of Love and Pain.......2006-09-12

You can really feel the emotion in these songs, especially "Tangled Up in Blue" and "If You See Her, Say Hello." But for me the song that really sums up the way Bob Dylan was feeling when he put out this album is "Buckets of Rain," because this album is certainly full of buckets of tears. Bob Dylan's voice is in pure form on this album and the two bands that back him on the songs really seemed tuned into what Dylan is singing about. These songs of love and pain are certainly some of Bob Dylan's best work.

Songs full of Pain and the Best Cowboy Ballad Ever Sung.......2006-08-27

"Blood on the Tracks" is one of Bob Dylan's better known records and one I really love. I've been listening to it as long as I can remember, thanks to my dad, who is a huge Dylan fan. I am as well. How can you not be. Just give a listen to "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" with your eyes closed. If that eleven minute long cowboy ballad doesn't paint pictures on the inside of your eyeballs. A couple other picture painters are "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Idiot Winds," though I must say, I prefer the version of "Idiot Winds" on the official "Bootleg Series."

Then there is the pain of Dylan's separation from his wife Sara throughout this album. Bob Dylan has always been right out front with his feeling on his albums, especially so on "Blood On the Tracks." I've read that this is considered one of the best albums ever made and I have to say that I agree.

Music Album:

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Manhattan Melodies ~ Eric Reed

Ultimate Isley Brothers ~ The Isley Brothers

Persiflage ~ Matt Steckler

Jazzblues ~ Jeff Williams

Jazz-Club Mainstream: Trumpet ~ Various Artists

Solid ~ Ka'ala Boys

L' Arancia ~ Silvia Salemi

Raga Megh Malhar ~ Rashid Khan

Superstar ~ Quruli

Viva Italia! Festive Italian Classics