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Title: Good overview but could be much better
Review: This new 2-CD collection spanning Dylan's entire career up to the present (ending with "Things Have Changed" from the film THE WONDER BOYS), but it gets off cheap by not filling out each CD a bit more. For instance, as other reviewers have clearly noted, one of his biggest hits and greatest songs "I Want You" is missing. I noticed that this was the one song from his GREATEST HITS VOL. 1 that was omitted on this collection, which makes me think that Columbia deliberately omitted it so that GHV1 wouldn't become obsolete. (Is a fully remastered back-catalog in the works?) The 2nd disc nicely fills in the gaps following Bob Dylan's debatable musical decline in the late 70's in which the hits and AOR airplay began to dry up. In short, this is a good place to start, but plan on buying several of his hopefully remastered albums in the near future.
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