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| Absolutepunk |
 Bob Dylan. Living legend. Honestly, what else needs to be written? There's no amount of hyperbolic assessments or flowery praise written in this editorial that will further cement the singer-songwriter's status in the minds of the American public. But, leave it to record labels to try anyway. On Oct. 19, Legacy Recordings released The Original Mono Recordings, a package including eight of Dylan's albums in a limited edition box set of newly mastered mono versions, making this the first time these recordings are available on CD. The music was also released on 180-gram vinyl. Also released on that date is The Best of the Original Mono Recordings which is the reason for this editorial. Included on this disc are the social commentary pieces "Blowin' in the Wind," and "The Times They Are a Changin'," as well as the game-changing "Mr. Tambourine Man." But the most important aspect of this disc is the longtime fan favorite "Positively 4th Street," which does not appear on any of the The Original Mono Recordings and was included on here so that Dylan junkies could have something tangible that traces back to Dylan's historic beginnings. Also included on here is "All Along the Watchtower," which eventually found success with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and later the Dave Matthews Band. But it's here in this bare-bones two-minute arrangement that the potency of Bob Dylan really shines through. Moreover, on tracks like "Tombstone Blues," and the panged "Just Like a Woman," a side of Bob is shown that is barely seen. Raw, intimate, unhinged. Mono was good at capturing that and few were better at capturing the pangs and swells of emotion better than him. For that reason alone, this disc is worth picking up....full text |
| Bbc |
| Well, as the success of The Beatles’ similar venture The Beatles in Mono demonstrates, quite a lot of people. And with good reason. Dylan – like the Fab Four and all of their contemporaries – didn't start treating stereo mixes as anything other than a sop to an elite part of the record buying market until the end of the 1960s. Mono mixes were supervised and approved by the artist, stereo mixes done as an afterthought by third parties. The albums Bob Dylan (1962) through John Wesley Harding (1967), then, are being presented here in the way the artist intended you to hear them. As Dylan’s mono albums were deleted unusually quickly, this is the first opportunity to experience such ‘director’s cuts’ for four decades. It’s the early, acoustic albums that benefit most: stereo versions brutally divided up the elements of voice, guitar and harmonica on the debut, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’ and Another Side of Bob Dylan. As for the electric material, Blonde on Blonde’s epic Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands sounds significantly sweeter and more focused in mono, while Bringing It All Back Home sounds bolder and punchier throughout, with the excellence of the bass-playing on It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue particularly brought into focus. However, surprisingly it is not all one-way traffic, as illustrated by Like a Rolling Stone, which here sounds dismayingly sterile compared to the powerful stereo mix that has become far more familiar down the years. Meanwhile, the mono mixes on Stone’s parent album Highway 61 Revisited are sometimes shorter by half a minute – not a good thing when we’re talking about one of history’s all-time classics. John Wesley Harding sounds sharper and harder, but it’s noticeable how much less eerie is the monaural The Wicked Messenger....full text |
| Popmatters |
| This limited edition Bob Dylan box set is a must have for any true Bob Dylan fan. It consist of eight classic Dylan albums, including Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changing, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and John Wesley Harding. All of the albums are restored to the way Dylan originally recorded them: in mono. These are Dylan’s first songs the way you first heard them; “one speaker, one voice, one powerhouse of a sound.”...full text |
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