The Essential Bob Dylan
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This page is part of a list of original releases by release date of international commercially-released regular stereo Dylan albums. They do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem list. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Promo releases of regular albums are now listed here and no longer in the former yearly Promo sections. This page is incomplete - more entries required. For releases of this album in Columbia multi-packs, see International Album Releases (Regular) - Multi-Packs. |
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Revised 18 October, 2024.
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US release: Columbia C2K 85168, 2CD set, 31 Oct 2000 This was originally sold as a limited edition album available until the end of Jan 2001 only. Copies were still on sale in Apr 2004, but these may be unsold stock. This album has now been added to the albums page of bobdylan.com. The standard edition released in the USA has 30 tracks, see listing below. For the 36-track European/Australian versions of this album, released in the UK, France and Australia as The Essential Bob Dylan and in Germany as The Ultimate Bob Dylan, see 2001. The 36 track European version of The Essential Bob Dylan was released in Nov 2003 as a 3CD set with a "Limited Tour Edition Bonus Disc" with a further rarity in Holland, see 2003. A different 36-track 2CD set with the same title was released in Europe in Oct 2010, see International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2010s. A 23-track 2LP vinyl version was released in 2016, see below and International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2010s. |
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Vinyl Releases
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - stereo 2LP set,
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551 (USA/Europe), 8 Jul 2016:
Tim Dunn informs me that there is also a vinyl release in the USA which can
be bought at record stores and Barnes & Noble, although the copies being sold in
the USA on www.amazon.com are from Europe.
Columbia 88985309551 3 (USA), 8 Jul 2016:
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - front picture from www.amazon.com |
Thanks to Matthew Cianci for information about this
2LP set, a new version of the 2000 2CD compilation album, released in
Europe on 8 Jul 2016. It contains only 23 tracks (the original 2000 CD
release had 30 tracks, although 36 track and updated versions have been released
since), but Side 4 includes three tracks not released in 2000, up to Long
And Wasted Years from Tempest in 2012. For the previous 2010 and 2014
2CD sets, see links above. The set comes in a wide single sleeve that holds both records, not a gatefold sleeve. The records are in plain white paper inner sleeves. There is a double-sided insert with release dates of all the tracks, credits, etc. The records have silver Columbia record labels. |
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 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - rear Argentinean barcode sticker scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
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 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 1 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - detail of Side 1, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 2 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 3 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (USA) - Side 4 scan by Sergio Mariano Romay |
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(USA) - detail of rear, scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(USA) - spine scan by Sergio Mariano Romay
Tracklisting:
Side 1: Blowin' In the Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me Babe; Maggie's Farm; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues
Side 2: Like a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; Just Like a Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; Lay, Lady, Lay; Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Side 3: Forever Young; Tangled Up In Blue; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Make You Feel My Love
Side 4: Things Have Changed; Mississippi; When the Deal Goes Down; Beyond Here Lies Nothin'; Long and Wasted Years.
As this is a new tracklist, this album is also listed in International Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2010s for completion.
Sergio Mariano Romay's copy was bought in Argentina, and has a local barcode sticker on the rear sleeve. The records were made in the USA and have handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 -88985 309 551-A NRP, Side 2 - 88985 309 551-B WG/NRP, Side 3 - 88985 309 551-C NRP, Side 4 - 88985 309551-D NRP. "WG/NRP" means the records were mastered by Wes Garland at Nashville Record Productions, Nashville, TN.
Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe), 8 Jul 2016:
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Gerd Rundel |
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 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - insert rear scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - detail of insert rear, scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 1 scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - detail of Side 1, scan by Gerd Rundel |
 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 2 scan by Gerd Rundel |
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 Columbia/Sony Music 88985309551 (Europe) - Side 4 scan by Gerd Rundel |
Columbia/Sony Music
88985309551
(Europe) - detail of rear, scan by Gerd Rundel
The European release has the same front sleeve and sticker. The rear sleeve now has the Sony Music logo at bottom left. The records were made in the EU and again have silver Columbia record labels, this time with handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 - 88985309551, Side 2 - 88985309551, Side 3 - 88985309551, Side 4 - 88985309551 (different from the US record matrix numbers). There are also stamped matrix numbers opposite the handwritten matrix numbers on all four sides but they are too faint to be readable.
Thanks to Sergio Mariano Romay and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.
2CD Releases
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set, Columbia C2K 85168 (USA/Canada), 31
Oct 2000 (two variants):
For the 36-track European/Australian versions of this album, released in the
UK, France and Australia as The Essential Bob Dylan and in Germany as The Ultimate
Bob Dylan, see 2001 and International
Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. The 36 track European version of
The Essential Bob Dylan was released in Nov 2003 as a 3CD set with a
"Limited Tour Edition Bonus Disc" with a rarity in Holland, see
2003. The 30 track US release is now classed as a regular
album, even though it was originally released as a "limited edition".
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This is a 2 CD set with 30 tracks, all digitally remastered. This was originally a limited edition album available until the end of Jan 2001 only. |
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 Columbia C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - rear of promo copy with hole punched through barcode, scan by Ian Woodward |
 Columbia C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - 2 CD long box back, scan by Peter Pearson |
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 Columbia C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - CD reverse of rear insert (the Japanese release below is virtually identical) |
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 Columbia CK 85169/C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - CD1 (variant 1) |
 Columbia CK 85169/C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - detail of CD1 (variant 1, compare with 2009 Essential 3.0 CD1 below - no DIDP number) |
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 Columbia CK 85169/C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - CD1 scan by Gerd Rundel (variant 2) |
 Columbia CK 85169/C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - detail of CD1, scan by Gerd Rundel (variant 2, compare with 2009 Essential 3.0 CD1 below - "DIDP 101773", CD2 has "DIDP 101774") |
 Columbia CK 85170/C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - CD2 scan by Gerd Rundel (variant 2) |
The US release was available in both a "slimline" 2CD jewel case (my copy) and a 12" x 6" long box (Peter Pearson's copy). The front yellow jewel case sticker says: "Special Limited Edition! 30 Digitally Remastered Classics on 2 CDs!". There is an 8-page booklet. The inserts are numbered "C2K 85168" while the CDs are numbered "CK 85169" and "CK 85170". Ian Woodward has a US promo copy, still sealed, with a hole punched through the jewel case at front top left, right through the barcode on the rear insert.
R-0299 Things Have
Changed 
from the Wonder Boys
soundtrack album as well as European/Japanese compilations and singles (all
listed above), lyrics on bobdylan.com
here
Now no longer a rarity since The Essential Bob Dylan is now on the bobdylan.com albums page.
The Positively 4th Street on this collection is the 3:54 "regular" version from Biograph, as opposed to the 4:10 "alternate mix" which is now to be found on the remastered Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (US release). Neither stereo version is now classified on this site as a rarity.
Track list (all tracks are standard stereo album versions except where indicated):
Disc 1: Blowin' In The Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like A Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street (3:54 stereo version from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits and Biograph); Just Like A Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) ("Basement Tapes" version with The Band from Biograph); I'll Be Your Baby Tonight. [Thanks to David Goldsmith for correcting the origin of the Mighty Quinn version!]
Disc 2: Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; I Shall Be Released (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (1971 version with Happy Traum from Greatest Hits Vol. 2/More Greatest Hits); Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Forever Young (slow version from Planet Waves), Tangled Up In Blue; Shelter From The Storm; Hurricane; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Silvio; Everything Is Broken; Not Dark Yet; Things Have Changed (R-0299 as above).
Thanks to Peter Pearson for information about the long box release of this set plus scans. This release has the same catalogue number C2K 85168 on the CDs, but the number of 3OC 85168 on the long box itself.
Gerd Rundel's copy has the same inserts but discs with the addition of the text "DIDP 101773" and "DIDP 101774" respectively below the Columbia and compact disc logos, the same as CD1 and CD2 of the 2009 release The Essential Bob Dylan 3.0, see below. The "DIDP" number (Digital ID Popular) was a code used by Sony DADC (Digital Audio Disc Corporation) on CDs pressed in Terre Haute, IN, or one of their other CD plants in the USA, from 1983 onwards (Classical CDs had "DIDC" - Digital ID Classical).
Thanks to Gerd Rundel for further information and scans.
"The Ultimate Collection" - 2CD set, Columbia 5031339 (Germany), 21 May 2001:
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This is an expanded edition of the 2000 USA release The
Essential Bob Dylan with the same cover and six extra tracks, one of which
was at the time a rarity. For full details, see 2001
and International
Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. This expanded edition was
also released as The Essential Bob Dylan in the UK, France and
Australia, also see 2001 and International
Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. This 36 track European version of The Essential Bob
Dylan was released in Nov 2003 as a 3CD set with a "Limited Tour Edition
Bonus Disc" with a further rarity in Holland, see 2003. Thanks to Gerd Rundel for information and scan. |
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set, Sony Music TV STVCD 116 (UK); Columbia 5031332 (France), 21 May 2001; Columbia CDCOL 6285 (South Africa), 2001; Columbia 50313320000 (Australia), Mar 2002; Columbia 5031332 (UK), Sep 2005; Sony Music 88697 63674 2 (UK), 28 Sep 2009; Sony Music 88843059232 (Europe), 2014:
 Sony Music TV STVCD 116 (UK, 2001) - front picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
This is yet another variant of the Essential/Ultimate compilation, tracklist exactly the same as the German version immediately above (36 tracks). For full details, see 2001 and International Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2000s. This album was re-released in the UK in Sep 2005 as Columbia 503133 2, the previous French catalogue number, and on 28 Sep 2009 in the UK as Sony Music 88697 63674 2 in a metal box. It was again re-released in Europe in 2014 as Sony Music 88843059232, see below. |
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 Sony Music 88697 63674 2 (UK, 2009) - release in metal box, picture from www.amazon.co.uk |
 Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Europe, 2010) - front scan by Ian Woodward |
 Sony Music 88843059232 (Europe, 2014) - front scan by Tom Willems, see below |
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - promo and commercial 2CD sets, Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Europe/Thailand), 1 Oct 2010:
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Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Europe) - front scan by Ian Woodward |
This new 36-track 2CD release in a "Super Jewel Box" is an updated version of the previous 2001 European 36-track 2CD set with the same title, see International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2010s. Both previous rarities are now officially released on regular Dylan albums. The Thai release is a promo and has "PROMOTIONAL ONLY NOT FOR SALE" on each of the CDs. Thanks to Ian Woodward and Ger Hemel for information and scans. |
 Sony Music 88697 78417 2 (Thailand) - front scan by Ger Hemel |
"Music & Photos" - 2CD set, Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe), 8 Feb 2013/(UK), 11 Feb 2013:
 Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - front with sticker, scan by Jack from Canada |
This 2CD set comes with ten 11" x 12.5" photographs and is part of the new "Music & Photos" series, made to attract fans who still enjoy purchasing physical product, as opposed to intangible downloads. The initial releases in the "Music & Photo" series also feature Jeff Buckley, Elvis Presley, and Miles Davis. Each CD set in the series will be packaged with ten photographic prints, housed in a large book (11.4 x 0.4 x 12.9 inches.) The Dylan release is the Oct 2010 version of The Essential Bob Dylan (see above). There are currently no plans to release this package in the USA. |
 Sony Music 9781908709301 (Europe) - front sticker scan by Jack from Canada |
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Jack from Canada's copy with French stickers was actually bought in Quebec, Canada. The large French language rear sticker is not affixed to the shrink wrap, but is applied directly to the rear of the package. There was a 2010 French release called Musique & Photos with a different front as shown, see International Album Releases (Dylan-only Compilations) 2010s.
Thanks to Fred Muller and Harold Lepidus for information, and to Jack from Canada for scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD sets, Sony Music 88843029532 (Europe), 25 Mar 2014; gold 2CD release: Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia), 2019:
 Sony Music 88843029532 (Europe) - front with red sticker, picture from JB Hi Fi web-site (2014) |
This new 32-track 2CD release is an updated version of the 2000 US 30-track 2CD set with the same title. It includes the same two previous rarities as before. Tim Dunn's copy has a red sticker as shown on the shrink wrap, with black and white print which reads "2 CDs of Essential Bob Dylan Updated Edition". |
Sony Music 88843029532 (Europe) - front scan by Tom Willems (2014) |
 Sony Music 88843029532 (Europe) - rear picture from www.amazon.co.uk (2014) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - front with "Gold Series" sticker, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - rear insert scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - outside of unfolded front insert booklet, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - inside pages of front insert booklet, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - reverse of rear insert, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
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 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - gold CD1 scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - inside pages of front insert booklet, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - inside pages of front insert booklet, scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
 Sony Music 19075978222 (Australia) - gold CD1 scan by Stuart Moore (2019) |
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CD1 now has 16 tracks (the original C2K 85168 CD1 had 15 tracks). It's All Over Now, Baby Blue is no longer included. Lay, Lady, Lay and If Not For You have been moved from CD2 to CD1.
CD2 now also has 16 tracks (the original C2K 85168 CD2 had 15 tracks). Shelter From The Storm and Silvio are no longer included. Make You Feel My Love, Mississippi, Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Duquesne Whistle, and When The Deal Goes Down have been added (in this order at the end of the disc).
The Australian 2019 "Gold Series" release appears to be the same as the 2014 European release. It has "This copy Distributed in Australia by Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd" ansd also has the Columbia and Sony Music Logo on the rear insert. It still has "88843029532" on the CDs and front insert, which also mentions "Distributed in Australia".
Thanks to Tim Dunn, Tom Willems and Stuart Moore for information and scans.
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set, Sony Music House MHCP 30-31
(Japan), 21 May 2003:
The Japanese release is in a 2CD slimline CD jewel case only.
 Sony Music House MHCP 30-31 (Japan) - front with obi (my copy) |
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 Sony Music House MHCP 30-31 (Japan) - centre of booklet (again with Jun Miura pictured at bottom left) |
 Dylan Ga Rock - 1993 exclusive Japanese release also illustrated by Jun Miura, see 1993 and 2010 |
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 "Iden & Tity" issues 24-27, comic book by Jun Miura, picture found by Moise Potié (Bob on right) |
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R-0299 Things Have
Changed from the Wonder Boys
soundtrack album as well as European/Japanese compilations and singles (all
listed above), lyrics on bobdylan.com
here
Now no longer a rarity since The Essential Bob Dylan is now on the bobdylan.com albums page.
This album was belatedly released in Japan on 21 May 2003 in an enhanced package, although not with the six extra tracks of the 2001 releases. It has a 40-page booklet with Japanese liner notes and lyrics in English and Japanese. There is also a unique wrap-around obi with artwork by popular Japanese cartoonist and Dylan fan Jun Miura. Jun Miura has also provided a centre picture for the booklet and drew the artwork for the very rare promo 2CD Japanese set Dylan Ga Rock, see 1993 and 2010. The Jun Miura picture used for the Japanese edition of The Essential Bob Dylan also appears in Jun Miura's series of comic books "Iden & Tity" and on the 2004 Japanese Dylan film soundtrack compilation Iden & Tity (Sony Music MHCP 1166), see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2000s.
"The Essential Bob Dylan'" - Blu-spec 2CD set release, Sony Music SICP 20193-4 (Japan), 22 Jul 2009:
 Sony Music SICP 20193-4 (Japan) - front of sealed copy, scan by Wil Gielen |
This release is on Blu-spec CDs, an audio-only disc which is presumably
intended to be Sony's new high quality audio format. The copy shown is still
sealed, with a blue and white obi with price ¥3,990 (¥3,800 before tax). The
release date is shown as "09-7-22" (22 Jul 2009), the original
release date as "00-10-31" (31 Oct 2000) and the withdrawal date as "10-1-21" (21
Jan
2010). These are not actually Blu-ray discs as it says on the sticker, but
they are made using Blu-ray
technology. Thanks to Wil Gielen for information and scans. |
 Sony Music SICP 20193-4 (Japan) - rear of sealed copy, scan by Wil Gielen |
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 2CD set,
Sony Music
SICP 31623~4 (Japan), 5 Apr 2023:
This set comes in a slimline 2CD
jewel case with an 80 page
Japanese language booklet.
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - front with
obi and tour sticker, scan by Jack from Canada (final design)This revised 2CD compilation is being released
to coincide with Bob's Spring 2023 tour of Japan. It comes on Blu-spec
CD2 discs and
includes commentaries, lyrics, and
translations. The price will be ¥3,000 (¥2.727 plus tax). The
Japanese title is
Ryuukoukashuu [流行歌集] meaning
Collection Of His Hits.
"60 Dylan" picture, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson
(2022 postcard)
Scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson
(2023 poster)
Original 1857 artwork by Hiroshige Utagawa, picture
from Fine Art America
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - tour sticker scan by Jack from
Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - advertising banner scan by Sonny
Boy McFitzson
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - rear with
wrap-around obi, scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - outside of unfolded front insert,
scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - inside of front insert, scan by
Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - wrap-around obi scan by Jack from
Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Jack from
Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - front of Japanese language booklet,
scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - rear of Japanese language booklet,
scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - inside pages of Japanese
language booklet, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson
Sony Music SICP 31623~4 (Japan) - front scan by
Sonny Boy McFitzson (original design)
Sony Music SICP 31623 (Japan) - CD1 scan by Jack from Canada
Sony Music SICP 31624 (Japan) - CD2 scan by Jack from Canada
The final front design is from a 2022 60th Anniversary postcard commemorating Bob's debut on Columbia Records in 1962. The "60 Dylan" picture is based on a work by Hiroshige Utagawa (spot Bob and Suze from the front of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). The Japanese script says "60 years since his debut album was released" (19 Mar 1962 in the USA, although not until 1966 in Japan). The original picture is called "Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake" and dates from 1857.
Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for news that a poster with this design will be given away to purchasers at Neowing.co.jp, Tower Records Shibuya, Tower Records Shinjuku, and the CD Japan website. Other purchasers will receive a postcard. The red text on the poster says "Celebrating Tour of Japan in Reiwa Year 5" (Reiwa Year 5 is 2023). The white text on the obi says "As goes the song, so goes the world", while the yellow text is "All-time Best-of album for Bob Dylan beginners".
Track list:
CD1: Blowin' in the Wind; Don't Think Twice, It's All Right; The Times They Are A-Changin'; It Ain't Me, Babe; Maggie's Farm; It's All Over Now, Baby Blue; Mr. Tambourine Man; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Like a Rolling Stone; Positively 4th Street; I Want You; Just Like a Woman; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along the Watchtower; Lay, Lady, Lay; If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II); I Shall Be Released (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II); Knockin' on Heaven's Door; Tangled Up in Blue; Forever Young (slow version from Planet Waves).
CD2: Shelter from the Storm; Hurricane; Gotta Serve Somebody; The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar; Jokerman; Everything Is Broken; Blind Willie McTell; Not Dark Yet; Make You Feel My Love; Dignity (the original out-take version from Oh Mercy that first appeared on the 1998 Touched By An Angel TV series soundtrack album and later on 2007's Dylan); Things Have Changed (from the 2000 Wonder Boys soundtrack album,); Mississippi; Thunder On The Mountain; When The Deal Goes Down; Beyond Here Lies Nothin'.
Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson, Eric Wishart and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
3CD Releases
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 3CD set, Columbia 503133 0 (NL), 13 Nov 2003:
 Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - front of jewel case with sticker (my copy) |
This Dutch set is a "Limited Tour Edition". It contains the 2001
36-track expanded version and also has a 6-track Bonus Disc featuring
a further rarity. It has a 12-page booklet in English and a 20-page booklet
in Dutch. For full details, see 2003. |
 Columbia 503133 0 (NL) - Dutch language sticker |
"The Essential Bob Dylan" + "The Essential Music" [Various] - 3CD set, Sony Music Media 503133 1 (NL), 2005:
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 Sony Music Media 503133 1 (NL) - rear of slipcase with two albums, photo by Peter Pearson |
 Sony Music Media 503133 1 (NL) - bottom of slipcase with two albums, photo by Peter Pearson |
Peter Pearson has a 2005 Dutch copy of The Essential Bob Dylan, catalogue number Sony Music Media 503133 1, that comes in a slipcase with Various Artists sampler The Essential Music as a bonus disc. For The Essential Music see International Album Releases (Various Artists Compilations) 2005.
Thanks to Peter Pearson for information and pictures.
"The Essential Bob Dylan 3.0" - 3CD set, Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA), 18 Aug 2009:
 Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA) - front of sealed pack with sticker (my copy) |
This Limited Edition 3CD set in "eco-friendly" packaging contains the 30-track 2000 US 2CD set release plus a bonus disc with six tracks: Thunder On The Mountain; Mississippi; Blind Willie McTell; Make You Feel My Love; Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and Dark Eyes. It comes in a four-panel card sleeve and has the same 8-page booklet as the 2000 US release. The first two discs are the same as variant 2 of the 2000 US set with the addition of the text "DIDP 101773" and "DIDP 101774" respectively below the Columbia and compact disc logos. |
 Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA) - inside of booklet (outside is the same as 2000 Essential release above) |
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 Columbia CK 85170/C2K 85168 (USA) - CD2 |
 Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA) - CD3 (bonus disc) |
Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA) - outside of four-panel card sleeve unfolded
Columbia 88697 54094 2 (USA) - inside of four-panel card sleeve unfolded showing pockets for discs and booklet
Thanks to Gerd Rundel for information.
"The Essential Bob Dylan 3.0" - 3CD set, Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea), 2009:
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - front with stickers, scan by Manuel García Jara |
This Limited Edition 3CD set in "eco-friendly" packaging contains the 30-track 2000 US 2CD set release plus a bonus disc with six tracks (same as the US release): Thunder On The Mountain; Mississippi; Blind Willie McTell; Make You Feel My Love; Beyond Here Lies Nothin' and Dark Eyes. The South Korean release has a stapled booklet in English and a folded insert in South Korean. The packaging and discs were made in South Korea. Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for finding the South Korean release on eBay and to Manuel García Jara for scans. |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - rear scan by Manuel García Jara |
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 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - outside of booklet, scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - outside of Korean booklet, scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - inside of Korean booklet, scan by Manuel García Jara |
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 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - detail of outside of booklet, scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - detail of rear, scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - CD1 scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - detail of CD1, scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - CD2 scan by Manuel García Jara |
 Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - CD3 scan by Manuel García Jara |
Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - outside of unfolded digipak, scan by
Manuel García Jara
Sony Music S 30578C (South Korea) - inside of unfolded digipak with discs
and booklet, scan by Manuel García Jara
"The Essential Bob Dylan" - 3CD set, Sony Music/Starsing Records 49021 (China), Mar 2011:
 Sony Music/Starsing Records 49021 (China) - front of slipcase (my copy) |
This "2+1" set is from mainland China, and was
released to coincide with Bob's first live performance in China in Beijing
(Peking) on 6 Apr 2011. It is an
official release from Starsing
Records licensed from Sony Music and bearing the Sony Music logo. Also illustrated is the Chinese edition of "Rolling Stone" from Nov 2006 with Bob on the cover and an article by Jonathan Lethem inside. There is also a "Top Twenty" list of "Bob's Greatest Songs" with Like A Rolling Stone as #1. Thanks to Dag Braathen and Sonny Boy McFitzson for information and to Steve Barker from the BBC for the CD set and magazine. |
 "Rolling Stone" magazine, Chinese edition, Nov 2006 (front with Bob) |
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 Sony Music/Starsing Records 49021 (China) - front sticker |
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 "Rolling Stone" magazine, Chinese edition, Nov 2006 (inside page with Bob) |
Sony Music/Starsing Records 49021 (China) - spine of slipcase
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The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) |
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