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Like any recording artist of the '60s, Bob Dylan had his albums mixed for mono during the bulk of the decade. Stereo mixes were simultaneously released, but they didn't take precedence until the end of the '60s, when the industry and public tastes shifted toward two speakers. As the decades rolled on, those original mono mixes never again surfaced, but the unexpected success of 2009's The Beatles in Mono box opened the doors for 2010's The Original Mono Recordings, a handsome nine-disc box containing Dylan's first eight albums in remastered mono and housed in attractive, stiff, mini-LP cardboard sleeves. As a package, The Original Mono Recordings is undeniably alluring -- the LP replicas are accurate, right down to the inclusion of the sheet of poetry in The Times They Are A-Changin', the booklet thorough, highlighted by liner notes by Greil Marcus, and several rarely-circulated photos -- and that's a large part of the battle of a collector bait set like this, which seeks to re-create the experience of listening to the original albums. Any fan investing in a set this expensive expects an experience as attractive as this, but the main draw is, naturally, in the music, whether the mono mixes offer a different experience than the stereo and, by and large, they do.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 You're No Good 1:41
2 Talkin' New York 3:21
3 In My Time of Dyin' 2:41
4 Man of Constant Sorrow 3:10
5 Fixin' to Die 2:22
6 Pretty Peggy-O 3:25
7 Highway 51 2:53
8 Gospel Plow 1:47
9 Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 2:37
10 House of the Risin' Sun 5:19
11 Freight Train Blues 2:20
12 Song to Woody 2:44
13 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 2:42
Disc 2
1 Blowin' in the Wind 2:53
2 Girl from the North Country 3:24
3 Masters of War 4:34
4 Down the Highway 3:25
5 Bob Dylan's Blues 2:24
6 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall 6:53
7 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right 3:41
8 Bob Dylan's Dream 5:04
9 Oxford Town 1:52
10 Talking World War III Blues 6:28
11 Corrina, Corrina 2:46
12 Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance 2:02
13 I Shall Be Free 4:46
Disc 3
1 The Times They Are a-Changin' 3:17
2 Ballad of Hollis Brown 5:07
3 With God on Our Side 7:11
4 One Too Many Mornings 2:43
5 North Country Blues 4:36
6 Only a Pawn in Their Game 3:34
7 Boots of Spanish Leather 4:43
8 When the Ship Comes In 3:19
9 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 5:50
10 Restless Farewell 5:35
Disc 4
1 All I Really Want to Do 4:07
2 Black Crow Blues 3:17
3 Spanish Harlem Incident 2:28
4 Chimes of Freedom 7:14
5 I Shall Be Free No. 10 4:51
6 To Ramona 3:54
7 Motorpsycho Nitemare 4:36
8 My Back Pages 4:27
9 I Don't Believe You 4:26
10 Ballad in Plain D 8:21
11 It Ain't Me Babe 3:34
Disc 5
1 Subterranean Homesick Blues 2:19
2 She Belongs to Me 2:52
3 Maggie's Farm 3:56
4 Love Minus Zero/No Limit 2:51
5 Outlaw Blues 3:01
6 On the Road Again 2:36
7 Bob Dylan's 115th Dream 6:34
8 Mr. Tambourine Man 5:34
9 Gates of Eden 5:46
10 It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 7:35
11 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 4:16
Disc 6
1 Like a Rolling Stone 6:02
2 Tombstone Blues 5:55
3 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 3:29
4 From a Buick 6 3:10
5 Ballad of a Thin Man 5:51
6 Queen Jane Approximately 5:01
7 Highway 61 Revisited 3:18
8 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 5:11
9 Desolation Row 11:17
Disc 7
1 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 4:30
2 Pledging My Time 3:53
3 Visions of Johanna 7:34
4 One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) 4:58
5 I Want You 3:05
6 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 7:10
7 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 4:00
8 Just Like a Woman 4:53
Disc 8
1 Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine 3:26
2 Temporary Like Achilles 5:03
3 Absolutely Sweet Marie 5:00
4 4th Time Around 4:39
5 Obviously 5 Believers 3:36
6 Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands 11:21
Disc 9
1 John Wesley Harding 2:57
2 As I Went Out One Morning 2:50
3 I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine 3:52
4 All Along the Watchtower 2:32
5 The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest 5:31
6 Drifter's Escape 2:47
7 Dear Landlord 3:17
8 I Am a Lonesome Hobo 3:20
9 I Pity the Poor Immigrant 4:12
10 The Wicked Messenger 2:03
11 Down Along the Cove 2:21
12 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 2:36
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