The Times They Are A-Changin' - CD releases
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. For LP and tape releases of The Times They Are A Changin', click Up. For releases of this album in CBS/Columbia multi-packs, see International Album Releases (Regular) - Multi-Packs. |
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Revised 16 September, 2024.
Original US stereo LP, Columbia CS 8905, Feb 1964, CD released Jan 1989 The front photograph was taken by Barry Feinstein, uncredited. It's a pastiche of a Woody Guthrie photo. Barry Feinstein sadly died on 20 Oct 2011, for more pictures of Bob by Barry, see . For mono releases of this album, see Mono Album Releases. |
Original CD Releases
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD release, Columbia CK 8905 (USA), Jan 1989:
Wil Gielen has a copy of the US release imported into Japan with an obi from the Shinseido record store chain (see below).
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Paul Shenton for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD release, Columbia CK 8905 (USA for Japan), mid 1990s:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD release, Columbia WCK 8905 (Canada), early 1990s:
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Jack from Canada for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD releases, CBS/Sony (Japan), 1988-97:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD release, CBS 467175 2 (Australia), 1980s; Columbia/CBS/Epic 467175 2 (Australia), 1997:
Tom Willem's copy comes with the same CBS front and rear inserts as Hans Seegers first 1990s Columbia copy, but the CD was released on the Epic label. The blue text to the right of the centre hole on this CD is the same as the red text on Hans Seegers' CD, with "MANUFACTURED IN" on the first line.
Thanks to Hans Seegers, Stuart Moore and Tom Willems for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD releases, CBS COL 32021 (Europe), 1989; Columbia COL 32021 (Europe), 1997, re-released 2000:
Confusingly, the Australian release CBS 467175 2 (see below) was also on sale in Europe in a version with card rather than paper inserts. It used the Columbia COL 32021 CD.
The 1997 Columbia release restores the old 1960s "STEREO"/arrows logo. The front insert of the Columbia release is a 16-page booklet which includes the "11 Outlined Epitaphs" but omits the "NICE PRICE" catalogue. The CD has a clear tray showing the reverse of the rear insert which is black with just the album title and "BOB DYLAN" as on the front but a negative image. Manuel García Jara has a copy from around 2000 with the same front insert booklet and CD but with a completely different rear insert.
Thanks to Hans Seegers and Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
3CD multi-pack, Columbia 509636-2 (Austria for Europe), 2002:
The Times CD is exactly the same as Hans Seegers' Columbia copy above.
Thanks to Manuel García Jara and Hans Seegers for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - CD releases, Columbia CDCOL 5005 S (South Africa), 1996; Columbia CDCOL 5005 (South Africa), 2008:
Columbia CDCOL
5005 S (South Africa)
- detail of rear insert, scan by Manuel García Jara
(both releases)
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" -
CD release, Ediciones del Prado Canta Autores CA049/ CBS/Sony
COL CD 32021 (Spain), 1997:
After the rest of CBS changed its name to "Columbia" in 1991, CBS Spain
became "CBS/Sony" (same as the Japanese company) because RCA still
owned the rights to the "Columbia" name in Spain.
The CD doesn’t have a country of origin, but was probably made in Austria.
Thanks to Pachi Becerril for information and photocopies.
Remastered CD Releases (2005 onwards)
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered promo CD, MMX Distribution (no catalogue number) (Europe), 20 May 2005:
CD scan by Jack from Canada |
This promo CD from MMX Distribution came without
inserts. Thanks to Jack from Canada for information and scans. |
Detail of CD, scan by Jack from Canada |
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered CD-R promo release, Sony BMG (no catalogue number) (Austria for Europe), Jun 2005:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered CD release, Columbia CK 94240 (USA/Canada), Columbia 519892 2 (Austria for Europe), 21 Jun 2005/Columbia 519892 2 (Argentina), 2005:
Thanks to Hans Seegers for the US and Argentinean release scans and to Jack from Canada for the Canadian release scans. The European release shown is my copy.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered CD release, Sony Music MHCP 836 (Japan), Sep 2005:
The front sticker, different from the ones on the 2004 Japanese releases in card sleeves, advertises the free six-track CD Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963 (see 2005). In Japan this can only be obtained in exchange for five tokens, one from each of the following newly-released albums:
Thanks to Michio Kinoshita for information about these albums. Thanks to Keith Schweiger for scans of a promo copy of MHCP 836. It has a numbered promo sticker on the rear of the card sleeve, a purple promo insert in Japanese and the text "SAMPLE LOANED" in the clear centre of the CD itself.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - promo remastered CD release, Sony Music MHCP 1214 (Japan), Jan 2007:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - Blu-spec CD release, Sony Music SICP 20215 (Japan), 26 Aug 2009:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered CD release, Sony Music SICP 4708 (Japan), 23 Dec 2015:
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - remastered CD release, Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/4 (NL), 20 Apr 2009:
Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2/4 (NL) - front of card sleeve, scan by Tom Willems |
This remastered CD release in a card sleeve is part of the 10CD boxed
set The Bob Dylan 60s Collection made by
Sony Music in Austria for the Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant" to mark Bob's
Apr 2009 shows in Holland.
For the boxed set, see here. Stefano Moroni has found a copy dated 2017 on the rear published in Italy by GEDI Gruppo, publishers of "L‘Espresso" and "La Repubblica", and licensed by Sony Music Italy. I assume this was a CD given away with a newspaper or magazine - more information required! |
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Columbia/Sony Music 88697 51773 2 (NL) - box rear scan by Tom Willems |
Thanks to Tom Willems for information and scans.
"The Complete Album Collection Vol. One" - 47CD boxed set, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88691-92431-2 (USA), 5 Nov 2013/(Europe), 4 Nov 2013; USB stick, Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music 88883-77314-5 (USA), 5 Nov 2013/(Europe), 4 Nov 2013; Sony Music SICP 30471-30520 (Japan), 26 Mar 2014 onwards:
This massive set is the latest in a series of "Complete Columbia Album Collections" featuring artists such as Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and even Blue Oyster Cult. The CD version of the set includes 41 Dylan albums in card sleeves, 14 of which have been remastered for this project, plus a 2CD set of previously released non-album tracks entitled Side Tracks. The albums exclude all compilations and The Bootleg Series sets, but do include the deleted 1973 Dylan album, see 1973, and the extra 2CD set Side Tracks includes one side of the 1971 single George Jackson (Acoustic version), R-0085, see 1971. The set is therefore listed in 2013. The set also includes a hard cover book with extensive new liner notes and previously unseen photos.
All the CDs come in card sleeves. The European sleeves are made of thicker card than the US sleeves, but they are otherwise identical, so are not shown. The catalogue number on the sleeve is "88691924312JK3" plus "DISC 3". The CDs are different in detail, the US The Times They Are A-Changin' CD has catalogue number "88691924312D3", whereas the European CD has catalogue number "88691924312-03". The European CD was made in the EU (probably Austria). The US and European copyright details are printed at the bottom of the Bob Dylan CDs, and round the circumference for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan onwards, so I haven't shown them for the later CDs.
For more details of the set, see International Album Releases (Multi-Packs) 2010s.
Picture from www.amazon.com |
Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for news that The Complete Album Collection will be released in Japan in four decade-related parts, with the intention to release them all in 2014. The first part, called Dylan '60s, will be released by Sony Music Japan on 26 Mar 2014. The Blu-Spec CD2 specification CDs come in card sleeves with printed inner sleeves and "SONY MUSIC" instead of "COLUMBIA" on the discs, which are numbered SICP 30471 to SICP 30481 (Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, not included in the US and European sets, is included here as SICP 30479). Side Tracks, to be released at the same time, is SICP 30519-20. All the sleeves have orange top obis similar to the 2004 Japanese release in card sleeves. The 2013 remastered The Times They Are A-Changin' was SICP 30473 - more details will be added when available (this album was not one of those released in Blu-spec CD2 format in 2013). |
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin for the picture of the 1960s decade set from www.amazon.com. Thanks to Manuel García Jara for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - hybrid SA-CD release, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab UDSACD 2123 (USA), 2016:
This stereo hybrid SA-CD release from the US audiophile company Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab comes in a folded card sleeve with a booklet. This limited edition hybrid SA-CD stereo release of this album is the first time it has been remastered in audiophile quality. It is therefore also listed in 2016.
For the Mobile Fidelity 2016 mono SA-CD release, see International Mono Releases.
Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and André Wilbers for information and scans.
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" - gold CD release, Columbia/Sony Music 194397570229 (Australia), 2020:
Thanks to Stuart Moore for information and scans.
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