Audio: International Album Releases (Regular)

The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966 (1998)

This page is part of a new section 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 not in the 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.

"Love And Theft" (2001)

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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.

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.

Thanks to Jack from Canada for the picture of the CD-R promo set, which comes in white card sleeves without artwork.

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
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.

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.

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).

Columbia C2K 85168 (USA/Canada) - front with jewel case sticker

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
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. The Jun Miura picture used for the Japanese edition of The Essential Bob Dylan also appeared on the 2004 Japanese Dylan film soundtrack compilation Iden & Tity, (Sony Music MHCP 1166), see International Releases (Other Dylan-Only Compilations).
 

Sony Music House MHCP 30-31 (Japan) - outside of booklet

This is yet another variant of the Essential/Ultimate compilation, tracklist exactly the same as the German version immediately above (36 tracks).

Full full details, see 2001.

For full details, see 2003.