Audio: International Album Releases - Dylan-Only Compilations 2000s

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R-0299 Things Have Changed from The Wonder Boys soundtrack, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

R-0273 Dignity - original Oh Mercy out-take produced by Daniel Lanois from the Touched By An Angel OST - see 1998, not the 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3, which retained only Bob's vocal and piano and added new backing
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in the 3CD set Dylan (2007) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

Columbia 498361 2 (UK) - CD1 with R-0299 and R-0273

Columbia 498361 9 (UK) - CD2 (Limited Edition Bonus Disc) with R-0435 and R-0436

Columbia 498361 9 (UK) - outside of three-fold front insert

Columbia 498361 9 (UK) - rear insert (reverse is plain brown)

XXI Vinteum/Columbia 110053/2-498361 (Brazil) - outside of three-fold front insert

Sony TVK-24076 (Canada) - rear scan by Jack Guerreiro

Sony TVK-24076 (Canada) - scan by Jack Guerreiro

XXI VinteumColumbia 110053/2-498361 (Brazil) - outside of rear insert

XXI Vinteum/Columbia 110053/2-498361 (Brazil) - inside of three-fold front insert

XXI Vinteum/Columbia 110053/2-498361 (Brazil) - inside of rear insert

Initial copies were accompanied by a bonus CD single with two live performances which remain rarities, for those still see 2000.

Track listing:

Disc 1 - Things Have Changed (R-0299); A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; It Ain't Me, Babe; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Positively 4th Street; Highway 61 Revisited; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; I want You; I'll be Your Baby Tonight; Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn); Simple Twist of Fate; Hurricane; Changing Of The Guards; Licence To Kill; Silvio; Dignity (Original Version - R-0273); Not Dark Yet.

Disc 2 - Highlands (live - R-0435); Blowin' In The Wind (live - R-0436).

The Brazilian release shown is part of a series of "Major Successes of the Century" released by a company called "XXI Vinteum Internaçional" under licence from Columbia. The secondary catalogue number is the same as the UK release. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for this album. Thanks to Jack Guerreiro for scans of the Canadian and Australian discs. Both the 2CD Canadian Limited Edition and the single CD Standard Edition have the same catalogue number - Sony TVK-24076.

"The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2" - compilation CD, SME (Sony Music Entertainment) Records SRCS 2305 (Japan), 21 Jun 2000:

SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - front with obi, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - front of booklet, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - promo cassette release photo from eBay	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - sticker sheet scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - obi scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - inside of unfolded front insert, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson
The Limited Edition with the bonus disc wasn't released in Japan because the CD single SME Records SRCS 2306, Things Have Changed/Dylan Alive Vol. 3, which contains the live versions of Highlands and Blowin' In The Wind, was released in Japan on the same day (see 2000). This Standard Edition release had a silver front sticker (not shown) with Japanese text: "First release only Includes sticker sheet CD label printed in four colour process Win tour merchandise."
SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - rear with obi, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - outside of unfolded front insert, scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson		SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - rear insert scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson	SME Records SRCS 2305 (Japan) - CD scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson

The CD has a multi-coloured obi with price ¥2,520 (¥2,400 before tax) and release date "00-6-21" (21 Jun 2000). The withdrawal date is "00-12-20" (20 Dec 2000). As well as the three-fold insert in English there is a booklet in English and Japanese and a sticker sheet with pictures of all Bob's albums.The Biograph demo of Forever Young was used in Japan in an Apple Computer iMac advert called "Video by Dad", this is why it was added to the Japanese release as the 18th track.

Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for information and scans. Thanks to Gerd Rundel for finding a photo of a Sony Japan promo cassette on eBay.

"The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2" - Limited Edition 2LP set, Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe), 2000:

Thanks to C P Lee and Jamie Buckley for the information that this album was also released in the UK as a double vinyl set, catalogue number Columbia COL 498361 1. Hans Seegers adds that the vinyl version of the album was manufactured in limited quantities only in Holland for the British, Dutch, French and Italian markets. The copy shown was bought in Italy, and has an Italian SIAE sticker on the rear sleeve. The records were housed in a wide single sleeve, not a gatefold, with picture inner sleeves.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for further information and scans.

Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe) - Italian SIAE sticker from rear, scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe) - rear scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 1 scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe) - inner sleeve for Record 2, rear scan by Hans Seegers

Columbia COL 498361 1 (NL for Europe) - Side 3 scan by Hans Seegers

Thanks to John Gaylor for scans of the Taiwanese release, which has the standard 17 tracks.

Sony Music COL 498361 2 (Taiwan) - front with obi, scan by John Gaylor

Sony Music COL 498361 2 (Taiwan) - rear with obi, scan by John Gaylor

Columbia COL 498540 2 (Sweden) - front with sticker (my copy)

R-0299 Things Have Changed from the Wonder Boys soundtrack album as well as Columbia compilations and singles, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in this album, which is included on the bobdylan.com albums page.

For full details, see International Album Releases (Regular).

SME Records SRCS 2438 (Japan) - front of sealed promo copy with obi and sticker - scan by Keith Schweiger

Tracklisting:

Somebody Touched Me (R-0466 ); Wade In The Water (R-0240); Handsome Molly (R-0467); To Ramona (R-0294); I Don't Believe You (from The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966); Grand Coulee Dam (R-0066); Knockin' On Heaven's Door (from Before The Flood); It Ain't Me, Babe (now from The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975, formerly R-0137); Shelter From The Storm (from Hard Rain); Dead Man, Dead Man (R-0205); Slow Train (from Dylan And The Dead); Dignity (from MTV Unplugged); Cold Irons Bound (R-0267); Born In Time (R-0269); Country Pie (R-0468); Things Have Changed (R-0469).

R-0299 Things Have Changed - from the Wonder Boys soundtrack album as well as Columbia  compilations and singles, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

R-0273 Dignity - original Oh Mercy out-take produced by Daniel Lanois from the Touched By An Angel OST - see 1998, not the 1994 Brendan O'Brien remixed version for Greatest Hits Vol. 3, which retained only Bob's vocal and guitar and added new backing. Also on The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000
Here this track is called "Dignity (Alternate Version)" as opposed to "Dignity (Original Version)" on the UK set below.
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in Dylan (2007) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

Columbia 5031339 (Germany) - front with sticker, scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia 5031339 (Germany) - rear insert scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia 5031339 (Germany) - outside of front insert, scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia 5031339 (Germany) - CD1 scan by Gerd Rundel

Columbia 5031339 (Germany) - CD1 scan by Gerd Rundel

R-0299 Things Have Changed from the Wonder Boys soundtrack album as well as Columbia  compilations and singles, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

R-0273 Dignity - original Oh Mercy out-take produced by Daniel Lanois from the Touched By An Angel OST - see 1998. Also on The Best Of Bob Dylan Vol. 2, see 2000
Here this is called "Dignity (Original Version)" as opposed to "Dignity (Alternate Version)" on the German set above.
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in Dylan (2007) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

Sony Music TV STVCD 116 (UK, 2001) - rear insert scan of UK release by Anthony Perry

Columbia 5031332000 (Australia, 2002) - front with sticker, scan by Stuart Moore

Columbia 5031332000 (Australia, 2002) - rear scan by Stuart Moore

Columbia 503133 2 (UK, 2005) -  CD-R promo set found on eBay by Jack Guerreiro

Columbia 503133 2 (UK, 2005) -  CD-R promo set, folded insert for CD-R2 scan by Gerd Rundel

Thanks to Christopher Rollason for the information about the French release of this album, which has sleeve notes in English - an essay by Patrick Humphries dated 2001 summarising Bob's career. I'm also told there is a South African release, Columbia CDCOL 6285 - more information required.

Thanks to Bill Hester and Darren Tucker for the information that the Australian edition of this set (Columbia 5031332000, made in Australia) was released in New Zealand in Mar 2002, but not announced in Australia until Aug 2002 - this looks identical to the French release, with a similar catalogue number. Bill also informs me that the Australian "Limited Edition" Best Of Bob Dylan Vols. 1 & 2 (see above) is still on sale in New Zealand (as are the separate albums), which must make it extremely confusing for prospective purchasers new to Dylan! Thanks to Stuart Moore for scans of the Australian release, which has a unique white front sticker with blue text. Thanks to Jack Guerreiro for the picture of the UK CD-R promo set, which comes in plastic wallets with folded paper inserts from Sony Music Studios, London. Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for information about the 2009 UK release in a metal box and for scans.

Sony Music 88697 63674 2 (UK, 2009) - release in metal box, picture from amazon.co.uk

Sony Music 88697 63674 2 (UK, 2009) - release in metal box, outside of booklet scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson

Sony Music 88697 63674 2 (UK, 2009) - release in metal box, inside with CDs scan by Sonny Boy McFitzson

Tracklisting: Like A Rolling Stone; Subterranean Homesick Blues; Hurricane; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Rainy Day Women #12 and #35; Just Like A Woman; Lay, Lady, Lay; Positively 4th Street.

Thanks to Gerd Rundel for finding this on eBay. Dag Braathen suggests the interview is from Rockman's Regency Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, 20 or 21 Feb 1986 (interviewer unknown), broadcast on EON-FM, Melbourne, Australia, 21 Feb 1986.

Thanks to Hervé from France and to Peter Gilmer for the CD.

At the Home Entertainment Show in San Francisco, CA, to provide members of the media with a flavour of the Columbia/Legacy Dylan Remastered material, Columbia handed out a six track hybrid SA-CD for reporters who were at the event. Each of the six tracks is available on the disc in three formats: CD Stereo, SA-CD Stereo and SA-CD Surround Sound. The CD is in a clear plastic wallet without artwork. This sampler was exclusive to the Home Entertainment Show, although a new version with an extra track was also released with the limited edition of the Masked And Anonymous soundtrack.

The tracks on the sampler are:
1. All I Really Want To Do - from Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert At Philharmonic Hall, The Bootleg Series, Volume 6 (this is now a rarity as the album released in Mar 2004 was in stereo only)
2. Love Minus Zero/No Limit - from Bringing It All Back Home
3. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - from Blonde on Blonde
4. Tangled Up In Blue - from Blood On The Tracks
5. Gotta Serve Somebody - from Slow Train Coming
6. Moonlight - from "Love & Theft"

Columbia CSH 55838 (USA) - CD photo by Hervé from France

Columbia CSH 55838000 (Europe) - CD scan by Ian Woodward

Columbia CSH 55838 (USA) - version given away with SA-CD players, front of card sleeve and jewel case insert, picture from eBay

Columbia CSH 55838 (USA/Europe) - inside of gatefold card sleeve, scan by Hervé from France

Columbia CSH 55838 (USA) - version given away with SA-CD players, inside photo by Hervé from France (jewel case version)

Columbia CSH 55838 (USA) - version given away with SA-CD players, reverse of rear insert under clear CD tray with advert for The Bootleg Series Vol. 6,  photo by Hervé from France (jewel case version)

Tracklisting is:

1  Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
2  To Ramona - from Another Side Of Bob Dylan
3  Maggie's Farm - from Bringing It All Back Home
4  Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - from Highway 61 Revisited
5  I Want You - from Blonde On Blonde
6  Dear Landlord - from John Wesley Harding
7  To Be Alone With You - from Nashville Skyline
8  Simple Twist Of Fate - from Blood On The Tracks
9  On A Night Like This - from Planet Waves (misplaced chronologically, should be track 8)
10 One More Cup Of Coffee - from Desire
11 Changing Of The Guards - from Street-Legal
12 Gotta Serve Somebody - from Slow Train Coming
13 License To Kill - from Infidels
14 Ring Them Bells - from Oh Mercy
15 Summer Days - from "Love And Theft"

The CD itself has the title Bob Dylan Revisited - The Remasters Sampler.

Thanks to Hervé from France for information and Jack Guerreiro for scans.

This set is a repackaging of the earlier European compilation The Best Of Bob Dylan, see above and 1997.

Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Jean-Pol Hiernaux for finding these releases.

Thanks to John Caruth for information and scan. Thanks to Aiken Promotions for the discs, which include Living by Paddy Casey, Hi-Lo by The Walls, and Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets by Gary Jules.

The famous Japanese cartoonist and Dylan fan Jun Miura, who compiled the promo 2CD compilation Dylan Ga Rock (see 1993 and 2010), also compiled this album (I Threw It All Away appears twice!). The songs on this CD are used in the 2003 independent Japanese movie "Iden & Tity", directed by Tomorowo Taguchi and based on a series of comic books by Jun Miura. Jun Miura also used this artwork for the Japanese edition of The Essential Bob Dylan, see 2000. The CD front insert is a 56-page booklet entirely in Japanese which is illustrated with cartoons by Jun Miura. Jun Miura also created the artwork for the Japanese 2CD promo-only set Dylan Ga Rock mentioned above, see 1993 and 2010, with the same image of Bob in hat and shades with acoustic guitar, and again for the 2004 Japanese release of The Best Of Bob Dylan, see 1997, and the 2003 Japanese release of The Essential Bob Dylan, see International Album Releases.

Thanks to Michio Kinoshita for information about this release, also that it was rescheduled for 2 Jun 2004 from the original release date of 21 Jan 2004. It was apparently delayed because Bob did not like the artwork, but he has been talked round! Also thanks to Anders Lindh.

Sony Music MHCP 166 (Japan) - outside of 56-page booklet.

Sony Music MHCP 166 (Japan) - rear insert

Sony Music MHCP 166 (Japan) - reverse of rear insert (under clear CD tray)

Thanks to Keith Venturoni for information and scans.

Thanks to Ian Woodward for information about this item.

Sony Music Custom Marketing Group A93709 (USA) - front insert

Sony Music Custom Marketing Group A93709 (USA) - rear insert

Sony Music Custom Marketing Group A93709 (USA) - CD

eBay description: "This is a Sony Music double-disc "Radio Special" companion to the Dylan "No Direction Home" CD and documentary, no catalogue number, no bar code, sent only to radio stations! From the copy on the back of the set: "NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN--Part One Program time: 59:00--One (1:00) minute ID break at program time 30:36-31:36, with music bed. Part Two Program time: 59:00--One (1:00) minute ID break at program time 26:02-27:02, with music bed. This is the "official bootleg" radio companion for the PBS special "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan." A two part (two-one hour shows) music intensive radio special featuring exclusive music, interviews and other materials from Bob Dylan's personal archives. This program is hosted by David Dye. You'll hear music and interviews featured in the Martin Scorsese-directed film, "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan," which premiers on PBS stations September 26-27, 2005. This program also includes additional interviews not heard in the film. Many of the people that were witness to Dylan's progress tell us what he was like, what was going on at the time and the cultural impact of Dylan's emergence. We'll hear from poet Allen Ginsburg, singer Dave Van Ronk, Susan Rotolo, and scenesters Manny Roth, Bruce Langhorn, Carolyn Hester, Bob Neuwirth, as well as noted Dylanologist Prof. Sean Wilentz, and many more. This set is sealed, mint, unplayed and very rare. This is a super-rare promo-only item."

Columbia/Legacy COL 1391-1/2 (USA) - reverse of front insert, scan by Arie de Reus

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux, Åsa Källén-Lindh, Ian Woodward, Keith Venturoni and Hans Seegers for information. Thanks also to Hans Seegers for scans (a huge improvement on the eBay photographs!).

Thanks to Gerd Rundel for information and photos.

Insert for Hour 2, photo by Gerd Rundel

R-0299 Things Have Changed from the Wonder Boys soundtrack album as well as Columbia compilations and singles, lyrics on bobdylan.com
Now no longer a rarity since it is included in The Essential Bob Dylan (2000) on the bobdylan.com albums page.

Tracklisting: Blowin' In The Wind; The Times They Are A-Changin'; Mr. Tambourine Man; Like A Rolling Stone; Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; All Along The Watchtower; Lay, Lady, Lay; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; Tangled Up In Blue; Hurricane; Forever Young; Gotta Serve Somebody; Jokerman; Not Dark Yet; Things Have Changed (R-0299); Summer Days.

R-0299 has now been removed from the rarities list. Thanks to Tim Dunn for information.

Hans Seegers has a copy of this album in a "long box" with a bonus CD of Bob Dylan Live At Carnegie Hall 1963, see 2005. For more pictures, see here.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information about of the Canadian release. The rear lacks the US FBI Anti-Piracy logo.

Thanks to Gino Galvez for information.

Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding this on eBay. For more details of the 2007 Dylan album, see International Albums (Regular).

Right-hand side of opened wallet with DVD-R What Defines A True Icon?, picture from eBay

1. Blowin' In The Wind: Bob's arrives in New York in 1961 and becomes "the voice of a generation"
2. Like A Rolling Stone: Bob throws off the mantle of folk protest singer in the mid-1960s
3. Shelter From The Storm: Bob expands his artistic world in the 1970s and 1980s
4. Oh Mercy: the music Bob's made since the late 1980s

Sony BMG US Radio 59 min version, insert front scan by Arie de Reus

CD1: Blowin In The Wind (1963); The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964); Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965); Mr. Tambourine Man (1971); Like A Rolling Stone (1974), Maggie's Farm (1965); Just Like A Woman (1966); Rainy Day Women #12 & 25 (1974); All Along The Watchtower (1985)

CD2: Lay, Lady, Lay (1976); Knockin' On Heaven's Door (1994); Forever Young (1978); Tangled Up In Blue (1984); Hurricane (1975); Make You Feel My Love (1998); Things Have Changed (2000); Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (1974)

Gerd Rundel has a different copy of this broadcast on two CD-Rs which come in a 2CD jewel case without inserts. The CD-Rs have "250407" printed in the clear centres, which may be a manufacturing date of 25 Apr 2007. On disc 1 The Times They Are A-Changin' is misprinted The Times Tey Are A-Changin'.

This is not the same as the live programme broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 2 on 6 Oct 2007, which included the legendary performance of The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar from the Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA, 15 Nov 1980, with Mike Bloomfield on guitar. Some of these live tracks are previously unreleased - more details will be added later.

Thanks to Peter Coulthard, Sascha Kossjak and Gerd Rundel for information and scans.

Thanks to Jean-Pol Hiernaux for information and to Mark Webster for the scan.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus and Ian Woodward for information about this album and to Hans Seegers for the scan.

Thanks to Tim Dunn for finding this on eBay.

Tracklist: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall; The Times They Are A-Changin'; With God On Our Side; Chimes Of Freedom; Boots Of Spanish Leather; Mr. Tambourine Man; It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding); Like A Rolling Stone; I Want You; Positively 4th Street; Down Along The Cove; All Along The Watchtower; I'll Be Your Baby Tonight; Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You.

Thanks to Jack Guerreiro and David Plentus for information.

Columbia/Legacy 88697 42227 2 (USA) - inside with CD, scan by Stuart Moore

Columbia/Legacy 88697 42227 2 (USA) - screenshot with tracklist by Stuart Moore

Two more albums in the "Playlist" series, pictures from amazon.com

Tracklist: If Not For You; You Ain't Goin' Nowhere; Forever Young; Watching The River Flow; Knockin' On Heaven's Door; On A Night Like This; The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo); Precious Angel; Tangled Up In Blue; Gotta Serve Somebody; One More Cup Of Coffee; Changing Of The Guards; Hurricane; Buckets Of Rain.

Columbia/Legacy 88697 42942 2 (USA) - front with sticker, scan by Stuart Moore

Camden 88697538692 (UK) - rear insert

Camden 88697538692 (UK) - outside of unfolded front insert

Camden 88697538692 (UK) - inside of unfolded front insert

Camden 88697538692 (Australia) - inside of unfolded front insert, scan by Bill Hester

Camden 88697538692 (Australia) - CD scan by Bill Hester

Camden 88697538692 (Australia) - detail of CD, scan by Bill Hester

Camden 88697538692 (Australia) - rear insert scan by Bill Hester

Camden 88697538692 (Australia) - detail of rear insert, scan by Bill Hester

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - inside of unfolded front insert

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - detail of inside of unfolded front insert

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - detail of rear insert

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - CD

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - detail of CD

Camden 88697538692 (Brazil) - detail of CD

For Beyond Here Lies Nothin': The Collection, a 2011 2CD compilation in this series, see International Album Releases (Dylan-Only Compilations) 2010s.

Thanks to Bill Hester for information that this CD is being distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Sony BMG in association with bandit.fm (a part of Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty, Ltd) and for scans. Thanks to Alexandre Froemming for the copy of the Brazilian release.

Columbia 88697 54084 2 (USA) - front sticker

Columbia 88697 54084 2 (USA) - rear of sealed pack

International Albums: Regular Albums from Round the World - Index

International Compilations: Various Artist Albums

International Compilations: Dylan Album Tracks on Other Artist's Albums

US & International Singles & EPs