Biograph released: Nov 7, 1985 BUY

The 1985 release of the 5-LP set Biograph set off a widespread media reevaluation of Dylan’s art and his place in American culture. It also brought Dylan’s music, in all its variety and scope, to a new generation of listeners. Brilliantly programmed, Biograph was a career retrospective, but it followed no particular chronological or thematic order. Instead it had a kind of free-associative quality that proved to be a perfect light in which to view all the facets of Dylan’s work. Mixing familiar tracks from Dylan’s albums with unheard live performances and studio outtakes. Among Biograph’s many previously unissued treasures are the Blood On The Tracks outtake “Up To Me,” a stunning live 1966 solo version of “Visions of Johanna,” the poignant and beautiful “Percy’s Song,” full-tilt live versions of “Isis” and “Romance In Durango” from the Rolling Thunder Revue, the early unissued tracks “I’ll Keep It With Mine” and “Lay Down Your Weary Tune,” the Shot Of Love outtake “Caribbean Wind,” the 1965 mini-epic “Jet Pilot”… There are way too many highlights to list. Lay, Lady, Lay | listen | Baby, Let Me Follow You Down | listen | If Not for You | listen | I'll Be Your Baby Tonight | listen | I'll Keep It with Mine | listen | The Times They Are A-Changin' | listen | Blowin' in the Wind | listen | Masters of War | listen | The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll | listen | Percy's Song | listen | Mixed Up Confusion | listen | Tombstone Blues | listen | The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar | listen | Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine | listen | Like a Rolling Stone | listen | Lay Down Your Weary Tune | listen | Subterranean Homesick Blues | listen | I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) | listen | Visions of Johanna | listen | Every Grain of Sand | listen | Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) | listen | Mr. Tambourine Man | listen | Dear Landlord | listen | It Ain't Me, Babe | listen | You Angel You | listen | Million Dollar Bash RAo | | listen | To Ramona | listen | You're a Big Girl Now | listen | Abandoned Love | listen | Tangled Up in Blue | listen | It's All Over Now, Baby Blue | listen | Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? | listen | Positively 4th Street | listen | Isis | listen | Jet Pilot | listen | Caribbean Wind | listen | Up to Me | listen | Baby, I'm in the Mood for You | listen | I Wanna Be Your Lover | listen | I Want You | listen | Heart of Mine | listen | On a Night Like This | listen | Just Like a Woman | listen | Romance in Durango | listen | Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) | listen | Gotta Serve Somebody | listen | I Believe in You | listen | Time Passes Slowly | listen | I Shall Be Released | listen | Knockin' on Heaven's Door | listen | All Along the Watchtower | listen | Solid Rock | listen | Forever Young | listen |