Product Description
Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing In Nice Condition! Gatefold Cover Includes 6-Page Fold-Out Insert With Lyrics In English. Includes Original CBS Inner Sleeves, Labels Are Clean. The Fascinating Double LP Set That Contains A Wealth Of Bob Dylan Classics. The Maestro At His Most Humorous, With Backing From The Band, Inventing Americana In The Process. Unguarded, Loose, Folk Tales, Weird Narratives, Rock Ballads, Inside Jokes…
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Great stuff, nice sound quality.
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Light wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Odds And Ends
Orange Juice Blues (Blues For Breakfast)
Million Dollar Bash
Yazoo Street Scandal
Goin’ To Acapulco
Katie’s Been Gone
Side 2:
Lo And Behold!
Bessie Smith
Clothes Line Saga
Apple Suckling Tree
Please, Mrs. Henry
Tears Of Rage
Side 3:
Too Much Of Nothing
Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread
Ain’t No More Cane
Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood)
Ruben Remus
Tiny Montgomery
Side 4:
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
Don’t Ya Tell Henry
Nothing Was Delivered
Open The Door, Homer
Long Distance Operator
This Wheel’s On Fire
AMG –
The wild, mercurial brilliance of Dylan's work rank among the greatest American music ever made. The official release of The Basement Tapes -- which were first heard on a 1968 bootleg called The Great White Wonder -- plays with history somewhat, as Robbie Robertson overemphasizes the Band's status in the sessions, making them out to be equally active to Dylan, adding in demos not cut at the sessions and overdubbing their recordings to flesh them out. As many bootlegs (most notably the complete five-disc series) reveal, this isn't entirely true and the Band were nowhere near as active as Dylan, but that ultimately is a bit like nitpicking, since the music here (including the Band's) is astonishingly good. The party line on The Basement Tapes is that it is Americana, as Dylan and the Band pick up the weirdness inherent in old folk, country, and blues tunes, but it transcends mere historical arcana through its lively, humorous, full-bodied performances. Dylan never sounded as loose, nor was he ever as funny as he is here, and this positively revels in its weird, wild character. For all the apparent antecedents -- and the allusions are sly and obvious in equal measure -- this is truly Dylan's show, as he majestically evokes old myths and creates new ones, resulting in a crazy quilt of blues, humor, folk, tall tales, inside jokes, and rock. The Band pretty much pick up where Dylan left off, even singing a couple of his tunes, but they play it a little straight, on both their rockers and ballads. Not a bad thing at all, since this actually winds up providing context for the wild, mercurial brilliance of Dylan's work -- and, taken together, the results (especially in this judiciously compiled form with its expert song selection) rank among the greatest American music ever made.