Dylan Mono Box Vinyl Review

Dylan like the fab four and all of their contemporaries didn t start treating stereo mixes as anything other than a sop to an elite part of the record buying market until the end of the 1960s.

Dylan mono box vinyl review.

Deluxe packaging and full color 12x12 book highest quality all analog 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Each disc in the set comes in its own individual jacket which faithfully replicates the. This box collects bob dylan s first eight 12 inch lps his albums from bob dylan in 1962 to john wesley harding in 1968 as most people heard them as they were expected to be heard and as most often they were meant to be heard. The original mono recordings.

Bob dylan s first 8 albums reproduced from their first generation mono mixes. A look at the 2010 bob dylan box set the original mono recordings which features his first 8 albums in glorious mono. Greil marcus taken from the liner notes of bob dylan. When sundazed records began issuing the dylan catalog in mono we published this review of blonde on blonde in january of 2003.

As is fitting for a box of this magnitude the original mono recordings are accompanied by a deluxe booklet featuring vintage photographs of bob dylan and an expansive essay from renowned author and critic and longtime dylan aficionado greil marcus. The original mono recordings is a box set compilation album of recordings by bob dylan released in october 2010 on legacy recordings catalogue 88697761042 it consists of dylan s first eight studio albums in mono on nine compact discs the album blonde on blonde being issued on two discs in its original vinyl format it does not include the singles collection bob dylan s greatest hits released. Barcode and other identifiers. Sundazed s decision to issue blonde on blonde using the much sought after mono mix is indicative both of the company s dedication to doing what s musically correct and of the vinyl marketplace s newfound maturity.

I was tempted to buy the vinyl version but settled in the end for the cd box with the intention of getting some of the vinyl issues next year when they come out individually. The original mono recordings.