Customer Reviews
Bob Dylans Greatest Hits Vol.3 
2008-09-08
Bob Dylan cassette 3rd greatest hits.
The cassette is in perfect shape;no back ground
interference;nice crisp sound;am enjoying it
very much.Thank you,Jayne
A Fine Stand Alone Record 2008-04-10
This is a fine stand alone record. It opens with "Tangled Up in Blue" as does Blood on the Tracks, but just as you're thinking you're going to be hearing "Simple Twist of Fate" which you naturally expect to follow that opener, "Tangled" seques into "Changing of the Guard," which is a great song from Street Legal and from there we get the excellent rocker from Shot of Love, "The Groom is Still Waiting at the Alter." This is the best song on "Shot" and is well placed here.
It's also nice to be able to listen to "Brownsville Girl" from Knocked Out Loaded without having to listen to the rest of that record. It's the best song from the record and the only reason to own it in my opinion, with this record, you can pass on Loaded. Also the title song on Under the Red Sky is the only reason to own that record and you can get that here as well.
But the real gems here are "Dignity" and "Series of Dreams" which both seem like they are leftovers from Oh Mercy. They are great songs and until now unreleased. It's nice the way you get some new stuff with Dylan's Hit's or Best of Records. And it nice to get the haunting "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" on this record, a great way to end it. Every time I hear it, I'm put right in the movie.
Great Collection 
2006-11-10
This is a great collection of Bob Dylan's work. There's no way that they could put all of the songs you need from Dylan on one disc but they did there best to include everything. If you get this with the other volumes of greatest hits you are well on your way to having an awesome set.
an awesome album 2006-08-28
i guess bob was tired od the critics and decided to remind them how good he is and so we got greatest hits vol 3.the opener is "tangled up in blue".it goes on and on about what im not sure,but musicly its sound."changing of the guards" goes on and on but with no stick.onto the rocking "the grooms still waiting at the alter".he says a line i think is funny on this one."she could be respectfully married or running a wh%re house in buenis aries".lol.then "hurricane",a true story about a frame job on a black guy.then the very touching "forever young".its one of my top 5 fave dylan tunes.since we are on the subject of greatest hits...heres my top 5....not in order......[mr tambourine man,forever young,blowin in the wind,standing in the doorway and all i really want to do].anyhow,the epic "jokerman" spins next.its wonferful.theres a couple so so songs called "dignity" and "sergio".dignity at least was trancendendant but segio just wasnt all that."ring them bells" is a listenable church song full of inspiration."gotta serve somebody" was rather redundant."series of dreams" was just weird."brownsville girl" is another one of those good but long songs rgar doesnt really seem to be going anywhere."under the red sky"was ok i guess.lastly there was "knocking on heavens door".this song was great but tragicly short and not even axl roses singing the chorus over and over a billion times changes that.a great album.if you count every live,best of and studio album,itd only be topped by greatest hits 1 and 2,bringing it all back home and blonde on blonde.
ANOTHER LOOK FROM BOB 2006-06-26
Review Revised June 7, 2008
This is mainly a compilation od Dylan's work from various periods that did not meet much success with his traditional folk and folk rock audiences and was reissued after his reeemgerence as an icon in the early 1990's
It seems hard to believe now both as to the performer as well as to what was being attempted that anyone would take umbrage at a performer using an electric guitar to tell a folk story (or any story for that matter). It is not necessary to go into all the details of what or what did not happen with Pete Seeger at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 to know that one should be glad, glad as hell, that Bob Dylan continued to listen to his own drummer and carry on a career based on electronic music.
Others have, endlessly, gone on about Bob Dylan's role as the voice of his generation (and mine), his lyrics and what they do or do not mean and his place in the rock or folk pantheons, or both. I just want to comment on a couple of songs here. This is compilation of songs from various, none of them new except the lyrically very well done Dignity that tells more about the meanness modern life than many a novel. Some of the other material of note- Forever Young (our anthem as the 1960's generation grows older) - the surreal Brownsville Girl that shows that Dylan could certainly use that stream of consciousness trope to get effect, the flat out rocking The Groom Still Waiting At The Altar, the topical political Hurricane (about the frame up for murder of the fighter Rubin Carter) and from his born again Christian period a rousing You Got To Serve Someone. Just a nice cross section of material here.
A Series of Fine Songs 2006-05-20
This is a very good record in it's own right. In fact because of the many different styles Dylan uses, it kind of reminds my of a Beatles' record. You know, how the Beatles would switch the lead singer from song to song between John, Paul, George and Ringo. I think because of that Beatles' records never get old. This record is like that. Dylan's voice is so different from song to song, the bands are different. It seems like a record full of surprises, one I know I'll never get tired of and I don't think you'll ever tire of it either.
Dylan Just Keeps Getting Better 2006-05-19
"In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors, looking into the lost forgotten years for dignity." What a line, delivered the way only Dylan can deliver them. The years just roll on and he just keeps getting better. Like a shape changer he keeps changing, redefining himself, putting out new stuff, rereleasing his old stuff, putting out his live stuff and I am always amazed. When I first got this album (I bought it on cassette), I stuck it into the play in my car, because I couldn't wait to get home. "Tangled Up in Blue" came on and I immediately forgot that I was listening to a Greatest Hits record, was taking right back to the first time I'd heard "Blood on the Tracks" and I stayed right there till "Changing of the Guard" came on, not the song I was expecting, but I was immediately hooked right in. Then right onto "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Alter", a down right rocker with a heck of a Gospel flavor. Next comes "Hurricane" a song with a different band, different flavor and that is the genius of Bob Dylan. He can pull you in any direction he wants you to go and you follow.
Old Songs Made Fresh and New, Plus Some New Gems too 2006-05-19
I just love the super long, intricate "Brownsville Girl" and "Under a Red Sky" too. These are the best songs from the albums they were culled from. Maybe they weren't really hits, but they deserved to be rereleased in this collection and I believe the collection is better for it. "Jokerman" is one of the best songs in Dylan's catalog and I could well imagine him doing it when he was much younger. You can see it's Subterranean Homesick Blues" ancestry. "Ring them Bells" from the "Oh Mercy" record is haunting as are "Series of Dreams" and "Dignity" that were left off that record, but show up here. And, of course, there is that Dylan song that has closed so many concerts, " Knockin' On Heaven's Door." It closes this collection too. It's a great song, ending a great collection. This whole album works well for me. Isn't it amazing how Dylan can put this stuff together like this, making is seem fresh and new?
All the Songs Work Well on this Five Star Collection 2006-05-19
This CD starts out with the hard driving "Tangled Up in Blue," moves into "Changing of the Guards", the best song, in my opinion, from the underrated "Street Legal" album. "The Groom is Still Waiting at the Alter" was originally released as a single and later turned up in the "Biograph Box", and then the disc dives into "Hurricane" from "Desire." Like the first "Greatest Hits" LP, this CD stands on its own. All of the songs seem to work well together. There are no pre-electric songs, but this stuff is a long time away from that earlier period so, I guess, I shouldn't have been surprised when the CD came out, but I would have liked to see "Girl from the North Country" or maybe "To Ramona." I think, despite the fact that they were recorded earlier, that they would have fit right in with this five star collection. Still, it is a Greatest hits record and those songs were not hits. But then Dylan is famous for sticking stuff on these hits records that his audience has never heard before, like "Dignity" and "Series of Dreams" on this record.
Dylan's best from 1973 to 1994 2005-12-26
Great collection with very good songs.
Although it covers a period (1973-1994) when Dylan had less success (and less hit singles), it still is Dylan at his best like the other two volumes (from 1967 and 1972). I really like DIGNITY from the album OH MERCY (1989) and you can also find on the CD the few hits Dylan had during this period: GOTTA SERVE SOMEBODY, KNOCKIN'ON HEAVEN'S DOOR, TANGLED UP IN BLUE and (the too long - 8 minutes - ) HURRICANE.
I didn't really know his albums and songs from the eighties or late 70's but I must say they really are as good as IF NOT FOR YOU or POSITIVELY 4th STREET.
