More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits (1972)

1. Watching the River Flow
2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
3. Lay, Lady, Lay
4. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
5. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
6. All I Really Want to Do
7. My Back Pages
8. Maggie's Farm
9. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You
10. She Belongs to Me
11. All Along the Watchtower
12. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, the Eskimo)
13. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
14. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
15. If Not for You
16. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
17. Tomorrow Is a Long Time
18. When I Paint My Masterpiece
19. I Shall Be Released
20. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
21. Down in the Flood

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Maybe the greatest Greatest hits ever! It's not about hits or misses, it 's about zen and the art of songwriting.
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From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II [1971] Like Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, this is a collection that
rides roughshod over both the real chronology of Dylan’s career and the whole-album unities of
most Dylan work, but at least here there are tracks not obtainable on other albums: the 1971 (hit) single
‘Watching the River Flow’; the 1965 masterpiece of put-down ‘Positively 4th Street’ and five
previously unissued tracks. If it sounds odd to have previously unissued material on a ‘greatest
hits’ collection, it wasn’t so odd in the light of what songs they were. ‘When I Paint My Masterpiece’
(recorded 1971) was already well-known from THE BAND’s recording on their Cahoots album;
‘Tomorrow Is a Long Time’ (a nigh-perfect live performance from 1963) was a Dylan song that other
71 people, including, to Dylan’s delight, ELVIS PRESLEY, had recorded in the interim; and ‘I Shall Be Released’,
‘Down in the Flood’ and, with playfully different lyrics, ‘You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere’ were newly recorded (1971), outrageously loose versions
of three songs that had long been popular from bootlegs of the famed 1967 Basement Tapes. All
this makes it an interesting album for collectors, although it would have been more valuable if it
had rounded up his other previously only-on-singles tracks too. They could have had ‘Mixed-Up
Confusion’ (1962), which had never had a UK release; ‘If You Gotta Go, Go Now’ (1965) ditto; the
live-in-Liverpool cut of ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’ (1966), the best live song performance ever
achieved by anyone yet issued only as the B-side of the ‘I Want You’ single; the gorgeous 1971 B-side
‘Spanish Is the Loving Tongue’; the 1965 A-side ‘Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?’; and the
1971 single ‘George Jackson’, issued two weeks before this album. But record companies never do
these things right."

Best Song:
"Tomorrow is a Long Time" and "When I Paint My Masterpiece"
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Favorite Lyric:
"I've done my best to be just like I am
But ev'rybody wants you to be just like them"

"Oh, the hours I've spent inside the Coliseum,
Dodging lions and wastin' time"
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