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{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| Name = Masterpieces
| name = Masterpieces
| Type = greatest
| type = greatest
| Artist = [[Bob Dylan]]
| artist = [[Bob Dylan]]
| Cover = Bob Dylan - Masterpieces.jpg
| cover = Bob Dylan - Masterpieces.jpg
| Alt = A close-up of Dylan's face turned sideways and wearing a hat
| alt = A close-up of Dylan's face turned sideways and wearing a hat
| Released = {{Start date|1978|3|12}}
| released = {{Start date|1978|3|12}}
| Recorded = 1962–1976
| recorded = 1962–1976
| venue =
| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[Country music|country]]
| studio =
| Length = {{Duration|m=164|s=15}}
| genre = {{hlist|[[Folk rock]]|[[Country music|country]]}}
| Label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| length = {{Duration|m=164|s=15}}
| Producer = Gordon Carroll, [[Rick Danko]], [[Don DeVito]], [[Bob Dylan]], [[Rob Fraboni]], [[John H. Hammond]], [[Levon Helm]], [[Garth Hudson]], [[Bob Johnston]], [[Richard Manuel]], [[Robbie Robertson]], [[Leon Russell]], [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]]
| label = [[CBS Records International|CBS]]
| Last album = ''[[Hard Rain (Bob Dylan album)|Hard Rain]]''<br>(1976)
| producer = {{hlist|Gordon Carroll|[[Rick Danko]]|[[Don DeVito]]|[[Bob Dylan]]|[[Rob Fraboni]]|[[John H. Hammond]]|[[Levon Helm]]|[[Garth Hudson]]|[[Bob Johnston]]|[[Richard Manuel]]|[[Robbie Robertson]]|[[Leon Russell]]|[[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]]}}
| This album = '''''Masterpieces'''''<br>(1978)
| Next album = ''[[Street-Legal (album)|Street-Legal]]''<br>(1978)
| prev_title = [[Hard Rain (Bob Dylan album)|Hard Rain]]
| prev_year = 1976
| next_title = [[Street-Legal (album)|Street-Legal]]
| next_year = 1978
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r6438|first=William|last=Ruhlmann}}</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r6438|first=William|last=Ruhlmann}}</ref>
}}
}}
'''''Masterpieces''''' is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], released on March 12, 1978 by [[Columbia Records]]. The three-LP set was released in [[Japan]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a [[greatest hits]] collection spanning Dylan's career up that point, the album features one previously unreleased track, a unique (1962) outtake version of "[[Mixed-Up Confusion]]". It also includes a live performance of "[[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]" from Dylan's [[Bob Dylan World Tour 1966|1966 World Tour]], which was first released as the B-side of his "[[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]" single in 1966. ''Masterpieces'' was reissued on CD in 1991 by Sony Music (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.
'''''Masterpieces''''' is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter [[Bob Dylan]], released on March 12, 1978 by [[CBS Records International|CBS]]. The triple LP set was released in [[Japan]], [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a [[greatest hits]] collection spanning Dylan's career up to that point, the album features one previously unreleased track, a unique (1962) outtake version of "[[Mixed-Up Confusion]]". It also includes a live performance of "[[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]" from Dylan's [[Bob Dylan World Tour 1966|1966 World Tour]], which was first released as the B-side of his "[[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]" single in 1966. ''Masterpieces'' was reissued on CD in 1991 by [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.
All songs written by [[Bob Dylan]], except where noted.
{{track listing

;Side one
|headline = Side one
|extra_column = From
#"[[Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]" (from ''[[Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)|Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid]]'')&nbsp;– 2:30
|title1 = [[Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]
#"[[Mr. Tambourine Man]]" (from ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]'')&nbsp;– 5:29
|extra1 = ''[[Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (album)|Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid]]''
#"[[Just Like a Woman (song)|Just Like a Woman]]" (from ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]'')&nbsp;– 4:56
|length1 = 2:30
#"[[I Shall Be Released]]" (from ''[[Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II]]'')&nbsp;– 3:05
|title2 = [[Mr. Tambourine Man]]
#"[[Tears of Rage]]" (from ''[[The Basement Tapes]]'') (Dylan, [[Richard Manuel]])&nbsp;– 4:14
|extra2 = ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]''
#"[[All Along the Watchtower]]" (from ''[[John Wesley Harding (album)|John Wesley Harding]]'')&nbsp;– 2:32
|length2 = 5:29

|title3 = [[Just Like a Woman (song)|Just Like a Woman]]
;Side two
|extra3 = ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]''
#<li value="7">"[[One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)]]" (from ''[[Desire (Bob Dylan album)|Desire]]'')&nbsp;– 3:47
|length3 = 4:56
#"[[Like a Rolling Stone]]" (from ''[[Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)|Self Portrait]]'')&nbsp;– 5:17
|title4 = [[I Shall Be Released]]
#"[[Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)]]" (from ''Self Portrait'')&nbsp;– 2:49
#"[[Tomorrow Is a Long Time]]" (Live at Town Hall 1963) (from ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II'')&nbsp;– 3:02
|extra4 = ''[[Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II]]''
|length4 = 3:05
#"[[Lay Lady Lay|Lay, Lady, Lay]]" (Live 1976) (from ''[[Hard Rain (Bob Dylan album)|Hard Rain]]'')&nbsp;– 5:00
|title5 = [[Tears of Rage]]
#"[[Idiot Wind]]" (Live 1976) (from ''Hard Rain'')&nbsp;– 10:06
|extra5 = ''[[The Basement Tapes]]''

|writer5 = Dylan, [[Richard Manuel]]
;Side three
|length5 = 4:14
#<li value="13">"[[Mixed-Up Confusion]]" (outtake version from the 1962 ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' sessions)&nbsp;– 2:30
|title6 = [[All Along the Watchtower]]
#"[[Positively 4th Street]]" (single 1965)&nbsp;– 3:56
|extra6 = ''[[John Wesley Harding]]''
#"[[Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?]]" (single 1965)&nbsp;– 3:35
|length6 = 2:32
#"[[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]" (live version recorded at Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England, May 14, 1966) (B-side of 1966 "[[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]" single)&nbsp;– 5:40
|title7 = [[One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)]]
#"Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (Traditional) (B-side of 1971 "Watching the River Flow" single)&nbsp;– 3:38
|extra7 = ''[[Desire (Bob Dylan album)|Desire]]''
#"[[George Jackson (song)|George Jackson]]" ("Big Band" version, single, 1971)&nbsp;– 5:38
|length7 = 3:47

|total_length = 26:33
;Side four
}}
#<li value="19">"[[Rita May (song)|Rita May]]" (Dylan, [[Jacques Levy]]) (single, 1976)&nbsp;– 3:13
{{track listing
#"[[Blowin' in the Wind]]" (from ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'')&nbsp;– 2:47
|headline = Side two
#"[[A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall]]" (from ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'')&nbsp;– 6:54
|extra_column = From
#"[[The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)|The Times They Are a-Changin']]" (from ''[[The Times They Are a-Changin']]'')&nbsp;– 3:16
|title1 = [[Like a Rolling Stone]]
#"[[Masters of War]]" (from ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'')&nbsp;– 4:33
|extra1 = ''[[Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)|Self Portrait]]''
#"[[Hurricane (song)|Hurricane]]"(Dylan, Levy) (from ''Desire'') &nbsp;– 8:36
|length1 = 5:17

|note1 = Live at [[Isle of Wight Festival 1969|Isle of Wight Festival]], 1969
;Side five
|title2 = [[Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)]]
#<li value="25">"[[Maggie's Farm]]" (Live 1976) (from ''Hard Rain'')&nbsp;– 5:30
|extra2 = ''Self Portrait''
#"[[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]" (from ''Bringing It All Back Home'')&nbsp;– 2:20
|length2 = 2:49
#"[[Ballad of a Thin Man]]" (from ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'')&nbsp;– 5:57
|note2 = Live at Isle of Wight Festival, 1969
#"[[Mozambique (song)|Mozambique]]" (Dylan, Levy) (from ''Desire'')&nbsp;– 3:01
|title3 = [[Tomorrow Is a Long Time]]
#"[[This Wheel's on Fire (song)|This Wheel's on Fire]]" ([[Rick Danko]], Dylan) (from ''The Basement Tapes'')&nbsp;– 3:52
|extra3 = ''Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II''
#"[[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]" (from ''Blonde on Blonde'')&nbsp;– 3:09
|length3 = 3:02
#"[[Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35|Rainy Day Women #12 & 35]]" (from ''Blonde on Blonde'')&nbsp;– 4:38
|note3 = Live at Town Hall 1963
|title4 = [[Lay Lady Lay|Lay, Lady, Lay]]
|extra4 = ''[[Hard Rain (Bob Dylan album)|Hard Rain]]''
|length4 = 5:00
|note4 = Live 1976
|title5 = [[Idiot Wind]]
|extra5 = ''Hard Rain''
|length5 = 10:06
|note5 = Live 1976
|total_length = 26:14
}}
{{track listing
|headline = Side three
|extra_column = From
|title1 = [[Mixed-Up Confusion]]
|extra1 = ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' session outtake
|length1 = 2:30
|title2 = [[Positively 4th Street]]
|extra2 = single 1965
|length2 = 3:56
|title3 = [[Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?]]
|extra3 = single 1965
|length3 = 3:35
|title4 = [[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]
|extra4 = B-side of 1966 "[[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]" single
|length4 = 5:40
|note4 = live version recorded at Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England, May 14, 1966
|title5 = [[Spanish Is the Loving Tongue]]
|extra5 = B-side of 1971 "[[Watching the River Flow]]" single
|writer5 = Traditional
|length5 = 3:38
|title6 = [[George Jackson (song)|George Jackson]]
|extra6 = "Big Band" version, single, 1971
|length6 = 5:38
|title7 = [[Rita May (song)|Rita May]]
|extra7 = single, 1976
|length7 = 3:13
|writer7 = Dylan, [[Jacques Levy]]
|total_length = 28:10
}}
{{track listing
|headline = Side four
|extra_column = From
|title1 = [[Blowin' in the Wind]]
|extra1 = ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''
|length1 = 2:47
|title2 = [[A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall]]
|extra2 = ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''
|length2 = 6:54
|title3 = [[The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)|The Times They Are a-Changin{{'-}}]]
|extra3 = ''[[The Times They Are a-Changin' (album)|The Times They Are a-Changin']]''
|length3 = 3:16
|title4 = [[Masters of War]]
|extra4 = ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''
|length4 = 4:33
|title5 = [[Hurricane (Bob Dylan song)|Hurricane]]
|extra5 = ''Desire''
|length5 = 8:36
|writer5 = Dylan, Levy
|total_length = 26:06
}}
{{track listing
|headline = Side five
|extra_column = From
|title1 = [[Maggie's Farm]]
|extra1 = ''Hard Rain''
|length1 = 5:30
|note1 = Live 1976
|title2 = [[Subterranean Homesick Blues]]
|extra2 = ''Bringing It All Back Home''
|length2 = 2:20
|title3 = [[Ballad of a Thin Man]]
|extra3 = ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]''
|length3 = 5:57
|title4 = [[Mozambique (song)|Mozambique]]
|extra4 = ''Desire''
|length4 = 3:01
|writer4 = Dylan, Levy
|title5 = [[This Wheel's on Fire (song)|This Wheel's on Fire]]
|extra5 = ''The Basement Tapes''
|length5 = 3:52
|writer5 = [[Rick Danko]], Dylan
|title6 = [[I Want You (Bob Dylan song)|I Want You]]
|extra6 = ''Blonde on Blonde''
|length6 = 3:09
|title7 = [[Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35|Rainy Day Women #12 & 35]]
|extra7 = ''Blonde on Blonde''
|length7 = 4:38
|total_length = 22:57
}}
{{track listing
|headline = Side six
|extra_column = From
|title1 = [[Don't Think Twice, It's All Right]]
|extra1 = ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan''
|length1 = 3:40
|title2 = [[Song to Woody]]
|extra2 = ''[[Bob Dylan (album)|Bob Dylan]]''
|length2 = 2:41
|title3 = [[It Ain't Me Babe]]
|extra3 = ''[[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]''
|length3 = 3:35
|title4 = [[Love Minus Zero/No Limit]]
|extra4 = ''Bringing It All Back Home''
|length4 = 2:50
|title5 = [[I'll Be Your Baby Tonight]]
|extra5 = ''John Wesley Harding''
|length5 = 2:39
|title6 = [[If Not for You]]
|extra6 = ''[[New Morning]]''
|length6 = 2:44
|title7 = [[If You See Her, Say Hello]]
|extra7 = ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]''
|length7 = 4:48
|title8 = [[Sara (Bob Dylan song)|Sara]]
|extra8 = ''Desire''
|length8 = 5:31
|total_length = 28:28
}}
{| width="75%"
|
|}


==Certifications and sales==
;Side six
{{certification Table Top}}
#<li value="32">"[[Don't Think Twice, It's All Right]]" (from ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'')&nbsp;– 3:40
{{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Australia|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Masterpieces|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=1978|certyear=1996|accessdate=July 14, 2021}}
#"[[Song to Woody]]" (from ''[[Bob Dylan (album)|Bob Dylan]]'')&nbsp;– 2:41
{{certification Table Entry|type=album|region=New Zealand|artist=Bob Dylan|title=Masterpieces|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=1978|certyear=1986|certref=<ref name="NZ86">{{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/80s/1986/CB-1986-03-22.pdf|title=Dylan Down Under |magazine=[[Cash Box magazine|Cash Box]]|via=World Radio History|page=7|date=March 22, 1986|access-date=December 9, 2021}}</ref>}}
#"[[It Ain't Me Babe]]" (from ''[[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]'')&nbsp;– 3:35
{{Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true}}
#"[[Love Minus Zero/No Limit]]" (from ''Bringing It All Back Home'')&nbsp;– 2:50
#"[[I'll Be Your Baby Tonight]]" (from ''John Wesley Harding'')&nbsp;– 2:39
#"[[If Not for You]]" (from ''[[New Morning]]'')&nbsp;– 2:44
#"[[If You See Her, Say Hello]]" (from ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]'')&nbsp;– 4:48
#"[[Sara (Bob Dylan song)|Sara]]" (from ''Desire'')&nbsp;– 5:31


==References==
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Latest revision as of 02:01, 10 May 2023

Masterpieces
A close-up of Dylan's face turned sideways and wearing a hat
Greatest hits album by
Bob Dylan
ReleasedMarch 12, 1978 (1978-03-12)
Recorded1962–1976
Genre
Length164:15
LabelCBS
Producer
Bob Dylan chronology
Hard Rain
(1976) 		Masterpieces
(1978) 		Street-Legal
(1978)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Masterpieces is a compilation album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 12, 1978 by CBS. The triple LP set was released in Japan, Australia and New Zealand in anticipation of his 1978 tour. Primarily a greatest hits collection spanning Dylan's career up to that point, the album features one previously unreleased track, a unique (1962) outtake version of "Mixed-Up Confusion". It also includes a live performance of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" from Dylan's 1966 World Tour, which was first released as the B-side of his "I Want You" single in 1966. Masterpieces was reissued on CD in 1991 by Columbia (Cat. No. 4624489), but is no longer in print.

Track listing

[edit]

All songs written by Bob Dylan, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)FromLength
1."Knockin' on Heaven's Door" Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid2:30
2."Mr. Tambourine Man" Bringing It All Back Home5:29
3."Just Like a Woman" Blonde on Blonde4:56
4."I Shall Be Released" Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II3:05
5."Tears of Rage"Dylan, Richard ManuelThe Basement Tapes4:14
6."All Along the Watchtower" John Wesley Harding2:32
7."One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" Desire3:47
Total length:26:33
Side two
No.TitleFromLength
1."Like a Rolling Stone" (Live at Isle of Wight Festival, 1969)Self Portrait5:17
2."Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" (Live at Isle of Wight Festival, 1969)Self Portrait2:49
3."Tomorrow Is a Long Time" (Live at Town Hall 1963)Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II3:02
4."Lay, Lady, Lay" (Live 1976)Hard Rain5:00
5."Idiot Wind" (Live 1976)Hard Rain10:06
Total length:26:14
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)FromLength
1."Mixed-Up Confusion" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan session outtake2:30
2."Positively 4th Street" single 19653:56
3."Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" single 19653:35
4."Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" (live version recorded at Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, England, May 14, 1966) B-side of 1966 "I Want You" single5:40
5."Spanish Is the Loving Tongue"TraditionalB-side of 1971 "Watching the River Flow" single3:38
6."George Jackson" "Big Band" version, single, 19715:38
7."Rita May"Dylan, Jacques Levysingle, 19763:13
Total length:28:10
Side four
No.TitleWriter(s)FromLength
1."Blowin' in the Wind" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan2:47
2."A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan6:54
3."The Times They Are a-Changin'" The Times They Are a-Changin'3:16
4."Masters of War" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan4:33
5."Hurricane"Dylan, LevyDesire8:36
Total length:26:06
Side five
No.TitleWriter(s)FromLength
1."Maggie's Farm" (Live 1976) Hard Rain5:30
2."Subterranean Homesick Blues" Bringing It All Back Home2:20
3."Ballad of a Thin Man" Highway 61 Revisited5:57
4."Mozambique"Dylan, LevyDesire3:01
5."This Wheel's on Fire"Rick Danko, DylanThe Basement Tapes3:52
6."I Want You" Blonde on Blonde3:09
7."Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" Blonde on Blonde4:38
Total length:22:57
Side six
No.TitleFromLength
1."Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan3:40
2."Song to Woody"Bob Dylan2:41
3."It Ain't Me Babe"Another Side of Bob Dylan3:35
4."Love Minus Zero/No Limit"Bringing It All Back Home2:50
5."I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"John Wesley Harding2:39
6."If Not for You"New Morning2:44
7."If You See Her, Say Hello"Blood on the Tracks4:48
8."Sara"Desire5:31
Total length:28:28

Certifications and sales

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[2] 3× Platinum 210,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[3] 2× Platinum 30,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ Ruhlmann, William. Masterpieces at AllMusic
  2. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 1996 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  3. ^ "Dylan Down Under" (PDF). Cash Box. March 22, 1986. p. 7. Retrieved December 9, 2021 – via World Radio History.
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