The 1966 Live Recordings [Box Set]
by Bob Dylan
  • Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: Nov 11, 2016
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  1. Jared0115
    Dec 22, 2016
    10
    Dylan never sounded so tortured and sentimental, and the audience never sounded so bitterly distasteful.

    This box set provides immense wonders for the listener as the audio is amazingly done. Although it might seem to be repetitive songs as you go through the shows, there is still something unique in each song. The acoustic set; sentimental, relaxing, otherworldly. The electric set;    Dylan never sounded so tortured and sentimental, and the audience never sounded so bitterly distasteful.

    This box set provides immense wonders for the listener as the audio is amazingly done. Although it might seem to be repetitive songs as you go through the shows, there is still something unique in each song. The acoustic set; sentimental, relaxing, otherworldly. The electric set; chaotic, epic, provocative. One the best box sets to be released. Simply beautiful.    … Expand

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93

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
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  1. American Songwriter
    Jan 10, 2017
    100
    Dylan goes through an eight-song set of staggering quality (“Desolation Row,” “Just Like A Woman,” Visions Of Johanna,” and so on) with his interpretive skills at their peak and his hold over his audiences nothing short of mesmeric. Maybe only Dylan completists will shell out for a series of discs with repetitive set lists. Those completists will be getting a bargain.
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  2. Pitchfork
    Dec 15, 2016
    93
    A classic tour from start to finish, the set’s only drawbacks owe more to the format than the music: Various incomplete or missing songs, a few over-saturated vocal tracks, five CDs worth of grotty audience tapes, and the fact that Dylan performs nearly the same set lists in nearly the same order at every stop of the tour, from Long Island to Stockholm. Thoroughly consistent, especially by Dylan’s later live standards, the repeated performances from the 22 represented shows might be seen as feature, not a bug.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Dec 14, 2016
    90
    The set list for most of these shows was identical, so you get as many as 20 versions of certain songs. For all that, listening through the whole of this box set is an exhilarating experience.
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