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Hard Rain 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Sony Catalog: Music Release date: 1990-10-17 Media: Audio Cassette Format: Live Ean: 0074643434942 Upc: 074643434942  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (9) |
 Maggie's Farm One Too Many Mornings Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again | Oh, Sister Lay Lady Lay Shelter from the Storm | You're a Big Girl Now I Threw It All Away Idiot Wind |
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 Written on June 22, 2004 Summary: Essential Live Dylan My god, what can I say...I'm listening to this album for the first time in about ten years....finally replaced the casette from my college days. Sounds as incredible as ever. While not the most polished of live recordings, this album makes up for that in that it represents the true essense of a Dylan show. To me, this is Dylan's best live recording. I agree with some of the previous reviews in that the song selection could have been better, but not much better, as the mix of songs does work extraordinarly well. I think the tempos are perfect, from the opening of the record with with Maggies Farm to the final Idiot Wind. Great album by a great musician. Can't miss with this one. Written on October 5, 2003 Summary: Very underrated If you sometimes find yourself shouting "Judas" at the radio when Bob Dylan comes on playing something band-backed, this record is probably not your thing. Me, I love it. It's too short by far, but Dylan and the Rolling Thunder band rock like never before or since. In my opinion, the intense "Hard Rain" is just as great as the fabled "Live 1966" (the so-called Royal Albert Hall concert from the Free Trade Hall in Manchester). Bob Dylan and his band play some of the hardest, rawest and most ragged rock n' roll music of his entire career - just listen to him tearing through a spiced-up "Maggie's Farm" or doing a melodic folk-rock interpretation of "One Too Many Mornings". But the highlight of "Hard Rain" has to be the closing ten-minute rendition of the venomous "Idiot Wind". Dylan sneers and shouts his way through a magnificent version of one of his most memorable songs - that one cut alone is worth the price of admission. Powerful stuff!  Written on July 14, 2003 Summary: Not what I expected. Okay Dylan album. If your hard core you would want it, if not stick to the basic Dylan stuff.  Written on February 17, 2003 Summary: More misses than hits Hard Rain is a short, sloppy, sometime poignant collection of performances from Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue Tour. "Shelter From the Storm" works well here, as it has always seemed to do live, no matter how Dylan reincarnated it. "Oh Sister" also is a good, heartfelt performance, even if it is played very loose and sloppily. The other highlight is a fine rendition of the emotional "Idiot Wind," a seven-minute track from Dylan's famous "Blood on the Tracks" album. Now, for the not-so-good, There is no explanation for the very short (9 songs!) length of this collection, when Dylan plainly had more material to choose from. See: Live 1975 (The Bootleg Series Volume 5) in which Dylan sounded a lot better, the songs were played much better, and the selection was greater and superior to "Hard Rain." Written on November 4, 2001 Summary: Underrated live album The lone official document of the Rolling Thunder Revue, this may be skimpy on song selection, but what is here is immaculate. Opening up with a powerful version of Maggie's Farm (Dylan's long-time concert staple), it then leads into yet another incredible re-invention of One Too Many Mornings. The set continues with the always fun "Stuck Inside of Mobile..." before going into Oh, Sister, another staple of the Rolling Thunder tour. Lay, Lady, Lay comes up next, which gets a big response from the crowd (it was requested earlier.) I Threw It All Away has a nice rendition here as well. However, the true standouts on this album are the re-workings of three songs from Dylan's masterpiece, Blood On The Tracks. Shelter From The Storm is the first of these, more of a raging version here, and every bit as profound. You're A Big Girl Now is an excellent, excellent re-make... featuring numerous instrumental sections, and some particularly agile guitar playing. Still... the closing version of Idiot Wind is worth the price of the album itself. Long one of my favorite Dylan songs, this powerful song lends itself well to a raging live performance, and Dylan puts it across convincingly here, putting some real grit and emotion into the song. It's almost like a mantra; it's power is undeniable. While I don't reccommend this for your first live Dylan album (Live 1966 and Before The Flood both serve the casual fan better), it is certainly a must-own for fans. |
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| Our price | - | $14.99 | $4.99 | $6.99 | $6.99 | $6.99 |
| List price | $5.98 | $19.98 | $7.98 | $7.98 | $6.99 | $7.98 |
| Lowest used price | $1.93 | $11.89 | $4.89 | $4.89 | $4.89 | $3.46 |
| Lowest new price | - | $13.69 | $3.27 | $4.41 | $3.45 | $3.25 |
| Collectible price | - | $25.00 | - | - | - | - |
| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1990-10-17 | 1990-10-25 | 2008-03-01 | 2008-02-01 | 2008-02-01 | 2008-02-01 |
| Media | Audio Cassette | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | Live | Live | Live | - | - | - |
| Ean | 0074643434942 | 0074643766128 | 0886972498027 | 0886972382326 | 0886972327426 | 0886972382227 |
| Upc | 074643434942 | 746437661284 | 886972498027 | 886972382326 | 886972327426 | 886972382227 |
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