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Bob Dylan

Another Side of Bob Dylan

2018  ·  Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL 2-461  ·  Mono  ·  US  ·  2xLP, gatefold, 45 RPM · 45 RPM

Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan: Front Cover
Back Cover Other Side 1 Label Side 1 Vinyl Side 2 Label Side 2 Vinyl Side 3 Label Side 3 Vinyl Side 4 Label Side 4 Vinyl Side 1 Matrix Runout A1 Side 1 Matrix Runout A2 Side 2 Matrix Runout B1 Side 2 Matrix Runout B2 Side 3 Matrix Runout C1 Side 3 Matrix Runout C2 Side 4 Matrix Runout D1 Side 4 Matrix Runout D2

Pressing details

LabelMobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Catalogue numberMFSL 2-461
Year2018
Mono / StereoMono
CountryUS
Format2xLP, gatefold, 45 RPM
Speed45 RPM
GenreFolk Rock / Singer-Songwriter
ProducerTom Wilson
ComposerBob Dylan
MusiciansBob Dylan (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  MFSL2-461 A1 KW@MOFI 26024.1 (3)
Side B:  MFSL2-461 B2 KW@MOFI 26574.2 (2)
Side C:  MFSL2-461 C1 KW@MOFI 26024.3 (3)
Side D:  MFSL2-461 D1 KW@MOFI 26024.4 (3)

Condition

Cover
NM
Vinyl
NM

Variant chronology

1964 - US Columbia CL 2193, mono first pressing - no band
1964 - US Columbia CS 8993, stereo first pressing - no band
1964 - UK CBS BPG 62429 mono / SBPG 62429 stereo - no band
2018 - US Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL 2-461, numbered 180g mono 45 RPM 2LP gatefold reissue  <- this copy

This Pressing

2018 Mobile Fidelity numbered mono 45 RPM reissue (MFSL 2-461) - a later audiophile pressing, not an original Columbia or CBS issue.

The Album

Recorded in a single marathon session on June 9, 1964, in New York with producer Tom Wilson, this was Dylan's fourth album and the one where he deliberately stepped away from the topical protest songwriting that had made his name. In its place came more personal, surreal and romantically fraught material - love gone wrong, political disillusionment rendered as metaphor, and a new comic looseness. The shift unsettled some of the folk community that had claimed him as its voice, with 'My Back Pages' standing as his own pointed rebuke of movement certainty: he sang of feeling 'so much older then'. 'Chimes Of Freedom' expanded his symbolist ambitions, while 'It Ain't Me Babe' and 'All I Really Want To Do' became among his most covered songs. The album is now regarded as the pivot point between Dylan the protest singer and Dylan the restless modernist who would soon plug in electrically, and it remains central to any account of his 1960s evolution.

Tracklist

Side 1

1. All I Really Want To Do
2. Black Crow Blues
3. Spanish Harlem Incident

Side 2

1. Chimes Of Freedom
2. I Shall Be Free No. 10
3. To Ramona

Side 3

1. Motorpsycho Nitemare
2. My Back Pages
3. I Don't Believe You

Side 4

1. Ballad In Plain D
2. It Ain't Me Babe

The Label

The labels on this copy carry the GAIN 2 Ultra Analog reissue design: a MoFi script logo, the Columbia “eye” logo boxed at the right, and the GAIN 2 Ultra Analog wordmark, set against a dark ground with a silver-white rim band reading ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING / MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB. The small print credits Sony Music Entertainment at 25 Madison Avenue, New York - the address Sony has used since taking over Columbia's operations in the 1990s - and carries a 1964/2016 copyright line stating the recording was originally released in 1964 but this pressing dates from 2016 or later. That 2016 mark is a floor, not a date of pressing: it places this copy among Mobile Fidelity's numbered 45 RPM mono reissue, well below any of the original 1960s Columbia or CBS pressings of the title in the release hierarchy.

Fidelity

This edition was mastered by Krieg Wunderlich (the KW initials appear in the runout) from the 1/4-inch, 15ips analog mono master tape, cut at 45 RPM across two LPs and pressed on 180-gram vinyl using the GAIN 2 Ultra Analog system. Collectors on the forums rate this mono 45 RPM cut very highly for clarity and tape-like warmth, generally placing it above Mobile Fidelity's own standard 33⅓ RPM edition of the same title and above ordinary commercial reissues, while the original 1964 Columbia mono pressing is still prized separately for its historical primacy rather than outright fidelity.

Notes

This pressing is Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's numbered mono 45 RPM 2LP reissue, catalogue MFSL 2-461, cut from the 1/4-inch 15ips analog mono master. Its labels carry a 1964/2016 copyright line, stating the recording was originally released in 1964 while this pressing was manufactured no earlier than 2016. Each side's runout bears KW mastering initials and MOFI codes distinct to this reissue. It sits well below the original 1960s Columbia and CBS mono and stereo pressings in the release hierarchy, as a later specialist audiophile edition rather than a first pressing.

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