| Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 | ||||
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| Released | November 15, 1994 (1994-11-15) | |||
| Recorded | 1973–1990 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 77:24 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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| Bob Dylan chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Robert Christgau | B+[2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 is a compilationLP album byBob Dylan, released onColumbia Records on compact disc and cassette tape in 1994, Columbia catalogue number 66783. It peaked atNo. 126 onBillboard 200.
It encompasses recordings released between the years 1973 and 1991, the time period since theprevious volume of the series, released in 1971. All of Dylan's studio albums from this time span are represented, with the exceptions of:Dylan, compiled by Columbia without Dylan's input;The Basement Tapes, consisting of material predating this time period;Saved; andEmpire Burlesque. The track "Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" was added to later pressings ofShot of Love after initially being released on the flipside of a single. It includes fourTop 40 singles and one previously unreleased track, anouttake from the sessions forOh Mercy, the song "Dignity" with a new backing track overdubbed and produced in the autumn of 1994 byBrendan O'Brien.[5]
Six of its tracks had been released as singles in the United States. "Changing of the Guards" and "Jokerman" did not make thesingles chart, while "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" peaked at No. 12, "Tangled Up in Blue" at No. 31, "Hurricane" at No. 33, and "Gotta Serve Somebody" atNo. 24. Theliner notes provide a more detailed track-by-track personnel listing.
In 2003, this album was released along with the other two Dylan greatest hits sets in one four-disc package, asGreatest Hits Volumes I–III.
All tracks are written byBob Dylan, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Original release | Length |
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| 1. | "Tangled Up in Blue" | Blood on the Tracks, 1975 | 5:42 |
| 2. | "Changing of the Guards" | Street-Legal, 1978 | 6:36 |
| 3. | "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" | B-side to "Heart of Mine", 1981 | 4:03 |
| 4. | "Hurricane" (Dylan,Jacques Levy) | Desire, 1976 | 8:34 |
| 5. | "Forever Young" | Planet Waves, 1974 | 4:58 |
| 6. | "Jokerman" | Infidels, 1983 | 6:16 |
| 7. | "Dignity" | previously unreleased | 5:58 |
| 8. | "Silvio" (Dylan,Robert Hunter) | Down in the Groove, 1988 | 3:07 |
| 9. | "Ring Them Bells" | Oh Mercy, 1989 | 3:02 |
| 10. | "Gotta Serve Somebody" | Slow Train Coming, 1979 | 5:25 |
| 11. | "Series of Dreams" | The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, 1991 | 5:53 |
| 12. | "Brownsville Girl" (Dylan,Sam Shepard) | Knocked Out Loaded, 1986 | 11:04 |
| 13. | "Under the Red Sky" | Under the Red Sky, 1990 | 4:09 |
| 14. | "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973 | 2:30 |
