Dylan is joined by The Stones, Bowie, The Clash, Neil Young, Van Halen, The Who, Aerosmith, and others.

 

Here's their list:

 

1. Bob Dylan, “Down In the Groove”
2. Rolling Stones, “Dirty Work”
3. David Bowie, “Tonight
4. Van Morrison, “Beautiful Vision”
5. The Clash, “Cut the Crap”
6. Neil Young, “Old Ways”
7. Van Halen, “Diver Down”
8. The Who, “Face Dances”
9. Elvis Costello, “Mighty Like A Rose”
10. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “One Hot Minute”
11. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “American Dream”
12. Aerosmith, “Rock in a Hard Place”
13. Lou Reed, “Mistrial”
14. Morrissey, “Kill Uncle”
15. Led Zeppelin, “Presence”

 

So, what is this Down in the Groove? Wikipedia has some interesting tidbits about the 1988 disc:

 

"'Even by Dylan standards, this album has had a strange, difficult birth,' wrote Rolling Stone critic David Fricke. 'Its release was delayed for more than half a year, and the track listing was altered at least three times. If the musician credits are any indication, the songs that made the final cut come from half a dozen different recording sessions spread out over six years.' Like its predecessor Knocked Out Loaded, Dylan once again used more collaborators than normal.

 

"In a review published in his 'Consumer Guide' column, Robert Christgau wrote, 'Where Self Portrait was at least weird, splitting the difference between horrible and hilarious, [Dylan is now] forever professional - not a single remake honors or desecrates the original. All he can do to a song is Dylanize it, and thus his Danny Kortchmar band and his Steve Jones-Paul Simonon band are indistinguishable, immersed in that patented and by now meaningless one-take sound.' Christgau would later call Down in the Groove a 'horrendous product.'

 

"Christgau was not alone in his disappointment regarding Dylan's collaborations. In his review for Rolling Stone Magazine, Fricke noted that 'a highly anticipated – if somewhat unlikely – collaboration with Full Force, the top Brooklyn hip-hop posse, turned out to be an old Infidels outtake, 'Death Is Not the End,' newly garnished with some tasty but rather superfluous Full Force vocal harmonies.'"

 

Wow. That bad, huh? Apparently all was not lost and one tune, "Silvio," is pretty good. Here's Dylan playing it in 1998: