With the benefit of hindsight, it now appears that many of the songs that filled this relatively understated album were drawn directly from Springsteen's own personal...
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Just as he had followed his 1980 commercial breakthrough The River with the challenging Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen followed the most popular album of his career, Born in...
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Born To Run 1/1/1975, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Not the absolute masterpiece some Springsteen fanatics contend it is--it really is overblown in spots, and maybe a tad too Spectorian for its own good--but one hell of good...
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Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio; Born to Run was cut on a...
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Springsteen's massive commercial crossover happened largely because of the upbeat nature of most of these tracks--and that's upbeat in terms of tempo, not lyrics. Aside from...
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Culled from recordings of Bruce Springsteen's spring 1988 Tunnel of Love tour, Chimes of Freedom is a four-track EP that initially was released as a benefit for Amnesty...
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Captured precisely at his height of glory, Springsteen followed up the sensational Born To Run with a bundle of moody, occasionally depressing songs that even to this day,...
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Bruce Springsteen's debut album found him squarely in the tradition of Bob Dylan: folk-based tunes arranged for an electric band featuring piano and organ (plus, in...
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Extremely intense at times, and including several of Springsteen's best songs--including the title track, "State Trooper" and "Highway Patrolman"--this still seems more of a...
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There is an adage in the record business that a recording artist's demos of new songs often come off better than the more polished versions later worked up in a studio. But...
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Perhaps the least self-conscious album Bruce Springsteen has ever made--before the hype, before the Time and Newsweek covers, before nearly everything but his conspicuous...
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Bruce Springsteen expanded the folk-rock approach of his debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., to strains of jazz, among other styles, on its ambitious follow-up,...
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A double set--and maybe too much for one sitting--this perfectly displays the two sides of Springsteen's muse: the simple rocker of "Sherry Darling" and "Hungry Heart," and...
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Imbedded within the double-disc running time of The River is a single-disc album that follows up on the themes and sound of Darkness on the Edge of Town -- wide-screen,...
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Here's the challenge in putting together a Bruce Springsteen compilation: Though he scored 18 Top 40 hits (12 of which made the Top Ten) through 1994, Springsteen is not a...
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A wonderful album, this certainly deserved the Grammy it won for the year's finest folk album. Unfortunately, the key was the lyric sheet--and the music, this time out,...
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In 1982, with Ronald Reagan in the White House and much of America torn between a newly fierce patriotism and the dispassionate conservatism of the dawning "Greed Is Good"...
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Released in Europe to coincide with Bruce Springsteen's spring 1993 tour of the continent, this album is a 13-track, nearly 72-minute audio version of Springsteen's video...
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Long before he sold substantial numbers of records, Bruce Springsteen began to earn a reputation as the best live act in rock & roll. Fans had been clamoring for a live...
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For years, decades even, Bruce Springteen was legendary for the amount of recordings he did not release. Every time he cut an album, he recorded a surplus of songs and left...
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18 Tracks is a single-disc distillation of 1998's four-CD box set Tracks, the superb retrospective assembling unreleased material spanning the breadth of Bruce Springsteen's...
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Eighteen years ago, Bruce Springsteen recorded Born In The USA, his last entire studio album with the E Street Band. For two solid years, Springsteen was the most popular...
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"Yes, life is very confusing, we're just trying to get on with it." -Art Carney as Harry Coomes in Harry and Tonto.
The many voices that come out of the ether on Bruce...
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Bruce Springsteen became a favorite target of bootleggers in the mid-'70s, and when the 1990s were coming to an end, he was still one of rock's most bootlegged artists....
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In the liner notes to his volume of Columbia's The Essential series, Bruce Springsteen immediately lays out the problem with hits collections: "In any body of work there are...
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Coming three years, and one extended court battle, after the commercial breakthrough of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town was highly anticipated. Some attributed the...
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Bruce Springsteen had become increasingly downcast as a songwriter during his recording career, and his pessimism bottomed out with Nebraska. But Born in the U.S.A., his...
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Although the unusual status of the E Street Band in Bruce Springsteen's career (more than a backup group, less than full-fledged partners) has been understood by his...
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Greetings From/Wild Innocent/Darkness collects Bruce Springsteen's first two albums (Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ and The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle) and...
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In 1997, Columbia released Collection, which combined the current CD releases of Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, and...
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Reportedly, Bruce Springsteen recorded most of Human Touch in 1990, but left it unreleased. He returned to work in the fall of 1991, intending to add a song, but ended up...
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Bruce Springsteen has always been steeped in mainstream pop/rock music, using it as a vocabulary for what he wanted to say about weightier matters. And he has always written...
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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an unusual Bruce Springsteen album in a number of ways. First, it's the first covers album Springsteen has recorded in his...
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We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions is an unusual Bruce Springsteen album in a number of ways. First, it's the first covers album Springsteen has recorded in his...
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