Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live 1975-85 3 CD Schmallbox  NEU OVP Sealed  US Import

Produktinformation


Audio CD (6. Juli 1987)
Anzahl Disks/Tonträger: 3
Format:  Box-Set
Label: Sony/Columbia  US Import
       TRACKS

Disk: 1 
1. Thunder Road 
2. Adam Raised a Cain 
3. Spirit in the Night 
4. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) 
5. Paradise by the "C" 
6. Fire 
7. Growin' Up 
8. It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City 
9. Backstreets 
10. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 
11. Raise Your Hand 
12. Hungry Heart 
13. Two Hearts 
Disk: 2 
1. Cadillac Ranch 
2. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) 
3. Independence Day 
4. Badlands 
5. Because the Night 
6. Candy's Room 
7. Darkness on the Edge of Town 
8. Racing in the Streets 
9. This Land Is Your Land 
10. Nebraska 
11. Johnny 99 
12. Reason to Believe 
13. Born in the U.S.A. 
14. Seeds 
Disk: 3 
1. River 
2. War 
3. Darlington County 
4. Working on the Highway 
5. Promised Land 
6. Cover Me 
7. I'm on Fire 
8. Bobby Jean 
9. My Hometown 
10. Born to Run 
11. No Surrender 
12. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out 
13. Jersey Girl 


Review by William Ruhlmann
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 album for a long time, and with Live/1975-85 they got what they wanted, at least in terms of bulk. His concerts were marathons, and this box set, including 40 tracks and running over three and a half hours, was about the average length of a show. In his brief liner notes, Springsteen spoke of the emergence of the album's "story" as he reviewed live tapes, and that story seems nothing less than a history of his life, his concerns, and his career. The first cuts present the Springsteen of the early to mid-'70s; these performances, most of them drawn from a July 1978 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, present the romantic, hopeful, earnest Springsteen. The second section begins with his first Top Ten hit, "Hungry Heart" — this is the Springsteen of the late '70s and early '80s, an arena rock star with working-class concerns. After an acoustic mini set given largely to material from Nebraska — songs of economic desperation and crime — comes a reshuffling of Born in the U.S.A., songs in which the artist and his characters start to fight back and rock out. Finally, he brings it all back home to New Jersey, starting with the unofficial state anthem, "Born to Run." Fans could rejoice in the seven previously unreleased songs, but Live/1975-85 wasn't as funny, moving, or exhilarating as a Springsteen show could be. Maybe no single album could have been, but where Springsteen impressed in concert because he tried so hard, here he seemed to have tried a little too hard to make a live album carry the freight of everything he had to say.