Live 1975-1985 (Box Set) (CD) ~ Bruce Springsteen (Artist) Cover Art

Live 1975-1985 (Box Set) (CD)

By: Bruce Springsteen (Artist)

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Bruce Springsteen Artist Snapshot:

Bruce Springsteen came out of New Jersey in the early 1970s sounding like a cross between Bob Dylan and early Tom Waits, backed by the rambunctious E Street Band. After toughening up his sound, Springsteen created his 1975 masterpiece, BORN TO RUN, which garnered critical acclaim for its blend of Spectorian grandeur and street poetry. Nine years later, BORN IN THE U.S.A. made him a worldwide superstar with its beefed-up stadium-rock sound. Along the way, he's produced such low-key acoustic-based milestones as NEBRASKA and THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD, never losing the blue-collar ethos that is central to his vision. His 2002 album, THE RISING, is considered one of the finest artistic responses to the 9/11tragedy produced in the event's immediate aftermath.

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DISC 1 for Live 1975-1985 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Bruce Springsteen (Artist)
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 - (with Flo & Eddie)
13   Two Hearts
 
DISC 2 for Live 1975-1985 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Bruce Springsteen (Artist)
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 Street
9   This Land Is Your Land
10   Nebraska
11   Johnny 99
12   Reason To Believe
13   Born In The USA
14   Seeds
 
DISC 3 for Live 1975-1985 (Box Set) (CD) Album By Bruce Springsteen (Artist)
1   River, The
2   War
3   Darlington County
4   Working On The Highway
5   Promised Land, The
6   Cover Me
7   I'm On Fire
8   Bobby Jean
9   My Hometown
10   Born To Run
11   No Surrender
12   Tenth Avenue Freezeout - (with Miami Horns)
13   Jersey Girl
 

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Review

Q (1/03, p.140) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...These remasters reveal a ragged glory..."
Uncut (01/03, p.131) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Plenty of good stuff..."

Title Note

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica); Steve Van Zandt (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Nils Lofgren (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Clarence Clemons (saxophone, percussion, background vocals); Roy Bittan (piano, synthesizer, background vocals); Danny Federici (organ, accordion, glockenspiel, keyboards, background vocals); Patty Scialfa (sunthesizer, background vocals); Max Weinberg (drums).

Flo & Eddie: Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan.

Miami Horns: Stan Harrison (tenor saxophone); Eddie Manion (baritone saxophone); Mark Pender (trumpet); Richie La Bamba (trombone).

Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin.

Recorded live between 1975 and 1985.

There's one song from a 1975 show, which makes the title of this box set true in the literal sense, and eight from a 1978 appearance at the Roxy in Los Angeles, but in essence this is Bruce Springsteen in the '80s--physically huge, politically charged and desperate to connect. You get the sense this is no accident. LIVE/1975-85 easily could have been a celebration of Springsteen's rise to rock & roll fame, instead, it's a concerted effort to make something of it. Almost all of LIVE/1975-85 was recorded in arenas and stadiums and almost all of it is intent on spreading a message.

The cover song that resonates most isn't the party encore "Raise Your Hand"(from 1978) but the anti-war chant "War" (from 1985). The most astonishing sequence of songs is all acoustic and almost all angry: Woody Guthrie's protest song "This Land Is Your Land" and Springsteen's own "Nebraska," "Johnny 99" and "Reason To Believe." With its reverberant keyboards and a haunting intro that quotes the soul classic "Nowhere to Run," even the love song "Cover Me" sounds like some sort of protest. There's lots of celebrating and rocking here, too, but mostly there's lots to think about.

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