This? It's actually 4 vinyl LPs, plus the Blu-Ray disc... Amazon has it for $90, and the CD version is $45, but you can stream the whole thing too. I'm not much of a Springsteen fan, but I do know that the so-called "electric" version of Nebraska isn't particularly electric, at least by most people's standards.
If it were my favorite album by anyone ever, I would probably shell out $90 for it, but you've only got it at #58 on your chart, right? I'd say maybe wait until you can find a nice used one. :)
Interesting. It gets a bit wild the number of different versions of albums, acoustic rather than electric or visa versa. It feels like we are getting box set after box set.
I had heard of this box set and was a little tempted. At $45 or the CD version I might be tempted. Thanks for the heads up
It's been a while since it's been on my turntable but I'm pretty sure I preferred Nebraska to this, but I think this was my 3rd fav boss album. Born to Run is prob better than Nebraska, but I prefer Nebraska.
Nebraska is a very decent album and might make my top five Boss albums and as I think I've already said, I find Born To Run overproduced although I appreciate it's significance in the history of Bruce.
My top five at the monent would be;
1. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
2. The Rising
3. Tunnel Of Love
4. Born In The USA (mainly because I saw Bruce for the 1st, but not last, time live on this tour and it's still one of the greatest gigs of all time)
5. Either Born To Run or The River
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A slow dirgey rocker here from Bruce. It’s a really powerful track for me with an emotional delivery from the great man. He pours his heart into this one. It’s raw and distorted, emotional and shouty and I guess, at the end of the day, bleak. I love it!
It feels like Bruce is on the edge here throughout the whole track. Just teetering on the edge of keeping it together
The guitars, as important on this track as any other on DOTEOT are awesome.
I’ve seen it described as an “acid-toned electric rock track”. I’m not even sure what that means exactly but it feels right.
Listen up! It’s an often overlooked track which deserves your attention.
The song follows a couple who are about to get married. Probably my least favourite track on the album, still a banger though, and actually, a great live track.
So as the emphasis my point, here's a great 7 1/2 minute rendition. Tell me this isn't great!
"Some folks are born into a good life, other folks get it anyway anyhow, I lost my money and I lost my wife, them things don't seem to matter much to me now"
One of the cleverest tracks on the album.
Bruce expertly brings together the themes explored throughout the album, lost love, hardships, betrayal and redemption and even hope and unifies them into a single track.
It’s a magnificent song with the slow build-up and then it just bursts into life. A goosebump moment for me every time.
I can’t put my figure on precisely why this is my favourite album of all time. Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that it has four 100/100 tracks on it, Adam Raised A Cain, Candy’s Room, Racing In The Street & Factory.
Maybe it’s because it flows seamlessly from one fabulous track to another. It’s not that there’s no filler here, it’s that there’s not even an average track on the album. Every, and I mean every, track is at least a 90/100.
How do you follow up your breakthrough album? Born To Run has been described as a “Wall Of Sound” album, and although I think that it’s a great album, it’s way too over produced for my liking. DOTEOT is leaner. Some say angrier. Not sure about that but it’s certainly more, lyrically anyway, in your face. There’s something of the punk sensibility to the album with its raw energy
I think that I warm to the characters depicted so eloquently by Springsteen on the album, their struggles and their fights. It feels real to me. What I think sounds like, the real New Jersey but, not coming from there, I might be way off the mark.
So many songs were written for the album that didn’t fit the albums narrative that Springsteen famously “gave them away” to other artists
• "Hearts of Stone" & "Talk to Me" to Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes;
• "Because the Night" to Patti Smith;
• "Fire" to Robert Gordon;
• "Rendezvous" to Greg Kihn;
• "Don't Look Back" to the Knack;
• "This Little Girl" to Gary U.S. Bonds.
You have more guitar solos and less sax (although it’s still there) than on his previous albums, which I prefer.
Possibly, even to this day this is his most mature album.
For various reasons, the listening group for this album has been put back to October and we are probably not going to have a group in September. Anyway, I have volunteered to lead the discussion on DOTEOT and I'm putting together a playlist which I'm going to share here
Stripped away the Wall Of Sound production and went hard rockin’
Phenomenal guitar shredding from Bruce and Steven Van Zandt from the outset rather than the sax of BTR. Driven by a heavy drumbeat and a riff played simultaneously by the guitars, bass, piano, and organ this is an irresistibly driven track, making It hard to be ignored
During the three year break between Born To Run & DOTEOT Bruce wrote a ton of songs, most, obviously never made it onto the album but he did share the goodies around.
This is probably the most famous "sharing" from the sessions. An absolute classic from another iconic artist. Enjoy!
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