The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (studio album) by Bruce Springsteen
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The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle is ranked 6th best out of 130 albums by Bruce Springsteen on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Bruce Springsteen is Born To Run which is ranked number 70 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 20,250.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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80/100 ![]() | 05/06/2022 11:17 | conallmalone | ![]() | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 79.9/100, a mean average of 78.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.
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Rock music at its best...
Springsteen gets in the groove with his ensemble on his second record. It's good enough to back up any Steely Dan record. He's really sensual and soulful on this one.
Highly recommended.
A Side: Rosalita
B Side: 4th of July
This is a hugely underrated and overlooked album in Springsteen's catalogue. The album has a feel good vibe the whole way through and it is difficult not to love what your hearing. Also, when you realise how early in his career this album was made it is astounding to see how much musical maturity and just overall quality is on display. Definitely a record worth hearing.

Puta clássico!! Os sax estão ensandecidos!!

Easily my favorite Springsteen. Very Americana, without getting too boring, and very funky. I'm not a fan of Springsteen mostly because I find a lot of his catalogue to be very overproduced, but this album is very fun and interesting.
Wow, as a second album this is absolutely amazing! The Dylan undertones are great, but he definitely is distinct enough to not make it too much.

You can hear the Astral Weeks influence, especially on the last track, but a pretty weak side A keeps this out of Bruce's upper echelon.
Finally someone else realizes just how perfect and epic every song on this album is. Not pop songs or folk songs. Just stories. Ballads. Very New York too. Nice.
Minus Wild Billy's Circus Story, sheer delight.

What an absolute pleasure it was to finally hear this classic album , going in with high expectations 'The Wild , The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle ' delivered , this really is a stunning album and a must for any true music phile
Incredible to imagine this was album number 2 and Bruce was only 24 yo when this album was recorded , its an album mature beyond its years
No weak track with every note in its perfect place the AllMusic Review for this album states:
"In actual fact The Wild , The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle may well be the greatest record in the history of Rock and Roll "
It really is hard to argue with that
Defining
80/100
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