liebzz wrote:As a very nice by-product of the Essential Live albums thread, I put together all my favorite live stuff into a coherent Spotify playlist I titled Essential Live: The Boss. Sharing it here for those folks with Spotify:
Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Prove It All Night
Kitty’s Back
Cover Me
The Ties That Bind
Sherry Darling
Lucky Town
Freehold
American Land
Seaside Bar Song
Thundercrack
Does This Bus Stop At 82ns Street?
Frankie
Meet Me in the City
The Fever
Backstreets
American Skin (41 Shots)
Atlantic City
Johnny 99
Blinded By the Light
Open All Night
Stayin’ Alive
War
Highway to Hell
(You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
Jersey Girl
The E Street Shuffle
Incident on 57th Street
Seeds
Because the Night
No Surrender
Bobby Jean
Hungry Heart
Born in the USA
Dancing in the Dark
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Born to Run
Jungleland
Quarter to Three
Last Man Standing
Thanks, liebzz! I will definitely check this out.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu November 28, 2024 12:01 am
by liebzz
There’s a coupling of songs in the midst of this, E Street Shuffle and Incident on 57th Street that I listened to today amongst the others, and it just reminds me of how absurdly amazing The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle is as an album. I mean, it helps that these performances are off the charts.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Sat February 15, 2025 12:26 am
by oasisfan35
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 9:26 am
by lecherouslittlestump
Looks like Tracks 2 is finally getting announced this week. Latest rumours are it's 7 discs of 'Lost Albums' from the 80s and 90s.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 11:35 am
by liebzz
Oh man. I can’t imagine.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 12:18 pm
by Sloppy Dupree
oasisfan35 wrote:
Whoa, nice!
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 1:50 pm
by Kevin Davis
Bruce has got to be one of the most aggressive strummers ever. Every downstroke is a full-arm assault.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 2:03 pm
by Sloppy Dupree
Long live The Boss.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 2:48 pm
by liebzz
I am assuming no one is asking him where he found those lost albums. “Uh, I swore I put them on the coffee table. Turns out I put them all in the coat closet and it wasn’t until we were spring cleaning that these 7 reels just showed up out of nowhere after 40 years. You wouldn’t believe what else we found there…but we’re saving that for Tracks 3.”
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Wed April 02, 2025 3:28 pm
by Strat
Kevin Davis wrote:Bruce has got to be one of the most aggressive strummers ever. Every downstroke is a full-arm assault.
He's actually one of my favorite lead players too. Incredible the noise he gets out of each note.
I'm not well versed in Springsteen lore at all, so I'm wondering: did people know these albums existed, they just have never been released? (a la Neil Young's Chrome Dreams) Or are these all total surprises?
I'm not well versed in Springsteen lore at all, so I'm wondering: did people know these albums existed, they just have never been released? (a la Neil Young's Chrome Dreams) Or are these all total surprises?
As far as I am aware, total surprises. However, Springsteen is known for having a huge huge amount of b-sides in general. Each of the albums he has reissued over the last 10-15 years has at least a full albums worth, and sometimes two, of b-sides, not to mention Tracks I.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 5:04 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 5:09 pm
by liebzz
tragabigzanda wrote:just listened to that one song. Nice of them to turn everything to 11!
“Put down your cheese dip and your guackeemolee…”
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 5:43 pm
by liebzz
Tracks II begins with LA Garage Sessions ’83, recorded in advance of Springsteen’s blockbuster Born In The U.S.A. album. The forthcoming set also includes albums entitled Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World.
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 10:12 pm
by oasisfan35
liebzz wrote:Tracks II begins with LA Garage Sessions ’83, recorded in advance of Springsteen’s blockbuster Born In The U.S.A. album. The forthcoming set also includes albums entitled Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World.
Really excited about this release. The cohesion of putting together actual 'albums' is fantastic to me with the timeframe of 1983-2018 clearly incorporated in Tracks '79-'95 stretch. The footage looks a bit from the Blood Brothers doc which is an era that was obviously quiet and I know you mentioned wasn't remarked on much in the autobiography but intrigues me greatly.
It's great that the set starts with '83 and that was the final year included in the Lost Masters bootlegs and also after anything we have gotten with The Promise and The Ties That Bind released with the reissues.
Tomorrow's playlist will definitely be Springsteen heavy...
Re: Bruce Springsteen
Posted: Thu April 03, 2025 10:23 pm
by liebzz
oasisfan35 wrote:
liebzz wrote:Tracks II begins with LA Garage Sessions ’83, recorded in advance of Springsteen’s blockbuster Born In The U.S.A. album. The forthcoming set also includes albums entitled Streets Of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North Of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World.
Really excited about this release. The cohesion of putting together actual 'albums' is fantastic to me with the timeframe of 1983-2018 clearly incorporated in Tracks '79-'95 stretch. The footage looks a bit from the Blood Brothers doc which is an era that was obviously quiet and I know you mentioned wasn't remarked on much in the autobiography but intrigues me greatly.
It's great that the set starts with '83 and that was the final year included in the Lost Masters bootlegs and also after anything we have gotten with The Promise and The Ties That Bind released with the reissues.
Tomorrow's playlist will definitely be Springsteen heavy...
It will be fascinating. When I finally listened to Tracks, it blew my mind that I liked the 90s stuff on there more than anything else he’d released that decade. He has a narrative he wants to present and not even better songs are going to disrupt that. Interesting always to hear what he hasn’t released.
