BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "LIVE 1875-85" 5 LP BOX SET WITH BOOKLET NEAR MINT

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A 5 LP BOX SET BY THE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN CALLED "LIVE 1975-85". IT WAS RELEASED ON THE COLUMBIA LABEL (C5X 40558) OUT OF THE U.S. IN 1985. THE BOX, BOKLET & THE 5 LP'S ARE NEAR MINT-  

Track Listing
1. Thunder Road
2. Adam Raised a Cain
3. Spirit in the Night
4. Asbury Park (Sandy) 4th of July
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
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
1. The River
2. War
3. Darlington County
4. Working on the Highway
5. The 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
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.