BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - LIVE 1975/1985 - 5LP BOX SET - NM - Vinyl LP's
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
LIVE 1975/1985
5LP BOX SET INCLUDING 16 PAGE BOOKLET
5 LP BOX SET
Vinyl LP's
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1986 original release vinyl LP on the COLUMBIA/SONY record label Cat n# COL 450277-1 Made in ENGLAND
The album Box is in NM condition. No problems, the inner sleeves are in NM condition, the 16 page booklet is in NM condition no tears or splits
The vinyl itself is in NM condition there are some papercuts on a couple of sides seen under a 1500watt strong light, which will give an occasional low level click and pop when the LP is played. these LP have only been played 2 or 3 times at the most.
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Sorry if the shipping charges seem a bit high, the reason being i use heavy/strong packaging and the high cost of the Royal Mail price structure
THIS IS AS GOOD EXAMPLE OF WELL LOOKED AFTER OLD LP RECORD
Full track list
Side One
1."Thunder Road" – 5:46 Recorded October 18, 1975 at The Roxy Theatre.
2."Adam Raised a Cain" – 5:26 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
3."Spirit in the Night" – 6:25 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
4."4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" – 6:34 Recorded December 31, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
Mistitled as "4th of July, Ashbury Park" on the CD boxset. .
Side Two
1."Paradise by the "C"" – 3:54 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
Song never released by Springsteen before. The version on this release omits Bruce saying "All you bootleggers out there in radioland, roll your tapes" right before the song.
2."Fire" – 2:51 Recorded December 16, 1978 at the Winterland. The short spoken intro is from July 7, 1978 at The Roxy.
Song never released by Springsteen before, although recorded by others most notably by The Pointer Sisters and Robert Gordon.
3."Growin' Up" – 7:58 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
4."It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" – 4:39 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre .
Side Three
1."Backstreets" – 7:35 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
This version edits out a long interpolation near the end which includes an early version of "Drive All Night"
2."Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" – 10:00 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
3."Raise Your Hand" (Steve Cropper/Eddie Floyd/Alvertis Isbell) – 5:01 Recorded July 7, 1978 at The Roxy Theatre.
Never before released by Springsteen. Eddie Floyd's version of the song is the most well known .
Side Four
1."Hungry Heart" – 4:30 Recorded December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
2."Two Hearts" – 3:06 Recorded July 8, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena.
3."Cadillac Ranch" – 4:52 Recorded July 6, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena.
Mistitled as "Caddillac Ranch" on the CD boxset
4."You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)" – 3:58 Recorded December 29, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
5."Independence Day" – 5:08 Recorded July 6, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena. .
Side 5
1."Badlands" – 5:17 Recorded November 5, 1980 at Arizona State University, the night after the election of Ronald Reagan to the United States presidency.
2."Because the Night" (Springsteen/Patti Smith) – 5:19 Recorded December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
Song never released by Springsteen before, although recorded by others most notably by Patti Smith and, later, 10,000 Maniacs.
3."Candy's Room" – 3:19 Recorded July 8, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena.
4."Darkness on the Edge of Town" – 4:19 Recorded December 29, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
5."Racing in the Street" – 8:12 Recorded July 6, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena .
Side 6
1."This Land Is Your Land" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:21 Recorded December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
classic folk song, never released by Springsteen before
2."Nebraska" – 4:18 Recorded August 6, 1984 at Meadowlands Arena.
3."Johnny 99" – 4:24 Recorded August 19, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
4."Reason to Believe" – 5:19 Recorded August 19, 1984 at Meadowlands Arena. .
Side 7
1."Born in the U.S.A." – 6:10 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
2."Seeds" – 5:14 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
Song never released by Springsteen before.
3."The River" – 11:42 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum .
Side 8
1."War" (Barrett Strong/Norman Whitfield) – 4:53 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Never released by Springsteen before; a big hit for Edwin Starr in 1970.
2."Darlington County" – 5:12 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
3."Working on the Highway" – 4:04 Recorded August 19, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
4."The Promised Land" – 5:36 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum .
Side 9
1."Cover Me" – 6:57 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
2."I'm on Fire" – 4:26 Recorded August 19, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
3."Bobby Jean" – 4:30 Recorded August 21, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
4."My Hometown" – 5:13 Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
This performance previously released as the music video for "My Hometown" single .
Side 10
1."Born to Run" – 5:03 Recorded August 19, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
2."No Surrender" – 4:41 Recorded August 6, 1984 at Meadowlands Arena.
3."Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" – 4:21 Recorded August 20, 1984 at Meadowlands Arena.
4."Jersey Girl" (Tom Waits) – 6:30 Recorded July 9, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena.
This performance was released in 1984 as the B-side of the "Cover Me" single. The song was written by Tom Waits and originally released on his Heartattack and Vine album .
The E Street Band
Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
Clarence Clemons – saxophone, percussion, backing vocals
Danny Federici – organ, accordion, glockenspiel, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
Nils Lofgren (beginning in 1984) – electric and acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Patti Scialfa (beginning in 1984) – backing vocals, synthesizer
Bruce Springsteen – vocals, electric guitar, harmonica, acoustic guitar
Garry Tallent - bass guitar, backing vocals
Steve Van Zandt (through 1981) – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Max Weinberg – drums
Additional musicians
Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman) - backing vocals on "Hungry Heart"
The Miami Horns – horns on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" Stan Harrison – tenor sax
Eddie Manion – baritone sax
Mark Pender – trumpet
Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg – trombone . .
History
Springsteen's long-awaited and highly-anticipated live album generated advance orders of more than 1.5 million copies, making it the largest dollar-volume pre-order in the history of the record business at the time.[2] Record stores around the country found fans waiting in line on Monday morning before opening and one New York store reportedly sold the album right off the back of the delivery truck. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart, a rare occurrence that hadn't happened in ten years since Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life in 1976. It also became the first five-record set to reach the top 10 and the first to sell over a million copies.
Two singles were released from the box set: "War" (a cover of the 1970 Edwin Starr hit), which was a #8 success on the U.S. pop singles chart, and "Fire" (a Springsteen song that was a top 10 hit for The Pointer Sisters in 1979), which only reached #46 on the Billboard charts, breaking Springsteen's string of eight consecutive Top 10 singles. The music video for "War" was taken from the concert where it was recorded, while the video for "Fire" was from a completely unrelated 1986 acoustic performance at a Bridge School Benefit concert. A third video, for "Born to Run", was also released, which showed a melange of clips from the band's 1984–85 Born in the U.S.A. Tour.
Not surprising, given Springsteen's reputation as a live performer and the sheer scope of the 40-song set, most reviews were overwhelmingly positive. There were, however, a few critics that felt the album could have been better, citing the omission of several concert highlights such as Springsteen's live rendition of "Prove It All Night" and his rousing cover of John Fogerty's "Who'll Stop the Rain", among others. Another complaint was that some of his many unreleased songs such as "The Fever" were ignored in favor of recent album tracks like "Darlington County".[3][4] (Two longer selections that did not make the cut – "Incident on 57th Street", recorded at Nassau Coliseum in December of 1980, and "For You", taken from the July 1978 Roxy show – materialized on B-sides from the album's singles, limited releases, and a Japanese CD single and vinyl release called Live Collection.)
Live/1975–85 is the second-best-selling live album in U.S. history based on RIAA certification. It has been certified by the RIAA for 13x platinum, trailing only Garth Brooks' Double Live. This figure reflects the RIAA practice of counting each disc in a multi-disc set as a separate unit sold; the actual number of copies sold is instead slightly over 4 million. Based on albums sold, Live/1975–85 also trails Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive! (6 million) and Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's Live Bullet (5 million) among best-selling live albums. The box set's sales performance attracted considerable media attention at the time, first for setting records during the 1986 holiday shopping period, then later for fizzling out in sales in early 1987, leaving many retailers overstocked
ROLLING STONE REVIEW
By David Fricke
November 10, 1986
It's not enough. By anyone else's standards, of course, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/1975-85 is an embarrassment of riches — five albums and ten years' worth of barroom, hockey-arena and baseball-stadium dynamite; greatest hits, ace covers, love songs, work songs, out-of-work songs — the ultimate rock-concert experience of the past decade finally packaged for living-room consumption, a special gift of thanks to the fans who shared those 1001 nights of stomp & sweat and the best possible consolation prize for the poor bastards who could never get tickets.
Still, Bruce Springsteen could have filled another five-record set with what's missing from this one. Particularly conspicuous in their absence are still-unreleased gems like "The Fever" and "Rendezvous," as well as vintage show stoppers like "Jungleland" and "Kitty's Back," a song that used to inspire lengthy E Street flights of hot jazz fancy in its mid-Seventies heyday. It is also a little disappointing that Springsteen has not included any recordings from the blazing five-alarm shows of 1973 and '74 that led the critic Jon Landau, later his manager, to write the infamous, ultimately prophetic line: "I saw rock & roll's future and its name is Bruce Springsteen." Instead, this boxed set starts in 1975 with the Born to Run tour, when the "future" had already arrived on wings of rueful media hype.
Regrettably, Live/1975-85 has been dropped in our laps with the same attendant hysteria. But minor caveats about content aside, it's going to take more than cheap overkill, like all-Bruce radio and USA Today's ludicrous Elvisversus-Bruce readers poll, to eclipse the sheer physical wallop of Live/1975-85 and the spectral wonder of its forty songs, not to mention the incomparable charisma of the singer. If nothing else, this set is an extraordinary demonstration of how Springsteen's telepathic command of a concert audience has increased in direct proportion to the size of his stage. In his rousing cover of Eddie Floyd's 1967 Stax hit "Raise Your Hand," an encore recorded at the Roxy, in Los Angeles, in 1978, Springsteen doesn't just ask for a show of hands — he demands it. "You think this is a free ride?" he bellows before giving the crowd one last blast. "You want to play, you got to pay!" Six years later, in a big New Jersey arena, he strips "No Surrender" to its naked, valiant core, backed by just guitar, harmonica and the massed hush of twenty thousand people holding their breath.
Loosely chronological in structure, this set also charts the evolution of Springsteen's lyric themes from early Great Escape anthems ("Growin' Up," "Thunder Road") to the macrocosmic resonance of Born in the U.S.A., with its gritty telegraphic novellas of average Joes and Josephines up against a wall of irrevocable economic change and eroding social values. At the same time, this Bruceograph-style overview plots his corresponding progression from fanciful, often mischievous overarranging — the revved-up boardwalk baroque of "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" — to the knuckle-sandwich sound of "Cover Me" and the previously unreleased "Seeds." By the time he took the big leap into outdoor stadiums in 1985, documented with heady 3-D frenzy on sides seven through ten, Springsteen was having no trouble zapping fans half a mile away with his short-story rock & soul.
To be sure, the '78 Roxy version of "Spirit in the Night," the most enduring of Springsteen's florid love-and-wheels narratives, is certainly a cracker, distinguished by Max Weinberg's dropkick drumming and Clarence Clemons's lusty foghorn sax. Yet "Racing in the Street," Springsteen's grim Darkness portrait of a generation racing to a dead end, draws its power from a deeper well, palpably accelerating with pensive desperation as Danny Federici's sorrowful organ clouds over Roy Bittan's ballerina piano figure. And any idiot who still believes "Born in the U.S.A." is all stars and stripes will definitely get baked by the fiery rage and sense of utter betrayal at its core, vividly illustrated by Springsteen's rockets'-red-glare guitar solo and the atomic E Street crescendo that detonates the theme's climactic reprise.
In some instances, it's the little details and subtle flourishes on Live/1975-85 that bring Springsteen's vision to life. He practically scrapes the pit of his desire with a gravelly, almost laryngitic vocal on the '75 Roxy version of "Thunder Road" ("Roy Orbison singing for the lonely/Hey that's me and I want you only"), accompanied only by piano and the delicate tingle of Federici's glockenspiel. His solo rendition of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," taken at a slower, more thoughtful pace, amplifies not only Guthrie's fierce democratic pride but also the song's unspoken promise of a brighter future ("And a voice was sounding/As the fog was lifting/Saying this land was made for you and me"). And although it doesn't have any words, the quickie instrumental "Paradise by the 'C,'" with its R&B bluster and frat-rock sass, speaks volumes about Springsteen's pre-glory days in North Jersey seaside clubs. It doesn't take much to imagine the crowd at the old Upstage in Asbury Park tanking up to this one.
Two of the album's finest moments aren't even musical. Springsteen's opening rap to "The River," delivered over a twelve-string guitar reverie by Nils Lofgren, is a poignant ramble about his father — the tensions, the petty disagreements and, ultimately, the reconciliation. With "War," however, Springsteen gets right to the point, dedicating it to the post-Vietnam kids in the crowd ("The next time they're gonna be lookin' at you") before leading the E Street Band into an explosive reading of the 1970 Edwin Starr hit with his best tonsil-ripping yell and plenty of spitfire guitar.
All this and — finally! — "Because the Night" and "Fire," too. Live/1975-85 could have done with a few less Born in the U.S.A. numbers — eight of the album's twelve songs are reprised here — and maybe a few more covers, particularly Springsteen's highly personalized renditions of the Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" and Bob Dylan's "I Want You." But it seems churlish to carp about titles when there is so much raw power, lyric honesty and spiritual determination packed into this box. For best results, just pretend you're at the foot of the stage. Then, as Springsteen instructs in "Spirit in the Night," "stand up and let it shoot right through you."
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