BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN white label promo LP “Darkness on Edge of Town” orig NM SUPERB
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Description
Artist: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Title: “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
Label: COLUMBIA. Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl. Label is white with black text. Catalog number is JC 35318.
Year: 1978
Condition:
DISC: Vinyl is NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, our highest grade. Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care – possibly unplayed. Labels are clean. Fidelity is superb. A solid “10” out of ten.
JACKET: Jacket is NEAR MINT with clean and bright panels. Nice seams and spine. Promotional timing strip is neatly affixed to bottom of front panel. Top left corner of reverse has gold promotional embossing.
Includes printed lyric insert and inner sleeve in top condition. This is the complete package in archival condition.
NOTE: This album came from the extensive personal collection of a former record store owner who retired from the retail music business in the early 80’s. His albums were stored virtually untouched and unplayed from that time in a climate controlled, non-smoking environment up until 2 years ago when I purchased the entire collection. If you desire MINT condition, you will not be disappointed.
Track Listing:
Side One:
- Badlands
- Adam Raised a Cain
- Something in the Night
- Candy’s Room
- Racing in the Street
Side Two:
- The Promised Land
- Factory
- Streets of Fire
- Prove it All Night
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
Review:
“Bruce Springsteen's make-or-break third album represented a sonic leap from his first two, which had been made for modest sums at a suburban studio; Born to Run was cut on a superstar budget, mostly at the Record Plant in New York. Springsteen's backup band had changed, with his two virtuoso players, keyboardist David Sancious and drummer Vini Lopez, replaced by the professional but less flashy Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg. The result was a full, highly produced sound that contained elements of Phil Spector's melodramatic work of the 1960s. Layers of guitar, layers of echo on the vocals, lots of keyboards, thunderous drums – Born to Run had a big sound, and Springsteen wrote big songs to match it. The overall theme of the album was similar to that of The E Street Shuffle; Springsteen was describing, and saying farewell to, a romanticized teenage street life. But where he had been affectionate, even humorous before, he was becoming increasingly bitter. If Springsteen had celebrated his dead-end kids on his first album and viewed them nostalgically on his second, on his third he seemed to despise their failure, perhaps because he was beginning to fear he was trapped himself. Nevertheless, he now felt removed, composing an updated West Side Story with spectacular music that owed more to Bernstein than to Berry. To call Born to Run overblown is to miss the point; Springsteen's precise intention is to blow things up, both in the sense of expanding them to gargantuan size and of exploding them. If The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was an accidental miracle, Born to Run was an intentional masterpiece. It declared its own greatness with songs and a sound that lived up to Springsteen's promise, and though some thought it took itself too seriously, many found that exalting.”
(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.)
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