SHRINK "BADLANDS" STICKER SPRINGSTEEN DARKNESS ON THE EDGE Intense ROCK Lp

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  ORIGINAL 1978 FINAL COLLECTION COPY! 
     MINT IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE w/ original LYRICS INSERT ...    SCARCE "BADLANDS" HIT STICKER ON OUTER CELLOPHANE         ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..                          
           = Bruce Springsteen =

" DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN"                ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..                                     USA - COLUMBIA 35318
BEAUTIFUL and perfect 4 sharp corners TOP COLLECTIBLE ... stunning like new condition ... Includes the custom lyrics insert 
Includes the seldom seen "BAD LANDS" sticker across the front cover outer shrink wrap! 
Original 1978 ::: STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY CELLOPHANE!
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The Boss' follow up to Born to Run. It punches hard, and exhibits his mastery over the rock art form. This album has a contrived though majestic sweep to it. One thing that is never mentioned is Bruce's guitar playing, which is spiritually passionate and his own voice, and is on full display here. Springsteen has the gifted ability to evoke a multitude of powerful emotions from his listeners, more so than any other rock and roller, past or present. Anthem after anthem....
The album kicks off with the anthem fist pumping rocker Badlands, and it is clear from the start this is a place far from the pleasures of the Jersey Shore and asking Rosalita to come out for a night of partying and good times. In this song Springsteen's subject finds "trouble in the heartland" and is "caught in a crossfire" he doesn't understand. Running on a bit of hope and a feeling " it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive," it's a desperate song of simple desires and the struggle of people spending their lives "waiting for a moment that just don't come". This theme of broken hearts and broken people struggling to continue life with some kind of dignity, faith, and love in spite of the losing ways in life dominate the entire album, and to great effect and reward for the listener.
Musically, The E Street Band is up to the task at hand and never let things get too heavy or bogged down, despite the darker subject matter. On Candy's Room, a sad tale of a man infatuated with a hooker and who will give "all that I've got to give" to make her his if just for a night, the band plows ahead like a freight train, never letting the tradgedy of the song hit too hard, but keeping things wound tight enough to convey the lonliness and frustration of the people involved. And on more hopeful tracks such as The Promised Land and Prove It All Night, the band goes along for the ride with just the right amount of flair and steadiness to deliver the songwriters vision with crystal clear clarity. Stripped down, no nonsense, more direct, and with less clutter and more sharpness in the mix then on previous albums, this is The E Street Band at there leanest, meanest, and most effective to date. And they pull the whole thing off in good rockin' fashion.
The standout tracks on this record come midway through and at the very end of the album. Racing In The Streets, a song about accepting your lot in life and somehow making the best of it, is the most thoughtful balled Springsteen had written to date and paints a vivid picture of a man and woman carrying on in the face of lost dreams and a life wanted that never had a chance to exist for them in the first place. So they just go ahead and do what they have always done, however boring, mundane, or useless. The only other alternative seeming to be "given up livin" altogether. But it's the album closer and title track that brings the whole album home and lays it all to rest. The journey of this album does not end in the shreds of hope and faith and love and simple work that somehow sustained the lives of those struggling in the songs that came before, but it indeed ends right where the title of the album suggests. And it is one of the more powerful tales of loss, desolation, and despair that Springsteen has ever written. 

Coming three years after his breakthrough album Born To Run, which simultaneously found his face on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines hailed as the future of Rock n Roll, Darkness On The Edge Of Town is the first album that Springsteen set out to make that he had real time to create...   .....
Badlands 4:01
Adam Raised A Cain 4:32
Something In The Night 5:12
Candy's Room  2:45
Racing In The Street 6:52
The Promised Land   4:24
Factory 2:17
Streets Of Fire   4:03 
Prove It All Night 3:57
Darkness On The Edge Of Town 4:28                  CONDITION: The cover: rated: MINT in factory cellophane, a perfect copy from over 40+ years ago. Still has the original (scarce) "BADLANDS" STICKER on outside of shrink wrap! Another TOP CONDITION ARTIFACT -  If you are remotely interested - this is the copy you desire!  There are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing  ... 

The vinyl: Rated: MINT = top copy, shines everywhere and plays clear!  both Columbia labels are clean               A cool addition to anyone's music library!






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