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| DISC 1: 1. Ties That Bind, The 2. Sherry Darling 3. Jackson Cage 4. Two Hearts 5. Independence Day 6. Hungry Heart 7. Out in the Street 8. Crush on You 9. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) 10. I Wanna Marry You 11. River, The DISC 2: 1. Point Blank 2. Cadillac Ranch 3. I'm a Rocker 4. Fade Away 5. Stolen Car 6. Ramrod 7. Price You Pay, The 8. Drive All Night 9. Wreck on the Highway | |
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| Playing time: | 83 min. |
| Contributing artists: | Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman |
| Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( |
| Recording type: | Studio |
| Recording mode: | Stereo |
| SPAR Code: | AAD |
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| Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar); Steve Van Zandt (guitar); Clarence Clemons (tenor saxophone); Roy Bittan (piano); Danny Federici (organ); Garry Tallent (bass); Max Weinberg (drums); Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan (background vocals). Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Steve Van Zandt. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York. Only Springsteen could have got away with releasing a double album with 19 tracks of what was basically the same song. Such was his standing that he did, and it worked like a dream. Almost all the tracks hit you in the stomach, with burning saxophone from Clarence Clemons and piercing wurlitzer organ. Bruce, meanwhile, sings of cars and girls and girls and cars, but at no stage does he forget that this is rock 'n' roll. With this release Springsteen completed a rite of passage. Described as the "new Dylan" early in his career, the singer proved this tag a fallacy, drawing on Dansette pop - Phil Spector, Gary US Bonds, Mitch Ryder - rather than the folk tradition. The singer articulated the dilemmas of America's blue-collar workforce, encapsulating a generation trapped in a post-60s malaise. He does so with sumptuous melodies which draw in, rather than confront, the listener and show Springsteen not just as a magnetic showman, but as a pensive, literate songwriter. | |
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| Ranked #86 in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Albums Of The Eighties survey (November 1989). Rolling Stone 3 Stars - Good - ...may yet prove to be the greatest evocation of Springsteen's vision, laden as equally with childhood memories and first sex as with life's current disillusions and stale sex....[the title track is] impossibly beautiful... Q (12/01/1994) ...THE RIVER's got cars, girls, sex, unemployment and alcohol; when you've got a hot band behind you, making all that stuff resonate, well, brother, that's called rock'n'roll. CMJ (11/15/1999) | |
All rights reserved.Use the link below to view: <<<< Our Other Ebay Auctions >>>> Media1one is proud to offer: Bruce Springsteen - The River 2 CD Set (Mint CDs (Security Seal In Tact), Case Shows Slight Wear, Inserts In Mint Condition). Contains the hit songs (See Complete listing below): Hungry Heart, Cadillac Ranch, Fade Away, I'm A Rocker, Point Blank, Ramrod & (14 More Songs). This CD is a must have if you love the music of Bruce Springsteen!!! Album Review: Imbedded within the double-disc running time of The River is a single-disc album that follows up on the themes and sound of Darkness on the Edge of Town — wide-screen, midtempo rock and stories of the disillusionment of working-class life and the conflicts within families. In these songs, which include the title track, "Independence Day," and "Point Blank," Bruce Springsteen's world-view is just as dire as it had become on Darkness, but less judgmental. "Independence Day," for example, is a father-and-son ballad that has little of the anger of its hard rock counterpart on Darkness, "Adam Raised a Cain." Springsteen's heroes again seek to overcome their crushing troubles through defiance and by driving around, and though "The River" repeats the soured love theme of "Racing in the Street," he also posits romance as a possible escape, sometimes combining it with one of the other solutions, as on the eight-plus-minute "Drive All Night." But there is also another album lurking within The River, and it is a more lighthearted pop/rock collection of short, sometimes humorous songs like "Sherry Darling" and "I'm a Rocker." At times Springsteen combines elements of the two, as on "Out in the Street," perhaps the album's quintessential song, a catchy, uptempo number that sounds like something from the early '60s and echoes the theme of the Vogues' 1966 hit "Five O'Clock World." "Hungry Heart," which became Springsteen's first Top Ten hit, combines a rollicking musical track with a more sober lyrical theme that emphasizes longing over disappointment. But a better guide to Springsteen's development are the songs "Stolen Car" and the album-closing "Wreck on the Highway," gentle, moody ballads imbued with a sense of hopelessness that anticipate his next record, Nebraska. We return + feedback for all completed auctions and hope that buyer will do the same. Payment methods: all major credit cards via paypal, paypal fund transfers. Domestic (USA, Canada & Mexico) Buyer pays $2.99 shipping & handling on this CD. International Bidders to pay $7.00. Check our auctions for other new, used and rare CD's & to save shipping. Thank you and happy bidding! Click here to view our current Ebay Auctions 
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