- Audio CD (29 Jun 1992)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sony Music
- ASIN: B0000269WV
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,282 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bruce will have rich reward in heaven,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street... (Audio CD)
Really its all great but weeping lord, Rosalita is beyond words awesome. Being a bit of an ex grunge god and all round alt. rock man i got into the boss via Nebraska. But Rosalita just sums up everything good about Rock n Roll in a very short seven minutes and must be heard over and over and over and over again. Then listened to some more. God bless Bruce Springsteen, he'll get his own angel just for that one song.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Lost Classic - The Springsteen I much prefer!,
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This review is from: The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle (Audio CD)
This is one of my favourite albums of all time! And everything that has been written by the other reviewers is correct - this is Bruce Springsteen's best album, it easily outshines his most successful albums ('Born to Run' and 'Born in the USA'), and it is sadly overlooked by the record buying public.
Just listen to the first three tracks - "E Street Shuffle", "4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)", and "Kitty's Back" - and realise what the world lost when Springsteen turned his back on the more jazzy side of his muse and focused on his rock leanings. And then listen to "Wild Billy's Circus Story" - possibly the saddest song ever written (and definitely the only one with the lyric "Elephants dance real funky") - and weep that this album isn't held in the same esteem as "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Sgt Pepper's". It really is that good - and it's the only Springsteen CD I can listen to all the way through without reaching for the skip button. Do yourself a favour, get this CD in ya life: you won't regret it!!
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One Of The Greatest Albums Never Heard? (2),
By A Customer
This review is from: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street... (Audio CD)
In contrast to what was to emerge with its follow-up, "Born To Run", "The Wild, The Innocent.." still finds Springsteen observing life from down on the city street corner, rather than heading out on the highway (in cinematic terms think Scorsese's Mean Streets rather than Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show). Yet then to fully assume the mantle of "the last of the rock & roll true believers" (to quote Rolling Stone), Springsteen pleasingly betrays here a very different set of influences from those of Elvis, Spector and Orbison, which would so obviously come to the fore over the remainder of the decade. Still in the story telling mode which characterised his debut album ("Greetings From Ashbury Park...") (and which was to have him burdened with the unfortunate but understandable "New Dylan" tag) "The Wild, The Innocent.." is, however, an obvious step forward. His debut's gratuitous word play is substituted here for a relaxed assurance, confidence and, above all, soul (in this respect check out the albums two explicit love songs: the beautiful "4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" and the pulsating "Rosalita"). Springsteen's epic ambition is fully realised here then for the first time (the scope of New York Serenade, in particular, is quite astounding) and, arguably, Springsteen has never sounded better - certainly never more interesting. Drawing on everyone from Dylan and Guthrie to Kerouac, Salvation Army bands, to Laura Nyro (compare this album to her "Eli & The Thirteenth Confession, 1968 " and "Christmas & The Beads Of Sweat, 1970), to Memphis soul to what sounds at times almost like a collection of half- remembered Wild West TV show themes from his youth, Springsteen assembles a disparate set of loose elements and melds them into a awe inspiring urban soap opera, which swings and swoops with a joyful indulgence he has never attempted again. Amongst a largely indispensible back catalogue, "The Wild, The Innocent.." stands out as perhaps the forgotten chapter (along with "Nebraska") of the Springsteen myth. This really is a quite remarkable album. Buy it and banish those mid-eighties arena rock caricatures forever!
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