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Live 1975-1985
 
 
Live 1975-1985 [Live] [Box set]
~ Bruce Springsteen (Artist)
4.8 out of 5 stars  (12 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (24 April 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Live, Box set
  • Label: Columbia
  • ASIN: B0000264T7
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,040 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Thunder Road
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Spirit In The Night
4. 4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)
5. Paradise by the "C"
6. Fire
See all 40 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Cadillac ranch
2. You can look (but you better not touch)
3. Independence day
4. Badlands
5. Because the night
6. Candy's room
See all 14 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. The River
2. War
3. Darlington County
4. Working on the highway
5. The Promised land
6. Cover me
See all 13 tracks on this disc

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
To say that Springsteen's live shows with the E Street Band were legendary is the height of understatement. On a good night, the set might extend to three and four hours of exhilarating, pulse-pounding rock & roll. How best to capture that on CD? Or was it possible at all? As it turns out, Live 1975-1985 comes as close to the experience as possible. Culling material from various tours, with settings ranging from small rooms to stadiums, the three-CD set emphatically displays Springsteen's charisma as a bandleader and storyteller and makes plain the sheer power of the E Street Band. Some of the many highlights here include covers of Edwin Starr's "War", Tom Waits's "Jersey Girl" and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" and rare versions of originals such as "Because the Night", "Fire" and "Seeds". And relax--all the hits are here as well. If you never saw Springsteen and the E Streeters back then, you might still get your chance. But this set chronicles a special time in the life of a special performer. --Daniel Durchholz

Description
There's one song from a 1975 show, which makes the title ofthis box set true in the literal sense, and eight from a 1978 appearance at the Roxy in Los Angeles, but in essence this is Bruce Springsteen in the '80s--physically huge, politically charged and desperate to connect. You get the sense this is no accident. LIVE/1975-85 easily could have been a celebration of Springsteen's rise to rock & roll fame, instead, it's a concerted effort to make something of it. Almost all of LIVE/1975-85 was recorded in arenas and stadiums and almost all of it is intent on spreading a message.
The cover song that resonates most isn't the party encore "Raise Your Hand"(from 1978) but the anti-war chant "War" (from 1985). The most astonishing sequence of songs is all acoustic and almost all angry: Woody Guthrie's protest song "This Land Is Your Land" and Springsteen's own "Nebraska", "Johnny 99" and "Reason To Believe". With its reverberant keyboards and a haunting intro that quotes the soul classic "Nowhere to Run", even the love song "Cover Me" sounds like some sort of protest. There's lots of celebrating and rocking here, too, but mostly there's lots to think about.