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Re-mastered From Original Analogue Masters By Bob Ludwig! 180g Vinyl 8LP Box Set! Bruce Springsteen’s first seven albums, remastered on LP for the first time ever!

Bruce Springsteen’s first seven albums, remastered on LP for the first time ever.

“Last Thursday, at the Harvard Square theatre, I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.”
--Jon Landau, The Real Paper, May 22, 1974

"...the sound here is for the most part superior to the original pressings to which I compared them (I’m missing a few and hope to have them here soon just for the “academic exercise”). I think Bruce fans will be thrilled with the box’s sonics, the well-done packaging and the full sized “scrap-book” booklet filled with memorabilia and reviews... These records were all well-pressed physically and had velvet-black backgrounds... A well done production from Legacy that’s easy to recommend to Springsteen fans and detractors alike." - Michael Fremer,  , 9/11 Music, 8/11 Sound

This is it. For the first time ever, Legacy Recordings revisits one of the greatest discographies in rock and roll history: the first seven unforgettable albums recorded and released by Bruce Springsteen for Columbia Records between 1973 and 1984 are remastered and reissued on LP as an exciting box set. Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984 features some of the most acclaimed works of the 20th century: six of these albums placed on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, five of them were Billboard Top 10 hits and all of them, combined, account for more than 34 million albums shipped in the United States.

The story of Bruce Springsteen has long been etched into the firmament of rock and roll. To some, he is the poet of the Jersey shore who wrote complex characters that appealed to the young and the hopeful across the nation (and later, the world). To others, he’s a studio perfectionist who tinkered with Dylanesque folk, deep-rooted, intellectually and politically astute rock and soul, and a sense of production grandeur to rival Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound.

Some laud him as a brilliant bandleader, turning the sprawling E Street Band (including the outsized musical personalities of guitarist Steven Van Zandt, bassist Garry Tallent, drummer Max Weinberg, keyboardists Roy Bittan and Danny Federici and the Big Man himself, saxophonist Clarence Clemons) into one of the tightest ensembles in rock and roll history, and a recent inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s sidemen category. Still others find him a brilliant if reluctant pop star crafting taut, heavy-hitters tailor-made for FM radio—including “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” “Born To Run,” “Hungry Heart,” “Dancing In The Dark,” “Born In The U.S.A.,” “Glory Days” and more.

Whoever Springsteen is to you, this comprehensive review of the works that made him a star, spanning from 1973 to 1984, is your chance to discover or rediscover him in a big way. Acclaimed engineer Bob Ludwig, working under the personal supervision of Springsteen and longtime engineer Toby Scott, has impeccably mastered these albums, all newly transferred from the original analogue masters. Using the Plangent Process playback system, noted for its ability to correct pitch errors and other distortions in the magnetic tape, this is, hands down, the most detailed take on Springsteen’s high-energy studio performances anywhere.

Fans around the world have craved remastered versions of Springsteen’s beloved studio albums (including the opening one-two punch of his career in 1973, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle). That time has finally arrived: The Album Collection Vol. 1 is comprised of remastered editions of the first seven albums recorded and released by Bruce Springsteen for Columbia Records between 1973 and 1984. The seven albums are recreations of their original packaging and are accompanied by a 60-page book featuring rarely-seen photos, memorabilia and original press clippings from Springsteen's first decade as a recording artist. Acclaimed engineer Bob Ludwig, working with Springsteen and longtime engineer Toby Scott, has remastered these albums, all newly transferred from the Original Analogue Masters using the Plangent Process playback system.

You’ve never heard them like this.

ABOUT THE ALBUMS:

Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
Springsteen’s first album was an intriguing introduction to the artist’s distinctive gift for Dylanesque lyrical wordplay. Lead track “Blinded By The Light” later became a chart-topper for Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, while songs like “For You” and “Spirit In The Night” remain staples of Bruce’s live act.

The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle (1973)
Bruce Springsteen’s sophomore album featured a more cinematic style of songwriting, with the kind of outsized suburban characters that would become Springsteen’s calling card (“4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” “Incident on 57th Street,” “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”). It also featured a crucial sonic addition to the nascent E Street Band: organist Danny Federici joined keyboardist David Sancious, bassist Garry Tallent, drummer Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez and saxophonist Clarence Clemons in the band’s ranks.

Born To Run (1975)
It was make or break time for Bruce when his third album was released; fortunately, he delivered an album that established him as the voice of a generation and one of the strongest acts in American rock and roll. Born To Run joined together Bruce’s evocative lyrical gifts, grandiose arrangements that recalled Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and the shaggy jam-band prowess of his live ensemble, The E Street Band (now featuring the talents of additional pianist Roy Bittan, drummer Max Weinberg and Springsteen’s longtime musical partner Steven Van Zandt). The result: an album that almost immediately became a Top 5 smash, earning Springsteen cover stories in Time and Newsweek in the same week and resting atop scores of greatest-albums-of-all-time-lists, from Rolling Stone to VH1.

Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978)
Bouncing back from a series of protracted legal battles that kept him out of the studio for nearly three years—a relative eternity at the time—Springsteen delivered a decidedly different sort of album with Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The grandiose production and lyrical scene-setting of previous works was now replaced by a more singular songwriting voice, more aware of himself and the world around him; from this new direction came celebrated crowd-pleasers like “Badlands” and “The Promised Land.”

The River (1980)
Springsteen’s fifth album was an ambitious summary of his greatest musical strengths to that point, sprawling over the length of two LPs. The River continued the themes of deep introspection and reflection on difficult times in the United States previously explored on Darkness (“The Ties That Bind,” “Independence Day”) but also showcased some of his most exuberant songs, such as the Top 5 single “Hungry Heart” and the party-ready tracks “Ramrod” and “Cadillac Ranch.”

Nebraska (1982)
One of the most challenging albums of Springsteen’s career, Nebraska, a collection of stark home solo demo recordings, features haunted, difficult characters making choices in Reagan-era America that offered little of the salvation or redemption that frequently served as hallmarks of Bruce’s other works. The result was one of the most critically appreciated albums of Springsteen’s celebrated career.

Born In The U.S.A. (1984)
Another thrilling about-face in Bruce’s unpredictable journey through rock and roll, Born In The U.S.A. features some of the most radio-friendly performances in Springsteen’s entire discography, which brilliantly disguise much of the emotional turmoil simmering underneath (case in point: the anthemic title track, a harrowing tale of a Vietnam veteran that Ronald Reagan attempted to co-opt for his presidential re-election campaign). Altogether, Born In The U.S.A. amassed seven Top 10 hits, including “Dancing In The Dark,” “Glory Days” and “I’m Goin’ Down,” and the album became 1985’s biggest-selling LP, spending 84 weeks in Billboard’s Top 10.

Features:
• 180g Vinyl Box set
• 7 Albums (8 LPs in all)
• Remastered for first time ever
• Remastered From Original Analogue Masters By Bob Ludwig!
• Features the most beloved recordings of Springsteen’s career, including “Born To Run,” “Hungry Heart,” “Dancing In The Dark,” “Born In The U.S.A.”
• Lift-Off Top Style 13" x 13" x 2" Box
• Box set features all albums packaged in faithful recreations of original LP sleeves and accompanying book of rare memorabilia and photos
• 60-page Book
• Includes limited time download insert

Selections:
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
Side 1:
1. Blinded By the Light
2. Growin' Up
3. Mary Queen of Arkansas
4. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
5. Lost In the Flood
Side 2:
1. The Angel
2. For You
3. Spirit In the Night
4. It's Hard To Be A Saint In the City

The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle (1973)
Side 1:
1. The E Street Shuffle
2. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
3. Kitty's Back
4. Wild Billy's Circus Story
Side 2:
1. Incident On 57th Street
2. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
3. New York City Serenade

Born to Run (1975)
Side 1:
1. Thunder Road
2. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
3. Night
4. Backstreets
Side 2:
1. Born To Run
2. She's The One
3. Meeting Across the River
4. Jungleland

Darkness On the Edge of Town (1978)
Side 1:
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In the Night
4. Candy's Room
5. Racing In the Street
Side 2:
1. The Promised Land
2. Factory
3. Streets of Fire
4. Prove It All Night
5. Darkness On the Edge of Town

The River (1980) (2LP)
LP1 - Side 1:
1. The Ties That Bind
2. Sherry Darling
3. Jackson Cage
4. Two Hearts
5. Independence Day
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Hungry Heart
2. Out In the Street
3. Crush On You
4. You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
5. I Wanna Marry You
6. The River
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Point Blank
2. Cadillac Ranch
3. I'm A Rocker
4. Fade Away
5. Stolen Car
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Ramrod
2. The Price You Pay
3. Drive All Night
4. Wreck On the Highway

Nebraska (1982)
Side 1:
1. Nebraska
2. Atlantic City
3. Mansion On the Hill
4. Johnny 99
5. Highway Patrolman
6. State Trooper
Side 2:
1. Used Cars
2. Open All Night
3. My Father's House
4. Reason To Believe

Born In the U.S.A. (1984)
Side 1:
1. Born In the U.S.A.
2. Cover Me
3. Darlington County
4. Working On the Highway
5. Downbound Train
6. I'm On Fire
Side 2:
1. No Surrender
2. Bobby Jean
3. I'm Goin' Down
4. Glory Days
5. Dancing In the Dark
6. My Hometown

THESE TWO TREMENDOUSLY RARE 10 & 12 INCH EP SINGLES

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This truly fine E.P., Bruce's release for Record Store Day this year (along with his uncredited playing on Ronnie Spector's superb 1977 single reissue), this features three definite outtakes for the underrated High Hopes album, a great album excepting "This Is Your Sword," and one more song that may have been re-recorded for that ("Hurry Up Sundown", it's uncertain here).

The title track here is a very Stones-y song, that shares the exact same melody - but slower - as Frankie Fell In Love, which itself is based on Little Steven's Lost Boys' song "Affection" from his great lost Lost Boys CD, "Nobody Loves And Leaves Alive." (All three have a very Rolling Stones sound, none more than the Lost Boys; it's on the Sopranos' "Peppers And Eggs" soundtrack if you haven't heard it).

Bruce plays a million instruments on this really lush, beautiful production.
He is joined on this by a name I recognize; the drummer from The Vandals, who is also on "Hurry Up Sundown". Both artists did Heartbreak Hotel live, makes sense.

Mary Mary has the basic rhythm as "We Take Care of Our Own," though more in the style of the song "Leah" from the Devils and Dust album. The chorus gives pause as to how original this is, or if Mike Nesmith deserves a credit. But it overall sounds nothing like The Monkees' song, or the Paul Butterfield Blues Band song, of the same name.
Thank goodness Bruce held onto this song, or we might never have had the incredible "We Take Care Of Our Own" from the GREAT Wrecking Ball album.
A song originally recorded for Magic, about a man missing a woman named Mary - Bruce's favorite female name

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Limited Edition 180g Double Vinyl with Bonus CD of the Entire Album!

Marking his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball features 11 new Springsteen recordings and was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen and executive producer Jon Landau.

Long-time manager Jon Landau stated the record is an ambitious "big-picture piece of work. It's a rock record that combines elements of both Bruce's classic sound and his Seeger Sessions experience, with new textures and styles".  The record has "social overtones" and a "very pronounced spiritual dimension" adds Landau.  "It extends and deepens the vision that has animated all of Bruce's work".

"Wrecking Ball" is a "musical narrative" from Bruce's perspective on the state of the world in 2011-2012, including the US economy, US politics, and other social commentaries.

The album includes E Street band members, guitarist Tom Morello, former Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlain, and others. Featuring the single "We Take Care Of Our Own."

Features:
• Limited Edition
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Includes CD of album

Selections:
LP 1
1. We Take Care of Our Own
2. Easy Money
3. Shackled and Drawn
4. Jack of All Trades
5. Death To My Hometown
6. This Depression
LP 2
1. Wrecking Ball
2. You've Got It
3. Rocky Ground
4. Land of Hope and Dreams
5. We Are Alive

2007 Grammy Award Winner for Traditional Folk Album of the Year!

Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 21st album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. The album features Bruce's personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the album is named. Speaking of the origins of the new music, Springsteen said, "So much of my writing, particularly when I write acoustically, comes straight out of the folk tradition. Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds...they can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words."

According to Springsteen's longtime manager Jon Landau, "We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions has a lightness and ease to it, a sheer joyfulness, that makes it very special from top to bottom. Bruce has taken a core group of classic American songs and transformed them into a high energy, modern and very personal statement."

Features:
• 13 Traditional songs associated with the legendary Pete Seeger
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Includes "Pay Me My Money Down" and "John Henry"

Musicians:
Bruce Springsteen - guitar, harmonica, B3 organ, percussion, backing vocals
Sam Bardfeld, violin
Art Baron, tuba
Frank Bruno, guitar
Jeremy Chatzy, upright bass
Mark Clifford, banjo
Larry Eagle, drums, percussion
Charles Giordano, B3 organ, piano, accordion
Ed Manion, saxophone
Mark Pender, trumpet, backing vocals
Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg, trombone, backing vocals
Soozie Tyrell, violin, backing vocals
Lisa Lowell, backing vocals
Patti Scialfa, backing vocals

Selections:
LP 1
1. Old Dan Tucker
2. Jesse James
3. Mrs. McGrath
4. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
5. John Henry
6. Erie Canal
7. Jacob's Ladder
LP 2
1. My Oklahoma Home
2. Eyes on the Prize
3. Shenandoah
4. Pay Me My Money Down
5. We Shall Overcome
6. Froggie Went A-Courtin

2009 Grammy Award Winner for:
• 'Best Rock Song'(Girls In Their Summer Clothes)

2008 Grammy Award Winner for:
• 'Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance' (Radio Nowhere)
• 'Best Rock Song' (Radio Nowhere)

Elusive Disc recommended!

'Magic' is the first new studio album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since 2002's GRAMMY Award-winning, multi-platinum, number one album 'The Rising' (Columbia Records). Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, the album features eleven new Springsteen songs and was recorded at Southern Tracks Recording Studio in Atlanta, GA.

Bruce Springsteen's longtime manager Jon Landau said, "'Magic' is a high energy rock (album). It's light on its feet, incredibly well played by Bruce and the members of the E Street Band, and, as always, has plenty to say. It's also immensely entertaining. 'Magic' is the third collaboration between Bruce and Brendan O'Brien and is a culmination of their very productive creative relationship."

The lead single will be "Radio Nowhere," a track Landau says "has a real anthemic quality to it. If it doesn't get you out of your seat, I don't know what will." -   

"Magic is, in one way, the most openly nostalgic record Springsteen has ever made. The arrangements, the performances and Brendan O’Brien’s wall-of-surf production are mined with echoes and near-direct quotes of classic records, including Springsteen’s: the early-Sixties beach-radio bounce of “Girls in Their Summer Clothes‚” the overcast-Pet Sounds orchestration of “Your Own Worst Enemy‚”the “Jungleland” ring of Roy Bittan’s piano rainfall in “I’ll Work for Your Love.” “You’ll Be Comin’ Down” sounds like it strutted over from The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. “Livin’ in the Future” is “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” with a new, thick coat of twang and a full tank of lust. After wrapping himself in a thousand fiddles on The Seeger Sessions, Springsteen has rediscovered the boardwalk-dance-party power of Born to Run and the Mitch Ryder and Jackie DeShannon encore covers in his 1975 and ‘78 shows." - David Frick, 5 Star Review from Rolling Stone

"In a case like [Magic], a listener can criticize the sound quality all they want. But when the artist owns his own masters and is in total control, the record sounds exactly like they wanted it to. ...on a really good sound system, it sounds a little bit warmer on vinyl." - Bob Ludwig

Selections:
1. Radio Nowhere
2. You'll Be Comin' Down
3. Livin' in the Future
4. Your Own Worst Enemy
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
7. I'll Work for Your Love
8. Magic
9. Last to Die
10. Long Walk Home
11. Devil's Arcade

2010 Grammy Award Winner for:
• 'Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance' (Working On a Dream)
• 'Producer of the Year, Non Classical' (Brendan O'Brien)

"Working on a Dream" was recorded with the E Street Band and features twelve new Springsteen compositions plus one bonus track. It is the fourth collaboration between Springsteen and Brendan O'Brien, who produced and mixed the album.

"Working on a Dream" is Bruce Springsteen's twenty-fourth album and was recorded and mixed at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, GA with additional recording in New York City, Los Angeles, and New Jersey.

Features:
• Double LP
• 180 Gram Vinyl
• Includes mp3 Download of the entire album

Selections:
LP 1
1. Outlaw Pete
2. My Lucky Day
3. Working On a Dream
4. Queen of the Supermarket
5. What Love Can Do
LP 2
1. This Life
2. Good Eye
3. Tomorrow Never Knows
4. Life Itself
5. Kingdom of Days
6. Surprise, Surprise
7. The Last Carnival
8. The Wrestler

LIVE -  Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band Live In Dublin 3LP SET

3LP Live Set!

Bruce Springsteen performed with The Sessions Band at Point Theatre in Dublin Ireland November 17-19, 2006. The album contains in-concert performances beginning with "Atlantic City", moving on to "My Oklahoma Home" and eventually ending with "We Shall Overcome".

Features

3LP

Live performance

Triple gatefold

Limited time digital download

Selections

LP One

SIDE 1:

Atlantic City

Old Dan Tucker

Eyes On The Prize

Jesse James

SIDE 2:

Further On (Up The Road)

O Mary Don't You Weep

Erie Canal

If I Should Fall Behind

LP Two

SIDE 1:

My Oklahoma Home

Highway Patrolman

Mrs. McGrath

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live (Bruce Springsteen Version)

SIDE 2:

Jacob's Ladder

Long Time Comin'

Open All Night

LP Three

SIDE 1:

Pay Me My Money Down

Growin' Up

When The Saints Go Marching In

This Little Light Of Mine

American Land

SIDE 2:

Blinded By The Light

Love Of The Common People

We Shall Overcome

Bruce Springsteen Springsteen On Broadway 4 LP LIMITED EDITION SET

 Unique Personal Performance By 'The Boss' On 4LP Set!