Bruce Springsteen – The Live B-Sides CD - USED
This is an unofficial release that Stickfigure acquired as part of a collective. Stickfigure did NOT manufacture this item.
This CD is the same as this listing on Discogs
The CD has very minor scratch marks with very minor marks & finger print marks; it is in VG/VG+ condition. The insert and tray card have very minor crease marks, both are in VG+ condition.
"Among rock music's most iconic figures, Bruce Springsteen often feels like the one who loves and believes in rock & roll the most, eager to re-create the breathless emotions it brings out in him. Embracing the pleasures of the sounds of AM radio in the 1950s and '60s (garage rock, British Invasion, R&B, blue-eyed soul, emotional teen pop) with the literacy of the singer/songwriter movement and a fierce desire to document the lives of the blue-collar world in which he grew up, Springsteen's music was always a grand, ambitious amalgam. (He once said he dreamed of making an album with words like Bob Dylan, sounding like Phil Spector, and with vocals like Roy Orbison.) His sound found full flower on 1973's eclectic The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (which introduced his most important backing group, the E Street Band), and he rose to stardom with 1975's streetwise, sweeping Born to Run. 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town and 1980's The River marked a thematic shift, as his songs addressed the malais of the working class, whose dreams had begun slipping out of reach. This era reached its peak with 1984's blockbuster Born in the U.S.A., but he bristled against the widespread misinterpretation of the title song and the new degree of fame it brought him and retreated into more intimate projects like 1987's Tunnel of Love and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Springsteen returned to the grand, anthemic sound of his best-known work on 2002's impassioned The Rising, and into the 2020s, he divided his attention between straightforward rock efforts like Magic (2007), Wrecking Ball (2012), and High Hopes (2014), and more idiosyncratic projects, such as the big-band folk sound of We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006), the low-key yet cinematic Western Stars (2019), and a collection of vintage soul covers, 2022's Only the Strong Survive. He also began exploring his past work with box sets detailing the creation of his most significant albums (such as 2010's The Promise) and poring over his sizable library of unreleased work (including 2025's Tracks II: The Lost Albums)." - Mark Deming / All Music
