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All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Born to Run 2. Thunder Road 3. Badlands 4. River, The 5. Hungry Heart 6. Atlantic City 7. Dancing in the Dark 8. Born in the U.S.A. 9. My Hometown 10. Glory Days 11. Brilliant Disguise 12. Human Touch 13. Better Days 14. Streets of Philadelphia 15. Secret Garden - ('95) 16. Murder Incorporated - (previously unreleased) 17. Blood Brothers - ('95) 18. This Hard Land - ('95)
Album Notes Personnel includes: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, bass, percussion); Steve Van Zandt (acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, background vocals); Nils Lofgren (guitar); Clarence Clemons (saxophone, percussion, background vocals); Roy Bittan (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, synthesizer, glockenspiel, background vocals); Danny Federici (piano, organ, keyboards, glockenspiel, background vocals); David Sancious (keyboards); Garry Tallent (bass, background vocals); Randy Jackson (bass); Max Weinberg (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jeff Porcaro (drums, percussion); Ernest "Boom" Carter (drums); Patti Scialfa, Flo & Eddie (background vocals). Producers include: Bruce Springsteen, Mike Appel, Jon Landau, Steve Van Zandt, Chuck Plotkin. Engineers: Louis Lahav, Jimmy Iovine, Neil Dorfsman, Toby Scott. Includes liner notes by Bruce Springsteen. "Streets Of Philadelphia" won 1995 Grammy Awards for Song Of The Year, Best Male Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or For Television. "Streets Of Philadelphia" was also nominated for Record Of The Year. You can grumble about the early romps that aren't here--what, no "Rosalita"?--or about your favorite B-side not being included, but the fact is these are the songs that have lasted through Bruce Springsteen's first two decades, and you could hardly ask for more Springsteen on a single disc. This really is the cream. The four blockbusters that open GREATEST HITS weren't actually hits--"Born To Run" peaked at #23 on the charts, "Badlands" didn't break the top 40, and the other two weren't singles at all--but they laid down the rules for all the hits that followed and they've remained concert and rock radio staples. "Born To Run" wraps a restless American dream into one of the most rollicking rock 'n' roll singles ever made; the latter couple find the dreamer waking up and finding real folk struggling with that dream everywhere he looks. What follows is one of the greatest strings of singles to ever deal head-on with that confrontation between dreams and realities. The four new songs on GREATEST HITS find Springsteen finally finding a way to incorporate his E Street Band--which hadn't performed on a studio album for 11 years before this--into his current infatuation with mellower, though no less hard-hitting rock. "Murder Incorporated" is actually an E Street outtake from 1982, and it's an all-out, searing track. The others, all 1995 recordings (though "This Hard Land" was also written in the early eighties) form a cycle about unrealized dreams, in love, friendship and life. Editorial Reviews Entertainment Weekly (03/10/1995) Rolling Stone (04/06/1995) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||
Reviews Review created: 07/04/08 by: Fast ssrvice, CD in good condition, would buy from seller again......................... Review ID: 10000000007804250 Was this review helpful? Report this review Review created: 07/03/08 by: sucks sucks sucks sucks suckssssssssssssssssssssssssss Review ID: 10000000007797433 Was this review helpful? Report this review Review created: 11/08/07 by: The boss was great but I like his early songs better. It's a very good selling compilation, but I think his greatest hits were early w/ Born to Run & Darkness on the edge of town. This compilation have everything that came after those awesome albums. Review ID: 10000000004644591 Was this review helpful? Report this review A lot of the best song that made him the singer, song write that he is today.If your a fan of the boss's you will like this album. The only problem i have with it is it doesnt go back to his roots, I would have liked to seen it go back to Asbury park an the other early work he did, but they didnt ask me befor they put this album out Review ID: 10000000002450967 Was this review helpful? Report this review I bought the CD to exercise to. I run marathons and put 40 to 60 miles a week on my legs. I love to run to the tunes. The CD was in all I expected. The seller was great. Shipping, etc, was all performed as it was explained. Ron Review ID: 10000000001552473 Was this review helpful? Report this review |
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