In the liner notes to his volume of Columbia's Essential series, Bruce Springsteen immediately lays out the problem with hits collections: "In any body of work there are obvious high points. The rest depends on who's doing the listening. Where you were, when it was, who you were with when a particular song or album cut the deepest." All artists have this problem, but Springsteen has it more than most, since he not only has a deep and varied body of work, but he has a passionate, dedicated fan bas...   [ read more ]

CD $15.19

Bruce Springsteen had become increasingly downcast as a songwriter during his recording career, and his pessimism bottomed out with Nebraska. But Born in the U.S.A., his popular triumph, which threw off seven Top Ten hits and became one of the best-selling albums of all time, trafficked in much the same struggle, albeit set to galloping rhythms and set off by chiming guitars. That the witless wonders of the Reagan regime attempted to co-opt the title track as an election-year campaign song wasn...   [ read more ]

CD $9.49

VINYL FORMAT. This is the first in Blast First Petite's year-long series of monthly(ish) limited edition 10" vinyl EPs celebrating the 70th birthday of Suicide's Alan Vega. The first track is "The Boss" himself Bruce Springsteen doing a cover of "Dream Baby Dream," live from his 2005 Devils & Dust Tour -- exclusively available here. Totally haunting and unexpected! The flipside features Suicide performing that song on the Midnight Special live TV show in 1978 -- recently recovered from a lost Suicide vault...   [ read more ]

10" $15.99

Other people also bought:

Gossip  Standing in the Way of Control, TV on the Radio  Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes , Lydia Lunch | Suicide  Frankie Teardrop