Tracks (album)

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Tracks
Box set by Bruce Springsteen
Released	November 10, 1998
Recorded	various times
Genre	Rock
Length	254:58
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	various
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Bruce Springsteen chronology
The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)	Tracks (1998)	18 Tracks (1999)

Tracks is a four-disc box set by Bruce Springsteen, released in 1998.

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing 2.1 Disc one 2.2 Disc two 2.3 Disc three 2.4 Disc four

[edit] History

Springsteen had an extraordinary number of songs he never put on his albums, making him one of the more heavily bootlegged musicians. This box set includes many songs that were never released, as well as outtakes of some of his other songs.

It starts with Springsteen's audition for John Hammond, the legendary producer who discovered Bob Dylan, and includes mainly unreleased material as well as rare B-sides. As the sleevenotes mention, Springsteen was in the habit of producing albums that were thematically linked even if they were not strictly concept albums; so some tracks that "didn't fit" the theme of the album ended up orphaned.

The four-disc box set was later condensed into an album called 18 Tracks.

A few of the unreleased tracks received fairly regular appearances on the 1999-2000 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reunion Tour. These included "My Love Will Not Let You Down", "I Wanna Be With You" (which had peeked out a #33 appearance on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart), and "Where the Bands Are".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "Mary Queen of Arkansas" – 4:30 Recorded at CBS Studios, NY on 5/3/72
2. "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" – 2:57 Recorded at CBS Studios, NY on 5/3/72
3. "Growin' Up" – 2:42 Recorded at CBS Studios, NY on 5/3/72
4. "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?" – 2:05 Recorded at CBS Studios, NY on 5/3/72
5. "Bishop Danced" – 4:23 Recorded at Max's Kansas City (Live) on 2/19/73
6. "Santa Ana" – 4:39 Recorded at 914 Sound Recording on 6/28/73
7. "Seaside Bar Song" – 3:36 Recorded at 914 Sound Recording on 6/28/73
8. "Zero and Blind Terry" – 5:59 Recorded at 914 Sound Recording on 6/28/73
9. "Linda Let Me Be the One" – 4:29 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 6/28/75
10. "Thundercrack" – 8:30 Recorded at 914 Sound Recording on 6/28/73
11. "Rendezvous" – 2:53 Recorded at The Record Plant (LA Remote) (Live)
12. "Give the Girl a Kiss" – 3:57 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 11/10/77
13. "Iceman" – 3:20 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 10/27/77
14. "Bring on the Night" – 2:42 Recorded at The Power Station on 6/13/79
15. "So Young and in Love" – 3:51 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 1/6/74
16. "Hearts of Stone" – 4:33 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 10/14/77
17. "Don't Look Back" – 3:00 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 7/2/77

[edit] Disc two

1. "Restless Nights" – 3:49 Recorded at The Power Station on 4/11/80
2. "A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)" – 3:19 Recorded at The Power Station on 5/5/82
3. "Roulette" – 3:57 Recorded at The Power Station on 4/3/79
4. "Dollhouse" – 3:36 Recorded at The Power Station on 8/21/79
5. "Where the Bands Are" – 3:47 Recorded at The Power Station on 10/9/79
6. "Loose Ends" – 4:05 Recorded at The Power Station on 7/18/79
7. "Living on the Edge of the World" – 4:21 Recorded at The Power Station on 12/7/79
8. "Wages of Sin" – 4:56 Recorded at The Power Station on 5/10/82
9. "Take 'em as They Come" – 4:32 Recorded at The Power Station on 4/10/80
10. "Be True" – 3:43 Recorded at The Power Station on 7/21/79
11. "Ricky Wants a Man of Her Own" – 2:49 Recorded at The Record Plant, NY on 7/16/77
12. "I Wanna Be With You" – 3:25 Recorded at The Power Station on 5/31/79
13. "Mary Lou" – 3:24 Recorded at The Power Station on 5/30/79
14. "Stolen Car" – 4:33 Recorded at The Power Station on 7/26/79
15. "Born in the U.S.A." – 3:13 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/82
16. "Johnny Bye-Bye" – 1:54 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/83
17. "Shut Out the Light" – 3:51 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 1/83

[edit] Disc three

1. "Cynthia" – 4:17 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 4/20/83
2. "My Love Will Not Let You Down" – 4:28 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 5/5/82
3. "This Hard Land" – 4:52 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 5/11/82
4. "Frankie" – 7:26 Recorded at The Power Station on 5/14/82
5. "TV Movie" – 2:48 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 6/13/83
6. "Stand on It" – 3:09 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 6/16/83
7. "Lion's Den" – 2:21 Recorded at The Power Station on 1/25/82
8. "Car Wash" – 2:10 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 5/31/83
9. "Rockaway the Days" – 4:45 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 2/3/84
10. "Brothers Under the Bridges" – 5:10 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 9/4/83
11. "Man at the Top" – 3:26 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 1/12/84
12. "Pink Cadillac" – 3:38 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 5/31/83
13. "Two for the Road" – 2:02 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording, 2/87
14. "Janey Don't You Lose Heart" – 3:29 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 6/16/83
15. "When You Need Me" – 2:59 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 1/20/87
16. "The Wish" – 5:20 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 2/22/87
17. "The Honeymooners" – 2:09 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 2/22/87
18. "Lucky Man" – 3:30 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 4/4/87

[edit] Disc four

1. "Leavin' Train" – 4:09 Recorded at Oceanway Studios, LA on 2/27/90
2. "Seven Angels" – 3:30 Recorded at Oceanway Studios, LA on 6/29/90
3. "Gave It a Name" – 2:53 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 8/24/98
4. "Sad Eyes" – 3:52 Recorded at Soundworks West, LA on 1/25/90
5. "My Lover Man" – 4:01 Recorded at Soundworks West, LA on 12/4/90
6. "Over the Rise" – 2:42 Recorded at Soundworks West, LA on 12/7/90
7. "When the Lights Go Out" – 3:09 Recorded at The Record Plant, LA on 12/6/90
8. "Loose Change" – 4:24 Recorded at The Record Plant, LA on 1/31/91
9. "Trouble in Paradise" – 4:45 Recorded at Soundworks West, LA on 12/1/89
10. "Happy" – 4:56 Recorded at A & M Studios, LA on 1/18/92
11. "Part Man, Part Monkey" – 4:33 Recorded at Soundworks West, LA 1/90
12. "Goin' Cali" – 3:06 Recorded at A & M Studios, LA on 1/29/91
13. "Back in Your Arms" – 4:44 Recorded at The Hit Factory on 1/12/95
14. "Brothers Under the Bridge" – 4:55 Recorded at Thrill Hill Recording on 5/22/95

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