Live/1975-85
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| Box set by Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band | ||
| Released | November 10, 1986 | |
| Recorded | October 18, 1975 – September 30, 1985 at various locations | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 216:13 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Producer(s) | Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band chronology | ||
| Born in the U.S.A. (1984) |
Live/1975-85 (1986) |
Tunnel of Love (1987) |
Live/1975-85 is a live album by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. It consists of 40 tracks recorded from the title era. It was released as a box set with either five vinyl records, three cassettes, or three CDs.
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[edit] History
Two singles were released from the box set: "War" (a cover of the Edwin Starr hit), which was a #8 success on the U.S. pop singles chart, and "Fire" (a Springsteen song already familiar from other artists' recordings of it), which was a disappointment, only reaching #46 on the Billboard charts and breaking Springsteen's string of eight consecutive Top 10 singles. The music video for "War" was from the concert where it was recorded, while the video for "Fire" was from a completely unrelated 1986 acoustic performance at a Bridge School Benefit concert. A third video, for "Born to Run", was also released, which showed a melange of clips from the band's 1984-85 Born in the U.S.A. Tour.
Live/1975-85 is the second-best selling live album in U.S. history, certified by the RIAA for 13-times platinum and trailing only Garth Brooks' Double Live. This figure relects the RIAA accounting practice of counting each record in a multi-record set as a separate unit sold, so the actual physical number of copies sold does not match this amount, but is instead slightly over 4 million. Indeed the box set's sales performance attracted considerable media attention at the time, first for setting records during the 1986 holiday shopping period and leading a boom in CD-based box sets, then later for fizzling out in sales in early 1987, especially after "Fire" failed as a single, and being oversupplied so much that unprecedented returns were taking place from retail outlets, causing talk of a "Boss backlash".
While the album was well-received among casual fans, from the Springsteen faithful there were a number of complaints, mostly centered around the band's legendary 1978 Tour being poorly served and too much lesser material being included from the Born in the U.S.A. Tour.
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Disc one
- "Thunder Road" – 5:46
- Recorded October 18, 1975 at The Roxy Theatre.
- "Adam Raised a Cain" – 5:26
- "Spirit in the Night" – 6:25
- "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" – 6:34
- Recorded December 31, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- "Paradise by the "C"" – 3:54
- "Fire" – 2:51
- Recorded December 16, 1978 at the Winterland.
- Song never released by Springsteen before, although recorded by others.
- "Growin' Up" – 7:58
- "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" – 4:39
- "Backstreets" – 7:35
- "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" – 10:08
- "Raise Your Hand" – 5:01
- "Hungry Heart" – 4:30
- Recorded December 18, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- "Two Hearts" – 3:06
- Recorded July 8, 1981 at Meadowlands Arena.
[edit] Disc two
- "Cadillac Ranch" – 4:52
- "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)" – 3:58
- Recorded December 29, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- "Independence Day" – 5:08
- "Badlands" – 5:17
- Recorded November 5, 1980 at Arizona State University.
- "Because the Night" – 5:19
- Recorded December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- Song never released by Springsteen before, although recorded by others.
- "Candy's Room" – 3:19
- "Darkness on the Edge of Town" – 4:19
- Recorded December 29, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- "Racing in the Street" – 8:12
- "This Land Is Your Land" – 4:21
- Recorded December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum.
- Cover song never released by Springsteen before.
- "Nebraska" – 4:18
- "Johnny 99" – 4:24
- Recorded August 18, 1985 at Giants Stadium.
- "Reason to Believe" – 5:19
- "Born in the U.S.A." – 6:10
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- "Seeds" – 5:14
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- Song never released by Springsteen before.
[edit] Disc three
- "The River" – 11:42
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- "War" – 4:53
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- Cover song never released by Springsteen before.
- "Darlington County" – 5:12
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- "Working on the Highway" – 4:04
- "The Promised Land" – 5:36
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- "Cover Me" – 6:57
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- "I'm on Fire" – 4:26
- "Bobby Jean" – 4:30
- "My Hometown" – 5:13
- Recorded September 30, 1985 at the LA Coliseum.
- This performance previously released as the music video for "My Hometown" single
- "Born to Run" – 5:03
- "No Surrender" – 4:41
- "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" – 4:21
- "Jersey Girl" – 6:30
[edit] Personnel
[edit] The E Street Band
- Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer, background vocals
- Clarence Clemons – saxophone, percussion, background vocals
- Danny Federici – organ, accordion, glockenspiel, keyboards, background vocals
- Nils Lofgren – guitars, background vocals
- Patti Scialfa – synthesizer, background vocals
- Bruce Springsteen – vocals, guitars, harmonica
- Steve Van Zandt – guitars, background vocals
- Max Weinberg – drums
[edit] Additional musicians
- Flo and Eddie (Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman) - backing vocals on "Hungry Heart"
- The Miami Horns (Stan Harrison tenor saxophone, Eddie Manion baritone saxophone, Mark Pender trumpet, Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg trombone) - "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
[edit] Production
- Toby Scott – engineer
