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Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska (1982/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:47 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Rock
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Recorded on four-track cassette in his New Jersey bedroom, Nebraska has proved one of Springsteen’s most enduring works, a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching not for salvation through music but simply a reason to believe. His sixth record, Springsteen appeared by himself without the E Street Band backing him up. He later recording with the band, but ultimately chose to put out the demos for a more natural sound.
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Bruce Springsteen – Magic (2007/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:48 minutes | 998 MB | Genre: Rock
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Springsteen reconvened the E-Street Band for 11 new songs on Magic, noting that the album’s title refers to the “times when what’s true can be made to seem like a lie, and what’s a lie can be made to seem true.” Magic debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart, and singles “Radio Nowhere” and “Girls in their Summer Clothes” each won Grammys for Best Rock Song.
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Bruce Springsteen – Lucky Town (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:38 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Rock
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Reportedly, Bruce Springsteen recorded most of Human Touch in 1990, but left it unreleased. He returned to work in the fall of 1991, intending to add a song, but ended up recording a whole new album, Lucky Town, and then decided to release both records at the same time in the spring of 1992. He might have been better off pulling a couple of the stronger songs from the earlier album, adding them to the later one (which runs less than 40 minutes), and shelving the rest. While Human Touch was a disappointing album of second-rate material, Lucky Town is an ambitious collection addressing many of Springsteen’s major concerns and moving them forward. Here was the rage and the humor, the sense of compassion, the loyalty and commitment that had been the stuff of Springsteen’s best music from the beginning. Songs like “Better Days” and “Local Hero” commented on and deflated the commercial success with which Springsteen clearly felt uncomfortable; “If I Should Fall Behind” and “Book of Dreams” expressed romantic fidelity and generosity; “Souls of the Departed” contained scathing social commentary; and “My Beautiful Reward” was a meditative epilogue. The lyrics were better, the arrangements tighter, the performances more powerful than those on the companion release. If Lucky Town, like Tunnel of Love and Human Touch before it, sounded a little under-produced, it nevertheless had the mark of the major artist Springsteen is, and if he had released it alone, it might have had a more significant impact.
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Bruce Springsteen – Lucky Town (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:38 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Rock
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Lucky Town is the tenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on March 31, 1992, the same day as the Human Touch album.
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Bruce Springsteen – Letter To You (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:23 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
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In 2019, as he blows out his 70 candles, The Boss releases Western Stars, an album out of sync with his own shots and unlike anything he has recorded so far. Ciao the E Street Band, its efficient group of movers that makes the stadiums rise, hello strings, brass and choirs ! The boss was transformed with this record into Glen Campbell of the third millennium, detaching himself from the present time, playing more the timeless card of innocence and nonchalance rather than that of resistance and defiance… a year later, Bruce Springsteen’s state of mind is not quite the same. For this Letter to You, he brought his E Street Band-or what’s left of it since the disappearances of Danny Federici (2008) and Clarence Clemons (2011) – to his home studio in New Jersey to record twelve songs in just five days ! This is far from the fourteen months it took Born To Run in 1974. The success of Letter To You owes much to this almost informal and organic context, looking like a meeting between old friends. The opening ballad, One Minute You’re Here, places this twentieth studio album under the sign of a certain nostalgia. As if Springsteen were singing in sepia, we would listen to it as we would leaf through an album of photos of loved ones more of this world and disfigured or disappeared places. He confides in himself more than he talks about invented characters. The effective single that gives its title to the album is there to reassure fans of the Golden Age of the E Street Band. Like the bodybuilder Burnin ‘ Train that we imagine already taken in heart at XXL concerts or the demented Ghosts, umpteenth demonstration that we can always make new with (very) old, on which he sings who he is, what he does and why everyone jumps in the pool with him. The whole album is so. As anchored in the Springsteen of the seventies. In this unadorned rock’n’roll energy, that only the voice of the boss, chiseled by the years, makes us understand that it dates well from 2020 and not from 1980. The perfect packaging for songs, often tubesque and introspective, that are just as much. Finally, the real surprise of this record is to hear a Springsteen even more at the top of his art than usual…
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Bruce Springsteen – In Concert/MTV Plugged (Live) (1992/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:41 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Rock
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During the 1990s and 2000s, all the stars paraded in front of the cameras of MTV to perform live acoustic. From Oasis to Jay-Z, not forgetting Nirvana, Neil Young, Alicia Keys, Lauryn Hill, Hole, Alice In Chains, Maxwell or even Kiss, everyone came to prove that by unplugging the amps they can still hold their own… Bruce Springsteen could hardly avoid this challenge. On September 22, 1992, at Warner Hollywood Studios in Los Angeles, while he was about to start his tour Human Touch/Lucky Town without the then separate E Street Band, he boxed up his own MTV Unplugged. Apart from the Boss cheated: his unplugged is in fact… plugged in! It begins with an acoustic of Red Headed Womanbut the twelve tracks that follow are very much electric. Eight of them come from Human Touch and Lucky Town which he published on the same day, March 31, 1992 (two honest albums but not among his most impressive). The classics Atlantic City (from Nebraska), Darkness on the Edge of Town (from the eponymous album) and Thunder Road (from Born To Run) complete the track listing of this solid live album, though this record is probably reserved for hardcore Bruce Springsteen fans.  – Max Dembo
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Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch (1992/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:47 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Rock
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Human Touch is the ninth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on March 31, 1992. The album was co-released on the same day as Lucky Town. It was the more popular of the two, and it peaked at number two on the Billboard 200, with “Human Touch” (paired with Lucky Town’s “Better Days”) peaking at number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart and #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:28 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Rock
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Recorded in New Jersey, LA, Atlanta, Australia and New York City, High Hopes marks Springsteen’s 18th studio album and features the members of the E Street Band as well as guitarist Tom Morello. The album features his latest single “High Hopes.” Clarence Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008, also appear on several songs of what Springsteen calls “some of our best unreleased material from the past decade”.
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Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:10 minutes | 829 MB | Genre: Rock
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Greetings from Ashbury Park, N.J. is the debut studio album by Bruce Springsteen. Originally released in 1973, the album only sold about 25,000 copies but made a strong impression with critics and would go on to become a successful album, peaking at #60 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album featured two singles, “Blinded by the Light” and “Spirit in the Night”. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #379 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits (1995/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:40 minutes | 881 MB | Genre: Rock
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Here’s the challenge in putting together a Bruce Springsteen compilation: though he scored 18 Top 40 hits (12 of which made the Top Ten) through 1994, Springsteen is not a “singles artist.” Some of his biggest hits have come with his slightest or least characteristic material; he has written numerous songs that were hits for other artists; and some of his most memorable songs were not released as singles. While a Springsteen “hits” collection logically would contain such Top Ten singles as “I’m on Fire” and his cover of Edwin Starr’s “War,” few Springsteen fans would miss their omission; on the other hand, many would support the inclusion of “Blinded by the Light” and “Pink Cadillac,” Top Ten hits for Manfred Mann’s Earth Band and Natalie Cole; and anyone even remotely familiar with Springsteen’s albums and concerts would have trouble countenancing the absence of such non-singles as “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” and “Thunder Road.” Facing this challenge, Springsteen has adopted his own set of criteria. First, he seems to have wanted to pack as much music onto a single disc as possible, the result being a CD-busting 76:47 running time. Second, he seems to have wanted to include as many tracks as possible, even if that means editing songs; as a result, 18 tracks are included, though five have been substantially shortened “My Hometown” (by 24 seconds), “Glory Days” (by 29 seconds), “Human Touch” (by 82 seconds), “Better Days” (by 23 seconds), and “Streets of Philadelphia” (by 60 seconds). Third, like many artists, he is more interested in including his recent material than his older material, so there is nothing from Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. or The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle no “Blinded by the Light,” “Spirit in the Night,” “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” or “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)” but both sides of his 1992 single “Human Touch”/”Better Days” are included. Fourth, he has not felt bound to interpret the album’s title to mean he must include his most successful singles: the Top 40 hits “Prove It All Night” and “One Step Up” and the Top Tens “Cover Me,” “I’m on Fire,” “I’m Goin’ Down,” “War,” and “Tunnel of Love” are left off, while the album tracks “Thunder Road,” “The River,” and “Atlantic City” and the minor chart single “Badlands” are included. Fifth, he has opted to include both a couple of new songs (“Secret Garden” and “Blood Brothers”), a previously unreleased outtake (“Murder Incorporated”), and a new recording of a previously unreleased old song (“This Hard Land”). All of which is to say that Greatest Hits is a hodgepodge. Springsteen considered calling it something other than Greatest Hits (one idea: This Hard Land), and that might have been a better idea if he was going to fiddle with the concept this much. Nevertheless, some of Springsteen’s best and best-known hit recordings are here “Born to Run,” “Hungry Heart,” “Dancing in the Dark,” “Born in the U.S.A.,” and the then-recent “Streets of Philadelphia,” the success of which probably prompted the release of this compilation in the first place.
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Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust (2005/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:50 minutes | 985 MB | Genre: Rock
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Devils & Dust is Springsteen’s thirteenth studio album and his third acoustic album. The record reached number 1 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart.
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Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:59 minutes | 953 MB | Genre: Rock
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The fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town is considered by many to be one of Springsteen’s most highly regarded records. Rolling Stone magazine has ranked it at #150 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and it has been certified triple-platinum by the RIAA.
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Bruce Springsteen – Chimes of Freedom (Live/EP) (1988/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 24:14 minutes | 494 MB | Genre: Rock
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This four-track, live EP was released to benefit the Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour. Springsteen announced his involvement in the tour during a show in Stockholm, just prior to the band’s performance of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom,” as featured on the EP. Other tracks were selected from earlier tour stops in Detroit and Los Angeles.
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Bruce Springsteen – Chapter and Verse (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:30 minutes | 1,61 GB | Genre: Rock
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Chapter and Verse is the audio companion to Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography, Born to Run, arriving in bookstores in September 2016. Springsteen selected the songs on Chapter and Verse to reflect the themes and sections of ‘Born to Run’. The compilation begins with two tracks from The Castiles, featuring a teenaged Springsteen on guitar and vocals, and ends with the title track from 2012’s Wrecking Ball. Five of the album’s eighteen tracks are previously unreleased. The collected songs trace Springsteen’s musical history from its earliest days, telling a story that parallels the one in the book, and is a must for any Bruce Springsteen fan.
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Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run – 30th Anniversary Edition (1975/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:26 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Rock
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Born to Run was Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album and his commercial breakthrough success. Released in 1975, the album featured two singles: “Born to Run” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”. The songs “Thunder Road” and “Jungleland” also became hits and are staples of Springsteen’s live show to this day. The album was almost universally praised by critics, and peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1975. It has been certified triple-platinum by the RIAA as of 1986, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #18 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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