First posted on Mark Is Cranky:
I sure enough know what I'll be doing on November 15th: driving to the store to pick up the 30th Anniversary reissue box of Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run.
I'm not sure how I missed out on announcements of this release, but this morning on the Amazon front page I saw a video of Bruce doing "Born To Run" circa 1975. Hmmm, why is Amazon showing this? A little Google action and I have my answers.
The box set will contain:
- A concert DVD of Springsteen & the E-Street Band: "Hammersmith Odeon, London '75"
- A documentary DVD entitled "Wings For Wheels: The Making of Born to Run"
- Remastered version of "Born To Run", with 48-page booklet
To say that I am psyched doesn't even come close to my true feelings. Just check out track listing for the Hammersmith concert:
- Thunder Road
- Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
- Spirit In The Night
- Lost In The Flood
- She's The One
- Born To Run
- The E Street Shuffle/Having A Party
- It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
- Backstreets
- Kitty's Back
- Jungleland
- Rosalita
- 4th Of July Asbury Park (Sandy)
- Detroit Medley
- For You
- Quarter To Three
For more information on this, check out the always interesting Backstreets Magazine website.
And please, no emails on the evening of November 15th, I'll be too busy to reply.
Article comments
1 - DJRadiohead
Mark, I join you in your stoked-ness.
This will easily be one of the best and most important releases of this holiday season.
2 - Mark Saleski
i may have to take the day off from work.
"stoked-ness". like that!
3 - DJRadiohead
With all those extras on the DVD and such... it might warrant such an excursion. I highly support it.
4 - Rich Powers
Can't wait for this. And the Born to Run video on Amazon rocks.
5 - Al Barger
Ew, vintage E Street live 1975!
Co-incidentally, I've just been listening to Springsteen the last couple of days, as the psycho niece was expressing interest. Just yesterday, I gave her a copy of Born to Run, and a BS mastermix that I'm listening to now myself. I was just in "Jungleland" over breakfast. That still works.
6 - ChesterCat
If you think the BTR clip is good, wait til you see "She's the One", it is a killer version.
There was a sneak peek in early September at the Glory Days symposium, it left everyone begging for more.
Only 28 days left.....
7 - DJRadiohead
Some of the 'Anniversary Re-Issues' released have been pretty good for different albums. This box looks to be among the best of them. So many goodies... and then as others have mentioned: the album itself stands on its own.
I might have to burn a day off, too.
8 - felipe ramos
I´m waiting to have this box set next to The Clash´s "London Calling" 25th year special edition. The sad part is that I live in Chile so I wont be able to have it by november 15th
9 - DJRadiohead
Felipe, I probably won't have it the day of either. I have gotten angry at one of our local retailers so I will probably pre-order it from Amazon and wait.
10 - Davey Boy WInst
Just in case some people don't know, but for those who can't wait to see the Hammersmith Footage .... 3 of the songs (ie videos) are on Yahoo music (american version) namely Rosalita, Jungleland and Backstreets