Tracks (album)
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Boxing set by Bruce Springsteen | ||||
Publication |
1998 |
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admission |
1972-1998 |
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Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Title (number) |
66 |
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running time |
254: 58 |
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occupation |
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Chuck Plotkin; John Hammond, Jr .; Jim Cretecos; Jon Landau; Mike Appel; Steven Van Zandt; John Hammond; Bruce Springsteen |
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Studio (s) |
914 sound recordings; CBS Studios, NY; Max's Kansas City; Power station; Record Plant, NY; Thrill Hill Recording. |
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Tracks is a four-CD music album released by Bruce Springsteen on Columbia Records in 1998. It contains 66 songs, 56 of which were previously unreleased. Most of the unpublished pieces come from the recording sessions for the albums Born in the USA , The River , Human Touch , Darkness on the Edge of Town and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle .
General
Bruce Springsteen is known for recording numerous pieces on his recordings that later do not find their way onto the released album. The quality was usually not the decisive factor, but the fact that the songs did not fit the mood of the album. As a result, many bootlegs appeared that made Springsteen, alongside Bob Dylan , the artist with the most bootlegs. A total of 200 to 300 songs were available for the album. The album contains largely unreleased material, only a few B-sides ( Pink Cadillac , Shut Out the Light , Janey Don't You Lose Heart ) had already officially been released. The first three recordings on CD 1 on May 3, 1972 come from an audition by Springsteen with the famous producer John Hammond , who discovered Bob Dylan among others. The box also includes a booklet with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen, the lyrics and more information about the musicians and the production.
In addition to the 4-CD box, Springsteen released a selection of the box six months later under the title 18 tracks , 15 songs come from the box, plus the new pieces The Promise , The Fever and Trouble River .
Photographers who contributed images for this album included Herb Ritts and Annie Leibovitz . The recordings were digitally reworked and reached 27th place in the Billboard Top 200 as the best placement.
Track list
CD 1
CD 2
CD 3
CD 4
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Criticism
- AMG : "… the compilation is an unassuming sampling of what's in the vaults, from his early acoustic demos to polished outtakes from Human Touch and Lucky Town." ( "... the compilation is a humble collection of what's there, from his early acoustic demo recordings to the polished unused songs by Human Touch and Lucky Town." )
- Q : took the album to the list of "50 Best Albums of 1999"
- Tom Lanham - Amazon.com: "Springsteen proves - simply by issuing long-unreleased material - why he's the most consistent (read: important) composer in the pop-rock field of his generation."
- The record man says: " Tracks are for die-hard fans and they definitely don't get around."
- Mark Feldman : "What's really most amazing about this sprawling collection is that there really isn't a bad song on it - Bruce Springsteen's cut-outs and leftovers are better than most artists' released album tracks." ( "What is really most amazing is that there is no such thing as a bad song. The discarded material is better than most artist's album tracks." )
- Anthony Kuzminski : "I'm not sure if it's on the same level of some of Dylan's outtake sets, but its damn close." ( "I'm not sure if the album is on par with Dylan's outtake releases, but it's damn close." )
Web links
- Tracks on brucespringsteen.net (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b CD Universe product information accessed on November 22, 2010
- ↑ a b c d All Music Guide Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine.Retrieved November 22, 2010
- ↑ Brucebase.org.uk ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Amazon product information accessed on November 22, 2010
- ↑ Book accompanying the album
- ↑ The record man
- ↑ http://www.music-critic.com/ Review Mark Feldman
- ^ The Screen Door Blogspot