Bruce Springsteen - The River
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Artist: Bruce SpringsteenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Ties That Bind
- Sherry Darling
- Jackson Cage
- Two Hearts
- Independence Day
- Hungry Heart
- Out In The Street
- Crush On You
- You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)
- I Wanna Marry You
- The River
- Point Blank
- Cadillac Ranch
- I'm A Rocker
- Fade Away
- Stolen Car
- Ramrod
- The Price You Pay
- Drive All Night
- Wreck On The Highway
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Hit: 3 Stars
Bruce Springsteen-The River *** 1/2
Okay, I personaly am a person that almost always loves all double albums. The ones that people think are bad I usually love, however there are a couple that I can not stand. The White album by the Beatles should have been better, Srg. Pepper by the Beatles is the most self indulgent thing I have ever heard, I hate the Beach Boys and I will say anyday that Pet Sounds blows Pepper away, besides as much as I like the Beatles, I can't stand McCartney. And lastly, The Wall by Pink Floyd has to be the most overrated album of all time, give me a break. The River falls inbetween those albums and Exile On Main Street, Blonde On Blonde, and London Calling, which are all double albums that I love to death.
This could have been a good double album if it weren't for a select few songs which I just won't name, or this could have been a GREAT single album had it not been for a couple more songs, which I still won't mention...I will just mention the high points. 'The Ties That Bind' starts the album off perfectly, still has that 'Badlands' feel left over from Darkness. 'Sherry Darling' was nice but should have been better. 'Jackson Cage' really depends on the day. 'Two Hearts' is a nice sappy number which Springsteen would soon be knwon for in the years to come as he would turn his back on his roots for a while. 'Independence Day' is fantastic, much like his previous work, but I still feel he could have done more with it. 'Hungry Heart' is a classic. 'Crush On You' is fun and one of my personal favorites from the album. Much along the lines of 'Pink Cadillac' and 'Darlington County' which he would do later. As you can see this album was essentialy a turning point in the career for Springsteen and The E. Street band, as he would soon faze them out and pursue more commercialy accesable music, not that it was a bad thing....all the time anyway. 'You Can Look' is great. 'The River' closes the first disc of the album and should have closed the album as it is depending on the day you ask me, I concider it to be Springsteen's finest hour and today just happens to be one of those days. It is the story of getting a girl pregnant and having to work really hard to make, you know the classic Springsteen tale.
The second disc starts off with the second best song on the entire album, 'Point Blank.' A little pretentious and over the top but still a great little song that would have been perfectly at home on Springsteens next album, Nebraska. 'Cadillac Ranch' and 'Im A Rocker' are simular and placed right next to each other it is sometimes hard to distinguish the two, but spperate, the are pretty decent songs. 'Fade Away' and 'Stolen Car' are once again more Nebraska then The River but still nice songs. 'Ramrod' fails to deliver where it should, the 'Drive All Night' and 'Wreck On The Highway' close this long album so they should be the most memorable and for some reason are the most forgetable, even the songs I don't enjoy stand out more then these tracks.
Now I bet your saying well you listed so many songs that were good and only didn't mention a few so how is this not a great album. Well even the best of the songs are forgetable and it is even hard to describe them. Too much material for this album, the songs had the potential to be one of Springsteens best and most acclaimed album, but even with how stripped the production is, compared to his previous works and the amount filler this just seems to decadent for someone who is supposedly trying to be a working mans hero.
The River Poster
Despite the acclaim accorded Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town, this is the album that broke Springsteen into the big leagues, thanks to "Hungry Heart," then his most pointedly commercial song; it had new fans swooning but some old ones grumbling for the "poetic" Springsteen of days gone by. Not to worry--though more economical lyrically, The River had something to offer nearly everyone: There's old-time frat rock ("Sherry Darling"), empathetic character studies ("The River," "Stolen Car," "Independence Day"), passionate rockers ("Out in the Street"), dramatic ballads ("Point Blank"), and even a couple of good-natured goofs ("Cadillac Ranch," "Crush on You," "Ramrod"). A sprawling double-disc set, The River offers proof that Springsteen could do it all and could do it better than virtually anyone else. --Daniel DurchholzPop Music CDs
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