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"Sparks fly on E Street where the boy prophets walk it handsome and hot." Indeed. The sonic palette here almost reminds one of action painting, with funk guitars (the spirit of Curtis Mayfield looms larger here than it ever has on any Springsteen record) splattering up against wild synth sounds. And Springsteen’s tossing off great lines with wild abandon—-"my machine she’s a dud, I’m stuck in the mud somewhere in the swamps of Jersey" is an immortal image. That line’s from the simultaneously supercharged and playful "Rosalita," still a live Springsteen highlight. The other side of that song is "Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" a lament for a dying town and prayer for a kind of rebirth.
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Bruce Springsteen expanded the folk-rock approach of his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., to strains of jazz, among other styles, on its ambitious follow-up, released only eight months later. His chief musical lieutenant was keyboard player David Sancious, who lived on the E Street that gave the album and Springsteen's backup group its name. With his help, Springsteen created a street-life mosaic of suburban society that owed much in its outlook to Van Morrison's romanticization of Belfast in Astral Weeks. Though Springsteen expressed endless affection and much nostalgia, his message was clear: this was a goodbye-to-all-that from a man who was moving on. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle represented an astonishing advance even from the remarkable promise of Greetings; the unbanded three-song second side in particular was a flawless piece of music. Musically and lyrically, Springsteen had brought an unruly muse under control and used it to make a mature statement that synthesized popular musical styles into complicated, well-executed arrangements and absorbing suites; it evoked a world precisely even as that world seemed to disappear. Following the personnel changes in the E Street Band in 1974, there is a conventional wisdom that this album is marred by production lapses and performance problems, specifically the drumming of Vini Lopez. None of that is true. Lopez's busy Keith Moon style is appropriate to the arrangements in a way his replacement, Max Weinberg, never could have been. The production is fine. And the album's songs contain the best realization of Springsteen's poetic vision, which soon enough would be tarnished by disillusionment. He would later make different albums, but he never made a better one. The truth is, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll.
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The E Street Shuffle |
4:26 |
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| 02. | |
4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) |
5:35 |
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| 03. | |
Kitty's Back |
7:07 |
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| 04. | |
Wild Billy's Circus Story |
4:43 |
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| 05. | |
Incident On 57th Street |
7:45 |
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Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) |
7:02 |
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| 07. | |
New York City Serenade |
9:56 |
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07 Total Tracks, 46:34 Total Length
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- Bruce Springsteen - Bass // Bruce Springsteen - Bass // Bruce Springsteen - Bass // Bruce Springsteen - Guitar // Bruce Springsteen - Guitar // Bruce Springsteen - Guitar // Bruce Springsteen - Harmonica // Bruce Springsteen - Harmonica // Bruce Springsteen - Harmonica // Bruce Springsteen - Mandolin // Bruce Springsteen - Mandolin // Bruce Springsteen - Mandolin // Bruce Springsteen - Maracas // Bruce Springsteen - Maracas // Bruce Springsteen - Maracas // Bruce Springsteen - Vocals // Bruce Springsteen - Vocals // Bruce Springsteen - Vocals // Bruce Springsteen - Main Performer // Bruce Springsteen - Main Performer // Bruce Springsteen - Main Performer // David Sancious - Organ // David Sancious - Piano // David Sancious - Keyboards // David Sancious - Piano (Electric) // David Sancious - Saxophone // David Sancious - Clavinet // Clarence Clemons - Saxophone // Clarence Clemons - Vocals // Clarence Clemons - Vocals (Background) // Mike Appel - Producer // Richard Blackwell - Percussion // Richard Blackwell - Conga // Danny Federici - Organ // Danny Federici - Piano // Danny Federici - Accordion // Danny Federici - Keyboards // Danny Federici - Vocals // Danny Federici - Vocals (Background) // Louis Lahav - Engineer // Vini Lopez - Cornet // Vini Lopez - Drums // Vini Lopez - Vocals // Vini Lopez - Vocals (Background) // Garry Tallent - Bass // Garry Tallent - Tuba // Garry Tallent - Horn // Garry Tallent - Vocals (Background) // Albee Tellone - Sax (Baritone) // Jim Cretecos - Producer // The E Street Band - Group
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