BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The River 1980 UK CBS 2LP *COMPLETE* 1st PRESS MINT
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The River 1980 UK CBS 2LP *COMPLETE* 1st PRESS MINT
BRUCE SPRINGSTEENThe River
1980 UK CBS (88510) FIRST PRESS
2LP WITH INNER SLEEVES, GATEFOLD LYRIC INSERT AND DISCOGRAPHY INSERT
SUPERB ORIGINAL COPY
PLAYED ONCE IF PLAYED AT ALL AND LIKE NEW
MATRIX: A3 B3 C4 D3 with 'MASTERED BY CAPITOL' on all four sides
Side 1:
The Ties That Bind (3:33)
Sherry Darling (4:02)
Jackson Cage (3:04)
Two Hearts (2:42)
Independence Day (4:46)
Side 2:
Hungry Heart (3:19)
Out In The Street (4:17)
Crush On You (3:10)
You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) (2:36)
I Wanna Marry You (3:26)
The River (4:59)
Side 3:
Point Blank (6:05)
Cadillac Ranch (3:02)
I'm A Rocker (3:34)
Fade Away (4:40)
Stolen Car (3:53)
Side 4:
Ramrod (4:04)
The Price You Pay (5:27)
Drive All Night (8:26)
Wreck On The Highway (3:53)
After taking his early urban folk tales of cars and girls as far as he could on Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen took a long, hard look at the lives of those same Jersey street kids a few years down the line, now saddled with adult responsibilities and realising that the American Dream was increasingly out of their grasp, on 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, an album that dramatically broadened Springsteen's musical range and lyrical scope.
With 1980's The River, Springsteen sought to expand on those themes while also offering more of the tough, bar-band rock that was his trademark (and often conspicuous in its absence on Darkness), and by the time it was released it had swelled into Springsteen's first two-LP set.
The River was Springsteen's most ambitious work to date, even as the music sounded leaner and more strongly rooted in rock & roll tradition than anything on Darkness or Born to Run, and though the album wasn't the least bit short on good times, the fun in songs like "Two Hearts," "Out in the Street," and "Cadillac Ranch" is rarely without some weightier subtext.
As the romantic rush of "Two Hearts" fades into the final break with family on "Independence Day" and the sentimentality of "I Wanna Marry You" is followed by the grim truths of the title tune, nothing is easy or without consequence in Springsteen's world, and the album's themes of youthful ideals buckling under the weight of crushing reality are neatly summed up as Springsteen asks the essential question of his career, "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?"
Like many double albums, The River doesn't always balance well, and while the first half is consistently strong, part two is full of songs that work individually but don't cohere into a satisfying whole (and "Wreck on the Highway" is beautiful but fails to resolve the album's essential themes).
But if the sequencing is somewhat flawed, Springsteen rises to his own challenges as a songwriter, penning a set of tunes that are heartfelt and literate but unpretentious while rocking hard, and the E Street Band were never used to better advantage, capturing the taut, swaggering force of their live shows in the studio with superb accuracy (and if the very '80s snare crack dates this album, Neil Dorfsman's engineering makes this one of Springsteen's best-sounding works).
The River wasn't Springsteen's first attempt to make a truly adult rock & roll album, but it's certainly a major step forward from Darkness on the Edge of Town, and he rarely made an album as compelling as this, or one that rewards repeat listening as well.
LABELS: MINT / MINT / MINT / MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with possibly one light spindle trace on two of the sides
VINYL Visual: MINT / MINT / MINT / MINT
All four surfaces shine like new (not cleaned as it looks so immaculate but any superficial marks will clean off)
VINYL Audio: MINT / MINT / MINT / MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault.
A fantastic copy and final upgrade
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made with just a bend on the spine
INNER SLEEVES: MINT
GATEFOLD LYRIC INSERT: MINT
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
UK: £11.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: for items purchased within any 10 day period - additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: all records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way 1233 (GS 8.1.1 (1233))
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