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| Born To Run: 30th Anniversary 3-Disc Set (CD/2DVD)
Bruce Springsteen
Label: Sony
Sales Rank: 3469
Avg. Rating: 4.5 (out of 5)
Release Date: 2005-11-15
UPC: 827969417522
Features:
Original recording remastered,Special Edition
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30th ANNIVERSARY 3 DISC SET CONCERT DVD Never-before-seen 1975 concert from Hammersmith Odeon, London featuring over 2 hours of music. DOCUMENTARY DVD Definitive story of "Wings For Wheels: The Making of Born to Run" with new interviews & rare archival footage. BORN TO RUN CD First time in newly-remastered digital sound. Includes 48 page booklet of rare and unpublished photos.
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| | Top Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Excellent
Comment: Excellent concert, how i wish i was old enough to have gone to it. Do not expect 2010 picture and sound quality (although the quality is very good), i understand that it took nearly a year to match up and clean up the (mostly)silent film footage with the audio. If you are in any doubt, go over to y**tube and watch thunder road from this concert, spellbinding.
Ninety percent of the few negative reviews concern the fact that Sony are involved with this release. So what i say, i dont care if lucifer is involved, its too good to miss.
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: The Boss Rocks
Comment: I love Brucespringsteens Music he's a great entertainer and since i recieved the cd and dvd i have not stop listening or watching his music great price also i just love shopping at Amazon.com i will always shop here for my music and books and games thanks alot,a devoted patron.
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: It either resonates or it doesn't.
Comment: The folks who nay-say the Boss usually go for the throat with remarks like, "sentimental, pretentious, one-dimesional, etc.," but, to me, those and similar adjectives could describe much of popular music anyway, expecially these days. I think that unless you're talking about field recordings, most of the "music has to be authentic" arguments are a shuck. Music doesn't HAVE to be anything except able, somehow, to make a connection with the listener, on whatever level, and we listen or not in direct proportion to how that connection is established. I just wanted to get the "authentic" straw man out of the way before I comment on BORN TO RUN.
I've liked some Springsteen albums better than others, but I keep coming back to this one because of that inexplicable connection. I didn't grow up in South New Jersey, skip school, go racing in the streets, etc.., but when I hear a song like "Thunder Road," yeah, I do relate to wasting my "summer praying in vain /for a saviour to rise from these streets," or listening to a high school buddy learning to make HIS guitar talk. On this album, Bruce Springsteen performs the same magic that Brian Wilson and Mike Love did in the early Beach Boys recordings: he makes you feel like you're part of a teenage past completely concocted from his experience/imagination. Oh, there are probably places where shared experiences match up, but that's not really the point. I suspect that one reason that BORN TO RUN works so well---besides the fact that musically it's superb---is that those who like it can imagine themselves in Springsteen's narratives, or at least be in sympathetic accord with them. And if you aren't, no question, you're going to find it over-the-top.....but a little over-the-top never hurt anybody.
The extras with this 30th anniversary set are all worth the money, especially if your a behind-the-music documentary junkie. But, end of the day, it's the album they are built around that I keep returning to, and it sounds as good on the car stereo now as it did back in the day...and "authentic" be damned!
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: wow
Comment: I loved every minute of this. The concert from 75 is just great. The humour, the music, the raw passion it's all there. The hat took some getting used to and the scrawny underfed look was unusual but you can't help feeling 'man I wish i was there' The crowds repsonse goes from mild applause at the start to wild cheering by the end. Loved every minute and so will anyone who has any sort of taste. The making of BTR was just about the best doco I have ever seen. The descriptions from all the band members both past and present put you right there in the studio with them. BS listening to stuff he recorded and rejected is great to watch. Loved it all and will definately watch again very soon. Add the original album to all this (which still today is my fave) and you have a great package, worth every penny. Thanks Boss
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Worth every penny
Comment: No concerns here. Many reviews were rough on the mix. I played them side by side and did not hear any glaring deficiencies.
My ears may be shot or my equipment may not be pure audiophile, but it sounded fine to me.
Packaging etc A+, DVD at the Hammersmith A+, DVD making of BTR A+. For a fan of The Boss, rock and roll or of a classic piece of music,
go for it.
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