The River (180 Gram Vinyl, Gatefold LP Jacket) (2 Lp's) | Mint (M) Mint (M) Get Cheap Vinyl

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Label: Columbia – PC2 36854
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180g
Country: US
Released: Apr 18, 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock

Tracklist
Side A
1 The Ties That Bind Recorded By - Bob Clearmountain 3:33
2 Sherry Darling 4:02
3 Jackson Cage 3:04
4 Two Hearts 2:42
5 Independence Day 4:46
Side B
1 Hungry Heart Backing Vocals - Flo & Eddie Mixed By - Bob Clearmountain 3:19
2 Out in the Street 4:17
3 Crush on You 3:10
4 You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) 2:36
5 I Wanna Marry You 3:26
6 The River 4:59
Side C
1 Point Blank 6:05
2 Cadillac Ranch 3:02
3 I'm a Rocker Organ - Roy Bittan 3:34
4 Fade Away 4:40
5 Stolen Car 3:53
Side D
1 Ramrod 4:04
2 The Price You Pay 5:27
3 Drive All Night Organ - Roy Bittan Piano - Bruce Springsteen Recorded By - Jimmy Iovine 8:26
4 Wreck on the Highway 3:53

Art Direction, Design – Jimmy Wachtel
Backing Vocals – Clarence Clemons, Roy Bittan, Steve Van Zandt
Bass – Garry Tallent
Drums – Max Weinberg
Engineer [Assistant] – Dana Bisbee, Garry Rindfuss, James Farber, Jeff Hendrickson, Raymond Willhard*
Guitar – Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt
Harmonica – Bruce Springsteen
Lacquer Cut By – Chris Bellman
Mastered By – Ken Perry
Mixed By – Chuck Plotkin, Toby Scott
Mixed By [Digital Operator] – Jim Bauerlein
Organ – Danny Federici
Photography By [Cover] – Frank Stefanko
Photography By [Other] – Amanda Flick, Barry Goldenberg, David Gahr, Frank Stefanko, Jimmy Wachtel, Joel Bernstein
Piano – Roy Bittan
Producer – Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Steve Van Zandt
Recorded By – Neil Dorfsman
Saxophone – Clarence Clemons
Vocals – Bruce Springsteen
Written-By – Bruce Springsteen
Issued with printed inner sleeve, plain inner sleeve with record, and lyric sheet.

Contains MP3 download code.

Sticker on the front reads:
THE #1 DOUBLE ALBUM FEATURING
HUNGRY HEART
FADE AWAY
THE RIVER
REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE TAPES
FAITHFUL RECREATION OF ORIGINAL LP PACKAGING
180-GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
[RSD APRIL 18, 2015 LOGO]
Barcode: 888750142610

Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar); Steve Van Zandt (guitar); Clarence Clemons (tenor saxophone); Roy Bittan (piano); Danny Federici (organ); Garry Tallent (bass); Max Weinberg (drums); Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan (background vocals). Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Steve Van Zandt. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Recorded at The Power Station, New York, New York. 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 realizing 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. ~ Mark Deming

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format: Vinyl
• Genre: ROCK
• Format Type: 2xLP
• Released: 06/16/2015