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'High Hopes' finds Bruce Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the E Street Band members in various large and small combinations as well as guitarist Tom Morello on eight tracks. Besides Morello, the album also includes appearances on several songs by Clarence Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008, on what Springsteen calls "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade." The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks Springsteen's 18th studio album. As Bruce writes in the albums liner notes, "I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording."

The AMAZON BONUS LIMITED EDITION* version also includes a live DVD of Bruce and the E Street Band performing the entire "Born In The U.S.A." album in London, England, during the historic Wrecking Ball World Tour.

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1. High Hopes (Tim Scott McConnell) - featuring Tom Morello
2. Harry's Place * - featuring Tom Morello
3. American Skin (41 Shots) - featuring Tom Morello
4. Just Like Fire Would (Chris J. Bailey) - featuring Tom Morello
5. Down In The Hole *
6. Heaven's Wall ** -featuring Tom Morello
7. Frankie Fell In Love
8. This Is Your Sword
9. Hunter Of Invisible Game * -featuring Tom Morello
10. The Ghost of Tom Joad - duet with Tom Morello
11. The Wall
12. Dream Baby Dream (Martin Rev and Alan Vega) - featuring Tom Morello

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Bruce Springsteen Working on 'Wrecking Ball' Follow-Up
Artist confirms Australian studio time with Tom Morello

By David Fricke
June 24, 2013
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... p-20130624



"I have stuff I'm working on that I'm very happy about," Bruce Springsteen said backstage before his June 3rd concert in Milan, Italy, during a rare interview for a story about his European tour in the new issue of Rolling Stone. He was talking about his plans for the followup to the 2012 studio album, Wrecking Ball. "I hate to say, because I don't like to be wrong," he added, laughing. "But I have a lot of material. I still feel like I'm in the middle of the well."

Springsteen, whose European trek ends in Kilkenny, Ireland on July 28th, has already cut new tracks this year, during the recent Australian leg of his world tour. He and the E Street Band – with Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine temporarily subbing for guitarist Steve Van Zandt – spent one of their days off in a studio in Sydney. That was a first, Springsteen pointed out: "We've never had a recording session during a tour in our lives. We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down. So that was very exciting. And being with Tommy was exciting. The band – Steven, Nils, all those guys – continues to be a source of inspiration for me."

"I always used to say, in the past decades, that I wanted to make more records – and I've done that," Springsteen said, noting his recent rate of production: six studio albums since 2002's The Rising. "I struggled through the Nineties. We weren't playing together," referring to the E Street Band, "and I didn't know how we sounded on record. Brendan O'Brien" – who produced The Rising, 2007's Magic and 2009's Working on a Dream – "gave us that gift. It gave us a rebirth and inspired me, I believe, to write more songs. Of course, it was a decade with an awful lot going on in the United States and elsewhere."

Springsteen wouldn't divulge any more specifics on the new album or the songs he is writing for it. But he was certain that the momentum from his year-long touring with the E Street Band will carry over into his next work. "It's ongoing," insisted Springsteen, who has one more confirmed show after the European tour, on September 21st at Rock in Rio in Brazil. "A week or two later, after stopping, I'm in the studio working, making a demo. You stop the performing for awhile, because this level of intensity. . . You need a break from it."

"But this has been a great, tremendously rewarding period of our time together," Springsteen said. "This has been the best ten, twelve years we've ever had."

looking forward to it.

it's due.

I'm glad that the man is productive again, but nothing that Springsteen has done since has resonated with me like "Greetings" through "The River". I hope that he finds time somewhere in here to dig into the vaults a little more and expand upon the albums from that period that he hasn't expanded on so far, specifically "Greetings", "The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle" and "The River". Even if he can't expand on them, they need to be reissued in much better sounding form.

(Realizing that I'm starting to sound like Renny..."give me the old stuff!")

I agree......Bruce's 1st 5 albums are much better than anything he did afterwards.

Wish he would focus on remasters/deluxe editions of The River, Nebraska, BITUSA, and Tunnel Of Love....

Most of his older stuff needs remastering, that's a given, but as far as bonus materials go, at least we got some b-sides off of BITUSA and Tunnel of Love. I still think that a lot of Tunnel of Love holds up, but there is almost nothing that interests me from BITUSA anymore and I was one of the few that just never seemed to be able to warm up that much to Nebraska.

(I'd still love to see "Held Up Without A Gun" get a CD release, even if the song is very short. I can't believe it didn't get squeezed onto "Tracks")

It's a shame that "Devils & Dust" is still only available on Dual Disc (in the US anyway). A fine album, unfortunately marginalized by a clunky format.

FYI

a regular CD copy of 'devils and dust" is available albeit it is promo only.

check ebay. they used to have quite a few of them.

renny

Buy a Canadian copy -- it's two discs. One CD and one with the DVD content.

Agreed. Sound City Beaches is a great Canadian seller. I've bought several Canadian pressings from them for bonus tracks, non-DualDiscs and music DVDs that are OOP in the States.

Here:



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Available new from Amazon Canada, also used via third party sellers at Amazon USA. Two separate discs, just like Pippin said: a proper CD and a proper DVD.

I guess my point was that it was a shame that U.S. consumers need to go to these various lengths to obtain a non-Duel Disc version of the album.

Have the remasters for "Born To Run" and "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" ever been made available as standalone releases (as opposed to part of a boxed set)?

Nope.

$$$$$$$$$$$

and you wouldn't think that of springsteen, but....

I think that The Rising has been his best after The River. Though, I really liked Born In The USA, since that came out at the perfect time for me.

Yes, it's odd that this year is the 40th anniversary of both Greetings from Asbury Park and The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle and there's nary a peep of any kind of reissue of those two discs. And it's not like Bruce is pulling a Steve Miller and denying the albums exist. Heck, just remaster them, put the 2009 live versions of the albums in as bonus discs and call it good. And while we're at it Bruce, I can see why pulling together a The Promise version of The River might be a bit much right now. So, let's skip ahead to a remastered version of Nebraska. A two CD - one Blu-Ray package will cover it nicely. One disc of the remastered album, a second of the left-over songs and a few of the E Street versions recorded at the time and on the Blu-Ray..simply a interview with you about where your head was at, a solo concert of the album (ala The Promise) and the "Atlantic City video. Remastering aside, you can probably wrap it up in a week.

I've posted this list before, but I can't help mentioning it again--no other artist has sold as much music in as much misbegotten packaging as Springsteen has:

1. The (supposedly) remastered gold disc version of "Born To Run" which came in a plastic longbox containing a jewel box with no booklet--and the entire disc was misindexed.
2. The "Tracks" boxed set, consisting of digipacks glued to a cardboard shell with some sort of rubber cement which allows the digipacks to slide around on the cardboard while on the shelf.
3. The "Live In New York City" CD, which had a sticker on the jewel box correcting the tracklisting printed on the inlay card.
4. The "Devils & Dust" Dual Disc release.
5. The reissue of the "Chimes Of Freedom" EP, which accidently contained the edited version used for the original 3" CD single release. (That 3" single could be its own item on this list as well.)
6. The first Springsteen album ever to get the expanded, deluxe, bonus track treatment wasn't "Born To Run" or "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"--it was the "Seeger Sessions" album, and it came out maybe six months after the original album.
7. Finally, just last year, the deluxe edition of "Wrecking Ball" was released in a storage nightmare of an oversized cardboard sleeve. (Remember when all of the cardboard used in CD packaging was supposed to be killing the rainforests or something?)

Wow...so true on all of those. I'll add more...

8. Leaving "The Fever" and "The Promise" off of the "Tracks" box set and then adding those along with "Trouble River" to another compilation called "18 Tracks". (...and I don't think "The Promise" was a vintage recording either.)

9. Leaving stray b-sides that had already been released off of the "Tracks" box set like "Held Up Without A Gun".

10. Leaving "For You" and "Incident on 57th Street" off of the live box and forcing you to buy an expensive Japanese EP to get them.

There are many more too if I took the time to track them down. These were just the most obvious ones to me.

I have to admit that I find myself scratching my head when Springsteen not only records a cover song, but a cover song that he's already recorded once.

I need to play "Wrecking Ball" again--I remember it as being better (by far) than "Working On A Dream", but not as good as "Magic".

I am kind of struck by the statistic that first week sales of "Wrecking Ball" account for just under 39% of total sales to date. I honestly have no idea--Has the music industry always been as marketing-driven as the movie industry, in terms of first week sales being considered such a critical determination of overall success? (Have satellite/digital services somehow countered the lack of terrestrial radio airplay that artists such as Springsteen were contending with a few years back?) I haven't looked, but I'm not sure if I've seen a copy of "Wrecking Ball" on the shelves of Target/Best Buy in recent months, although I'm willing to guess that "The Essential Bruce Springsteen" is as omnipresent as ever.

Having followed Billboard since I was a kid, it used to be that an album would climb UP the charts and steadily sell for a long time.

Over the last 10 years or so, a high debut has meant absolutely nothing in terms of sales.

By week 2 the album is forgotten about unless it is a slow-building phenomenon as we have seen with acts discovered through social media who will usually have an album on the charts for 1-2 years. The highly anticipated follow up is usually 1/4 of the sales of the previous smash except rare acts like Adele or Katy Perry or Mumford And Sons.

For virtually all veteran acts, the sales are week 1 and after that good luck to staying on the charts.

It is amazing that an album can debut at #12 and be off the charts 3 weeks later but that's today's pathetic music world.

The singles charts are even worse where almost NO veteran Rock act can even sniff the chart as it is riddled with Pop, Rap, Country, Dance and R&B. In some cases a newer act can have 6 or 7 singles chart at once, many of which are gone in a week.

They need to change the rules-again. And I've been wondering if Gold should now be 250,000 and Platinum 500,000. Now it's almost impossible to have such status, and even lowering the requirements might not matter, but it's a start.

In a word-Sad.