Springsteen fans against his latest album: "Not even one unreleased song in the collection"

By editorial board on March 6, 2024

A Bruce Springsteen collection is released on April 19th, but the Boss' historic fans turn up their noses.

This story begins with Covid, the pandemic which for almost two years blocked the live activity of musicians. The most important names, in the absence of different takings, have sold their catalogues: Springsteen sold the rights to his songs to Sony in December 2021 for 500 million dollars, one of the best takings in the sector.

 

Now Sony Music has announced a new career-spanning compilation: Best of Bruce Springsteen is out April 19. The album’s digital edition features 31 tracks, opening with two songs from New Jersey rock icon’s 1973 debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., and closing with two songs from his latest album of originals, 2020’s Letter to You. See the digital tracklist below.

But what his fans didn't like much is that all in all it's a record that doesn't add anything new. Mayby designed for making money with younger people who don't have his complete discography and would like to have a few more songs to listen ton the go.

 

Also the cover of Best of Bruce Springsteen features an old photo of Springsteen taken by Eric Meola during the Born to Run sessions. Physical editions of the compilation come with new liner notes by Erik Flannigan.

Springsteen released his first compilation, Greatest Hits, in 1995. He’s since shared retrospective collections like The Essential Bruce Springsteen and Chapter and Verse.

The release of the album preceding the new tour was perhaps planned by Sony Music marketing, in anticipation of a new covers album that the Boss would have already almost finished. And which obviously would be sold out and taking market away to Sony from old songs new compilation.

Best of Bruce Springsteen (Expanded Edition):

01 Growin’ Up
02 Spirit in the Night
03 Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
04 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
05 Born to Run
06 Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
07 Thunder Road
08 Badlands
09 Prove It All Night
10 The River
11 Hungry Heart
12 Atlantic City 13 Glory Days 14 Dancing in the Dark 15 Born in the U.S.A. 16 Brilliant Disguise 17 Tougher Than the Rest 18 Human Touch 19 If I Should Fall Behind 20 Living Proof 21 Streets of Philadelphia 22 The Ghost of Tom Joad 23 Secret Garden 24 The Rising 25 Long Time Comin’ 26 Girls in Their Summer Clothes 27 The Wrestler 28 We Take Care of Our Own 29 Hello Sunshine 30 Ghosts 31 Letter to You.

In a previous interview David Sancious tells MOJO that Springsteen has recorded 18 tracks for a follow-up to Only The Strong Survive and may tour it next year.
“Volume 2, I would say, is probably three-quarters recorded,” The Boss tells Rolling Stone, explaining the genre he’ll focus on is “very similar” to the first album.

“I’ve just worked on Bruce’s sequel to Only The Strong Survive. He’s got 18 more covers of Motown and classic R&B,” Sancious told MOJO’s Martin Aston. “And next year, I should be touring the album with Bruce.”

“I’m still touched by the E Street Band name,” Sancious told MOJO. “We were driving, thinking up band names, when we turned the corner onto my street, and Bruce saw the street sign, and kept repeating it. At the next rehearsal, he confirmed it. He said I was a very important part of the band and we need a name, and it sounded good.”

“I continued working in soul music, Bruce says, because I was just having so much fun,” he says. “But I thought of doing a series of these records in a variety of different genres with songs that I love.”

Bruce shares that he’s currently not writing anything new, noting, “I might not write in a while,” which is “very normal for me.” But with these cover albums, fans “don’t have to sit around and wait four years for me to make another record.”

Bruce says he’s also interested in tackling covers of country and rock songs: “There’s just so many different things, and all focused around my voice … I’d really like to use this time when I’m not writing to really focus on my vocals.”  (Epost)

Bruce Springsteen has always maintained that his vision of music is deeply inter-connected with other forms of narrative traditions. One of those traditions which had a major impact on the life and the works of Springsteen is definitely cinema, leading the music icon on powerful artistic journeys towards existential truths.

 

Speaking to Edith Bowman for a new interview, Springsteen revealed that he planned to make a new original album instead of the covers record, but the songs “didn’t feel quite right”.

He said (via Exclaim): “Initially, it was really hard. I was picking material and I’m going, “It’s hard to sing somebody else’s songs, and get them to sound authentic and it’s coming out of you.” So I made an entire record that I threw out, and it’ll show up in different places, and there were some good things on it but didn’t feel quite right.

“So I came across this ‘Do I Love You’, the Frank Wilson, Motown rarity, and the States, I guess, no one had heard it. And I want to try that. And so my producer, Ron Aniello, created the track and the track was really good, really strong. I said, “Well, if I can get up near Frank Wilson’s range, I’m going to take a swing at it.” And we cut that, that felt great.”

Springsteen added: “I said well, maybe I’ll orient myself towards soul music, because it’s how I grew up, and all my great mentors were soul men that came, Sam Moore and, of course, James Brown, Smokey Robinson as a writer. I mean, just so many. And the great singers, David Ruffin, Levi Stubbs, all masters. They were all my masters and I said well, let me try and sing some of this material.”

 

 

 

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