Anyone pre-order The Promise Bruce Springsteen?
gfong
Posts: 1,079
I did I did! 
Pre-ordered the 3 LP version (with download coupon), gets released on the 16th November. (hopefully)
Anyone else getting this or have comments on it? It will be great to hear some older renditions of his work as well as new (old) material.
They also have a dvd/cd special edition.
I just recently watched the HBO special The Promise: "The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”
Was interesting to see and hear how he cut so many songs for the Darkness album and ended up dropping so many of them; some of which ended up on Promise.
Pre-ordered the 3 LP version (with download coupon), gets released on the 16th November. (hopefully)
Anyone else getting this or have comments on it? It will be great to hear some older renditions of his work as well as new (old) material.
They also have a dvd/cd special edition.
I just recently watched the HBO special The Promise: "The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town”
Was interesting to see and hear how he cut so many songs for the Darkness album and ended up dropping so many of them; some of which ended up on Promise.
Post edited by gfong on
Comments
-
Wow, I'm amazed that nobody replied to this post, given what a marvelous release this was. I've been a Bruce fan for 30 years, you really can't avoid that when you grow up on the Jersey shore.
This new remaster of Darkness BLOWS AWAY the original 80's version. I never had a great vinyl rig, but I remember absolutely loving this album as a kid. Since moving to all-cd many years ago, Darkness and I have had a rough relationship. The original cd was completely uninspiring. It had no life to it. Yeah, sure, the music was there. But it might as well have come from a master made from an FM radio broadcast.
Well, I am happy to say that those days are over. Everything you could want to hear in this recording is right there, with explosive, cavernous bass, Gary Talent has so much punch on this album. But to me, Danny Federici steals the show on this record. Listen to it on a good rig and tell me the Hammond organ in Adam Raised A Cain doesn't just feel like it's lifting you out of your seat. The glockenspiel playing in perfect harmony with Roy Bittan blazing away on piano. There's so much great keyboarding in this album, that while yeah, present in the original, in the new version the piano and keyboards come to a life of their own. I remember eating at Federici's Pizza in Freehold. You used to stare in awe at the photographs that lined the walls. Wow, these guys know the Boss! RIP Dan, thanks for so much great music for so many years.
Max and Clarence rage on this record as well. Candy's Room is probably my favorite Boss song, I love the way Max's tap-tap on the hi hat starts that song. Miami Steve is in the band full time (Southside will never be the same again...) showing what a brilliant musical arranger he is. And, oh yeah, Bruce Springsteen is on this album as well. Seriously, folks, if you don't get Springsteen, this is the album to try to figure him out. This is Bruce in the absolute prime of his career. Most of what he has done over the years is fantastic, but Darkness is the album. And this remaster finally does the recording justice. Every song is a complete classic from start to finish, you put it on and listen from start to finish without missing a beat.
Besides the remastered original proving what a top band comes from E Street (which, btw, is not in Asbury Park...), there are FIVE more discs in here. The Promise, the two-cd set of amazing music shelved by Springsteen for all these years, has been reviewed to death, I'm not even going to start, other than to say it's a great listen. But then there are three video discs as well (I have the BluRay version). The live Darkness from Asbury in 2009 is a total jam, then there's the documentary with loads of footage of the Darkness recording sessions, and a disc and a half of 70's concert footage. Amazing stuff.
And then, there's the absolutely incredible packaging. You will spend hours looking at the notebook. Springsteen's notebook of lyrics and notes, etc., meticulously reproduced down to the coffee stains on the pages. You will want to read every page.
I really couldn't have been happier that Santa left this for me. Couldn't recommend it highly enough.Good music, a good source, and good power can make SDA's sing. Tubes make them dance. -
I would rather listen to Katty Perry, I am one of those people that just don't like the guy,But we all can't and never will like the same things!!
-
I would challenge you to listen to this recording on my Krell/SDA rig and not enjoy it.Good music, a good source, and good power can make SDA's sing. Tubes make them dance.
-
I can listen to Springstein, but I'm not crazy about him. At times, he sings as if he's is constipated. :eek:
Thats what I don't like about the guy!!! at times I swear he records while pinching a loaf off..
-
LOL. I don't think there's much of that on this album, though. He developed that vocal style in later years.Good music, a good source, and good power can make SDA's sing. Tubes make them dance.
