Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen

Newly remastered from original analogue masters. If Springsteen's debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, revealed just how ambitious a talent he was, it also fell just short of realising those ambitions. No such problem with this, his second album. The Dylan-esque wordplay is there, but with more narrative detail, as on "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", "Kitty's Back" and "Rosalita", each of which became instant Springsteen classics and were demanded by his concert crowds for years.

But even on this record, the music isn't allowed to take a back seat to the words - the latter two, at least, are full-tilt rock and roll numbers, with abrupt tempo shifts, soaring instrumental parts, and production that's just chaotic enough to make you wonder if the whole thing is going to blow apart and then smile in appreciation when it doesn't.

The Wild, The Innocent, And The E Street Shuffle was the first time Springsteen scaled the heights of rock and roll greatness - but it wouldn't be the last.

Bruce Springsteen

The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

Columbia
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
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£27.99

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Released 18/04/2015Catalogue Number

88875014231

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Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
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Ultradisc One-step 180g 33pm LP Set Presents 1973 Album In Audiophile Sound1/4" / 15 Ips / DBX Analogue Copy To DSD 256 To Analogue Console To Lathe

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Released 02/08/2024Catalogue Number

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Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
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SACD: Mastered On Mobile Fidelity's Renowned Mastering System: Numbered-edition Hybrid SACD Plays With Expressive Clarity.

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CMFSA2266

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Bruce Springsteen

The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

Columbia
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
LP

£27.99

Black
Released 18/04/2015Catalogue Number

88875014231

Learn more
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
LP +

£159.99

Ultradisc One-step 180g 33pm LP Set Presents 1973 Album In Audiophile Sound1/4" / 15 Ips / DBX Analogue Copy To DSD 256 To Analogue Console To Lathe

Black
Released 02/08/2024Catalogue Number

LMFUD1S056

Learn more
Album artwork for The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen
CD

£49.99

SACD: Mastered On Mobile Fidelity's Renowned Mastering System: Numbered-edition Hybrid SACD Plays With Expressive Clarity.

Released 02/08/2024Catalogue Number

CMFSA2266

Learn more

Newly remastered from original analogue masters. If Springsteen's debut, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, revealed just how ambitious a talent he was, it also fell just short of realising those ambitions. No such problem with this, his second album. The Dylan-esque wordplay is there, but with more narrative detail, as on "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)", "Kitty's Back" and "Rosalita", each of which became instant Springsteen classics and were demanded by his concert crowds for years.

But even on this record, the music isn't allowed to take a back seat to the words - the latter two, at least, are full-tilt rock and roll numbers, with abrupt tempo shifts, soaring instrumental parts, and production that's just chaotic enough to make you wonder if the whole thing is going to blow apart and then smile in appreciation when it doesn't.

The Wild, The Innocent, And The E Street Shuffle was the first time Springsteen scaled the heights of rock and roll greatness - but it wouldn't be the last.