BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN : GREATEST HITS

 

  1. Born To Run
  2. Thunder Road
  3. Badlands
  4. The River
  5. Hungry Heart
  6. Atlantic City
  7. Dancing In The Dark
  8. Born In The U.S.A.
  9. My Hometown
  10. Glory Days
  11. Brilliant Disguise
  12. Human Touch
  13. Better Days
  14. Streets Of Philadelphia
  15. Secret Garden
  16. Murder Incorporated
  17. Blood Brothers
  18. This Hard Land

Label : Columbia

Length : 76:35

Released : 1995

Review (AllMusic) : Compiling a greatest-hits collection for Bruce Springsteen should be an easy task, yet Greatest Hits manages to miss the mark. Nothing from his first two albums is included, and the set includes such non-hits as "Atlantic City" and "The River" instead of hits like "Cover Me," "Tunnel of Love," and "Fade Away." In fact, a good portion of his hits are missing, as are important album tracks like "Backstreets," "Rosalita," and "Candy's Room," making this neither a straight hits collection nor a compilation of his best tracks. What's left are some of his biggest hits and best songs ("Born to Run," "Glory Days," "The River"), but not all of them, as well as four new tracks, the best of which is an outtake from the Born in the U.S.A. sessions ("Murder Incorporated"). Aside from "Murder Incorporated," the new tracks follow the synth-laden adult contemporary direction Springsteen began pursuing with "Streets of Philadelphia," only without the lyricism or melody. So, it's a mixed bag, drawing an incomplete portrait of one of the prime rockers of the '70s onward. Although voluminous by comparison, the three-disc The Essential Bruce Springsteen released in 2003 is a far better choice.

Review (Wikipedia) : Greatest Hits is Bruce Springsteen's first compilation album, released February 27, 1995 on Columbia Records. It is a collection of some of Springsteen's hit singles and popular album tracks through the years and four extra numbers at the end, mostly recorded with the E Street Band in 1995. The latter constituted Springsteen's first (albeit very partial) release with his backing band since the late 1980s. Some of the songs are shorter versions of the original album releases. The incorporation of the "new" tracks was portrayed in the 1996 documentary Blood Brothers. "Murder Incorporated" and "This Hard Land" were, in fact, unused 1982 songs from the Born in the U.S.A. sessions, with the latter being re-recorded here more than a decade later, and both subsequently became Springsteen concert staples.[1] "Blood Brothers", on the other hand, was played only as the final closing song of both the 1999-2000 Reunion Tour and 2002-2003 Rising Tour, both times with an extra verse added. "Secret Garden" achieved notoriety via the soundtrack of the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. Alternate versions of several of these new tracks were released on the 1996 Blood Brothers EP. The compilation was commercially successful, hitting the peaks of the U.S. album chart and UK Album Chart and selling more than four million copies in the U.S.