Greetings From Asbury Park N.J

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Product Details

Artist : Bruce Springsteen
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0074643190329
Label : Sony Music Canada Inc.
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1990-01-01
UPC : 074643190329

ASIN : B0000024ZT

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Blinded By the Light
2. Growin' Up
3. Mary Queen of Arkansas
4. Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
5. Lost in the Flood
6. Angel
7. For You
8. Spirit in the Night
9. It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City

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Customer Reviews

Where it all started to go bad (2007-10-02)

You ever hear the phrase, "it's gone from bad to worse?" I'd love to use something like that to describe this and all subsequent Springsteen albums, but it kind of falls apart when you look at it. First off, this album is much worse than 'bad'. Atrocious fits it a bit better. Secondly, all is albums are completely awful, so it doesn't go to worse. His career starts at the very bottom and just stays there - album after album. It would be more appropriate to say, "He's started at atrocious and stayed there," but that doesn't really ring in the same way as, "from bad to worse." Anyway, my difficulties with defining the miserable quality of Bruce's work aside, 'Greetings From Asbury Park' is a steaming pile. His pathetic attempts at emulating Bob Dylan come off as ragged copies of a better performer and his fumbling rockers drown in a mass of noise and incoherent mumblings. When I think back to those moments when Bruce was telling people that he was thinking of maybe recording an album, I sure wish they had been a lot more discouraging. "You know Bruce, maybe you should try some lessons or something. Shouldn't you be able to play that guitar of yours properly before you rush off to record something?" "Recording an album? With these lyrics? Maybe it's these glasses, but you sure don't look like no Lee Greenwood from over here."If only they were a little more honest, maybe somewhere outisde some gas station somewhere (New Jersey, probably) somebody would be driving away in their Jag and saying to themselves, "You know, that guy may have been a little slow on the uptake when he was trying to figure out the tax, but he sure pumps a mean tank of gas. I'll have to give that Springsteen guy a tip next time I'm through." And the world would be just a little more right.And so to you, potential Springsteen fan, I say stay away from the dark side. There is nothing to listen to here. Move on. Perhaps you'd like to spend your money on that Rick Springfield album. As you can tell from the spelling, they're pretty much the same, except Rick Springfield doesn't suck.

A 3 star album with 5 star moments (2004-03-18)

With it's dense-packed lyrics and folky musical feel, Bruce's debut was an album that barely hinted at what was to come. Caught between the record company's desire to make a singer/songwriter out of him and his own desire to be a flat out rocker, Greetings comes out sounding uneven, but despite this several songs manage to creep out as flat out classics. Future Manfred Mann fodder Blinded By The Light and For You hinted at his genius, but in my opinion Growin' Up, Spirit In The Night and It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City confirmed that what we were dealing with was the next big thing.

uneven and amazing! (2004-01-16)

And so it begins. "Spirits in the Night". Is there a better song about being young, going out to "party"? It is SO much more than sex. Hhits it then, and it still works today. "For You"? Isn't this so much more "real" than ANYTHING out there today? "Lost in the Flood"? Who speaks with this passion anymore?No, it isn't perfect; no, it isn't his best; no, it isn't "essential". But the seeds are planted; It is raw, poetic, soulful, full of the sounds of a man that had NO interest in making "hit" music; he wanted to say what he wanted to say. They just don't make many like this anymore.

READ THIS NOW! (2003-12-14)

I shun all you who speak of this ablum in low regard. How can you honeslty talk of "Born in the USA" ever living up to "Lost in the Flood". Please open your ears sometime and listen to both songs, then tell me that I'm right.

The average beginnings... (2003-10-30)

Like he has said, this was the last time he made music without wondering if anyone would ever hear it.It shows. It's rough, but verbally virtuous. There are more lyrics on this album than on his next three combined! He can't stop. Compared to his subsequent albums, it's terrific to see his progression...but as a start, it's merely average.There are a handful of stone classics...like "Growin' Up" and "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City", but having been exposed more to his incendiary live versions, these pale.But, in my opinion, if you get ONE Springsteen album, you should get them ALL. Like The Beatles. Even their "weak" albums are essential, if you know what I mean.Besides, it's fun to put on "Blinded By The Light" for your uninitiated friends and watch them say, "He covered this song?"Then they wonder why you're laughing...

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