Bruce Springsteen-Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition (2005)
Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Title: Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition
Label: Columbia
Format: CD + 2XDVD
Cat #: 82796 94175 2
Year of Release: 2005
Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2005 30th Anniversary Box Set
Listed Condition: VG+/VG+
Sell Date: 6/2/25
Sell Price: $5.45
iscogs Last Sold: 6/9/25 VG+/VG+ $7.00
Low: $4.50 VG+/VG+ 5/15/25
Median: $8.95
Average: $9.54
High: $20.00 M/M 1/15/24
Current low price: $1.00 VG+/VG+
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 90
Have/Want: 1513/240
Where Sold: Philadelphia, PA
Time it took to sell: 10 years
Where and When Bought: internet around when it was released
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A
Sad To See It Go: No
The 30th Anniversary issue of Born To Run is a fancy box with 2 DVD's that I never got around to watching until 20 years later, even though I bought it almost immediately when it came out. Everybody looks so young in 2005! Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons were still around to reflect. Born To Run is , of course, Born To Run and I already wrote about it on 8-track a few months back. I will add that this remaster sounds nice and I seem to remember the first CD issue being highly criticized as a bad mastering that I think was the standard until this one came out.
What made this a new release was the video content. About 5 hours' worth that took me a couple days to get through. First up was a 2 + hour live show, a London debut for the Boss straight off his recent American blow-up that got him on the cover of Time and Newsweek the same week. We hear about this event in the Wings For Wheels documentary about the album included in the second DVD which also contains some late 1973 footage linked above of the warhorse "Spirit In The Night" plus some other songs that didn't make the Born To Run cut or aesthetic. "Spirit In The Night" proves to be an important song to compare with the 1975 performance that finds Bruce hamming it up and crawling into a space on the stage to act out the hurt of Hazy Davy going into the lake with just his socks and his shirt. You don't need to see Bruce to know what he's doing to Crazy Janey but he'll tell you all the same in the next verse.
So the hairy Bruce of 1975 got cleaned up a bit on Darkness On The Edge Of Town, which was my real-time introduction to the Boss and my preference as is The River and Nebraska. However, Born To Run still makes the top tier since I don't really get sick of "Thunder Road" even though saying that about the title track is a bridge too far for me.
That's just personal preference.
FOR FURTHER REVIEW:
I'm On Fire b/w Johnny Bye Bye (1985)
Glory Days b/w Stand On It (1985)
Patti Smith Group-Easter (1978)
Randy Newman-Trouble In Paradise (1983)
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