BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - THE RISING - NM/MINT - DOUBLE Vinyl LP

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

"THE RISING"

Double LP

Vinyl LP

2002 original release vinyl LP on the SONY/COLUMBIA  record label Cat n# 508000 1  Made in USA 

The album cover is in NM/MINT condition. no problems, the inner picture/lyric/credit sleeves is in NM/MINT condition, no problems

The vinyl itself is in NM/MINT condition, there is a couple of light papercuts and fingermarks visible. these LP's have only been played twice.

If you are not fully satisfied you may return this album with  a full refund inc postage.

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Sorry if the shipping charges seem a bit high, the reason being i use heavy/strong packaging

THIS IS AS GOOD EXAMPLE OF WELL LOOKED AFTER OLD LP RECORD

Full track list

Side One

1."Lonesome Day"  4:08
2."Into the Fire"  5:04
3."Waitin' on a Sunny Day"  4:18
4."Nothing Man"  4:23 .

Side Two

5."Countin' on a Miracle"  4:44
6."Empty Sky"  3:34
7."Worlds Apart"  6:07
8."Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)"  4:21  .

Side Three

9."Further On (Up the Road)"  3:52
10."The Fuse"  5:37
11."Mary's Place"  6:0 .

Side Four

12."You're Missing"  5:10
13."The Rising"  4:50
14."Paradise"  5:39
15."My City of Ruins"  5:00 .

All songs were written by Bruce Springsteen .

The Band

E Street Band
 Bruce Springsteen – lead guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, harmonica
 Roy Bittan – keyboards, piano, mellotron, Kurzweil, pump organ, Korg M1, crumar
 Clarence Clemons – saxophone, background vocals
 Danny Federici – Hammond B3, Vox Continental, Farfisa
 Nils Lofgren – electric guitar, Dobro, slide guitar, banjo, background vocals
 Patti Scialfa – vocals
 Garry Tallent – bass guitar
 Steven Van Zandt – electric guitar, background vocals, mandolin
 Max Weinberg – drums
 
Additional musicians
 Soozie Tyrell – violin, background vocals
 Brendan O'Brien – hurdy gurdy, glockenspiel, orchestra bells
 Larry Lemaster – cello
 Jere Flint – cello
 Jane Scarpantoni – cello
 Nashville String Machine
 Asuf Ali Khan and group
 Alliance Singers
 The Miami Horns .

The Rising is the 12th studio album by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, released in 2002 on Columbia Records. In addition to being Springsteen's first studio album in seven years, it was also his first with the E Street Band in 18 years.[1] It is centered around Springsteen's reflections on the September 11, 2001 attacks.
 
Upon its release, The Rising was a critical and commercial success, and hailed as the triumphant return for Springsteen. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of over 520,000 copies. With this, Springsteen became the oldest person to achieve a first-week sales of over a half of a million copies in the United States[citation needed]. The album also garnered a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in 2003; although nominated for the Album of the Year award as well, it was beaten by Norah Jones' debut album Come Away with Me. Title song "The Rising" was also a Grammy nominee and recipient.
 
For the year 2002, The Rising was one of only two albums to receive Rolling Stone's highest rating – five stars – the other being Beck's Sea Change. The magazine also ranked the album #15 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade.

History
 
While most of the songs were written after September 11, 2001, a few of them pre-date the attacks. It's been rumoured that Springsteen got the inspiration for the album a few days after the 9/11 attacks, when a stranger in a car stopped next to him, wound down his window and said: "We need you now."[2] Springsteen also told this story to journalist Mark Binelli in the August 22, 2002 issue of Rolling Stone. "My City of Ruins" was originally performed in, and written about, Asbury Park, New Jersey. After its performance by Springsteen on the post-September 11 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon, however, the song took on an expanded meaning. "Further On (Up the Road)" was performed live in Madison Square Garden during the summer of 2000 at the end of the Springsteen-E Street Reunion Tour, and was professionally recorded, although it was not included in the HBO, DVD, or CD versions of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live in New York City. "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" was originally written in the early- or mid-1990s and played in at least one soundcheck during the Reunion Tour. Springsteen has commented that "Nothing Man" was originally completed in 1994 but re-recorded for this album.
 
"Mary's Place" is directly inspired by Sam Cooke's "Meet Me at Mary's Place";[3][4] "Let's Be Friends" takes musical form from John Mellencamp's "Cherry Bomb" and Mariah Carey's "Dreamlover";[5] and the gospel-like "My City of Ruins" is organized around the melody line of Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready".[6]
 
Helped by a substantial marketing campaign — pre-release promotion was the biggest of Springsteen's career[7] — and the concurrent Rising Tour, The Rising went on to become Springsteen's first #1 album on the U.S. pop albums chart since his 1995 Greatest Hits album and would go on to sell about 2,100,000 copies in the United States, making it Springsteen's best-selling album of new material since 1987's Tunnel of Love.
 
A re-recorded version of the song "The Fuse" with an orchestral backing features in the Spike Lee-directed film 25th Hour.
 
Rolling Stone ranked The Rising #15 on its list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade.
 
Reception
 Initial critical response to The Rising was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 82, based on 21 reviews

ROLLING STONE REVIEW
By Kurt Loder
July 30, 2002

The heart sags at the prospect of pop stars weighing in on the subject of September 11th. Which of them could possibly transmute the fiery horror of that day with the force of their art, or offer up anything beyond a dismal trivialization?

The answer, it turns out, is Bruce Springsteen. With his new album, The Rising, Springsteen wades into the wreckage and pain of that horrendous event and emerges bearing fifteen songs that genuflect with enormous grace before the sorrows that drift in its wake. The small miracle of his accomplishment is that at no point does he give vent to the anger felt by so many Americans: the hunger for revenge. The music is often fierce in its execution, but in essence it is a requiem for those who perished in that sudden inferno, and those who died trying to save them. Springsteen grandly salutes their innocence and their courage, and holds out a hand to those who mourn them, who seek the comfort of an explanation for the inexplicable:

Picture's on the nightstand, TV's on in the den
Your house is waiting . . . for you to walk in
But you're missing, you're missing

It's wonderful to hear these finely calibrated lyrics borne aloft by the E Street Band, brought back at last for a record that rocks as broadly as Born in the U.S.A., the last studio album for which they all gathered, eighteen years ago. However heavy of heart the new songs may be, this three-guitar incarnation of the band (with Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Springsteen — never a slouch in the screaming-guitar department himself) propels them with resounding power. Like Born in the U.S.A. before it, The Rising sounds unlike any other record of its time; in an era of rock murk and heavy synthetics, it flaunts its hard, bright guitars and positively walloping beats.

Springsteen addresses the spiritual dislocations of the World Trade Center attack — and the unquestioning bravery of the rescuers who lost their lives in it — with "Into the Fire," a song that starts out with the simplicity of a white-gospel hymn ("I need your kiss/But love and duty called you someplace higher"), then blossoms into a luminous anthem:

May your strength give us strength
May your faith give us faith
May your hope give us hope
May your love bring us love

Elsewhere, Springsteen acknowledges the fury that welled up in many bereft New Yorkers after the destruction of Manhattan's two most towering landmarks: "I want a kiss from your lips/I want an eye for an eye/I woke up this morning to an empty sky." And in the lush, haunted ballad "Nothing Man," he seems to give voice to the emptiness and incomprehension felt by some of that day's surviving heroes:

I never thought I'd live to read about myself
In my hometown paper
How my brave young life was forever changed
In a misty cloud of pink vapor

Not every song on the album was written in the wake of September 11th: "Waitin' on a Sunny Day," for example, with its big, meaty riff and strutting lyrics. "Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)," with its entirely unexpected beach-beat bounce, wouldn't seem at first listen to fit in here. But every song on the album is unified, to an extent, by a mood of romantic longing and a yearning for human connection. In the end, they all flow together.

As with Born in the U.S.A., the title of this album may mislead some who hear it, particularly those intent on retaliation, which Springsteen himself shows little interest in contemplating. His concern is not with a national uprising but with a rising above: the transcending of ever-mounting losses and ancient hatreds.

His most inspired gesture comes in "Worlds Apart," a track that writhes with the sounds of qawwali, the intense, God-conjuring, life-affirming vocal music of the mystical Sufi sect of Islam — a branch of the faith much detested (and often suppressed) by death-trumpeting fundamentalist imams. Hearing ecstatic qawwali ululations underpinning a song in which Springsteen sings "May the living let us in/Before the dead tear us apart" is a truly soul-stirring experience.

Bruce Springsteen has gathered many a superlative over the years. His most resonant works stand as milestones in the lives of millions of fans. Even for him, though, The Rising, with its bold thematic concentration and penetrating emotional focus, is a singular triumph. I can't think of another album in which such an abundance of great songs might be said to seem the least of its achievements  .

 

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