The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen

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What an album!. Every song is great. Only Springsteen could write such long and brilliant songs.

Underrated and Underappreciated. This is easily one of my favorite albums. The last three songs on the album are worth the purchase alone. I don't think anyone ever pays too much attention to this album, but it's completley solid all the way through. I recentley sat down and really listened to this album for the first time in a while and it blew my mind. This album is worth a listen in any circumstance.

ONE WORD..... WOW. This album is phenominal every track is flawless. SPRINGSTEEN '08

sensational! keeps you intrigued the whole way through!. This is a fasinating album. The songs keep you listening, from "The E-Street Shuffle" all the way through to wonderful closure, "New York City Serenade". Each song has the same Springsteen signature style but each with its own taste. One of the great accomplishments of Springsteen's early days.

Best Springsteen Album. This is Bruce Springsteen's best album with Born to Run close behind. His band is so clean and his voice is the best when he was young. I strongly suggest it to all new springsteen fans.

Best of.... This is the Best of the early Bruce Springsteen stuff, this put him on the map!

The Most Free Spirited of Springsteen Albums. Although the musicianship and recording were something to be desired (Vini Lopez, Lahav & Appel), the stories and the rollicking music are truly open, real, and fun. The real proof of this is that live versions of all of these songs are truly fantastic - the real test of a songwriter's chops. Songs such as "E Street Shuffle", "Rosalita", "Sandy (4th of July, Asbury Park), and "Wild Billy's Circus" captured what Springsteen calls the "sounds of the boardwalk" and Jersey Shore. "New York City Serenade" and "Incident on 57th Street" are wonderful showcases for David Sanscious, who would go on to a great jazz career. Finally, "Kitty's Back" is just weird, jazzy, and fun - if you can ever check out the Conan O'Brian clip of it - it is an interesting tidbit into the mind of a young singer-songwriter who had not yet found his voice. Good buy - a must if you want to understand where the E Street Band was headed.

Creative an passionate. This is one of Bruce’s bests albums I mean really! It’s so dynamic the way he goes from e street shuffle to 4th of July. The different change in music in those two songs is just marvelous. Only a genius could make an album like this and that’s Bruce for ya. I consider this as Bruce’s 3rd best album and darkness at 1 and born to run at 2 but it’s like picking 1 good apple from another apple that’s the same there all amazing and genuinely the best song writer in my opinion. AND WHAT TIME IS IT!? ITS BOOOOOOSSSSSSSS TIIIIMMMEEEE!

Essential. If you want to know what Springsteen was all about, this is the album for you! The energy! The soul! The passion! Sadly, Like with most huge bands, later work is dissapointing compared with their early work. This is in my opinion easily his best album, and Kitty's Back, Rosalita,and E Street Shuffle are must haves if you have any Springsteen in your music collection.

Before the storm. Shows a Springsteen that might have been had there not been a Born To Run or Born In The USA (a title Springsteen admits to boosting off of movie director Jonathan Demme. He gave Demme another song and title to use for his film- Light Of Day.) A Bruce with a sense of humor and a looser, wider songwriting style that, again, was washed away with Born To Run. Easily my favorite Springsteen album. Incident On 57th Street is a forgotten masterpiece.

Epic. This album is probably my 3rd favorite Bruce album! My first is "born to run" followed by "darkness on the edge of town", but this album holds my favorite song "Incident on 57th street". That son is just such a masterpiece! This album is epic because every song is timeless! From "the e street shuffle" to "Rosalita" to "New York City serenade". Seriously buy this album and Listen to it!

One of the bosses best if not the best. Rosalita come out tonight!!!!!!!!!

Best Song Ever. Rosalita is, in my opinion, Bruce's best song he ever made. I also believe Rosalita is one of the best songs ever made. I have never heard a song that so effectively convey energy. It is an amazing song that is soooo much fun to listen to and is sooo energetic.

This album is beautiful. I'm a 30 something. Born in the USA hit the airwaves when I was just a kid. That album was my favorite. I didn't know anything about anything. But I knew that album came from someplace different than most of the crap on the radio. I had no idea it would take me 15 years or so to find out where. I've always come back to springsteen over the years. The more I knew and felt about American roots music the more I would find out about Springsteen's music piece by accidental piece I kept migrating back through his career enjoying all of his masterful adventures in American music. But this album is the wellspring of his unique genius for telling the story of all of us working guys in way that gives us a little more to reach for. He makes the struggle of everyday life beautiful. And this is him in his hungry days. Sweating it out for peanuts. Taking it all in and spitting back as a poetic musical landscape. I agree with the other reviewer. The musicianship on this album is so good its crazy to think about how it was just a pivotal turn in his career. I can't help but to wonder what else this band could of done. Nothing against the E-Street guys. But but the aural effect of this peculiar mix of 70's music in transition put down with such Jersey feel and with such talent and creativity will never be duplicated. And it should be in the collection of lovers of American music.

Wonderful. It is such a joy to listen to. This album has it all. Rock, jazz, funk, emotional ballads. And of course the great lyrics. Long live the Boss

accidental success. springsteen cant write a bad song.

His Best Album. My favorite Bruce Springsteen album

beyond excellent. This is a jazzy, soulful, funky, and incredibly eclectic rock and roll album full of romance, joy, and youthful exuberance. Springsteen takes a deep look at our everyday lives, finds the many beautifull diamonds in the rough, and puts them down in poetry.

Sparks fly on E Street. This is undeniably THE most underrated album of all time, Springsteen or not. Every single song here is not only a live staple (can Rosie come out tonight?), but also a classic piece of Springsteen writing. Rosalita is one of the Boss' all time masterpieces, and Sandy, Kitty's Back, and Incident on 57th St. are close behind; this is one of my all time desert-island albums, and I would HIGHLY recommend it to anybody who knows what good music is, simply because this IS good music. The fireworks certainly are hailin' over tonight.

The Best!. I was turned onto this album in the 70's before he exploded and never heard anything by him I loved as much. The fusion of Rock and Jazz with the great song writing make this a fantastic album to hear. I love the stories and visuals he creates at every turn. Rosalita was a tune I was implored to learn for a band i performed with at the time and never tired of doing this song. The opening lick is classic. Buy it you will love it.

Need more stars for THIS one.. Perfect!!

brilliant.... Enjoy the dog barking John!

This is very good........ This album is very good, but not great. I love this album but still, Darkness on the edge of town is my favorite. By the way, girls in their summer clothes is better live.

Bruce's Best. Bruce at his storytelling best. The innocence of youth. Clean, pure and vibrant. Rosalita just a rock and roll classic.

Different Feel. All I am going to say is that when I heard this album I realized that it was very jazzy an different from anything that he did record and would go on to record.

This is THE Springsteen album as far. as I'm concerned and I have a DJ whose name I don't remember from KDKB-FM in Phoenix to thank for it. Back in '73, no one had heard of Springsteen, at least out West. But this guy had, and never missed an opportunity in the early morning hours to play a side of this record by this "new guy." Great record. Original. Kinda of a funky, white soul sound with hip lyrics that told stories I wanted to hear. Picked up on "Greetings," and loved it as well. Needless to say, I was brutally disappointed with "Born to Run" and its more conventional rock 'n'roll sound. Since then, Springsteen has often gotten my attention with a great song here and there, but he was never the same again to me. If you haven't heard "The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle," you definitely have to check it out. It is really one of the great rock albums of all time.

My very favorite Springsteen album. I listened to this album in the 80's and was mesmerized by the many layered instrumentals and lyrics. I think this was his very best ever.

Explosive. Having been a Springsteen fan my entire life I was 8 when this album came out! Did not start listening to Bruce till I was in middle school! This album by far in my opinion is his best! His lyrics and story telling is genius and no one can compare! The drumming by Vini Lopez is amazing and not saying that because he is my friend-he is another musical genius and one of the best drummers around to this day!!

Kitty's Back. This album, Born to Run and Greetings from asbury park are the best album's of the boss's carreer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Springer was a true artist. and nowhere is it more apparent than on his second album. Swirling, kaleidescopic, hallucinatory, wildly poetic, this album is a technicolor fever dream in contrast to the gritty black and white noir of Born To Run. I bought BTR in October '75, then Greetings and Wild, and 35 years later (!) still cannot decide which album is best. Saw Springsteen perform in Little Rock in May '76--- only 600 people showed up but he played for FOUR hours! Truly amazing. Sadly, like most artists, he was unable to maintain the brilliance established by his initial trilogy, and turned his back on joyful, exhuberant rock n roll. His post-BTR career assumed a depressive, increasingly politicized pseudo-Guthrie affectation that has proved wholly unconvincing and uninspiring and represents a waste of a great talent. Bruce once stated that rock n roll saved his life and every note of his first three recordings testifies to what the music meant to him and we are so fortunate that he shared his passion with us. I later lived in New York City for 13 years (even rode my Harley to visit Madame Marie's in Asbury Park) and Bruce's first 3 albums faithfully depict the beauty, danger, drama and thrills of the Jersey/NYC mean streets.

Lucious. In my opinion,this is Bruce and the band at their youthful vibrant best.Sweet,clean sound, and intoxicating melodies. If you listen to "Sandy" with your eyes closed,you can smell sea air,and stale beer.The romantic lyrics are truly innocent,and wild. It simply doesn't get better in the early stages. Long live The Boss.

Not his best ?. While this album isn't the rock n roll moment that is Born To Run, it is equal in quality. I got to see this band open for, you may not believe this, Chicago. I had no idea who Springsteen was when I walked into Madison Square Garden that night. When Bruce introduced Clarence to the audience my friends and I were standing on our seats. There were in support of this album and they were great. This is an incredible album from an incredible artist nearing his peak.

Classic and Pure. This is one of the most under appreciated albums of the lot.

Bruce Springsteen. We dont need him or his Oboma Loving Arss. He is a talentless hack!!!!!

Classic Bruce. This early album displays Bruce descriptive/poetic genius. An unmatched, gorgeous ensemble showing, as always, his world-view at the time he wrote it. More heart, love, longing and pain are expressed than I have ever encountered. Sheer literary and musical magic.

without a doubt. This is Bruce's best work! you really can't improve on gosolar's review.

His Masterpiece. this is by far his masterpiece . .

not so fast. this is in my opinion his weakest early album, that being said it is still very good.

Amazing and Underrated. One of his longer albums, but not a second is wasted.

The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle. This is one of those albums you either get or you don't and if you don't I don't know how you can call yourself a Springsteen Fan. If you are able to pick up what Bruce is putting down on this album, you don't need to read my review. This album should be required listening for any newcomer to the craze that is Bruce Springsteen. It came out of nowhere when it arrived. He had just released "Greetings" and the world was expecting something similar with the sophomore attempt. What we got was funky, bluesy, and downright catchy (try getting Rosalita out of your skull, try to not want to do the "E Street Shuff-All!"). With lines like, "Little Angel steps the shuffle like she ain't got no brains She's deaf in combat down on Lover's Lane She drives all them local boys insane" or , "Now, I know your mama, she don't like me, 'cause I play in a rock and roll band And I know your daddy, he don't dig me, but he never did understand Your papa lowered the boom, he locked you in your room-- I'm comin' to lend a hand I'm comin' to liberate you, confiscate you, I want to be your man Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny" set to awesome horms and screaming guitars, thundering drums and pounding piano-this album achieves greatness for being so absolutely MEMORABLE-the highest compliment I can give. The fact that I bought the original in 1980 and can still sing along without skipping a lyric (yes, even to Wild Billy's Circus Story) speaks volumes.

Springsteen's Underrated Masterpiece. This is Springsteen's best album. It may not be his most anthemic, or straight ahead rockin', but it rewards close listening years after its release. Springsteen and the E Street Band weave a dynamic sonic landscape that is a true fusion of genres imbued with a rock sensibility. Against this backdrop, Springsteen's lyrics light up a portrait of adolescence, love, loss, amd change in the grimy underbelly of '70 New Jersey. The E Street Band ripples with rock n' roll energy and jazzy exuberance that lends a shivering tension to the quiet, whispered parts, and then rips forth in a seemingly wild and uncontrollable explosion of sound when each refrain rolls around. It is perplexing then that drummer Vini Lopez and pianist David Sancious were let go after this album, because they, along with Clarence Clemmons, are the true stars of the E Street Shuffle. Their replacements may have given Born to Run more mainstream palatability, but the unique genius of Lopez and Sancious is not matched again. Lopez' drumming gives this album its tight but explosive sound, and Sancious' accomplished piano playing embellishes the music with subtle classical/jazz undertones. Sancious really shines on the epic closing track "New York City Serenade." To me, THIS is the essential Springsteen album and one of the greatest in rock n' roll history. Highly Recommended, to say the least.

Most Beatiful Album I Have Ever Heard. This is by far Springsteen's greatest album. Every single song is full of such passion and emotion; you really "get" what Bruce was feeling. "Incident on 57th Street" is my favorite song on this album, even though they are all favorites of mine. Listen to "New York City Serenade"--which is underrated but definitely moving and a classic--and "Kitty's Back". They will blow your mind. "Sandy" is absolutely beautiful. I strongly recommend this album to any Bruce fan, young or old. I had the wonderful opportunity to see him play this album straight through live in Madison Square Garden in November 2009, and it was amazing. Purchase this album, it is well worth the money. Long live the E Street Band!!

This album is magic.. There's some music that compells me to sort of hold my breath lest I disturb the rhythm. Then there's some that sends me home - conjures up sights and smells from the past. Most of the songs on this album do both. Wild Billy's Circus Story stuns me every time I hear it. And before it's over, I swear I smell burnt sugar, popcorn, motor oil, mud and hay.

Moody and Spectacular. I listened to this album obsessively during high school. Even my best friends thought I'd lost it...but every time I play this one (and I've heard it at least a thousand times) I hear something new and amazing. Bruce's vocals have never sounded better. The band swings loose and tight. The lyrics paint a romantic, highly stylized vision of both urban and suburban New Jersey/New York. Simply incredible. If I had to choose only one Springsteen album to take with me to a desert island, this would be it (though I'd figure out a way to sneak "Thunder Road" along). Side two (the last three songs) might just be the best 25 minutes ever to be placed on vinyl.

Great. grand

rest in peace, Clarence. you were the main cog in the E-Street Band

I don. I consider myself a great listener of many styles of music. from Billie Holiday, Lennon and McCartney, Harrison, Dylan, Sinatra, Simone, Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar to Classical, World, New Age, Alternative, .... and well, you get the picture. I've tried oh so many times to really indulge myself into listening to the Boss' works. I can't see what the big deal is with him and his music, at all. I do like a few songs and unlike the rest of the pop world, the songs listed in the top 5, only Glory Days is probably my least favorite of the few I do like, proving I do listen to his other songs. Rosalita being one, "Radio Nowhere", "Trapped", "Spirit's", "Blinded/Light" and a couple or 3 more, but that is it. The rest, including this album is, nothing but mediocrity at best. His lyrics are a regional taste, (I'm outside of NY/NJ, but in the N.E.) his voice is irritatingly grating (only Dylan can pull it off), his music is a form of bad Jazz mixed with second rate R&R, his musicians are ok, it's just the tempo and style is ....ugly chaos. I can think of two J. Geils albums better than this one, "Sanctuary" comes to mind as to compare with the number of songs and format. If this is Bruce's best it doesn't say much. And I couldn't see it in the top 15-20 albums of all time (Worldwide). I guess it's and aquired taste for most, but in 25 years and counting of collecting and listening to all genre's, aquiring a taste for his music is impossible and I'd rather listen to my next door neighbor's terrior bark all day.

Overlooked CLASSIC Album. The fact that E Street Band was composed of tremendous musicians from diffterent cultur al backgrounds hanging out together in Asbury Park, NJ as it continued its slow crumble and more cultures were put into the mix... well, this is a working class Jersey early 70s work of genius. I have heard (parents were working class Jersey) this album literally my whole life and whenever I feel sad I put this on. The writing is amazing and at times references Asbury (my parents used to take me there when I was a kid) locations and people. Bruce was smart enough at an early age to surround himself with the right musicians. I understood what Bruce felt like on "4th of July (Sandy)... he managed to put the sights and sounds of a Summer holiday night into one song. "Kitty's Back" is a great rave up and again the quality of ESB just blasts. As I have gotten older and Asbury Park of the early 70s was torn down, sold off, and disappeared altogether (Casino is gone!), I listen to this album and still get the feelings I had as a kid with two working NJ parents in their early 20s and that The Boss meant way more to them than Dylan. Bruce was their voice. I am very happy he still continues to make great music ... but this album was the first big gem in his catalogue. "Greetings From..." is good, but uneven (stiil worth listening to several million times). He made me proud to be from NJ. And Bruce is always one of the first things people ask you about when they find out you are from NJ. It's a great thing to be able to say "I loved him way before you knew who he was". It's a Jersey thing, and only the dedicated few really understand. May he live forever!!!

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A Classic. In my opinion this album represents the best Springsteen has to offer - poetry, rock n roll and a romantic notion that you can pull out of desperation and live a good life. This album is a must for any music lover.

I never tire of this album. I've listened to this album hundreds of time and I never tire of it!

So beautiful. My favourite Springsteen album. I echo the comments of the others: exquisite poetry, beautiful musical themes (several per song) and wonderful storytelling. Each song is a tale told with passion.

this guy's gonna be big someday!. The most elegant poetry isn't found in books anymore!