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‘I hate the arrangements!’ Two Bruce superfans dissect Springsteen’s lavish lost albums box set
Springsteen obsessives rejoice! The Boss has released seven lost albums, made between 1983 and 2018. Where to start? Let our Bruce scholars light you through the darkness …
To make sense of this vast tranche of new material, we got “tramps” Michael Hann and Laura Barton to pull apart the risks, regrets and riches in this landmark box set. The Boss tours with the E Street Band; Bruce Springsteen writes a memoir, performs a Broadway one-man show, makes left-field records following his muse. I usually think his genre pastiches are the weakest thing in his repertoire – top o’ the mornin’ to you Irish-American folk-punk – but putting these collections out in this way enables me to hear them not as “the album after Tom Joad” or whatever, but as discrete little packages.
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