Clearly I was a good boy last year as the stunning box set was sat under the tree waiting for me on Christmas morning!
It's stunning!
Obviously some of the tracls on the double CD are on the double CD and not on Darkness for a reason, but some of them are worthy of being on a dedicated album and not an album of outtakes, I'm not just talking about Talk To Me, Rendezvous, Fire or Because The Night here, Candy's Boy is a superb different take on Candy's Room (which since Candy's Room is one of my all time favourites is praise indeed form me!), Rendezvous, Ain't Good Enough For You and Spanish Eyes are other tracks that get a notable early mention.
The Paramount show is stunning in it's intensity, the E Street Band sicken me in the way that they make it all look so easy!
The Thrill HIll Vault stuff from the sessions is interesting and stunning, I love those clips of SPringsteen at work in the studio and I'd love to see the Pheonix show in ti's entirety.
Tomorrow the remastered album and the Houston show beckon!
Stunning!
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