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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
The Wild, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle.
Definitely in his top three, and probably the Bruce album I've listened to the most. Side 2 especially is just perfect.
Agree with Nikolai. He's never made a flat-out dire album in my book. Neither have the Stones for that matter.
As for Human Touch/Lucky Town. Never thought they were as bad as people make 'em out to be. A few clunkers but still some gems. "I Wish I Were Blind" is definitely one of my all time top half dozen songs in his entire catalogue.
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
I'd probably say,Tunnel of Love. A lot of diehards,myself included,love it. But from what I remember it wasn't a big critical or commercial success. Plus it was a little slower without as many rockers as some Springsteen albums. But a great one that I wish he would play more of live.
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texas fan
Maybe it's my age, but I can't imagine Greetings from Asbury Park or The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle being underrated by anyone...
I thought everyone agreed these were fantastic albums. My two favorites, anyway.
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
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VoodooLounge13
I'm curious for all you other Bruce fans out there, what do you think is his most underrated album? I'd have to go with Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ. I simply love that album! It was the second one I ever got after BITU, and it just grew and grew on me. How about you guys and gals??
i don't think greeting or e street shuffle is underrated. those albums are always listed as essential bruce albums to own. i'd say tunnel of love or nebraska because both had to follow huge successful albums and the public didn't seem to "get" nebraska and tunnel of love was considered a flop after born in the usa.
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keefriffhard4life
plus greeting and e street both outsold nebraska.
i like lucky town and human touch but maybe they should have been released at different times. one in late 1991/early 1992 and the other late 1993/early 1994. also human touch should have also been just 10 tracks which cuts the filler
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Nikolai
Neither Greetings nor Wild/Innocent outsold Nebraska initially. The first two albums barely sold. Bruce was close to getting dropped by CBS until Born to Run came out.
Nebraska got to No 2 on Billboard (I think - maybe higher, possibly lower). Don't forget this was after The River and Hungry Heart, so momentum alone shifted Nebraska.
I don't know what the current sales figures are for Nebraska, Tom Joad, Devils & Dust and the Seeger Sessions, but I'm guessing they're below the overall sales for the first two albums.
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keefriffhard4life
yes after the fact e street and greetings have sold well. i know at first they didn't but look at the sales of nebraska and tunnel or love compared to the previous album. gazza say the river is the river 8.9 million and nebraska is 3.2. born in the usa is 26.6 and tunnel is 7.3.
i'm guessing these are worldwide sales btw
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Nikolai
Thanks for posting that Gazza. Makes for very interesting reading.
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Nikolai
Thanks for posting that Gazza. Makes for very interesting reading.
Especially when you consider that the Stones have sold around 160 million albums (plus ten of millions of singles) and yet when they play a show thats almost all warhorses, some people (including Jagger himself) justify it by claiming that anything else is an 'obscurity' and hardly anyone would know it or want to hear it.....
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yes after the fact e street and greetings have sold well. i know at first they didn't but look at the sales of nebraska and tunnel or love compared to the previous album. gazza say the river is the river 8.9 million and nebraska is 3.2. born in the usa is 26.6 and tunnel is 7.3.
i'm guessing these are worldwide sales btw
They are.
Nebraska was a bleak acoustic album that wasnt followed by a tour - pretty understandable it wouldnt sell the same as a commercial release such as The River,
You cant really suggest that TOL was a failure with sales like that. BITUSA sold three times as many copies as any other studio album in his career. Lots of top selling artists have one release that sells in amounts that are disproprotionate to the rest of their catalogue. It'd be like saying all of Jacko or ACDC's albums were failures apart from Thriller or Back In Black.