Word: albums
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Since 1992, Springsteen has released only one album of new music, the fairly boring and indifferently-received The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), which told long stories with underlying messges of social protest to the accompanying of a softlystrummed guitar, and which sold only 585,000 copies: small change for a giant like Springsteen, whose 1984 release Born in the U.S.A. was one of the best-selling albums of all time. But in the year Joad was released, Springsteen issued his first Greatest Hits compilation, which sold a healthy 2.2 million copies, followed last year by a live album...
...both iconography and content, the new compilation admits what anyone might have realized: for years, Springsteen has been more retrospective than productive. Each of Tracks' four disks spans a period in Springsteen's recording life: but while the first three albums cover the years 1973-1987, the final 11 years of Springsteen's recording history are condensed onto a single album--mostly containing songs recorded in or before 1992--which is encased in a jacket whose cover shows, in blue-tint monochrome, a rearview mirror and the roadside behind...
...play Eleanor Rigby on the album. Didn't you learn from Frank Sinatra that covering Beatles songs is a mistake...
Jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman is touring to promote his new album, Timeless Tales (for Changing Times...
...Yeah, it is. But there are plenty of my favorite songs that would never have made it on this album. For example, I love Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven. I wouldn't have thought about touching that with a 1,000-ft. pole...