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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 1542
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $4.23 |
| Used Price: $2.09 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Darkness on the Edge of Town Track Listing:
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised a Cain
3. Something in the Night
4. Candy's Room
5. Racing in the Streets
6. Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness on the Edge of Town
Editorial Review:
Import exclusive two-disc set combines Bruce's 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town with his1982 album Nebraska. Two standard jewel cases housed in a slip case. Sony/BMG. 2005.
Description of Darkness on the Edge of Town:
The pain of a protracted legal battle with his former manager and the release of being allowed to record again after a three-year layoff are equally apparent from the piercing hard rock and harsh lyrical content of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Betrayal and hard work that comes to naught are the primary subjects on his mind here, evidenced by songs such as "Adam Raised a Cain," "Factory," and "Streets of Fire." Elsewhere, there are signs of hope or at least the possibility of outrunning your problems ("Racing in the Street," "The Promised Land," "Prove It All Night"). But mostly, these are songs about exorcising some serious demons, and from the sound of things, Springsteen's loud, lonesome howl and blistering guitar work went a long way toward making him whole again. This is angry art, made by someone pushed to his absolute limit and more than ready to push back. --Daniel Durchholz
Darkness on the Edge of Town Reviews:
Love A Howling Bruce!! 
2009-07-08 - I bought this album when it first came out. Didn't like it. Put it on the shelf for about 4 months and then took it down and started listening to it. The more I listened, the more I loved it. This is Bruce and the E Street Band at its best. What I love about Bruce is his Vocals, his howling and his songwriting. Bruce howls on this record. The writing is beautiful and makes me remember why I loved Springsteen in the first place. I have been playing this CD all summer and it is so America - the America I am proud to know and the America that is disappearing...In my opinion, Bruce's best album. Racing in the Streets my favorite, but Badlands, Promised Land, Prove It All Night, a howling Bruce on Something In The Night, Streets of Fire and the title track Darkness on the Edge of Town reign as some of his best...get it!!
My favorite Springsteen cd
2009-03-03 - This is my favorite cd by Springsteen. In my opinion, he is one of the all time great song writers.
The Boss is SO BOSS!!!
2008-12-17 - this is his third best album behind only Born to Run and Born in the USA!!!
A true Master
2008-09-07 - Bruce Springsteen shaped the futures for many artists to follow. And he is as good now as he ever was.
Springsteen's best
2008-08-03 - The cover photos for this album symbolize what it's all about. On the front, Springsteen wears that emblematic "Born to Run" black leather jacket, as seen on the cover of the previous record that made him an overnight superstar. On the back, the famous stud-leather is gone; the Boss is stripped down to a plain white T.
For all its success, to my ears "Born to Run"'s songs are often sentimental and even phony: the record pumps up banal, everyday stories into unconvincing epics with comic book melodrama and unlistenably hyper-inflated wall-of-sound bombast. It doesn't stand the test of years well, IMO.
But "Darkness" is its shadowy obverse. More banal, everyday life-stories, yet made powerfully compelling by simple, honest, confessional story-telling and gritty, stripped-down musical arrangements that keep you close to the bones of some of Springsteen's sharpest, loveliest songwriting.
"BTR" is unconvincingly overpowering; "Darkness" is shattering, unforgettable. Not to be missed!
