THE TIES THAT BIND THE RIVER COLLECTION
| Bruce SpringsteenTHE TIES THAT BIND THE RIVER COLLECTION
THE TIES THAT BIND: THE RIVER COLLECTION - Columbia Records released Bruce Springsteen s The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4th, 2015. A comprehensive look at The River era, the set contains 52 tracks on 4 CDs with a wealth of unreleased material, and 4 hours of never-before-seen video on 3 DVDs. It is comprised of the original The River double album; the first official release of 'The River: Single Album;' a CD of 1979/80 studio outtakes; a two-DVD film of never-released, newly edited multi-camera footage from Springsteen s famed 1980 show in Tempe, AZ, long rumored but never-before-seen; rare tour rehearsal footage; a brand new documentary The Ties That Bind" about 'The River;' and a coffee table book of 200 rare or previously unseen photos and memorabilia with a new essay by Mikal Gilmore. -brucespringsteen.net
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Pitchfork
for an album that is all about contradictions, excess and mess, more of everything is most certainly a good thing
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Rolling Stone
The music is full of teenage dreams crashing up against reality, dusting themselves off and trying to figure out the next move. If we’re lucky, it’s a story that never stops.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
this mammoth, exhaustive and terrific collection explores the possibilities
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The Guardian
great outtakes and a joyous live DVD
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Sound and Vision
Springsteen may in fact be the best analyst and scholar of his own work, and he’s once again granted us full audience inside his creative process on the six-disc The Ties That Bind – The River Collection
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Consequence of Sound
a damn near perfect album
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Independent
The Boss is on blinding form with this intriguing collection
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Exclaim!
it simply overflows with some of the best, and most enjoyable rock 'n' roll of all time
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All Music
this set makes it possible to imagine the many chapters that could have been added or removed from the album while still telling the same powerful story, as well as documenting the thought and effort Springsteen put into the process
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Chicago Tribune
It's an iconic if flawed album. But the overflow of songs presented on "The Ties That Bind" makes for a great argument-starter.
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The New Yorker
These songs—some crushing, some jubilant—explore how hard it is not to love but to be loved, to be held accountable to the devotion you’ve inspired in another person, to receive it without collapsing.
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Flood Magazine
as grand as the album is, its twenty-song track list only came after obsessive pruning and labored deliberation
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Elsewhere
The River was a blockbuster success but also ended a remarkable trilogy. Springsteen closed a door with River/Ties and opened another.
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