Greatest Hits (Bruce Springsteen album)
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| Compilation album by Bruce Springsteen | ||
| Released | February 27, 1995 | |
| Recorded | 1974 - 1995 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 76:35 | |
| Label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer(s) | various (see separate albums for producers) | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Bruce Springsteen chronology | ||
| In Concert/MTV Plugged (1993) |
Greatest Hits (1995) |
The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) |
Greatest Hits is Bruce Springsteen's first compilation album, released February 27, 1995 on Columbia Records. This record is a collection of Springsteen's greatest hits through the years and four extra tracks at the end recorded with the E Street Band in 1994-1995. Not all of these were actual "hits". The greatest hit among the tracks is arguably "Dancing in the Dark". This was Springsteen's first (albeit very partial) release with his backing band since the late 1980s. Some of the songs are shorter versions of the original album releases.
The recording of the "new" tracks was portrayed in the 1996 documentary Blood Brothers. "Murder Incorporated" and "This Hard Land" were in fact unused 1982 songs from the Born in the U.S.A. sessions that were here re-recorded more than a decade later (though "Murder Incorporated" on the Greatest Hits album is actually the 1982 recording), and both subsequently became Springsteen concert staples. "Blood Brothers", on the other hand, was played only as the final closing song of both the 1999-2000 Reunion Tour and 2002-2003 Rising Tour, both times with an extra verse added. "Secret Garden" achieved notoriety via the soundtrack of the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. Alternate versions of several of these new tracks were released on the 1996 Blood Brothers EP.
[edit] Track listing
- "Born to Run" – 4:30
- (Originally released on the album Born to Run.)
- "Thunder Road" – 4:48
- (Originally released on the album Born to Run.)
- "Badlands" – 4:03
- (Originally released on the album Darkness on the Edge of Town.)
- "The River" – 5:00
- (Originally released on the album The River.)
- "Hungry Heart" – 3:20
- (Originally released on the album The River.)
- "Atlantic City" – 3:56
- (Originally released on the album Nebraska.)
- "Dancing in the Dark" – 4:03
- (Originally released on the album Born in the U.S.A.)
- "Born in the U.S.A." – 4:41
- (Originally released on the album Born in the U.S.A.)
- "My Hometown" – 4:12
- (Originally released on the album Born in the U.S.A.)
- "Glory Days" – 3:49
- (Originally released on the album Born in the U.S.A.)
- "Brilliant Disguise" – 4:15
- (Originally released on the album Tunnel of Love.)
- "Human Touch" – 5:10
- (Originally released on the album Human Touch.)
- "Better Days" – 3:44
- (Originally released on the album Lucky Town.)
- "Streets of Philadelphia" – 3:16
- (Originally released on the soundtrack to Philadelphia.)
- "Secret Garden" – 4:27
- "Murder Incorporated" – 3:57
- "Blood Brothers" – 4:34
- "This Hard Land" – 4:50
