CC 2004: Bruce Springsteen
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 07/30/2004 - 04:24
Tags:
- Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973) - *** 1/2
- The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973) - **** 1/2
- Born to Run (1975) - *****
- Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) - **** 1/2
- The River (1980) - **** 1/2
- Nebraska (1982) - ****
- Born in the U.S.A. (1984) - **** 1/2
- Live/1975-85 (1986) - ****
- Tunnel of Love (1987) - ****
- Human Touch (1992) - ***
- Lucky Town (1992) - *** 1/2
- Greatest Hits (1995) - ***
- The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) - *** 1/2
- Tracks (1998) - ****
- 18 Tracks (1999) - ***
- Live in New York City (2001) - ***
- The Rising (2002) - **** 1/2
- The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2003) - **** 1/2
This is a new entry in an old series I am slowly bringing up to date. I'm calling it Critical Consensus 2004. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. I've ditched placing the albums in a recommended purchasing order, instead using a more traditional chronological order.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever