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词条 Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
释义

  1. Background

  2. Critical reception

  3. Track listing

     Unreleased outtakes 

  4. Personnel

  5. Charts

  6. Certifications

  7. See also

  8. References

  9. External links

{{Infobox album
| name = Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
| type = studio
| artist = Bruce Springsteen
| cover = Greetings from Asbury Park NJ.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|1973|1|5}}
| recorded = July–September 1972
| venue =
| studio = 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York
| genre = Rock
| length = {{Duration|m=37|s=08}}
| label = Columbia
| producer = Mike Appel, Jim Cretecos
| chronology = Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
| type = studio
| single1 = Blinded by the Light
| single1date = February 1973
| single2 = Spirit in the Night
| single2date = May 1973
}}
}}

Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is the debut studio album by Bruce Springsteen. It was produced by Mike Appel and Jim Cretecos from July through September 1972 at the budget-priced 914 Sound Studios. The album was released January 5, 1973, by Columbia Records to average sales but positive critical reviews.

"Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" were released as singles by Columbia, both failing to reach the U.S. charts; however, "Blinded by the Light" was later covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1977, reaching number one in the United States and Canada. They also later covered "Spirit(s) in the Night" and "For You" as well.

In 2003, the album was ranked at #379 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[1] and in 2013 Rolling Stone named Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time".[1] The album also reached #60 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Background

Springsteen and his first manager Mike Appel recorded the album at the low-priced, out-of-the-way 914 Sound Studios to save as much as possible of the Columbia Records advance, and cut most of the songs in a single week.[2]

There was a dispute not long after the record was recorded—Appel and John Hammond preferred the solo tracks, while Springsteen preferred the band songs. As such, a compromise was reached—the album was to feature five songs with the band ("For You," "Growin' Up," "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?" "It's Hard to be a Saint in the City," and "Lost in the Flood") and five solo songs ("Mary Queen of Arkansas," "The Angel," "Jazz Musician," "Arabian Nights" and "Visitation at Fort Horn").[3]

However, when Columbia Records president Clive Davis heard the album, he felt that it lacked a potential hit single. As such, Springsteen wrote and recorded "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night".[4] Because pianist David Sancious and bassist Garry Tallent were unavailable to record these songs, a three-man band was used—Vini Lopez on drums, Springsteen on guitar, bass and piano, and the previously missing Clarence Clemons on saxophone.[4] These two songs bumped "Jazz Musician," "Arabian Nights" and "Visitation at Fort Horn," leaving a total of seven band songs and two solo songs. The album was originally slated to be released in the fall of 1972, but was moved back to early 1973 to avoid the pre-Christmas crush.[5]

Both "Blinded by the Light" and "Spirit in the Night" were released as singles by Columbia, but neither reached the U.S. charts.[5] Manfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of "Blinded by the Light" on their album The Roaring Silence, which reached number one on Billboard's Hot 100 on 19 February 1977 and #1 on the Canadian RPM chart the same day.[5] This recording of "Blinded by the Light" is Springsteen's only number one single as a songwriter on the Hot 100.[5] His best showing on the Hot 100 as a performer was in 1984, with "Dancing in the Dark", which peaked at number two for four weeks.[5] Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. first charted in the United Kingdom on June 15, 1985, in the wake of Springsteen's Born in the USA tour arriving in Britain; it remained in the top 100 for ten weeks.[6]

On November 22, 2009, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. was played in its entirety for the first time by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, at the HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York, to celebrate the last show of the Working on a Dream tour.[7]

Critical reception

{{Album reviews
| rev1 = Absolute Punk
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[8]
| rev2 = AllMusic
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}[9]
| rev3 = Chicago Tribune
| rev3Score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}[10]
| rev4 = Christgau's Record Guide
| rev4Score = B+[17]
| rev5 = Creem
| rev5Score = B[18]
| rev6 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[11]
| rev7 = MusicHound Rock
| rev7Score = 2.5/5[12]
| rev8 = Q
| rev8Score = {{Rating|3|5}}[13]
| rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
| rev9Score = {{Rating|3|5}}[14]
}}

In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Lester Bangs hailed Springsteen as a daring new artist who sets himself apart from his contemporaries with songwriting that either has a serious meaning or showcases his uninhibited gift for verbose, overloaded lyrics and rhyme schemes. "Some of [his words] can mean something socially or otherwise", Bangs said, "but there's plenty of 'em that don't even pretend to, reveling in the joy of utter crass showoff talent run amuck and totally out of control".[15] Peter Knobler wrote in Crawdaddy that "he sings with a freshness and urgency I haven't heard since I was rocked by 'Like a Rolling Stone' ... the album rocks, then glides, then rocks again. There is the combined sensibility of the chaser and the chaste, the street punk and the bookworm."[16] Creem magazine's Robert Christgau said Springsteen's songs are dominated by the kind of mannered emotional transparency and "absurdist energy" that made Bob Dylan "a genius instead of a talent".[17] In Christgau's Record Guide (1981), he wrote that despite the grandiloquent, unaccompanied "Mary Queen of Arkansas" and "The Angel", songs such as "Blinded by the Light" and "Growin' Up" foreshadow Springsteen's "unguarded teen-underclass poetry", while even the maundering "Lost in the Flood" is interesting.[18]

In All Music Guide to Rock (2002), William Ruhlmann gave Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. five stars and said that it combined the mid-1960s folk rock music of Bob Dylan, accessible melodies, and elaborate arrangements and lyrics: "Asbury Park painted a portrait of teenagers cocksure of themselves, yet bowled over by their discovery of the world. It was saved from pretentiousness (if not preciousness) by its sense of humor and by the careful eye for detail ... that kept even the most high-flown language rooted."[19] In 2003, the album was ranked number 379 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[20] They ranked it 37th on their list of greatest debut albums.[21]

Track listing

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| all_writing = Bruce Springsteen
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Blinded by the Light
| length1 = 5:06
| title2 = Growin' Up
| length2 = 3:05
| title3 = Mary Queen of Arkansas
| length3 = 5:21
| title4 = Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
| length4 = 2:05
| title5 = Lost in the Flood
| length5 = 5:17
}}{{tracklist
| headline = Side two
| title1 = The Angel
| length1 = 3:24
| title2 = For You
| length2 = 4:40
| title3 = Spirit in the Night
| length3 = 5:00
| title4 = It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
| length4 = 3:13
}}

Unreleased outtakes

As with all of his albums, Springsteen recorded more songs than could fit on the album. Many of the outtakes have been released throughout the years on various bootlegs, but have never been given an official release. Most are in a raw, demo form featuring just Springsteen, and were not fully completed. Demos such as "Mary Queen of Arkansas," "Growin' Up," "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?" and "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" were released on the Tracks boxset.[22]

  • "Arabian Nights"
  • "Visitation At Fort Horn"
  • "Jazz Musician"
  • "Lady and the Doctor"
  • "Cowboys of the Sea"
  • "Two Hearts in True Waltz Time"
  • "Street Queen"
  • "The Chosen"

Personnel

  • Bruce Springsteen – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, handclaps
  • Clarence Clemons – saxophone, backing vocals, handclaps
  • Vini Lopez – drums, backing vocals, handclaps
  • David Sancious – piano, Hammond organ, keyboards
  • Garry Tallent – bass guitar
  • Richard Davis – double bass on "The Angel"
  • Harold Wheeler – piano on "Blinded By the Light" and "Spirit In The Night"
  • Louis Lahav – engineer
  • Jack Ashkinazy – remixing
  • John Berg – cover design
  • Fred Lombardi – back cover design
  • According to the unauthorized biography Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Steven Van Zandt provided sound effects on "Lost in the Flood",[23] however, Van Zandt denied having any involvement on his official Twitter page.[24]
Song-by-song musician credits

1. "Blinded by the Light"

  • Springsteen – guitar, electric bass, keyboards, vocals
  • Clemons – saxophone, backing vocals
  • Lopez – drums, backing vocals
  • Wheeler – piano

2. "Growin' Up"

  • Springsteen – guitar, vocals
  • Lopez – drums
  • Sancious – piano, keyboards
  • Tallent – electric bass

3. "Mary Queen of Arkansas"

  • Springsteen – guitar, harmonica, vocals

4. "Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?"

  • Springsteen – guitar, vocals
  • Lopez – drums
  • Sancious – piano
  • Tallent – electric bass

5. "Lost in the Flood"

  • Springsteen – vocals
  • Lopez – drums
  • Sancious – piano, organ
  • Tallent – electric bass

6. "The Angel"

  • Springsteen- vocals
  • Davis – double bass
  • Sancious – piano

7. "For You"

  • Springsteen – guitar, vocals
  • Lopez – drums
  • Sancious – piano, keyboards
  • Tallent – electric bass

8. "Spirit in the Night"

  • Springsteen – piano, electric bass, clapping, vocals
  • Clemons – saxophone, clapping, backing vocals
  • Lopez – drums, clapping, backing vocals
  • Wheeler – piano

9. "It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City"

  • Springsteen – guitar, vocals
  • Lopez – drums
  • Sancious – piano
  • Tallent – electric bass

Charts

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Chart (1973)Peak
position
The album first charted in the UK on 15 June 1985, in the wake of the Born in the USA tour arriving in Britain, and remained in the Top 100 for ten weeks.[6]

Certifications

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See also

{{Portal|New Jersey}}
  • 1973 in music
  • Asbury Park, New Jersey
  • Greetings from Cairo, Illinois – a 2005 album from Stace England about Cairo, Illinois with a cover mimicking Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.

References

1. ^https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-debut-albums-of-all-time-20130322/greetings-from-asbury-park-n-j-19691231
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.stoneponylondon.net/albums/gfapnj.htm |title=Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ |publisher=Stoneponylondon.net |date=1973-01-05 |accessdate=2014-01-25}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Gaar|first1=Gillian G.|title=Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The Illustrated History|date=2016|publisher=Voyageur Press|location=Minneapolis|isbn=978-0-7603-4972-4|page=36}}
4. ^1 {{cite web|author= |url=http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2013/01/07/happy-40th-bruce-springsteens-greetings-from-asbury-park-new-jersey/ |title=Happy 40th: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Greetings From Asbury Park, New Jersey’ |publisher=CBS |date=1973-07-05 |accessdate=2014-01-25}}
5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|author=Lester Bangs |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/greetings-from-asbury-park-nj-19730705 |title=Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=1973-07-05 |accessdate=2014-01-25}}
6. ^1 The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, 1996
7. ^{{cite web |work=nj.com |date=November 15, 2009 |first=Stan |last=Goldstein |title=Bruce Springsteen to play the entire 'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.' album in Buffalo |url=http://www.nj.com/springsteen/index.ssf/2009/11/bruce_springsteen_to_play_the.html |accessdate={{date|2009-11-16}} }}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2284182 |title=Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. – Album Review |publisher=AbsolutePunk.net |accessdate=2014-02-21}}
9. ^{{Allmusic |class=album |tab=review |id=r18760 |first=William |last=Ruhlmann |accessdate={{date|2005-11-29}} }}
10. ^{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|authorlink=Greg Kot|date=August 23, 1992|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-08-23/entertainment/9203170100_1_star-lucky-town-springsteen|title=The Recorded History of Springsteen|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=July 8, 2013}}
11. ^{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=0857125958|edition=5th|chapter=Bruce Springsteen}}
12. ^{{cite book|last=Graff|first=Gary|authorlink=Gary Graff|editor-first=Gary|editor-last=Graff|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Detroit|year=1996|isbn=0787610372|chapter=Bruce Springsteen}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=All or Nothing: The Springsteen back catalogue|last=Williams|first=Richard|date=December 1989|work=Q|page=149}}
14. ^{{cite book |chapter=Bruce Springsteen |pages=771–773 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-first=Christian |first=Rob |last=Sheffield |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |publisher=Fireside |location=London |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 }} Portions posted at {{cite web |work=rollingstone.com |title=Bruce Springsteen > Album Guide |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bruce-springsteen//albumguide |accessdate={{date|2011-02-07}} }}
15. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Rolling Stone |issue=138 |date=July 5, 1973 |first=Lester |last=Bangs |author-link=Lester Bangs |title=Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. > Album Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/greetings-from-asbury-park-nj-19730705 |accessdate={{date|2004-03-20}} |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620004208/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/brucespringsteen/albums/album/107193/review/5943460/greetings_from_asbury_park_nj |archivedate=June 20, 2008 |df= }}
16. ^{{cite book|chapter=Who Is Bruce Springsteen and Why Are We Saying All These Wonderful Things About Him?|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJtWtt0b6vAC&pg=PA29|last1=Knobler|first1=Peter|authorlink1=Peter Knobler|last2=Mitchell|first2=Greg|authorlink2=Greg Mitchell|pages=30, 36|editor-last=Sawyers|editor-first=June Skinner|title=Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader|year=2004|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=0142003549}}
17. ^1 {{cite journal |magazine=Creem |date=April 1973 |page=70 |first=Robert |last=Christgau |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/crm7304.php |accessdate={{date|2011-10-28}} }}
18. ^1 {{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|page=366|year=1981|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=468|chapter=Bruce Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park NJ|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=0306804093|via=robertchristgau.com}}
19. ^{{cite book|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|chapter=Bruce Springsteen|page=1062|title=All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul|edition=3rd|editor1-last=Bogdanov|editor1-first=Vladimir|editor2-last=Woodstra|editor2-first=Chris|editor3-last=Erlewine|editor3-first=Stephen Thomas|editor3-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|year=2002|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=087930653X}}
20. ^1 {{cite book |chapter=379 | Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. – Bruce Springsteen |chapterurl=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-19691231/greetings-from-asbury-park-n-j-bruce-springsteen-19691231 |last=Levy |first=Joe |author2=Steven Van Zandt |title=Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |origyear=2005 |edition=3rd |year=2006 |publisher=Turnaround |location=London |isbn=1-932958-61-4 |oclc=70672814 |ref=RS500}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-100-greatest-debut-albums-of-all-time-20130322/greetings-from-asbury-park-n-j-19691231|title=The 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time|accessdate=2013-04-08|work=Rolling Stone}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://brucebase.wikispaces.com/Greetings%20From%20Asbury%20Park%20-%20Studio%20Sessions|title=Brucebase - Greetings From Asbury Park - Studio Sessions}}
23. ^{{cite book|last=Carlin|first=Peter Ames|title=Bruce|date=2012|publisher=Touchstone|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4391-9182-8|page=129}}
24. ^[https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/774377379494060032 https://twitter.com/StevieVanZandt/status/774377379494060032]

External links

  • Album lyrics and audio samples
  • Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. at Myspace (streamed copy where licensed)
  • The Asbury Park Boardwalk, New Jersey - Past and Present
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