The River

Rock · 1980 · 19 tracks

The River

Bruce Springsteen

A sprawling double-album balancing rowdy barroom rockers with devastatingly quiet portraits of blue-collar marriage and the weight of adulthood.

It's a 20-song party that ends with a long, quiet walk home in the rain.

A sprawling journey from the ecstatic highs of a Saturday night to the quiet, heavy realizations of a Monday morning.

The River · vs · Bruce Springsteen

Dive Bar+2.9σ

Dive Bar saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 19 Tracks

01

The Ties That Bind

3:34

02

Independence Day

4:46

03

Crush on You

3:11

04

I Wanna Marry You

3:31

05

The River

5:01

07

Out in the Street

4:18

08

You Can Look (but You Better Not Touch)

2:38

09

Sherry Darling

4:02

10

Jackson Cage

3:04

11

Two Hearts

2:46

12

Point Blank

6:06

13

Cadillac Ranch

3:04

14

I’m a Rocker

3:36

15

Fade Away

4:46

16

Stolen Car

3:54

17

Ramrod

4:06

18

The Price You Pay

5:30

19

Drive All Night

8:33

20

Wreck on the Highway

3:54

Moments Worth Waiting For

The haunting harmonica wail that opens the title track, signaling a shift from youthful joy to adult resignation.

The explosive, joyful crowd noise and piano glissando that kicks off Sherry Darling.

The desolate, ticking-clock percussion and whispered vocals that close the album on Wreck on the Highway.

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