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Universal acclaim- based on 115 Ratings
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Positive: 101 out of 115
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Mixed: 9 out of 115
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Negative: 5 out of 115
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SeanC.Oct 2, 2007Easily his best since Born in the USA.
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DaveOct 3, 2007I am not an enthusiastic Springsteen fan, but I have appreciated his work over the years. This album, however, is a stunner. It's brilliant. So far, it's the one to beat for Album of the Year.
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VassilisOct 14, 2007His best album since The Rising
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FlemmingK.Oct 20, 2007Time will show, that this will be recognized as one of the great 4. Born To Run, Darkness, River and Magic! Play it through 10-20 times and your reservations will be gone. Mine was! Already a classic!
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MartinSOct 4, 2007
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DOUGOOct 4, 2007ONE OF HIS BEST WORKS.
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TobyC.Oct 5, 2007The more I listen to it the more I love it. I forgot how much I missed Bruce and his pop style. This isn't pop music in "easy" form however. These songs go deep and resonate for a long time.
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MartySOct 8, 2007Where's Mojo's 5 star review???? That will surely offset that bullsh*t review by the chic from Stylus who raved about Mandy Moore. This is a great album. If you don't like it, you must want the terrorists to win.
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AndersonS.Oct 9, 2007I haven't heard THIS Bruce in a long time. It's great.
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BethR.Oct 11, 2007One of my favorite Bruce albums.
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ShannaVOct 14, 2007I love this album!!!!!!! M.I.A., Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Spoon, the White Stripes, and Bruce.....this has been a great few months for music.
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ZackA.Oct 14, 2007
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decOct 15, 2007Best work in a generation
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NathanJrOct 17, 2007Great stuff. Bill O Riley can suck it.
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BradClarkOct 2, 2007This is a great album! It ranks as one of his best!
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JRSOct 2, 2007Um, where's Mojo and Rolling Stone's 5 star review? This is a great album.
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DeclanW.Oct 2, 2007His best work since TofL.
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EricMOct 3, 2007This is and excellent album. I can see myself listening to this for a long time.
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MikeLOct 3, 2007Magic is the Bruce CD I've been anticipating for the past 27 years.
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MattD.Oct 3, 2007Any review source that gives this masterpiece less than a 60 will be joining Pitchfork on my do not visit list. Stylus and Austin Chronicle are certainly no losses. This is classic Springsteen - reminds me of Born In The USA, but with some of the moodiness and organic sound of The River. I can't see how any fan could dislike Magic.
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NeoptolemosOct 4, 2007That pitchfork review, besides the part in the summary metacritic has sounds more like an 8.6 than a 6.8.
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FrankieTOct 5, 2007This is the best music I've heard in the past several months. Gypsy Biker and Girls in Their Summer Clothes.....awesome.
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KLMOct 6, 2007Ranks up there with the releases of Eddie Vedder, MIA, Spoon, The National, and Spoon this year. Excellent. One of his bests. Great melodies. Great lyrics. And, it's very relevant. It has a message while still rocking.
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DeanMOct 9, 2007Excellent. Where's reviews by Christian Science Monitor, Time, and Mojo--all rave reviews, but they're not included. But we get the review of the moron from Stylus that loved the Mandy Moore album.
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MassimoL.Oct 9, 2007It's a great piece of music. Bruce Springsteen is great and this Time the songs are so beautiful.
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AprilMOct 11, 2007Brilliant.
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ShawnG.Oct 11, 2007My favorite Springsteen in 20 years.
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DougPiwinskiOct 2, 2007Ain't no time like BOSS time!
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TomT.Oct 2, 2007
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ChadMOct 20, 2007His best album in years. The E Street band have never sounded tighter. This is sure to go down as a classic.
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BJKOct 24, 2007In today's corporate run media (in the U.S.), any artist who gets political is going to get more than his fair share of bad reviews. Take the score you see and add 10 points for corporate media bias. After 32 reviews that puts the Boss up to 86, not 76. In my opinion, this is at least as good as the 9/11 inspired Rising which has a composite of 82.
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JonF.Oct 3, 2007Lots to enjoy. Still more to ponder. A great record.
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PaulH.Oct 3, 2007Outdoes anything before or since. Mr. Springsteen should be re-inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame simply based on his last five discs.
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KentE.Oct 3, 2007
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JonathanEOct 4, 2007Karl M. doesn't know what he's talking about. This is easily Springsteen's best in...decades. A record brimming with passionate and stirring songs. One of the best of 2007.
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davidOct 4, 2007Best album since darkness, great hooks and tunes, spot on lyrics.an instant classic.
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JonR.Oct 9, 2007the only thing that can make this album better is a disk 2.
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ZeroN.Oct 16, 2007My friend had tix to see him in Ottawa the other night. It rocked. Never really listened to him that much before. Went out..got the album. Excellent stuff....really blows me away.
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RayZDec 6, 2007
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Jan 6, 2015Excelente Álbum do "The Boss" É levemente melhor que The Rising 2002.
Top 5 Magic 2007
1-Long Walk Home
2-Girls In The Summer Clothes
3-You'll Be Comin' Down
4-Devils Arcade
5-Radio Nowhere -
Apr 4, 2016.....................................................................................................................................................................................MasterPiece
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May 1, 2018
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Oct 17, 2016A definitive great follow-up for The Rising (2002), from Bruce & The E Street Band...
A Little Underrated come-on this album deserves a better percentage than Wrecking Ball (2012) that are a very disappointing album from the boss at least in the melodies -
Apr 2, 2016................................................................................................................Have 73% 5% less than Wrecking Ball (2012) is bull **** this album is over and over superior Magic (2007) is a Masterpiece!!!!!!!!
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miker.Oct 11, 2007Repeated listening increases the depth of the lyrics.
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bramb.Oct 4, 2007A great album! No wonder the red state press is negative; its overtly political, masked by happy tunes.
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ChadS.Nov 13, 2007
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PhilMOct 2, 2007Just can't stop singing these tunes....
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SteveK.Oct 4, 2007I'm loving hearing all those e street sounds. The mood is right, unsettled, with less hope than on any album besides Tunnel. But I wish the strings would go away.
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MartinAOct 5, 2007
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JosephOct 9, 2007Not quite perfect, but pretty close.
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GMortOct 11, 2007
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ChrisW.Oct 2, 2007The Boss is still in charge! This CD is packed full of good ole fashioned Corner-Bar Tunes. Pull up a stool and your girl and down some brews and let Bruce and the Band do his thing. Great CD... in his top 5 for sure.
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MarkB.Oct 23, 2007
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LincJ.Nov 23, 2007
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VerminDeathstackOct 8, 2007This is so much better than The Rising. Seeing as his albums often differ greatly from each other, it's hard to say where Magic sits on the overall scale of things. It doesn't have the naivety of Born in the USA, or the 'street' of Born to Run. But given time, I'm sure it'll be held up alongside those two.
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WadeT.Oct 10, 2007
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JerryJOct 5, 2007Good record. Radio Nowhere is an amazing song. Only the Boss could write a song that's about both the horrible state of radio, and the detached, loneliness that is prevalent in America right now.
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BrandonS.Oct 5, 2007
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ToddW.Oct 5, 2007This surely isn't 'Born to Run' or even 'Tunnel of Love,' but what it is is Bruce again writing songs with memorable hooks and lines with the only musicians he should ever play with. When you cut away the bombastic, it really is an enjoyable album.
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Rev.R.Oct 14, 2007
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BrianKOct 16, 2007
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JackOct 2, 2007
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SYanoffOct 4, 2007I was hoping for The Rising II, but this is something entirely different. Still, that's a good thing. While The Rising satisfied a need at a time when one of the great American rock poets needed to provide us with his taken on current events, this is just and out-and-out fun record with nearly all up-tempo songs.
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MikeROct 7, 2007Yes, this is a hyper-produced, sort of corporate sounding project, but the songs are tight and the melodies and hooks have a real young Bruce feel. Hats off to somebody who can share such a solid and prolific creative energy with the world. Haters will hate. There's no stopping that. This album is full of the type of anti-irony that we need so badly right now.
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Jul 30, 2011At first listen, its good. At second listen, it becomes something greater. In the end, Magic is a collection of almost surprisingly deep songs that also manage to provide pure musical enjoyment.
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JoeG.Oct 10, 2007
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PetrOct 4, 20076++ It is OK, but by far not as strong as The Rising or Born in the USA. C'mon people, I love Boss but this certainly ain't worth all these 10s.
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[Anonymous]Oct 4, 2007
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TomHOct 19, 2007Flawed but insidiously grows on you. Some great songs on here like Devil's Arecade but also at least two throwaways.
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danielwOct 2, 2007C'mon everyone. This is neither a 1 nor a 10. Some of the songs rank, perhaps not with Springsteen's best (Thunder Road, anyone?), but with the solid second tier, and there is nothing unlistenable. Even when the songwriting is on auto-pilot, it's always a joy to hear the E-Street Band's raucous, joyous noise.
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TyOct 8, 2007Enjoyable enough but I enjoyed the previous 2 more. Too many big rock anthems with no real gutsy hooks in them for me. I prefer hie quieter contemplative songs. "Down to the river" is Bruce at his best
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Nov 14, 2011
Awards & Rankings
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It's the way Springsteen injects his American bible stories with the air of disbelief that makes Magic a truly mature and memorable album.
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It trades in giddying, irresistible, full-steam-ahead-and-damn-the-torpedoes rock'n'roll. But at its heart, it's essentially a thoughtful wander in search of personal and national innocence.
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Magic is a strong record, riddled with sad emotion yet a noble intent to carry on.