Wrecking Ball
- Bruce Springsteen
- Band Name: Bruce Springsteen
- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2012
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Mar 6, 2012100The most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made.
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Mar 2, 2012100Wrecking Ball is a work of commanding range and masterful execution.
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Mar 1, 2012100[Wrecking Ball is] unquestionably his most potent album so far this century.
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Mar 27, 201291It's protest music, damn right about moral abstractions rather than those finely limned characters good little aesthetes get gooey about, and for me a cathartic up.
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Mar 28, 201290More than anything, Wrecking Ball is a record with heart.
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Mar 12, 201290He's never sounded quite so bitter as he does on Wrecking Ball.
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Mar 12, 201290The musicianship and songwriting is easily on par with Magic and exceeds the output on Working On A Dream, and as a whole, Wrecking Ball stacks up considerably with The Rising, which to this day I consider a top-5 Springsteen album.
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Mar 6, 201290The richest, most dynamic album to the legend's name in decades.
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Mar 5, 201290Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball is that rare release that manages to fulfill, defy, and exceed expectations all at once.
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Mar 5, 201290Message aside and from a purely musical standpoint, the new album is Springsteen's most enjoyable and freshest-sounding in ages.
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Apr 26, 201289Wrecking Ball spins Springsteen's most focused work since 2002's The Rising and most defiant and hooky since 1984's Born in the U.S.A.
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Mar 6, 201283At its best, Wrecking Ball follows the model of 2006's ramshackle hootenanny, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, where Springsteen took dusty folk songs and blew them the hell out to the cheap seats.