Seven unreleased albums recorded by Bruce Springsteen between 1983 and 2018 will be collected on Massive Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a new box set announced today. That’s 83 never-before-heard Springsteen songs. The new song ‘Rain in the River’ is taken from Perfect World, the last of the albums included in the 9xLP/7xCD set. Check it out below, along with Springsteen’s trailer for the box set and its full tracklist.
A highlight of the project is LA Garage Sessions ’83, a lo-fi recording that serves as a bridge between Nebraska and Born in the USA. Also included are Faithless, the soundtrack for a movie that was never made, a country album called Somewhere North of Nashville, the orchestral noir experiment Twilight Hours. Inyo is described as a set of “richly woven border tales,” while Perfect World is “the one thing on this that wasn’t initially conceived as an album,” according to Springsteen.
“The Lost Albums were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” Springsteen says in the trailer. “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now… The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions.”
Tracks II: The Lost Albums Tracklist:
LA Garage Sessions ’83:
1. Follow That Dream
2. Don’t Back Down On Our Love
3. Little Girl Like You
4. Johnny Bye Bye
5. Sugarland
6. Seven Tears
7. Fugitive’s Dream
8. Black Mountain Ballad
9. Jim Deer
10. County Fair
11. My Hometown
12. One Love
13. Don’t Back Down
14. Richfield Whistle
15. The Klansman
16. Unsatisfied Heart
17. Shut Out The Light
18. Fugitive’s Dream (Ballad)
Streets of Philadelphia Sessions
1. Blind Spot
2. Maybe I Don’t Know You
3. Something In The Well
4. Waiting On The End Of The World
5. The Little Things
6. We Fell Down
7. One Beautiful Morning
8. Between Heaven and Earth
9. Secret Garden
10. The Farewell Party
Faithless
1. The Desert (Instrumental)
2. Where You Goin’, Where You From
3. Faithless
4. All God’s Children
5. A Prayer By The River (Instrumental)
6. God Sent You
7. Goin’ To California
8. The Western Sea (Instrumental)
9. My Master’s Hand
10. Let Me Ride
11. My Master’s Hand (Theme)
Somewhere North of Nashville
1. Repo Man
2. Tiger Rose
3. Poor Side of Town
4. Delivery Man
5. Under A Big Sky
6. Detail Man
7. Silver Mountain
8. Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
9. You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone
10. Stand On It
11. Blue Highway
12. Somewhere North of Nashville
Inyo
1. Inyo
2. Indian Town
3. Adelita
4. The Aztec Dance
5. The Lost Charro
6. Our Lady of Monroe
7. El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona)
8. One False Move
9. Ciudad Juarez
10. When I Build My Beautiful House
Twilight Hours
1. Sunday Love
2. Late in the Evening
3. Two of Us
4. Lonely Town
5. September Kisses
6. Twilight Hours
7. I’ll Stand By You
8. High Sierra
9. Sunliner
10. Another You
11. Dinner at Eight
12. Follow The Sun
Perfect World
1. I’m Not Sleeping
2. Idiot’s Delight
3. Another Thin Line
4. The Great Depression
5. Blind Man
6. Rain In The River
7. If I Could Only Be Your Lover
8. Cutting Knife
9. You Lifted Me Up
10. Perfect World
