Product Description

'Magic' is the fifteenth studio album from Bruce Springsteen and his first to feature The E Street Band since 2002's 'The Rising'. Recorded with Brendan O'Brien (Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam) at the beginning of 2007, the album sees Springsteen return to the high-energy rock that helped propel him into stadiums worldwide at the end of the seventies and throughout the eighties.

Track Listing

1. Radio Nowhere
2. You'll Be Comin' Down
3. Livin' In The Future
4. Your Own Worst Enemy
5. Gypsy Biker
6. Girls In Their Summer Clothes
7. I'll Work For Your Love
8. Magic
9. Last To Die
10. Long Walk Home
11. Devil's Arcade

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #625 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
His career currently on a roll, Magic reunites the Boss with employees, the E Street Band and it is terrific--a highlight in a long and illustrious catalogue. Brash and noisy and a lot of fun, Magic is packed with great, thoughtful songs. The stately "Your Own Worst Enemy" sounds full yet eschews histrionics, the atmospheric "Gypsy Biker’ has a strong melody to match, first single "Radio Nowhere" is an unlikely country-rock thrash and "Livin’ in the Future" has all the swing of "Cover Me", but without the drawback of dated production. In fact much of Magic nails that old Phil Spector trick of cramming a lot of blokes (and birds) into a small room, and getting them to play simultaneously. Given that the E Street Band are big blokes these days, the effect is magnified. Not only does Springsteen successfully recapture a sound that once seemed exotic, the same can be said of lyrics such as "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" and "Long Walk Home", rueful and distant and all the more believable than the evocative yet lifeless mini-film scenarios he once specialised in. The Sopranos has redefined the image of New Jersey over the last decade (Bruce and band even pose like a mob in their clubhouse, especially Steve Van Zandt), but Springsteen has reclaimed local pre-eminence with this excellent collection. Pulling off the rare combination of excitement and maturity, the grown-ups are really having a good time. --Steve Jelbert

Customer Reviews

don't buy!!
what a terrible album, could he be running out of steam??? all good comes to an end sometime

MAGIC
I LOVE this album.

My faith in music has been restored. I enjoyed listeing to every second of this album. It is technically perfect, I can find no flaws.

Pure Sprinsteen magic at its best!!!!

Buy it now....

Now that's magic!
Even his harshest critic would find Magic a difficult album to find fault with. Bruce is spot on here with nearly every song.

His album contains some of the most direct messages yet about the Bush administration and forms a large part of the theme, making it a poignant reminder of the troubled times we live in.

I've just seen Bruce in concert in the last few weeks and can tell you this ROCKS when performed live, so make sure you crank it up loud!

BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!