Ik vond een interessante review op internet die aansluit bij de laatste meningen hier op Musicmeter:
"Words can't describe how disappointed I was when I popped the CD into the player. What has he done to these brilliant songs!?!?!
Many of the songs have been re-recorded with new orchestrations, new vocals and added sounds. It is just horrible. These songs do not sound like Springsteen music from the late 70's anymore.
They have been drowned in Sha-La-Las (Breakaway) or ridiculed by female background choirs (Gotta get that Feeling). The wonderful `Someday, Tonight' is hardly recognizable in the newly recorded `Someday (We'll be together') kitsch. `Talk to me' has been plastered with new sounds and walls of horns. The studio version of `Fire' has been stripped off its beautiful Elvis like vocals known from the inofficial recordings. `The Promise' - one of my all time favourites - is also newly orchestrated. Sadly it is as lame and slow as the version on `18 Tracks'. It is beyond me why he did not release the far superior 1977 Record Plant studio version with its `Backstreets'-like powerful vocals of a young man overflowing with energy. Sadly only little of this is left in the revised songs. The `future of Rock'n Roll' has turned his legacy into background music for pensioners in southern Florida."
Deels kan ik deze reviewer volgen en ik begreep anderen hier ook. En ook ik moest eerlijk gezegd soms denken aan muziek die ook te pruimen moest zijn voor zijn echt oudere fans: de gepensioneerden...
Maar toch: als je de vier nummers die ik hierboven aangaf eraf gooit en er 1 cd van maakt van 70 minuten dan is het allemaal zo slecht nog niet.
Mogelijk is ook nog om het te zoete The Brokenhearted & Spanish Eyes eraf te donderen: dan hou je al met al ruim 60 hele aardige minuten over. Dat wordt mijn versie van dit dubbelalbum.