1973年発売 Bruce Springsteen『The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle』(邦題:青春の叫び)
モービル・フィデリティ社の究極のアナログ盤規格「ULTRADISC ONE-STEP」で発売

Bruce Springsteen『The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle』(邦題:青春の叫び)は1973年発売の2nd アルバム。マシンガン・リリックにさらに拍車がかかりロックンロール、フォーク、R&Bなどの多種サウンドが整理されることなく渾然一体となて聴き手に迫る。名曲「7月4日のアズベリー・パーク」、名演「ロザリータ」はここから生まれた。

「ULTRADISC ONE-STEP」(UD1S)シリーズ
独自のテクノロジーとマスタリング技術、そして贅沢な時間を駆使し、マスター・テープのデータを限界まで引き出したハイ・クオリティな復刻盤により世界中のオーディオファンから高い評価を得ているモービル・フィデリティ・サウンド・ラボ社より、究極のアナログ盤規格「ULTRADISC ONE-STEP」(UD1S)シリーズが登場。標準的なアナログ盤の生産工程である、ラッカー盤から完成品までの「スリー・ステップ・プロセス」から2工程を省き、あくまで音質を重視した「ワン・ステップ・プロセス」を実現。生産工程で発生するノイズを最小限に抑え、音のディテールの再現性とダイナミクスを大幅に向上させている。「音楽は可能な限り原音に忠実に再現されなければならない。」という、モービル・フィデリティ社設立以来の基本ポリシーを文字通り実現した、究極のアナログ盤規格である。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/03/15）

Bruce Springsteen expanded the folk-rock approach of his debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., to strains of jazz, among other styles, on its ambitious follow-up, released only eight months later. His chief musical lieutenant was keyboard player David Sancious, who lived on the E Street that gave the album and Springsteen's backup group its name. With his help, Springsteen created a street-life mosaic of suburban society that owed much in its outlook to Van Morrison's romanticization of Belfast in Astral Weeks. Though Springsteen expressed endless affection and much nostalgia, his message was clear: this was a goodbye-to-all-that from a man who was moving on. The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle represented an astonishing advance even from the remarkable promise of Greetings; the unbanded three-song second side in particular was a flawless piece of music. Musically and lyrically, Springsteen had brought an unruly muse under control and used it to make a mature statement that synthesized popular musical styles into complicated, well-executed arrangements and absorbing suites; it evoked a world precisely even as that world seemed to disappear. Following the personnel changes in the E Street Band in 1974, there is a conventional wisdom that this album is marred by production lapses and performance problems, specifically the drumming of Vini Lopez. None of that is true. Lopez's busy Keith Moon style is appropriate to the arrangements in a way his replacement, Max Weinberg, never could have been. The production is fine. And the album's songs contain the best realization of Springsteen's poetic vision, which soon enough would be tarnished by disillusionment. He would later make different albums, but he never made a better one. The truth is, The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is one of the greatest albums in the history of rock & roll. ~ William Ruhlmann

Rovi