Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at. Instead he milks it for all it’s worth, wrapping up all the song’s movements and juxtapositions with his unabashedly melodramatic and loonily sotted Sloppy Joe voice. Songs played by tour: The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle 1, Spirit in the Night Play Video stats, 71 2, Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Play Video. Discover The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle by Bruce Springsteen released in 1973. What they said 'The Wild, The Innocent, & The E-Street Shuffle is The Boss at his finest. Springsteen never resolves the conflict (if he ever does his music will probably become less interesting). There is an occasional weak spot or an awkward transition, but for the most part it works spectacularly, and nowhere to more dramatic effect than on “Incident on 57th Street,” the album’s most stunning track, a virtual mini-opera about Johnny, a “romantic young boy” torn between Jane and the bright knives out on the street. The best of his new songs dart and swoop from tempo to tempo and from genre to genre, from hell-bent-for-leather rock to luscious schmaltz to what is almost recitative. The goal of this forum is not to replace the Greasy Lake collectors subforum or the Facebook collectors group, but an alternative to these back-and-forth emails I have been exchanging with some collectors concerning in-depth discussion about certain Springsteen collectibles. Springsteen is growing as a writer of music as well as of words. × A MESSAGE TO COLLECTORS I have set up a private discussion forum for serious Bruce Springsteen record and CD collectors. Springsteen himself is an undistinguished but extremely versatile guitarist, which he needs to be to follow his own changes. They’re essentially an R&B outfit - funkybutt is Springsteen’s musical pied-a-terre - but they can play anything thrown at them, be it jazz or Highway 61 Revisited. Sancious on keyboards and Clarence Clemmons on saxes, cook with power and precision, particularly on “Rosalita” and “Kitty’s Back,” the album’s outstanding rockers. But none of this would matter if the music were humdrum - it isn’t.