Born to Run (Cardboard Sleeve) [Limited Release]

This is a very good CD. His next best after Born in the USA. As usual in a japanese version the sound quality is very high.

This is probably Bruce's most critically-acclaimed album and the tracks still sound as good as they've always done but now we get them in a cool lp sleeve format. This gatefold sleeve has all the lyrics printed on the inside covers albeit you'll need a good magnifying glass to read them but it's still a nice touch. No need to despair though as both the Japanese and English lyrics are also reproduced on an insert. Why just 4 stars then? Well, the recording isn't remastered and so the sound is about the same quality as the original. As far as unremastered discs go, this is probably quite decent if you don't mind the muddy sound but seeing as how practically everybody and their grannies have had their classic albums remastered and cleaned up, I wonder what's keeping Bruce's people from doing the same. So unless you are a very big fan of lp sleeves like I am, you may not want to spend the extra bucks on this. I guess if you already have this, what's it going to take to make you wanna get another version of the same thing? I'm guessing it's either vastly improved sound quality and/or improved packaging. This disc only fulfils one of these two criteria so you decide what you wanna do.