Live In New York City Tracks
1. My Love Will Not Let You Down
2. Prove It All Night
3. Two Hearts
4. Atlantic City
5. Mansion on the Hill
6. The River
7. Youngstown
8. Murder Incorporated
9. Badlands
10. Out in the Street
11. Born to Run
12. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
13. Land of Hope and Dreams
14. American Skin
15. Lost in the Flood
16. Born in the U.S.A.
17. Don't Look Back
18. Jungleland
19. Ramrod
20. If I Should Fall Behind
Live In New York City Review
If Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band were a playground basketball team they'd be the one made up of local legends that don't have as much spring in their legs as the young bucks, but get by on guts and guile. Culled from the two Madison Square Garden shows that closed out the revived E Street Band's 1999-2000 road show, this 20-song collection deftly entwines fan favorites with fresher material, including two new offerings, the stately "Land of Hope and Dreams" and the solemn "American Skin"--the latter prompted by the shooting of unarmed New Yorker Amadou Diallo by police officers. When Springsteen and company (including both Miami Steve Van Zandt and his successor, Nils Lofgren, on guitar) look back, they temper the force of the original arrangements with ingenuity and a sense of spacing. The E Street Band in their heyday may have served up four-hour marathons, but they felt stopwatch-tight. Here Springsteen reconciles his rocker and reflective sides as "The River" curves along through a serpentine course, "Mansion on the Hill" is given a curious (albeit lovely) Hawaiian treatment, and "Born in the U.S.A." resurfaces as a deep-blues lament. The gang can still muster a take-no-prisoners attack, as witnessed by the hard-charging likes of "Two Hearts" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out." --Steven Stolder
Especially since this album was created in 2001 (quite recently), Bruce and the band have those songs down in their memories and are so used to playing them that they come out smother and produce so much more raw energy that this live album from them sounds better than any earlier live albums that they've done. In general I just love to here Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band perform live especially for those hard rock songs. They are so well known for their live performances it's not even funny! I should know, I've been to quite a few already. They perform between 3 to 4 hours and there is never any opening band, it's just them playing - WOW!
I've been to many concerts from many different groups and I find that many of them sound exactly the same live than they do in their studio albums. Though, Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band sound so much better, more INTENSE, and rock so much harder when they perform LIVE!!!!!!! Take my advice, if you can't see one of their concerts, at least pick up this live album!!!