Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (2 LP) (1979)

 

Side A:
1. Gotta Get That Feeling
2. Outside Looking In
3. Someday (We'll Be Together)
4. One Way Street
5. Because the Night
6. Wrong Side of the Street

Side B:
7. The Brokenhearted
8. Rendezvous
9. Ain't Good Enough for You
10. Fire
11. Spanish Eyes
12. It's a Shame                                                 

Side C:
13. Come On (Let's Go Tonight)
14. Talk to Me
15. The Little Things (My Baby Does)
16. Breakaway
17. City of Night
18. The Way

Side D:
19. Give the Girl a Kiss
20. Iceman
21. Hearts of Stone
22. Don't Look Back
23. Save My Love
24. The Promise

This is a double album of outtakes from the Bruce Springsteen album Darkness on the Edge of Town. The first three sides come from the Promise compilation album and the fourth side comes from the first disc of the Tracks box set. The version of The Promise included is the one from the Promise album instead of the version re-recorded for 18 Tracks. Also I felt like the material was best represented as a double album, although the song Save My Love was technically recorded for the Promise album. 

Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind (2 LP) (1981)

Side A:
1. Living On the Edge of the World
2. Take ‘Em As They Come
3. Be True
4. Ricky Wants a Man of Her Own
5. I Wanna Be With You
6. Mary Lou

Side B:
7. Restless Nights
8. Roulette
9. Dollhouse
10. Bring On the Night
11. Where the Bands Are
12. Loose Ends

Side C:
13. Meet Me in the City
14. The Man Who Got Away
15. Little White Lies
16. The Time That Never Was
17. Night Fire
18. Whitetown

Side D:
19. Chain Lightning
20. Party Lights
21. Paradise By the "C"
22. Stray Bullet
23. Held Up Without a Gun
24. From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)

This is a double album of outtakes from Bruce Springsteen's double album The River. The first record comes from disc 2 of the Tracks box set with one track from disc 1. They appeared later as the second half of the fourth disc of the Ties That Bind box set. After listening to the material, I felt like it would be better released as a double album like the original album. It also meant that I had to use every song available except for one called Mr. Outside. Be True and Loose Ends are also found on the third disc of The Ties That Bind which means Bring On the Night was the only exclusive track from Tracks.

Bruce Springsteen - Pink Cadillac (1986)

 

Side A:
1. My Love Will Not Let You Down
2. Cynthia
3. This Hard Land

4. Frankie

Side B:
5. TV Movie
6. A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)
7. Lion's Den
8. Car Wash

9. Man at the Top

10. Pink Cadillac

11. Janey, Don’t You Lose Heart

When Bruce Springsteen was working on his box set Tracks in 1998, he totaled the number of unreleased songs he wrote at 350. Three of his albums had more than 50 songs written for them, but the box set spanned across his whole discography up to that point. Eventually it was cut down to 66 songs on four CDs. A single CD version was also released called 18 Tracks which contained three songs not included on the box set. Since then box sets were made focusing on two of the big three and various other outtakes were spread across other compilations, but one was never made for outtakes of Born in the U.S.A.

The box set contains most of these outtakes on disc 3 with some of them on disc 2, but there are enough tracks to make an single disc out of with 17 tracks in total. I found a couple more outtakes on various compilation albums but I just wanted to focus on these 17. It seems that the previous album Nebraska was recorded at the same time as Born in the U.S.A. so maybe Bruce had so much good material that he wanted to release it on three albums.