Bruce Springsteen - Tracks [1998] + Tracks II, The Lost Albums (11 x CDs)

BRUCE SPRIGSTEEN

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks [1998] + Tracks II, The Lost Albums [2025] (11 x CDs)

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks [1998]     Back in 1998, Bruce Springsteen gave fans something they’d been dreaming about for years: a deep dive into the vault. Tracks wasn’t just a box set—it was a four-disc journey through the songs that didn’t make the albums, but easily could’ve. With 66 tracks, including 56 previously unreleased, it felt like Bruce was finally letting us peek behind the curtain.

The set kicks off with acoustic demos from 1972, raw, poetic sketches that helped land his first record deal. From there, it moves through outtakes from Darkness on the Edge of Town, The River, and Born in the U.S.A., revealing just how much material Springsteen had in reserve. Songs like “Roulette,” “Pink Cadillac,” and “My Love Will Not Let You Down” aren’t just curios—they’re full-throttle, album-worthy cuts that show Bruce at his most urgent and inspired.

What’s striking is the quality. These aren’t half-baked ideas, they’re polished, passionate, and often more daring than the tracks that made the final albums. You get ballads, rockers, character studies, and even alternate versions that shift the emotional tone entirely.

The packaging includes a lyric booklet and liner notes that give context to Bruce’s creative process. It’s clear he wrote hundreds of songs per album cycle, and Tracks is the proof.  For longtime fans, it’s a treasure trove. For newcomers, it’s a revelation. And for Bruce? It’s a reminder that even his “leftovers” shine with grit, grace, and storytelling fire.

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II, The Lost Albums [2025]     If you’ve ever wondered what Bruce Springsteen was really up to during those so-called “quiet years,” Tracks II: The Lost Albums is your answer, and then some. This is a sprawling secret history finally set free. This collection unearths seven previously unreleased full-length albums, recorded between 1983 and 2018, and locked away until now. That’s 83 tracks, with 74 never heard before, not demos, not half-formed sketches, but complete albums that Bruce simply... put aside.

And now we know why. Each of these “lost albums” plays like a time capsule from an alternate Springsteen timeline. There’s LA Garage Sessions ’83, lo-fi, post-Nebraska, and humming with rust-belt gospel. Then Streets of Philadelphia Sessions arrives like a late-night confession set against looped drums and shadowy synths, echoing ‘90s isolation. Somewhere North of Nashville slides in with pedal steel ghosts and honky-tonk soul, while Twilight Hours swells with orchestral melancholy that feels kin to Western Stars after the sun’s gone down. Faithless? That’s Bruce in widescreen mode, a cinematic companion to a movie that was never shot. Inyo drifts along the desert borderlands with mariachi textures and dusky grace. And Perfect World lands with E Street power, anthemic, hungry, and completely dialed in.

The rarities sparkle throughout: “County Fair,” “God Sent You,” and “You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone”, “Rain in the River,” “The Klansman,” “Between Heaven and Goodbye”, songs fans whispered about for years, now fully realized and lovingly sequenced. Tracks II doesn’t rewrite history, it reveals it. 

It’s a front-row ticket to the alternate Springsteen timeline, the roads he never drove onstage, the songs he wrote when the world wasn’t watching, and the characters he whispered into tape at midnight. For the longtime faithful, it’s a long-overdue windfall of stories we only imagined existed. For the curious wanderer, it’s a crash course in Bruce at his rawest and most restless. Either way, Tracks II is the sound of the vault door swinging open and Bruce stepping through, fully formed, unfiltered, and finally heard the way he always meant to be. (B)

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Track lists

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks

CD1

01 Bruce Springsteen - Mary Queen of Arkansas 4:28

02 Bruce Springsteen - It's Hard to Be A Saint in The City 2:55

03 Bruce Springsteen - Growin' Up 2:40

04 Bruce Springsteen - Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street 2:03

05 Bruce Springsteen - Bishop Danced 4:21

06 Bruce Springsteen - Santa Ana 4:37

07 Bruce Springsteen - Seaside Bar Song 3:34

08 Bruce Springsteen - Zero and Blind Terry 5:57

09 Bruce Springsteen - Linda Let Me Be The One 4:27

10 Bruce Springsteen - Thundercrack 8:28

11 Bruce Springsteen - Rendezvous 2:51

12 Bruce Springsteen - Give The Girl A Kiss 3:55

13 Bruce Springsteen - Iceman 3:18

14 Bruce Springsteen - Bring on The Night 2:40

15 Bruce Springsteen - So Young and in Love 3:49

16 Bruce Springsteen - Hearts of Stone 4:31

17 Bruce Springsteen - Don't Look Back 3:00

CD2

01 Bruce Springsteen - Restless Nights 3:47

02 Bruce Springsteen - A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh) 3:17

03 Bruce Springsteen - Roulette 3:55

04 Bruce Springsteen - Dollhouse 3:34

05 Bruce Springsteen - Where The Bands Are 3:46

06 Bruce Springsteen - Loose Ends 4:03

07 Bruce Springsteen - Living on The Edge of The World 4:19

08 Bruce Springsteen - Wages of Sin 4:54

09 Bruce Springsteen - Take 'Em as They Come 4:30

10 Bruce Springsteen - Be True 3:41

11 Bruce Springsteen - Ricky Wants A Man of Her Own 2:47

12 Bruce Springsteen - I Wanna Be With You 3:23

13 Bruce Springsteen - Mary Lou 3:23

14 Bruce Springsteen - Stolen Car 4:31

15 Bruce Springsteen - Born in The U.S.A. 3:11

16 Bruce Springsteen - Johnny Bye-Bye 1:52

17 Bruce Springsteen - Shut Out The Light 3:51

CD3

01 Bruce Springsteen - Cynthia 4:15

02 Bruce Springsteen - My Love Will Not Let You Down 4:26

03 Bruce Springsteen - This Hard Land 4:50

04 Bruce Springsteen - Frankie 7:24

05 Bruce Springsteen - TV Movie 2:46

06 Bruce Springsteen - Stand on It 3:07

07 Bruce Springsteen - Lion's Den 2:19

08 Bruce Springsteen - Car Wash 2:08

09 Bruce Springsteen - Rockaway The Days 4:43

10 Bruce Springsteen - Brothers Under The Bridges ('83) 5:08

11 Bruce Springsteen - Man at The Top 3:24

12 Bruce Springsteen - Pink Cadillac 3:36

13 Bruce Springsteen - Two for The Road 2:00

14 Bruce Springsteen - Janey Don't You Lose Heart 3:27

15 Bruce Springsteen - When You Need Me 2:57

16 Bruce Springsteen - The Wish 5:18

17 Bruce Springsteen - The Honeymooners 2:07

18 Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Man 3:31

CD4

01 Bruce Springsteen - Leavin' Train 4:07

02 Bruce Springsteen - Seven Angels 3:28

03 Bruce Springsteen - Gave it A Name 2:51

04 Bruce Springsteen - Sad Eyes 3:50

05 Bruce Springsteen - My Lover Man 3:59

06 Bruce Springsteen - Over The Rise 2:40

07 Bruce Springsteen - When The Lights Go Out 3:07

08 Bruce Springsteen - Loose Change 4:22

09 Bruce Springsteen - Trouble in Paradise 4:43

10 Bruce Springsteen - Happy 4:54

11 Bruce Springsteen - Part Man, Part Monkey 4:31

12 Bruce Springsteen - Goin' Cali 3:04

13 Bruce Springsteen - Back in Your Arms 4:43

14 Bruce Springsteen - Brothers Under The Bridge 4:55

Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II, The Lost Albums

CD1

01 Bruce Springsteen - Follow That Dream 3:52

02 Bruce Springsteen - Don't Back Down on Our Love 3:01

03 Bruce Springsteen - Little Girl Like You 1:22

04 Bruce Springsteen - Johnny Bye Bye 2:48

05 Bruce Springsteen - Sugarland 2:50

06 Bruce Springsteen - Seven Tears 1:51

07 Bruce Springsteen - Fugitives Dream 3:51

08 Bruce Springsteen - Black Mountain Ballad 4:14

09 Bruce Springsteen - Jim Deer 3:10

10 Bruce Springsteen - County Fair 4:55

11 Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown 4:44

12 Bruce Springsteen - One Love 3:38

13 Bruce Springsteen - Don't Back Down 3:10

14 Bruce Springsteen - Richfield Whistle 6:46

15 Bruce Springsteen - The Klansman 2:50

16 Bruce Springsteen - Unsatisfied Heart 5:45

17 Bruce Springsteen - Shut Out the Light 4:27

18 Bruce Springsteen - Fugitive's Dream (Ballad) 3:58

CD2

01 Bruce Springsteen - Blind Spot 3:34

02 Bruce Springsteen - Maybe I Don't Know You 3:57

03 Bruce Springsteen - Something in The Well 4:24

04 Bruce Springsteen - Waiting on The End of The World 4:36

05 Bruce Springsteen - The Little Things 3:29

06 Bruce Springsteen - We Fell Down 4:31

07 Bruce Springsteen - One Beautiful Morning 4:26

08 Bruce Springsteen - Between Heaven and Earth 4:35

09 Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden 4:00

10 Bruce Springsteen - Farewell Party 4:07

CD3

01 Bruce Springsteen - The Desert (Instrumental) 1:35

02 Bruce Springsteen - Where You Going, Where You From 4:19

03 Bruce Springsteen - Faithless 3:51

04 Bruce Springsteen - All God's Children 4:27

05 Bruce Springsteen - A Prayer By The River (Instrumental) 1:46

06 Bruce Springsteen - God Sent You 3:47

07 Bruce Springsteen - Goin' to California 3:49

08 Bruce Springsteen - The Western Sea (Instrumental) 1:19

09 Bruce Springsteen - My Master's Hand 4:06

10 Bruce Springsteen - Let Me Ride 2:59

11 Bruce Springsteen - My Master's Hand (Theme) 3:25

CD4

01 Bruce Springsteen - Repo Man 2:54

02 Bruce Springsteen - Tiger Rose 1:59

03 Bruce Springsteen - Poor Side of Town 3:07

04 Bruce Springsteen - Delivery Man 2:48

05 Bruce Springsteen - Under A Big Sky 4:24

06 Bruce Springsteen - Detail Man 2:50

07 Bruce Springsteen - Silver Mountain 3:07

08 Bruce Springsteen - Janey Don't You Lose Heart 3:32

09 Bruce Springsteen - You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone 2:59

10 Bruce Springsteen - Stand on It 3:12

11 Bruce Springsteen - Blue Highway 3:20

12 Bruce Springsteen - Somewhere North of Nashville 3:02

CD5

01 Bruce Springsteen - Inyo 4:36

02 Bruce Springsteen - Indian Town 3:18

03 Bruce Springsteen - Adelita 4:37

04 Bruce Springsteen - The Aztec Dance 4:45

05 Bruce Springsteen - The Lost Charro 4:47

06 Bruce Springsteen - Our Lady of Monroe 3:57

07 Bruce Springsteen - El Jardinero (Upon the Death of Ramona) 5:14

08 Bruce Springsteen - One False Move 3:24

09 Bruce Springsteen - Ciudad Juarez 3:57

10 Bruce Springsteen - When I Build My Beautiful House 3:02

CD6

01 Bruce Springsteen - Sunday Love 5:16

02 Bruce Springsteen - Late in the Evening 4:44

03 Bruce Springsteen - Two of Us 5:10

04 Bruce Springsteen - Lonely Town 6:38

05 Bruce Springsteen - September Kisses 3:32

06 Bruce Springsteen - Twilight Hours 3:24

07 Bruce Springsteen - I'll Stand By You 4:37

08 Bruce Springsteen - High Sierra 6:25

09 Bruce Springsteen - Sunliner 3:05

10 Bruce Springsteen - Another You 5:19

11 Bruce Springsteen - Dinner at Eight 4:09

12 Bruce Springsteen - Follow The Sun 3:36

CD7

01 Bruce Springsteen - I'm Not Sleeping 3:37

02 Bruce Springsteen - Idiot's Delight 3:34

03 Bruce Springsteen - Another Thin Line 4:46

04 Bruce Springsteen - The Great Depression 3:47

05 Bruce Springsteen - Blind Man 4:30

06 Bruce Springsteen - Rain in the River 3:12

07 Bruce Springsteen - If I Could Only Be Your Lover 5:20

08 Bruce Springsteen - Cutting Knife 5:02

09 Bruce Springsteen - You Lifted Me Up 3:37

10 Bruce Springsteen - Perfect World 3:37

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