Disc #1

1. Thunder Road

2. Adam Raised A Cain

3. Spirit In The Night

4. 4th Of July, Asbury Park(Sandy)

5. Paradise By The “C”

6. Fire

7. Growin’ Up

8. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City

9. Backstreets

10. Rosalita(Come Out Tonight)

11. Raise Your Hand

12. Hungry Heart

13. Two Hearts

Disc #2

1. Cadillac Ranch

2. You Can Look(But You Better Not Touch)

3. Independence Day

4. Badlands

5. Because The Night

6. Candy’s Room

7. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

8. Racing In The Street

9. This Land Is Your Land

10. Nebraska

11. Johnny 99

12. Reason To Believe

13. Born In The U.S.A.

14. Seeds

Disc #3

1. The River

2. War

3. Darlington County

4. Working On The Highway

5. The Promised Land

6. Cover Me

7. I’m On Fire

8. Bobby Jean

9. My Hometown

10. Born To Run

11. No Surrender

12. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

13. Jersey Girl

Review

Long before he sold substantial numbers of records, Bruce Springsteen began to earn a reputation as the best live act in rock & roll. Fans had been clamoring for a live album for a long time, and with Live/1975-85 they got what they wanted, at least in terms of bulk. His concerts were marathons, and this box set, including 40 tracks and running over three and a half hours, was about the average length of a show. In his brief liner notes, Springsteen spoke of the emergence of the album’s “story” as he reviewed live tapes, and that story seems nothing less than a history of his life, his concerns, and his career. The first cuts present the Springsteen of the early to mid-’70s; these performances, most of them drawn from a July 1978 show at the Roxy in Los Angeles, present the romantic, hopeful, earnest Springsteen. The second section begins with his first Top Ten hit, “Hungry Heart”—this is the Springsteen of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, an arena rock star with working-class concerns. After an acoustic mini set given largely to material from Nebraska—songs of economic desperation and crime—comes a reshuffling of Born In The U.S.A., songs in which the artist and his characters start to fight back and rock out. Finally, he brings it all back home to New Jersey, starting with the unofficial state anthem, “Born to Run.” Fans could rejoice in the seven previously unreleased songs, but Live/1975-85 wasn’t as funny, moving, or exhilarating as a Springsteen show could be. Maybe no single album could have been, but where Springsteen impressed in concert because he tried so hard, here he seemed to have tried a little too hard to make a live album carry the freight of everything he had to say.
William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide