Like many of you I couldn't help myself, I intended to wait for the official release but well here we are lol. Gonna buy it anyway so what's the harm. Maybe they'll learn from this and just drop the new album when it's done next time around - I bet that would create more of a buzz these days. Anyway - very good album! Spoilers ahead. Top 3: Burnin' Train, Ghosts, Priest - no surprise that I like the songs that need to be played loud the most. Blast those speakers - it's what they're there for. Have to say that I don't like One Minute You're Here and Letter To You as the first two songs. The intro and outro of Letter To You are longer than on the Youtube video and that's good cause it works better this way. Love the added guitar at the 7 second mark! Nice little touch. They're both solid songs but nothing more than that. I think it would have been a better choice to open with Burnin' Train. Now that's a song! The build up during the first 30 seconds is ace. Come out swinging and open the album with this one! Turn it all the way up when you listen to that one for the first time. The 3 old songs sound great, I was a bit worried about that but it's very well done. If I Was The Priest - Favorite one of the three. Just wow. Love it when the band kicks in! Janey Needs A Shooter - My favorite part of the '78 version was the way he sang 'only through his stethoscope' - it's a bit different now which is a bit of a bummer for me. But overall a great version. Love the harmonica! Song for Orphans -  I liked the performance on the Trenton archive release but I prefer this version. 'Least favorite' of the three but still very well done. Last Man Standing, Power of Prayer, 1000 Guitars are all good. Rainmaker still has to click for me I think.  Ghosts kicks ass, love that one. I'll See You In My Dreams is a nice way to close a great album. After Western Stars another very good release. I'll be listening to this one a lot. Since they can't tour for a while they should give this one the Darkness Paramount '09 treatment and just play the whole thing live and release it. We can't go to the show so bring the show to us.  Thumbs up from me!

I've been to the last 5 shows in the Netherlands cause it's not far at all for me, can easily drive home after the show - been a bit of a mixed bag for me. Amsterdam '08 good setlist but ruined by terrible sound in a terrible venue 2 Pinkpop festival shows which were fun but still only festivals 2 really great shows: Nijmegen '13 (Darkness album) and The Hague '16 (great setlist). Haven't seen him in Spain yet, just never worked out, number one on my list for sure.

Feel like skipping this one - think I'm gonna wait to hear the whole thing while taking a drive in a couple of weeks. Like the good old days.

As promised, here's a link to download the entire Lost Masters Collection in FLAC. Seperate folders for every volume + volume 1 & 2 of The Lost Masters Essential Collection. There's an info file with a summary of the entire collection in the main folder. Also includes artwork and seperate info files per volume. I'll keep this on my cloud until I need the space for something else but if you stumble upon this thread in the future and the link doesn't work anymore send me a message and I'll reupload. Just click 'Download as ZIP' at the top to download the entire collection, should show up in your downloads, unpack with software like 7-Zip and you're good to go. Total is around 8GB but you can download seperate volumes if you already have some volumes or if you don't have enough free space on your hard drive. Enjoy! Downloadlink: https://mega.nz/folder/ul83wDIB#zj0PGCVAkPdVHgrnXAk1IA

Great thread and lots of things to discuss! I believe I have the entire collection in FLAC somewhere, if there's any interest I can upload the collection on Mega and share the link when it's done?

Thought I'd share this absolute gem for those who haven't heard it yet. A superb Crystal Cat bootleg of the final European WOAD show in Santiago de Compostela, Spain and the last performance of Clarence in Europe before he passed away. Amazing sound quality, great Spanish crowd (go figure) and a cool setlist including an Adam-Murder-Johnny-Darkness fourpack and back to back covers of Burning Love and Born To Be Wild. Also features an acoustic performance of No Surrender. Highly recommend this one! Santiago Dream Night (Crystal Cat 965-967) 2009-08-02 - Monte do Gozo, Santiago de Compostela Download: https://mega.nz/folder/751XSYAA#8DIKsIRaxyq20zlJ_n0GNQ

Really into Adam Raised A Cain, Staples '99 lately. Best performance ever of that song for me.

First song that comes to mind is Real World (Christic and D&D Tour - not studio or full band). That somehow always reminds me of the fall. No idea why though.

Starts at 25m45s or so, close to half an hour of Bruce speech + Q&A. No questions about the new album, kids these days huh! Just kidding. Also, the Boston College BTR reading guide can be found here: https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/bc1/offices/Mission-Ministry/FYE/Convocation/Springsteen%20-%20Born%20to%20Run%20Reading%20Guide.pdf

I'll kick things off. Been listening to "Working On A Show" in my car the last couple of days. First public rehearsal show for the Working On A Dream Tour. "Tonight is the night you get to be the guinea pigs", love Out In The Street on this one. Includes a performance of Good Eye, which has been played 3 times by the band: during the 2 rehearsal shows and on the first night of the WOAD Tour in San Jose. Hasn't been played live since then, which is a shame cause I kinda like this version! It's got a Reason To Believe Magic Tour vibe. Also includes a rare but great performance of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home". Released by The Godfatherecords, here's the setlist and the front cover. And here's a link if you want to download this one. Just click on 'Download as Zip', use software like 7-Zip to extract and you're good to go. Working On A Show (Godfatherecords 370-371) 2009-03-23 - Convention Hall, Asbury Park https://mega.nz/folder/SkMjHCZb#eapSj6T_jkrm9u9XJiDRWg

Song For Orphans is on the archive release of Trenton '05

If the album is done just release it without announcing it - creates more of a buzz these days. But exciting stuff, something is coming and I'm really looking forward to that, my expectations are high - Magic 2.0 please thank you very much.

Figured I'd keep the same nickname - good afternoon folks