Buy These Now 11.16.05

Here's your weekly shopping list... Go get the Springsteen disc now. I saw some of the 1975 concert footage on the big screen Monday night & it was truly amazing to see Bruce tear it up like he was the missing link between the garage bands of the 60's and the punks of the late 70's. If you've always judged him based on the icon that he's become, watch this and then picture yourself seeing a performance like that at your favorite small hole-in-the-wall venue and you'll start to understand how he became "The Boss" in the first place.

Between the Springsteen reissue, the live Wilco & Green Day CDs and the U2 DVD, I gotta give this bountiful week an "A+".

• Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Edition
• Bright Eyes - Motion Sickness: Live Recordings
• Green Day - Bullet in a Bible
• Wilco - Kicking Television - Live in Chicago
• Various Artists - MySpace Records Vol. 1 (featuring Weezer, Dashboard Confessional, Against Me! and others)
• Original Soundtrack - Cry Wolf (featuring Bloc Party, Cake, Low and others)
• Original Soundtrack - Walk the Line (the Johnny Cash biopic)
• Original Soundtrack - Screaming Masterpiece (featuring the Icelandic music scene including Björk & Sigur Rós)
• Original Soundtrack - The O.C. Mix 5 (including the Kaiser Chiefs, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz)
• Guided by Voices - The Electrifying Conclusion: The Final Concert, New Year's Eve 2004 (DVD)
• U2 - Vertigo// 2005: Live from Chicago (DVD)