Vinyl Record

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising

Bruce Springsteen - The Rising on 2LP vinyl. A 2002 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2002

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2002 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

The Rising is Bruce Springsteen in 2002, returning to the E Street Band after years away from a full studio album with them and finding a subject almost too large for ordinary rock language. Written and released in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, it does not work as a simple memorial because its best songs keep shifting perspective: firefighters, widows, survivors, lovers, neighbours and ghosts pass through the record. Lonesome Day opens with bruised resilience, Into The Fire turns sacrifice into a litany, You're Missing leaves absence painfully domestic, Mary's Place searches for communal release, and My City Of Ruins, originally tied to Asbury Park, becomes a broader prayer for repair. The album's 2002 timing is inseparable from its impact, but The Rising endures because it refuses to stay only in public monument mode. It lets grief be bodily, spiritual, confused and sometimes desperate for a chorus big enough to hold it.

The Rising matters because it became Springsteen's defining post-9/11 work and his first full studio album with the E Street Band in many years. In 2002, it gave public grief a rock vocabulary without reducing loss to slogan or spectacle.

For collectors, The Rising is essential 21st-century Springsteen. It marks the E Street Band's studio return, the Brendan O'Brien production era and the album where Springsteen's civic imagination met a specific national wound. It belongs beside Born To Run, Darkness and Nebraska as a core narrative chapter.

Expansive E Street rock with gospel lift, solemn ballads, arena choruses, saxophone and organ colour, Brendan O'Brien polish, spiritual imagery and songs shaped by grief, endurance and communal repair.

Recommended for: Collectors building the essential Springsteen album shelf; Listeners interested in music shaped by the aftermath of September 11; Fans of Lonesome Day, Into The Fire, The Rising, Mary's Place and My City Of Ruins.

When was The Rising released? The Rising was released in 2002, less than a year after the September 11 attacks. Why is The Rising so closely associated with September 11? Many of its songs respond to grief, loss, rescue workers, absence and communal recovery in the wake of the attacks. What does The Rising represent in Springsteen's catalogue? It represents the E Street Band's major studio return and one of Springsteen's most important public-facing albums of the 2000s.