Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandLive in New York City

Big, warm, and arena-filling, with the crowd noise left in so you feel Madison Square Garden breathing. Drawn from the final nights of the 1999-2000 Reunion Tour, the E Street Band's first official album together since 1987. "American Skin (41 Shots)," the hushed protest song Springsteen debuted here amid police boycotts, lands incantatory and raw. "Land of Hope and Dreams" surges in as a train-bound salvation anthem. Less a hits set than a sweaty three-hour revival. Drop the needle.