It’s official now! A new album box set from Bruce Springsteen is coming out on May 18th (see press release).

«The Album Collection Vol.2, 1987-1996» will contain the following studio and live albums:

Tunnel of Love

Human Touch

Lucky Town

In Concert/MTV Plugged

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Chimes of Freedom EP

Blood Brothers EP

Thus would mark the first ever vinyl release for the Blood Brothers EP, originally published in 1996 as part of the Blood Brothers video release pack. The limited, numbered vinyl version of this collection will contain 10 LPs (no word yet on a CD version).

These seven titles are presented in recreations of their original packaging and accompanied by a 60-page book featuring rarely-seen photos, memorabilia and original press clippings from this chapter of Springsteen’s recording career.

Acclaimed engineer Bod Ludwig, working with Springsteen and long-time engineer Toby Scott, has remastered these albums, all transferred from the original analogue masters using the Plangent Process playback system.

The LP version song details:

LP – SIDE A: TUNNEL OF LOVE (1987)(2LP)

Ain’t Got You

Tougher Than the Rest

All That Heaven Will Allow

LP – SIDE B: TUNNEL OF LOVE (1987)(2LP)

Spare Parts

Cautious Man

Walk Like A Man

LP – SIDE C: TUNNEL OF LOVE (1987)(2LP)

Tunnel of Love

Two Faces

Brilliant Disguise

LP – SIDE D: TUNNEL OF LOVE (1987)(2LP)

One Step Up

When You’re Alone

Valentine’s Day

LP – SIDE E: HUMAN TOUCH (1992)(2LP)

Human Touch

Soul Driver

57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)

LP – SIDE F: HUMAN TOUCH (1992)(2LP)

Cross My Heart

Gloria’s Eyes

With Every Wish

Roll of the Dice

LP – SIDE G: HUMAN TOUCH (1992)(2LP)

Real World

All Or Nothin’ At All

Man’s Job

LP – SIDE H: HUMAN TOUCH (1992)(2LP)

I Wish I Were Blind

The Long Goodbye

Real Man

Pony Boy

LP – SIDE I: LUCKY TOWN (1992)(1LP)

Better Days

Lucky Town

Local Hero

If I Should Fall Behind

Leap Of Faith

LP – SIDE J: LUCKY TOWN (1992)(1LP)

The Big Muddy

Living Proof

Book Of Dreams

Souls Of The Departed

My Beautiful Reward

LP – SIDE K: IN CONCERT/MTV PLUGGED (1993)(2LP)

Red Headed Woman

Better Days

Atlantic City

Darkness On the Edge of Town

LP – SIDE L: IN CONCERT/MTV PLUGGED (1993)(2LP)

Man’s Job

Human Touch

Lucky Town

LP – SIDE M: IN CONCERT/MTV PLUGGED (1993)(2LP)

I Wish I Were Blind

Thunder Road

Light of Day

LP – SIDE N: IN CONCERT/MTV PLUGGED (1993)(2LP)

If I Should Fall Behind

Living Proof

My Beautiful Reward

LP – SIDE O: THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD (1995)(1LP)

The Ghost of Tom Joad

Straight Time

Highway 29

Youngstown

Sinaloa Cowboys

The Line

LP – SIDE P: THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD (1995)(1LP)

Balboa Park

Dry Lightning

The New Timer

Across The Border

Galveston Bay

My Best Was Never Good Enough

LP – SIDE Q: CHIMES OF FREEDOM EP (1988)(1LP)

Tougher Than The Rest (Live at LA Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA – April 1988)

Be True (Live at Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI – March 1988)

LP – SIDE R: CHIMES OF FREEDOM EP (1988)(1LP)

Chimes of Freedom (Live at Stockholms Olympiastadion, Stockholm, SE – July 1988)

Born to Run (Acoustic Version – Live at LA Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA – April 1988)

LP – SIDE S: BLOOD BROTHERS EP (1996)(1LP)(First-Ever Vinyl Release)

Blood Brothers (Alternate Version)

High Hopes

LP – SIDE T: BLOOD BROTHERS EP (1996)(1LP)(First-Ever Vinyl Release)

Murder Incorporated (Live from Tramps)

Secret Garden (String Version)

Without You