However, the creative pace set by those albums proved impossible to continue and the band acrimoniously split in 1980.
The pace, set to a sympathetic score by the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, is slow in a way that we still think of as "foreign".
Craig Finn, 36, the lyricist, vocalist and guitarist, was pacing the band's rehearsal space in Greenpoint and sifting through junk, including a book on baseball stadiums.
The lake-effect snow machine, fueled by moisture from Lake Erie, was still churning, but at a much slower pace, with bands of snowfall staying well south of the city.
It is a pioneer record, introducing a musician of great originality with a pace-setting band.
There was Lord Mountbatten pacing behind the chiefs of staff carefully manipulating his sword and, like any trooper, trying to keep pace with the band.
The Opera House concert hall offered a change of pace for the band, who had just played Falls Festival for New Year's Eve.
The Who's first album is an oddity, because it doesn't capture the breathless pace of the band's development through 1965.
Springsteen has to do so much — lead the band, pace the show, sing, play guitar, command the audience, project to every corner of the hall, including the seats behind the stage — that to wing it completely is asking for disaster.
