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Bruce Springsteen (Official Thread)
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mrJim
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I was pretty big Springsteen fan right through these Albums
1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (#60)
1973: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (#59)
1975: Born to Run (#3)
1978: Darkness on the Edge of Town (#5)
1980: The River (#1)
1982: Nebraska (#3)
1984: Born in the U.S.A. (#1)
1987: Tunnel of Love (#1)
1992: Human Touch (#2)
1992: Lucky Town (#3)
Then after Lucky Town I just was never really compelled to pick up his stuff. I enjoyed everything including Tunnel of Love Human Touch and Lucky Town. Even though my favorites came before them.
I am not sure if he changed his style or somethingelse, I really have never been able to figure out what made me change. nothing I have heard has been very compelling to pick up. I have tried.
The only thing i will say is at some point when he would talk it seemed like he was trying so hard to be artsy fartsy or moved by the emotion of it or something. Honestly I don't know why
Jim
1973: Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (#60)
1973: The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (#59)
1975: Born to Run (#3)
1978: Darkness on the Edge of Town (#5)
1980: The River (#1)
1982: Nebraska (#3)
1984: Born in the U.S.A. (#1)
1987: Tunnel of Love (#1)
1992: Human Touch (#2)
1992: Lucky Town (#3)
Then after Lucky Town I just was never really compelled to pick up his stuff. I enjoyed everything including Tunnel of Love Human Touch and Lucky Town. Even though my favorites came before them.
I am not sure if he changed his style or somethingelse, I really have never been able to figure out what made me change. nothing I have heard has been very compelling to pick up. I have tried.
The only thing i will say is at some point when he would talk it seemed like he was trying so hard to be artsy fartsy or moved by the emotion of it or something. Honestly I don't know why
Jim
TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Keen eyed readers may have noticed that my Petty sig is taking a well earned rest, the reason being that every year or two, usually just before he tours (though he isn't planning another one just yet) I have a kind of intense private Springsteen Fest of my own – if I was put on the spot I’d say he is probably my All Time #1 artist just ahead of Tom Petty and Van Morrison - and so I just blitz all his albums and the concert DVD’s, of which I have everything, even a few obscurities, and so that’s what is happening right now.
So, in no particular order, I’m slowly wading through it all, and I still discover things in his music that I missed 20 or 30 years ago.
So, to start with, I just played it back to back three times last night, and am wondering why is the ‘Lucky Town’ album not given more love and credit?
Many fans of Springsteen either chose to overlook it, or even seem to almost hate it, and the same goes for the companion ‘Human Touch’ album which was released on the same day – why he didn’t just make it a double album, I don’t know?
Bruce plays virtually instrument on 'Lucky Town', guitar, base, keyboards, percussion, harmonica, so it’s all him except for drums and backing vocals, and I don’t think people quite appreciate what a great all round musician he is, but this album is 95% Bruce.
There are some absolutely outstanding tracks here, a couple of his best ever down and dirty rockers (‘Souls of the Departed’,’ Better Days’)…three of his most touching country tinged acoustic ballads/love songs (‘If I Should Fall Behind’,’ Book of Dreams’, ‘My Beautiful Reward’) and the great bluesy Pete Seeger inspired ‘The Big Muddy’ with its killer steel-string bottle-neck slide guitar from Bruce. Plus, for me Springsteen's voice has rarely sounded better than on this album as it moves from a full-throttled roar to like a field- holler whoop, and then to a hushed drawl. Favourite tracks? …..OK, these five …..
So, in no particular order, I’m slowly wading through it all, and I still discover things in his music that I missed 20 or 30 years ago.
So, to start with, I just played it back to back three times last night, and am wondering why is the ‘Lucky Town’ album not given more love and credit?
Many fans of Springsteen either chose to overlook it, or even seem to almost hate it, and the same goes for the companion ‘Human Touch’ album which was released on the same day – why he didn’t just make it a double album, I don’t know?
Bruce plays virtually instrument on 'Lucky Town', guitar, base, keyboards, percussion, harmonica, so it’s all him except for drums and backing vocals, and I don’t think people quite appreciate what a great all round musician he is, but this album is 95% Bruce.
There are some absolutely outstanding tracks here, a couple of his best ever down and dirty rockers (‘Souls of the Departed’,’ Better Days’)…three of his most touching country tinged acoustic ballads/love songs (‘If I Should Fall Behind’,’ Book of Dreams’, ‘My Beautiful Reward’) and the great bluesy Pete Seeger inspired ‘The Big Muddy’ with its killer steel-string bottle-neck slide guitar from Bruce. Plus, for me Springsteen's voice has rarely sounded better than on this album as it moves from a full-throttled roar to like a field- holler whoop, and then to a hushed drawl. Favourite tracks? …..OK, these five …..
TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Next…'Human Touch'.
OK, after managing only 3 albums of new material in 10 years, Springsteen suddenly bowls up with two on the same day, though unlike Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 this is not simply a way of off-loading a glut of material. It doesn’t work as well as its companion album 'Lucky Town' released the same day…and whereas 'Lucky Town' was all Bruce (except for drums) for 'Human Touch' he pulled together a band for the album. The E Street Band had been broken up at this point whilst he looked for other directions to go musically, and he had even abandoned New Jersey to move out to live in Hollywood California, so some fans were already pretty pissed at him, but Roy Bittan from the E Street Band was kept around on keyboards, and he hired Randy Jackson (bass) and Jeff Porcaro on drums (one of the founding members of Toto)…so it was still a kick ass line up.
Not all the songs work, there’s 14 tracks on the record, I played it this morning a couple of times and there’s 5 or 6 tracks which do nothing much for me, but then there’s still probably another 5 or 6 tracks on here all of which would make it onto my Springsteen Top 100, so it’s very patchy. Musically, Springsteen for sure has turned here from the country tinged rock of the 'Tunnel of Love' album, to a sort of glossy updating of those classic rock and roll records of the 50s and 60s which influenced him, so it’s quite nostalgic. He’s at his best with upbeat rockers like 'Gloria's Eyes', which rides along like a freight train on a killer guitar riff, and taking the pace down 'I Wish I Were Blind' is one of the best tracks on the record, and sounds like something Roy Orbison might have recorded in one of his more morose moments....plus the title track 'Human Touch' is very seductive and epic.
But ‘With Every Wish’ is the best track for me, it's basically a love song, but with him there's so often some nostalgic childhood/youth tale of growing up in songs like this, and it's Springsteen as the consumate story-teller, and it could hardly be any cooler with its shuffling drum beat and an underneath part of distant trumpet….so it's shiver up the spine Bruce at his best musically and lyrically….
Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim
When I was a kid, my only wish was to get my line in him
Skipped church one Sunday rowed out and throw'd in my line
Jim took that hook pole and me right over the side
Went driftin' down past old tires and rusty cans of beer
The angel of the lake whispered in my ear
"Before you chose your wish son
You better think first
With every wish there comes a curse"
I fell in love with beautiful Doreen
She was the prettiest thing this old town'd ever seen
I courted her and I made her mine
But I grew jealous whenever another man'd
Come walkin' down the line
And my jealousy made me treat her mean and cruel
She sighed, "Bobby oh Bobby you're such a fool
Don't you know before you choose your wish
You'd better think first
'Cause with every wish there comes a curse"
These days I sit around and laugh
At the many rivers I've crossed
But on the far banks there's always another forest
Where a man can get lost
Well there in the high trees love's bluebird glides
Guiding us 'cross to another river on the other side
And there someone is waitin' with a look in her eyes
And though my heart's grown weary
And more than a little bit shy
Tonight I'll drink from her waters to quench my thirst
And leave the angels to worry
With every wish...
Also.....
OK, after managing only 3 albums of new material in 10 years, Springsteen suddenly bowls up with two on the same day, though unlike Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 this is not simply a way of off-loading a glut of material. It doesn’t work as well as its companion album 'Lucky Town' released the same day…and whereas 'Lucky Town' was all Bruce (except for drums) for 'Human Touch' he pulled together a band for the album. The E Street Band had been broken up at this point whilst he looked for other directions to go musically, and he had even abandoned New Jersey to move out to live in Hollywood California, so some fans were already pretty pissed at him, but Roy Bittan from the E Street Band was kept around on keyboards, and he hired Randy Jackson (bass) and Jeff Porcaro on drums (one of the founding members of Toto)…so it was still a kick ass line up.
Not all the songs work, there’s 14 tracks on the record, I played it this morning a couple of times and there’s 5 or 6 tracks which do nothing much for me, but then there’s still probably another 5 or 6 tracks on here all of which would make it onto my Springsteen Top 100, so it’s very patchy. Musically, Springsteen for sure has turned here from the country tinged rock of the 'Tunnel of Love' album, to a sort of glossy updating of those classic rock and roll records of the 50s and 60s which influenced him, so it’s quite nostalgic. He’s at his best with upbeat rockers like 'Gloria's Eyes', which rides along like a freight train on a killer guitar riff, and taking the pace down 'I Wish I Were Blind' is one of the best tracks on the record, and sounds like something Roy Orbison might have recorded in one of his more morose moments....plus the title track 'Human Touch' is very seductive and epic.
But ‘With Every Wish’ is the best track for me, it's basically a love song, but with him there's so often some nostalgic childhood/youth tale of growing up in songs like this, and it's Springsteen as the consumate story-teller, and it could hardly be any cooler with its shuffling drum beat and an underneath part of distant trumpet….so it's shiver up the spine Bruce at his best musically and lyrically….
Ol' catfish in the lake, we called him Big Jim
When I was a kid, my only wish was to get my line in him
Skipped church one Sunday rowed out and throw'd in my line
Jim took that hook pole and me right over the side
Went driftin' down past old tires and rusty cans of beer
The angel of the lake whispered in my ear
"Before you chose your wish son
You better think first
With every wish there comes a curse"
I fell in love with beautiful Doreen
She was the prettiest thing this old town'd ever seen
I courted her and I made her mine
But I grew jealous whenever another man'd
Come walkin' down the line
And my jealousy made me treat her mean and cruel
She sighed, "Bobby oh Bobby you're such a fool
Don't you know before you choose your wish
You'd better think first
'Cause with every wish there comes a curse"
These days I sit around and laugh
At the many rivers I've crossed
But on the far banks there's always another forest
Where a man can get lost
Well there in the high trees love's bluebird glides
Guiding us 'cross to another river on the other side
And there someone is waitin' with a look in her eyes
And though my heart's grown weary
And more than a little bit shy
Tonight I'll drink from her waters to quench my thirst
And leave the angels to worry
With every wish...
Also.....
METALPRIEST
Senior Member
Bruce Springsteen Announces New Single, Album Rumored for Early 2014
Confirming recent rumors, Bruce Springsteen has officially announced the impending release of a new single — and the latest reports indicate that it could be followed with a full-length album in early 2014.
The new song, ‘High Hopes,’ will arrive on Nov. 25, and although nothing’s been confirmed yet, according to Billboard‘s sources, “a new Springsteen studio album could be out as early as January.” If this rumor proves true, it’ll represent yet another in a recent series of quick turnarounds for an artist whose famously deliberate pace led to a number of protracted delays between some of his most successful records. Springsteen’s most recent batch of new material, ‘Wrecking Ball,’ is less than two years old, and it capped off a period that found him releasing six studio albums in a 10-year span.
The excitement of a new single is mixed with a few notes of confusion for some Springsteen fans, who not only recall that he first recorded ‘High Hopes’ for his 1996 ‘Blood Brothers’ EP, but also question why he’s chosen to revisit a song he didn’t even write in the first place. As Billboard’s report notes, ‘High Hopes’ was originally recorded by the Havalinas, a short-lived band whose folk-influenced rock sound proved unfortunately out of step with the times when they released their self-titled debut in 1990.
Although the song’s a perfect fit for the ragged, high-energy sound Springsteen’s favored in recent years, it’s tempting to wonder if his decision to release this new version (which has already leaked online) indicates a lack of freshly written original material.
Confirming recent rumors, Bruce Springsteen has officially announced the impending release of a new single — and the latest reports indicate that it could be followed with a full-length album in early 2014.
The new song, ‘High Hopes,’ will arrive on Nov. 25, and although nothing’s been confirmed yet, according to Billboard‘s sources, “a new Springsteen studio album could be out as early as January.” If this rumor proves true, it’ll represent yet another in a recent series of quick turnarounds for an artist whose famously deliberate pace led to a number of protracted delays between some of his most successful records. Springsteen’s most recent batch of new material, ‘Wrecking Ball,’ is less than two years old, and it capped off a period that found him releasing six studio albums in a 10-year span.
The excitement of a new single is mixed with a few notes of confusion for some Springsteen fans, who not only recall that he first recorded ‘High Hopes’ for his 1996 ‘Blood Brothers’ EP, but also question why he’s chosen to revisit a song he didn’t even write in the first place. As Billboard’s report notes, ‘High Hopes’ was originally recorded by the Havalinas, a short-lived band whose folk-influenced rock sound proved unfortunately out of step with the times when they released their self-titled debut in 1990.
Although the song’s a perfect fit for the ragged, high-energy sound Springsteen’s favored in recent years, it’s tempting to wonder if his decision to release this new version (which has already leaked online) indicates a lack of freshly written original material.
Born to Run Lyrics up for Auction
Bruce Springsteen's Handwritten 'Born To Run' Lyrics Up For Auction
Lyrics to "Born to Run," handwritten by Bruce Springsteen, are expected to pull in between $70,000 and $100,000 when they hit the auction block at Sotheby's next month {December 5th}. The lyrics, much different from the final version of the song, were taken from a spiral bound notebook that belonged to the Boss.
According to Sotheby's, the version was composed in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1975, and once owned by Bruce's manager Mike Appel:
"[Appel] sold it to a collector, who sold it to the current consignor," Sotheby's told the New York Times. "Bruce Springsteen manuscripts don't come up often . . . There are verses here that will be unfamiliar even to hardcore fans."
Lyrics to "Born to Run," handwritten by Bruce Springsteen, are expected to pull in between $70,000 and $100,000 when they hit the auction block at Sotheby's next month {December 5th}. The lyrics, much different from the final version of the song, were taken from a spiral bound notebook that belonged to the Boss.
According to Sotheby's, the version was composed in Long Branch, New Jersey in 1975, and once owned by Bruce's manager Mike Appel:
"[Appel] sold it to a collector, who sold it to the current consignor," Sotheby's told the New York Times. "Bruce Springsteen manuscripts don't come up often . . . There are verses here that will be unfamiliar even to hardcore fans."
TheSound
An Englishman in New York
Mike Appel got what he deserved – Springsteen since then has gone on to sell 150 million records and has had 15 back-to-back sell out world tours…whilst Appel just ended up being, well, the ‘Nothing Man’. Somebody I suppose will fork out $100,000 for this scribbled piece of paper, rock memorabilia is big business for the auction house, I remember Bernie Taupin's 'Candle in the Wind' lyrics went to half a million $ or something.
METALPRIEST
Senior Member
I wonder if Bruce will buy them back...
One of the worst management fiasco's in music history, cost Springsteen a few years of his career back in the 70's.
Did it really LG?? I didn't know that....did it mess him up...song leak?? What was the deal?
^^He basically stopped for a couple years to fight with Appel for control over his career MP. It was a messy business but eventually Springsteen got his contractual freedom and the rest is history as TS mentioned. Instead of concentrating on his music career he was caught up in legal BS which is never any fun.
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