Springsteen - The River

[aws]

I'm not fussed about born in the USA, I like a lot if the tracks individually, but don't really enjoy it as a body of work. For me at the moment, it would be

 

1 darkness

2 born to run

3 Nebraska

4 the river

5 either one of joad, rising or maybe even wrecking ball.

 

But I have to say there's not one I don't like and over the last few years I've probably played the promise more than any of them.

That's how I'd rate them too - with The Promise in fifth.

[magicrat]

So Darkness on the Edge of Town is the winner.

 

No surprise really. 3 years in the making due to his contractual dispute with his sacked manager Mike Apell. It became a distilation of 60 or 70 songs that he recorded in that period and dozens of others that he had written. In the end the world had moved on and punk was in the heyday so he chose the hardest hitting songs he had to make up the album. The result is a masterpiece.

[RedKnight]

Born to Run

Darkness on the edge of town

The River

Tunnel of Love

The Rising

 

Tunnel of Love's sound is horribly dated but some of the lyrics contained in it are brilliant. If any album could do with being revamped, it's that one. I doubt Bruce would want to revisit that period of his life though. 

[xerxes]

 years in the making due to his contractual dispute with his sacked manager Mike Apell. It became a distilation of 60 or 70 songs that he recorded in that period and dozens of others that he had written. In the end the world had moved on and punk was in the heyday so he chose the hardest hitting songs he had to make up the album. The result is a masterpiece.

Shrewdly observed. The quantity of songs he had at his disposal after three albums is astonishing. Few ( if any) artists have been able to match quantity and quality as Bruce has.

[Archimede]

Born to Run

Darkness on the edge of town

The River

Tunnel of Love

The Rising

 

Tunnel of Love's sound is horribly dated but some of the lyrics contained in it are brilliant. If any album could do with being revamped, it's that one. I doubt Bruce would want to revisit that period of his life though. 

I have met the great man and have a signed copy of the same said Tunnel of Love.  Not only that - but I knew thre was a chance i would meet him and brought that Album to get it signed!.

 

It is in my top 5 and is probably my favourite.

 

My Top 5...

 

1)

[aws]

Your boss walk in?

[Archimede]

Born to Run

Darkness on the edge of town

The River

Tunnel of Love

The Rising

 

Tunnel of Love's sound is horribly dated but some of the lyrics contained in it are brilliant. If any album could do with being revamped, it's that one. I doubt Bruce would want to revisit that period of his life though. 

I met the great man and he got him to sign my Tunnel of Love CD for me.  No only that - I knew there was a good chance i was going to meet him and I brought that CD for him to sign I like it that much.  

 

It would be one of my Top 5 Bruce albums.

 

The Top 5

 

1) the Rising

 

so much of music is the memories that you associate with it.  I had just bought a house with my girlfriend (no Mrs.) and we played this album to death. I will always associate it with cooking a great meal, having a few drinks and spending time with the woman I love at time when we had no worries or responsibilities.

 

2) Live 1975-1985

 

Not a studio Album - but Bruce and the E Street at their powerful live best.   A present from my parents when I was a teenager.  Played daily throughout my formative years.

 

3) Tunnel Of Love.

 

All you need to know about man, women and faded dreams with, in the best Bruce spirit, a little redemption along the way.  Beautiful music.  My musical wet dream - the National covering this album

 

4) Born to Run

 

The highways jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide

Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness

Ill love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday girl I don't know when were gonna get to that place

Where we really want to go and well walk in the sun

But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run 

 

Enough Said...

 

5) Tracks

 

Not Tracks 20 - but  the 4 CD box set containing 66 songs.

 

Roulette, Cynthia, Janey Don't You Lose Heart, Zero and Blind Terry, Rockaway the Days, Brothers Under the Bridges, Gave it a Name, My Lover Man, Happy, and best of all Sad Eyes.  

 

Cause Saaad Eyes... never lie...eee..

[Archimede]

Your boss walk in?

Na drop my sandwich on keyboard...

[RedKnight]

Meeting Bruce, I'd be speechless. 

[magicrat]

Meeting Bruce, I'd be speechless. 

Me too,

 

Rob Brydon , who is a massive fan, was talking about meeting him and just coming out with gibberish.

[Sugar Ape]

I've started getting all the Springsteen albums on vinyl and most of them are surpisingly cheap on eBay. Just bidding on the live 75-85 five lp boxset. Quite a few on there so should get it for less than a tenner. Bargain.

 

[Barrington Womble]

I'm a bit sick of the MF and talking about yesterday's bag of shite, it's just pissing me off more and more. so back to bruce. i managed to get hold of the lost masters bootlegs last week:-

 

http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/bruce-springsteen-the-lost-masters-19cds-115143.html

 

I think I have got a lot on other bootlegs, but looking forward to going through them all. i love shit like this.

[xerxes]

what a selection Barry!

 

My "Live at Winterland" boot stll gets regular plays

[Sugar Ape]

[Barrington Womble]

i got hold of a copy of the new album today. had a brief listen. first impressions is it doesn't have the normal album feel springsteen albums usually have, but some decent individual tracks there. perhaps the nature of the way it was recorded between live shows lent itself to this type of feel.

[Scott_M]

The re-working of The Ghost Of Tom Joad is ace. Morello plays a great solo in it, which considering RATM also covered the song, should be expected.

[Barrington Womble]

The re-working of The Ghost Of Tom Joad is ace. Morello plays a great solo in it, which considering RATM also covered the song, should be expected.

I had a live version of that from a few years back with Morello playing on it.

 

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[Barrington Womble]

been listening quite a lot to the new album. i have to say i am not that fussed on it so far. there's no real sound to it, some of the tracks are pretty sub-standard imo, especially that harry's place, which is just shit. There are some tracks on there that are very good, I am really enjoying American Skin (a track I've never liked that much previously) and 4 or 5 others, but all in all it just feels like some type of release to fill a gap, rather than the normal quality Bruce brings. i think maybe for the first time, I feel a bit let down by a bruce release.

[index1000]

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jan/06/bruce-springsteen-high-hopes-album-stream?utm_content=nllink-30363177-High+Hopes&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email%7C20140108&utm_source=uscolumbia-brucespringsteen&cid=nl%3A808874414

 

new album being streamed before release... High Hopes.

[The Midnight Rambler]

Ken Bruce (radio 2) has been playing High Hopes this week, I like what I've heard so far but hardly been blown away. The song 'High Hopes' fucking grates on me, it's proper shat. Hoping the postie delivers the album tomorrow as it comes with a live Born in USA DVD from Hyde park.

[Archimede]

I have to say as much as I love Bruce, I think his albums these days are taking the piss. Old songs (if not re recordings, "bee sings" with a derivative feel. Almost a cynical marketing exercise to shift units. I really enjoyed him live last in kilkenny. But part if me would rather he stayed on the road and wrote new original work. We have had the boardwalk tramp, the cars and girls, the broken heart, the post 9/11, the now repeaditive bruce.

 

I want bruce to write an album as a 60 year old married man with kids, success, depression etc. (Maybe even about viagra!)

 

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[Archimede]

Im at a kids party hence incomprehensible texts. Not bee sings but new songs with derivative feel and stay OFF tye road. Back to jelly and uce cream

 

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[Barrington Womble]

I have to say as much as I love Bruce, I think his albums these days are taking the piss. Old songs (if not re recordings, "bee sings" with a derivative feel. Almost a cynical marketing exercise to shift units. I really enjoyed him live last in kilkenny. But part if me would rather he stayed on the road and wrote new original work. We have had the boardwalk tramp, the cars and girls, the broken heart, the post 9/11, the now repeaditive bruce.

 

I want bruce to write an album as a 60 year old married man with kids, success, depression etc. (Maybe even about viagra!)

 

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i thought wrecking ball was a great album, certainly the best since the rising. i can't help but feel this album is just a lazy release done in some sort of afterglow of being in the studio with his mate morello.

[Frank Dacey]

I thought Wrecking Ball was very good and the material live was very strong, unlike Magic or Working on a Dream. The new album got a lukewarm review in the Telegraph this morning. Waiting to listen to it myself and making up my ownmind

[Barrington Womble]

I thought Wrecking Ball was very good and the material live was very strong, unlike Magic or Working on a Dream. The new album got a lukewarm review in the Telegraph this morning. Waiting to listen to it myself and making up my ownmind

Rolling stone gave it a great review. Don't get me wrong, there are some good tracks in there, but it just lacks quality throughout and any kind of coherent sound. Someone a few posts back slated high hopes - I don't hate it, but can't say I love it either and I would say its a long way from being the worst track on there.

 

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