Bruce Springsteen

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evenslow wrote:Christ, I can't keep up with this thread. For all those waiting and wondering about my personal favorite Bruce song it is Tenth Avenue Freeze Out.
I’m more than halfway there!
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LetMeSleep wrote:For mood, tone and execution it's You're Missing.

Most often played lately (last 5 years) would be Ain't Good Enough For You or Racing In The Streets '78.
You're Missing is incredible.

Off the top of my head, the ones that hit me in the heart year after year...

Sandy
Something in the Night
Brilliant Disguise
You'll Be Coming Down
and, yes, now
Hello Sunshine
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There are so many facets of his writing and emotional touchstones. Songs I'd passed on earlier in my life now can move me to tears.
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The Ghost of Tom Joad - my overall rating B (this is an album that I had a better memory of than listening this time. Perhaps it is fatigue of listening to 11 albums in 3 days but it’s a bit more one note than I recalled. All the same the imagery is back!)

Songs to convert tree_: The Ghost of Tom Joad, Youngstown

Also good listening: Straight Time, The New Timer, Sinaloa Cowboys

Okay, 3 decades in three days...might take me a bit longer to get through the next few.
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LetMeSleep wrote:There are so many facets of his writing and emotional touchstones. Songs I'd passed on earlier in my life now can move me to tears.
rich, is the word.

the great advantage of persisting through a career with some semblance of commitment to a higher ideal.
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Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
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liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
Haven't listened to it a ton in recent years but Wild Innocent is fucking great. And also a really interesting look at Bruce with a totally different band... but just a few years from world domination. What a story.

I might hop on the full career relisten, too. Good idea.
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liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
strictly on a "re-listen" basis, what's your favorite so far?
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evenslow wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
Haven't listened to it a ton in recent years but Wild Innocent is fucking great. And also a really interesting look at Bruce with a totally different band... but just a few years from world domination. What a story.

I might hop on the full career relisten, too. Good idea.
There's so much organ. An organ lover's delight.
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I haven't had a listen to the new album yet, but I've found it hard to get into anything much outside of Nebraska and The Ghost of Tom Joad
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
evenslow wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
Haven't listened to it a ton in recent years but Wild Innocent is fucking great. And also a really interesting look at Bruce with a totally different band... but just a few years from world domination. What a story.

I might hop on the full career relisten, too. Good idea.
There's so much organ. An organ lover's delight.
Sancious and Federici, bro.
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evenslow wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
evenslow wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
Haven't listened to it a ton in recent years but Wild Innocent is fucking great. And also a really interesting look at Bruce with a totally different band... but just a few years from world domination. What a story.

I might hop on the full career relisten, too. Good idea.
There's so much organ. An organ lover's delight.
Sancious and Federici, bro.
If they were paid by the note, they sure made the most of every second.
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evenslow wrote:
liebzz wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Inspired by several of you I'm going to listen to each album in chronological order. I'm through the Wild and the Innocent. Will start to post my impressions soon.
It’s a long ride to get through all 19. I believe I am 11 in. It’s a great catalogue that really runs the gamut.
strictly on a "re-listen" basis, what's your favorite so far?
Going into this, I always figured Darkness was my favorite but I think just really soaking in Born to Run I got an even stronger appreciation for it so I will say Born to Run. The album that most surprised me was The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. I would say that shot up the favorites list dramatically giving it a fresh listen. That and I loved Nebraska

I will also note that this time through I had never really considered the continuing thread in The Ties That Bind. It really plays like a concept album.
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Removed to post review for both of his first two albums...
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You're all sleeping on greetings
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i got bugs wrote:You're all sleeping on greetings
I think it can be easy to do that in part because he has Mary Queen of Arkansas in one of the most prominent spots on the album.
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liebzz wrote:
i got bugs wrote:You're all sleeping on greetings
I think it can be easy to do that in part because he has Mary Queen of Arkansas in one of the most prominent spots on the album.
I kind of like Mary Queen of Arkansas. :?
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listening to Western Stars for the first time now, and agreed, Sleepy Joe's Cafe is completely out of place
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