Red Mosquito

Early thoughts though I still have a long way to go:

Streets of Phildelphia Sessions and Somewhere North of Nashville are both great (for totally different reasons).

I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Faithless sounds like it's playing with some really cool sonic textures. Looking forward to listening to all of that one.

On the flip side, I think it's going to be a long time before I get through all of Inyo (sleepy acoustic Bruce is my absolute least favorite style of his) or Garage Sessions ("Follow That Dream" is a good opener but the rest quickly becomes tiresome and most of the songs sound very unfinished).

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Okay, after getting deeper into this, I get it: it's way sleepier than WS. Where are all the energetic, uptempo songs?

Imagine if Bruce had released Streets of Philadelphia and Somewhere North of Nashville as his '90s albums instead of Human Touch, Lucky Town, and Tom Joad. Man.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Early thoughts though I still have a long way to go:

Streets of Phildelphia Sessions and Somewhere North of Nashville are both great (for totally different reasons).

I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Faithless sounds like it's playing with some really cool sonic textures. Looking forward to listening to all of that one.

On the flip side, I think it's going to be a long time before I get through all of Inyo (sleepy acoustic Bruce is my absolute least favorite style of his) or Garage Sessions ("Follow That Dream" is a good opener but the rest quickly becomes tiresome and most of the songs sound very unfinished).

We are very much on the same page. There’s a lot of me reading that the ‘83 sessions are the most essential, but I keep thinking that feels both incomplete and often redundant in terms of a conceptual recycle. Streets of Philadelphia sessions are much more interesting, not just because Bruce is branching out a lot more than you would expect, but also because there’s still more range in that.

The Somewhere North of Nashville was probably my favorite and the Western Stars sequel is great. I really enjoyed it the first time he visited that sound and I think this is just about as good.

liebzz wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Early thoughts though I still have a long way to go:

Streets of Phildelphia Sessions and Somewhere North of Nashville are both great (for totally different reasons).

I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Faithless sounds like it's playing with some really cool sonic textures. Looking forward to listening to all of that one.

On the flip side, I think it's going to be a long time before I get through all of Inyo (sleepy acoustic Bruce is my absolute least favorite style of his) or Garage Sessions ("Follow That Dream" is a good opener but the rest quickly becomes tiresome and most of the songs sound very unfinished).

We are very much on the same page. There’s a lot of me reading that the ‘83 sessions are the most essential, but I keep thinking that feels both incomplete and often redundant in terms of a conceptual recycle. Streets of Philadelphia sessions are much more interesting, not just because Bruce is branching out a lot more than you would expect, but also because there’s still more range in that.

The Somewhere North of Nashville was probably my favorite and the Western Stars sequel is great. I really enjoyed it the first time he visited that sound and I think this is just about as good.

Twilight Hours

oasisfan35 wrote:

liebzz wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Early thoughts though I still have a long way to go:

Streets of Phildelphia Sessions and Somewhere North of Nashville are both great (for totally different reasons).

I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Faithless sounds like it's playing with some really cool sonic textures. Looking forward to listening to all of that one.

On the flip side, I think it's going to be a long time before I get through all of Inyo (sleepy acoustic Bruce is my absolute least favorite style of his) or Garage Sessions ("Follow That Dream" is a good opener but the rest quickly becomes tiresome and most of the songs sound very unfinished).

We are very much on the same page. There’s a lot of me reading that the ‘83 sessions are the most essential, but I keep thinking that feels both incomplete and often redundant in terms of a conceptual recycle. Streets of Philadelphia sessions are much more interesting, not just because Bruce is branching out a lot more than you would expect, but also because there’s still more range in that.

The Somewhere North of Nashville was probably my favorite and the Western Stars sequel is great. I really enjoyed it the first time he visited that sound and I think this is just about as good.

Twilight Hours

I keep forgetting…

liebzz wrote:

oasisfan35 wrote:

liebzz wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Early thoughts though I still have a long way to go:

Streets of Phildelphia Sessions and Somewhere North of Nashville are both great (for totally different reasons).

I can't believe he recorded an entire Western Stars sequel album and didn't release it. Listening to that one now and enjoying it a lot.

Faithless sounds like it's playing with some really cool sonic textures. Looking forward to listening to all of that one.

On the flip side, I think it's going to be a long time before I get through all of Inyo (sleepy acoustic Bruce is my absolute least favorite style of his) or Garage Sessions ("Follow That Dream" is a good opener but the rest quickly becomes tiresome and most of the songs sound very unfinished).

We are very much on the same page. There’s a lot of me reading that the ‘83 sessions are the most essential, but I keep thinking that feels both incomplete and often redundant in terms of a conceptual recycle. Streets of Philadelphia sessions are much more interesting, not just because Bruce is branching out a lot more than you would expect, but also because there’s still more range in that.

The Somewhere North of Nashville was probably my favorite and the Western Stars sequel is great. I really enjoyed it the first time he visited that sound and I think this is just about as good.

Twilight Hours

I keep forgetting…

It is but not entirely...

Originally recorded 2010-2011 and 2017-2018, during the Western Stars sessions.

The first disc feels more reminiscent of the first Tracks release in covering more ground as opposed to being a cohesive effort but also includes things we have heard before.

At the end of this, Bruce says he finished everything in his vaults during the pandemic, and that there will be a Tracks III.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

At the end of this, Bruce says he finished everything in his vaults during the pandemic, and that there will be a Tracks III.

That was great, totally forgot about it with the teaser months ago; thanks. The end is fantastic:

Interviewer: Thank you so much Bruce.
Springsteen: All right, is that it?
Interviewer: Yeah...
Springsteen: Great.

He doesn't say it but you can just see he's like "I gotta take a piss"

Rolling Stone also has an interview with Tracks III being more akin to the first effort.

I got the single CD Lost And Found compilation and am really enjoying it for the most part -- I've been through it a couple times over the past few days and there are a lot of great songs, my favorites being "Blind Spot," "Something In The Well," "The Lost Charro," "Sunday Love," and "I'm Not Sleeping."

Dipping my toes into the full set now-- all of the songs on the LA Garage Sessions album have some weird effect on the vocals that I find extremely distracting, and I agree with LV that the whole thing sounds very demo-ish (and not in a good way like Nebraska). Bruce has been mining this era for a lot longer than he's been mining the '90's and beyond, so it's not surprising that he's a bit closer to the bottom of the barrel, but on a cursory listen I think I'll end up finding this the least interesting batch of songs in the set.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Imagine if Bruce had released Streets of Philadelphia and Somewhere North of Nashville as his '90s albums instead of Human Touch, Lucky Town, and Tom Joad. Man.

Very different for sure! That said, I think I get why most of this stuff was kept back, commercially speaking -- after Human Touch and Lucky Town knocked his star down the ladder a few rungs, an album based on loops and/or a fairly straight-on country album probably would have been seen as further evidence of creative drift, and lost on overly serious/purist '90's rock audiences. The Greatest Hits album that came out instead seemed like an attempt to get him back into the public eye on good terms by reminding people how great he'd been in his best years (and introducing that stuff to a new generation of listeners), coupled with Tom Joad which seemed like an effort to regain some critical footing by releasing something that was serious, literary, "mature," etc. (not sure any of it worked, as he ultimately went radio silent and then got back with the E Street Band a few years later for a high profile reunion tour, but I think I get the in-the-moment logic). But it's certainly fascinating to hear it now, and no doubt it's high quality stuff -- not castoff-level material by any means.

What is Bruce Springsteen's signature song?

It's either "Born in the USA" or "Born to Run" right?

i would think here in the states it is born in the USA but for all the wrong reasons

I would say “Born to Run” — some years ago I would have said maybe “Born In the USA” but I think it’s faded a bit.

For folks of a certain generation it’s probably “Dancing In the Dark” but over time, legacywise, probably “Born to Run.”

Kevin Davis wrote:I would say “Born to Run” — some years ago I would have said maybe “Born In the USA” but I think it’s faded a bit.

For folks of a certain generation it’s probably “Dancing In the Dark” but over time, legacywise, probably “Born to Run.”

This for sure. He has a lot of songs that could be considered signature - Hungry Heart, Badlands, Thunder Road and Glory Days are all also on that list, even if not all of those are my personal favorites.

liebzz wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:I would say “Born to Run” — some years ago I would have said maybe “Born In the USA” but I think it’s faded a bit.

For folks of a certain generation it’s probably “Dancing In the Dark” but over time, legacywise, probably “Born to Run.”

This for sure. He has a lot of songs that could be considered signature - Hungry Heart, Badlands, Thunder Road and Glory Days are all also on that list, even if not all of those are my personal favorites.

His "Streets of Philadelphia" song was huge over here, I'm pretty sure I hadn't paid any attention before that one.

I'm recording a podcast about it. In the format, we agree on 6 contenders and then we debate the final pick.
My contenders for Bruce are

Born to Run
Thunder Road
Born in the USA
Dancing in the Dark
I'm On Fire
The Rising

And my final pick is Born to Run.

Does that seem right?

Jorge wrote:I'm recording a podcast about it. In the format, we agree on 6 contenders and then we debate the final pick.
My contenders for Bruce are

Born to Run
Thunder Road
Born in the USA
Dancing in the Dark
I'm On Fire
The Rising

And my final pick is Born to Run.

Does that seem right?

i dont think you can be wrong. i would say maybe take im on fire off of there and any of those people would say...oh thats bruce's best song

That's my favorite of his, haha. But the idea here is to nail down some candidates for "signature song" which takes the general public into account. I think "I'm On Fire" has the weakest argument for that out of that group

Jorge wrote:That's my favorite of his, haha. But the idea here is to nail down some candidates for "signature song" which takes the general public into account. I think "I'm On Fire" has the weakest argument for that out of that group

it is surely a good song but i just dont think it is as associated with bruce as the others are