| Bruce Springsteen – Night Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Candy's Room Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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One can say this song is about a stripper, a prostitute or whatever, it doesn't really matter. It's a very emotional, physical song that tugs at different feelings to most of the album and Springsteen's catalogue. Whereas much of Darkness on the Edge of Town is about difficulty, this is about the delusions of lust. The guitar solo is, along with the one in Incident on 57th Street, the best and most vital in his enormous collection, while the buildup is absolutely stunning. Compositionally this is a masterpiece. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – The Fuse Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is Springsteen's most sexually explicit song on any of his albums, lyrically and musically. The live performance is astonishing -- it is a viciously difficult piece for drums especially (the album version uses a drum machine) and showcases Max Weinberg as one of the great rock drummers. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is far superior performed live. The version on the 75-85 box set is brilliant and much easier on the ears than the WIESS version, especially with the introduction to the E Street Band in the middle. That said, the album version is pretty great! |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Further On (Up the Road) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I first heard this on the Seeger Sessions Band tour (at Birmingham). It was a stunning song then, with all the band coming together to sing in in a slow, melancholy style. I swear I listened to it with my mouth wide open. Then I heard the Rising version. I wasn't expecting it to be better. It was. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A. Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is patriotic in a completely nonobvious way. People imagine patriotism to be Reagan/Bush-style unswerving allegiance to the leaders -- "with us or against us". Springsteen's patriotism is to the USA, not to its leaders. Indeed, on the Born in the USA tour in 1985, he introduced his cover of Edwin Starr's "War" with a monologue that ended "Because in 1985, blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed." Springsteen's patriotism is one committed to looking at the USA in truth. The chorus lines are asking "what's happened to the USA, the USA of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?" Now that's real patriotism. |
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