Springsteen

[MFS62]

Lots of stuff about him in this new book about the Stone Pony.
https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/0 ... utType=amp

Have you seen it?
Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He wrote the foreword and you figure. I've only been out front of the Stone Pony, never inside. Looks like its mainly for those who were a part of that scene in the 70s or Springsteen historians.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

36: Today's shot of Bruce Juice is "Last to Die" from MAGIC. Not familiar with this one but the first thing I noticed was how the gee-tar sounds like REM's "Texarkana."
--"a frantic, agitated, full-on rock performance," according to our reviewer, who rates this 75/340

To me this sounds a lot like late-period Bruce

[whippoorwill]

I like the backing arrangement

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

37: Interesting Bruce song today, "Trouble in Paradise" from TRACKS. What Bruce might sound like in a late 70s yacht-rock band -- Hollywood sessionmen Jeff Pocaro & Randy Jackson accompany him. Roy Bittan wrote the music, and Bruce the lyrics. Bruce makes it a Bruce song, just a weird-ass one. Ranked 319/340

[Edgy MD]

Bruce's oft-overlooked tenure in Ambrosia finally gets its day in the sun.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

38. Today the Big Wheel hits at 219 and "I'll Work for Your Love" from MAGIC. This is another pop-flavored cut from that album loaded with religious imagery and a verse that sounds like a Dylan song I can't place. The reviewer sees this an an anthem to the live fans, or a reminder from Bruce that other rock acts are lazy-ass mthrfckrs.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

39. Today's Rando Springsong is "Book of Dreams" from LUCKY TOWN in which the Magic Rat overcomes heartbreak and gets married. Ranked 221/340

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

40. Here's a song you probably haven't heard before but could have been a hit for someone: the bouncy "Lion's Den," from TRACKS, ranked 131/340 on our tour of the Bruce catalog.



Only 300 more to go!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

41. Head into your weekend with another rollicking Springsteen obscurity, "Santa Ana" from TRACKS. Sounds to me an awful lot like something off WILD & INNOCENT, what with him romancing some Senorita (evidently dating back that far).

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

42. I had skin like leather and the diamond-hard look of a cobra
I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova

Ka-Pow! The Magic Wheel lands on #80 and we get Brash Young Bruce and David Sancious on "It's Hard to Be A Saint in the City" from GREETINGS.

[Frayed Knot]

I lived with a Springsteen freak Freshman year who had used: it's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy out on the street
as his HS yearbook quote.

[Edgy MD]

Freak.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

43. Today we get rock-n-soul number "So Young and in Love" from TRACKS which as you might imagine has become a frequent show-opener. This dates to 1974 and has a big WILD & INNOCENT feel. Ranked 103/340

Bruce!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

44. Bruce's best "power ballad" if you will, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" 17/340

[batmagadanleadoff]

44. Bruce's best "power ballad" if you will, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" 17/340

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[Edgy MD]

Keith singing a few bars of "I'm a Rocker" in the seventh inning tonight.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I don't know about those snaps and studs on Springsteen's black leather. He is practically Amish when it comes to extra sartorial flair, especially before the bolo tie era.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

45. Today we get sexy Bruce singin' 'bout makin' whoopie with "Burnin' Train" from his most recent release, LETTER TO YOU (2020). This song dates to the early 1990s and was fixed up for the record. Sounds like a train, dunnit? Ranked 181/340

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

46. Today the wheel lands on #57 and "The Ties That Bind," the lead track and one of my personal faves from THE RIVER, about one of those chicks who's afraid to commit. Has Bruce ever been janglier?

[Edgy MD]

Definitely Bruce's best Tom Petty song.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

47. Bruce with a tribute to the all-time hit king, "Outlaw Pete," from WORKING ON A DREAM Reviewer ranks it 305/340, denouncing its "pedestrian music" and "unconvincing story." There's also a melody that sounds like Kiss' "I was Made for Lovin' You." If that's not all enough it's also eight minutes long.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

48. Deadline reports that Odessa Young has joined the cast of DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE cast as Bruce's paramour.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/movies/news/o ... r-BB1oBchC

The big wheel in the meantime landed on #207 and the unusual "57 Channels (and Nothin' On)" from HUMAN TOUCH. Trancy feel, big bass, sound effects but a kinda funny song at the same time. 57 channels ain't nothin' today.

I didn't know there was an official video.

[Frayed Knot]

We haven't had our daily glass of Bruce juice yet!!!

[Edgy MD]

"57 Channels" had a big launch and a disappointing landing (peaking at #68) as a single when it was released in 1992, but found new life that summer as a remix, incorporating sounds of street unrest shortly after the Rodney King riots had peaked.

Kinda proved to be less-than-inspiring source material when I drew Eric Valent in the Parody Challenge.