I love this song so much. Sounds like an evolution of what he was doing on Tunnel of Love. The Streets of Philadelphia sessions is my most anticipated off tracks 2.
yo what the heckkkkkk. this Streets of Philadelphia Sessions disc is going to be MAGIC. sounds almost like Everything But The Girl.
Yeah he’s had two good album covers since 1990 and one of those is a greatest hits haha (the other is Wrecking Ball) well assuming we don’t count old shows that get put out as live albums like the No Nukes or Hammersmith ones
The thing is that he often has better photos or visuals, either on the back cover or in the liner notes, that he could have used. Like, this would have been a way cooler cover for Western Stars.
I’m not gonna go to bat for it but it’s unobjectionable in my book. Certainly not as bad as say Letter to You
I know it's an EP and it's not groundbreaking or anything, but the American Beauty cover is aesthetically pleasing.
can’t wait for tracks ii. in the meantime, we rank 1 Tunnel of Love 2 Nebraska 3 Darkness on the Edge of Town 4 The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle 5 Born to Run 6 The River 7 Born in the USA 8 Letter to You 9 The Rising 10 Magic 11 Greetings from Asbury Park 12 Western Stars 13 Lucky Town 14 Working on a Dream 15 The Ghost of Tom Joad 16 Wrecking Ball 17 Devils & Dust 18 Human Touch 19 We Shall Overcome 20 Only the Strong Survive 21 High Hopes
Born to Run Darkness on the Edge of Town Born in the USA The River Tunnel of Love The Rising Nebraska The Wild, The Innocent Magic Letter to You Wrecking Ball Western Stars Greetings Devils & Dust Lucky Town The Ghost of Tom Joad Human Touch We Shall Overcome Only the Strong Survive Working on a Dream High Hopes Some notes: -At some point, Born in the USA really elevated for me. I almost put it at number 2. -For a long time, I just looked at The Rising as "the 9/11 album," and thought it was a good (if flawed) response to that historic moment. The older I get, though, I just hear that album as such a powerful record about coping with tragedy and loss. Last four songs just level me emotionally more than any other part of his catalog. -Lucky Town and Human Touch have definitely grown on me. I listen to my single-disc playlist of those albums pretty regularly. -I almost don't know how to rank the two covers albums alongside everything else. I think both are really fun genre exercises, but are definitely less "essential." -Working on a Dream and High Hopes (the latter of which @phaynes12 understandably forgot about) are the only two times in his catalog where it felt to me like he had nothing to say and no real point of view. The former, to me, is the ultimate "Obama won the presidency, everything's fixed now I guess" album, where all the urgency and anger on his other 2000s albums is almost completely gone. And High Hopes feels more bizarre now that Tracks II is coming. Like, if you had some of these songs we've heard in the archives, then why the hell did "Harry's Place" get surfaced?
i didn’t forget, it was last for me and i copy/pasted from a different post and missed copying the last line haha. bad bad bad record.
"Outlaw Pete" and "The Last Carnival" are the only songs on that album I really like. I feel like "Outlaw Pete" promises something cool/different for Bruce that just does not emerge on the rest of the album, which has always been my biggest problem with it. That album should be more in the vein of Western Stars in terms of vibe, but ideally with more of the gonzo tall tale storytelling he was doing on "Pete." And "The Last Carnival" kind of fits in with that vibe/concept as well, which makes it even weirder that the rest of the album is mostly limp Wall of Sound pop songs with forgettable melodies AND forgettable lyrics. (The exception being "Queen of the Supermarket," which...I don't know how that one even exists.)
1. Darkness on the Edge of Town 2. Born in the USA 3. Born to Run 4. The River 5. Tunnel of Love 6. Magic 7. The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle 8. Nebraska 9. Lucky Town 10. Greetings from Asbury Park 11. The Rising 12. Letter to You 13. The Ghost of Tom Joad 14. Wrecking Ball 15. Western Stars 16. Human Touch 17. Seeger Sessions 18. Devils & Dust 19. Working on a Dream 20. High Hopes 21. Only the Strong Survive I think this is correct for me, at least right now. As I get older the pre-Darkness 70s stuff just doesn’t draw my attention as much but the 80s and 00s stuff just gets more and more interesting. The last minute of Thunder Road still kicks as much ass as it always has but songs like, say, Cover Me that used to be just so-so songs in my book have a lot more to offer now. And I will continue to beat the drum for Magic and Lucky Town until the day I perish