Bruce Springsteen Band • Page 78

Weighing up whether to drop the cash on the vinyl box set for this thing.

 

He absolutely could have charted very highly on 90s country radio with this version of "Janey Don't You Lose Heart" if he wanted to hah. Not hard to imagine it coming on between "Strawberry Wine" and [[insert any of a couple dozen Alan Jackson songs here]]

 

His new album is my album of the year, just start there.

 

Did I splurge on this? Of course I did.

 

Anything that makes a grown man that visibly elated is worth it imo haha

 

i was debating it haha. still might.

 

I am so out of shelf space right now otherwise I’d be tempted

 

get a new shelf

 

I do not know where I’m going to put it, haha.

 

Faithless is better than I expected albeit short - only 6 real songs - enjoyed the gospel touches on a few songs. The piano ballad was very good.

inyo - is just not the Bruce I like. Can’t see going back to this much

 

Inyo is cool; I like hearing Bruce over a mariachi band. Reminds me of this underrated country singer I love named Sam Outlaw, who has a few albums in that vein.

 

There’s so MUCH here

 

In addition to Inyo, Twilight Hours is also VERY MUCH not for this guy

 

Anyone have separate digital artwork for each individual album? I know they did that for those who bought the physical product….curious if it exists digitally

 

Not the highest quality but I grabbed them from here: Tracks II: The Lost Albums - Brucebase Wiki

 

What’s everyone’s favorite version of Fugitive’s Dream/Unsatisfied Heart? I think I prefer the one that’s track 7 on the album, which I believe was the middle of the three versions in terms of chronology. “Ballad” version was first, then that one, then Unsatisfied Heart.

Blows my mind he’d write a song that good, rework it twice, and still end up setting it aside apart from recycling the lyrics from the middle version for Downbound Train.

 

I'm almost through Volume 1 and it blows my mind he didn't release these songs for one reason or another!

 

was the first disk here actually intended to be released as an album between Nebraska and Born in the USA...?

I already knew I loved a bunch of these Disc 1 songs, but I am blown away by the Streets of Philadelphia sessions / Disc 2 as an album. I really can't imagine sitting on this album in the 90's and not releasing it.

I haven't even gotten to Inyo or Twilight Hours yet

 

listened to Twilight Hours on my drive home from work, and The Boss as a crooner was not something that I realized was missing from my life

I can completely see that this will not be for a lot of his fans, but I enjoy the absolute hell out of this

 

I really like Twilight Hours. Feel like that's going to be a go-to later in the season when the days start getting shorter/colder.

 

From what I’ve gathered reading Deliver Me From Nowhere the 83 sessions were a kind of palette cleanser for him after Nebraska, not intended as an album, just him continuing to write as they figured out what would ultimately be on born in the USA, which had already been like half recorded before Nebraska came out. I’d love to hear the e street band on a lot of these 83 sessions songs though, it would have been an incredible bridge between those two albums.

 

it is strange to me that you would want to release something like High Hopes when you are sitting on multiple full albums of better, more interesting material

 

lol yeah but this is the same guy who left loose ends and roulette off the river in favor of songs like crush on you and two hearts are better than one so idk what goes on in his mind sometimes

 

I'm kind of ambivalent on broooce but I got curious to hear this (because I love old-school ballads, Sinatra, the Bacharach/Costello album etc.) and the "Streets of Philadelphia" disc (because I always liked that song and its atypical-for-him sound) and both are very listenable for me.

 

these two are the standouts for me so far, but I haven't had a chance to dive into Inyo yet