Bruce Springsteen Band • Page 8

Human Touch. By a lot.

 

Lucky Town and Human Touch have terrible cover art haha

 

Joad has a great opening four song stretch. I think "Straight Time" is a real hidden gem.

 

That said, my favorite song from that record didn't make it on it. "Brothers Under the Bridge". I think that's my favorite Bruce tune of the '90's.

 

There's some very strong songwriting on Joad, but it's just such a dull record musically. Nebraska is great because it sounds so spontaneous and almost unhinged in spots, and Devils is great because it sounds so lush and fully realized while still being a stripped down record. Joad is so one-note it puts me to sleep.

 

I get that.

I've never heard Devils & Dust. I need to take care of that.

 

I think my favorite 90s Bruce song is "Gave It A Name"

 

Love this one, too.

 

You'll probably love it.

 

lol the title track is more exciting than anything on Tom Joad

 

wow this is great, fuck.

 

I think "Black Cowboys" is one of his best story songs. And "All I'm Thinking About" is, for me, one of the catchiest damn things he's ever written. It gets stuck in my head on a regular basis.

 

Devils gets way too much shit.

 

I actually listen to Devils & Dust a surprising amount for it not being one of my favorite records of his. I probably play it more than any post-2000 Bruce record other than Wrecking Ball.

 

There are a lot of really good, catchy songs on that record that he probably could have turned into E Street songs, but I love how they sound acoustic. That's the best production O'Brien ever did on a Bruce record, too.

 

Leah is fantastic

 

"Worst" is a hard term to use but Human Touch, Joad, and Working on a Dream are probably the records I return to least, by a real long shot.

 

I heard today through the vine that this album has finished recording and he's been sitting on it.

 

I'm calling Joad worst album (though I still need to catch up on a few), but not necessarily a bad one. The title track in particular has always stopd out to me.

 

He's doing a residency not a play

 

Dammit Bruce, release your album!

 

oh man i need to go to this

 

article i read says theater executives/writers have approached him with the intent to adapt BTR into a musical, and that he was very interested in the idea. don't know how i feel about that.

i'm just picturing american idiot but they're singing thunder road and backstreets instead.

 

I've thought about what that might look like before. The issue is that you run out of songs pretty quickly.

 

I think they'd be adapting the book into a musical, not the album, so they could use songs from his whole career.