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Gasometer said:
Agree to disagree...like both 'DBD' and 'We are alive'.

On a flip side I totally disliked the whole of 'Working on a dream.'
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I listened to Working on a Dream twice in total.
Once when I first bought it.....thought it was absolutely shite.
Had another go week later and it was still shite.
I'm sure that if I am ever forced to listen to it again, it will still be shite.

Still amazed that I have seen numerous Queen of the Supermarket signs being held up at concerts on Youtube.
 
Like this about GoTJ....esp the bold in the context of the conversation of the last week in Australia,



It was about re-finding that place in myself," said Springsteen, who had long admired John Ford's film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. "That's really how the song 'Tom Joad' came about. I was interested in reconnecting to those things and reconnecting to the part of myself that had written about them." In writing "Joad," he was also thinking about the Republicans' assault on the social safety net: He dedicated one live version to the "Gingrich mob." He originally intended it as a rock song, but released it in a hushed acoustic arrangement. Two years later, Rage Against the Machine radically retooled it into an unlikely modern-rock hit – and Springsteen would go on to do the definitive live version with Rage guitarist Tom Morello.

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That's my recollection paddy18 as well...couldn't get enough of Magic, reckoned I listened to that for 6 months and same with the Rising which for some odd reason resonated with me after Sept 11 for years...I still get sad when I listen to some of those songs.

Anywho you coming up to which concert from Warrnambool?
 

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No 29 Brilliant Disguise. Says so much that I have always thought about this song and album...

I purchased Tunnel of Love when I was 16. I know that for most people, especially bandwagon critics, that album might have been seen as a letdown, because it had to follow the massive eclipse of Born in the U.S.A. But I've always felt it got shafted. It's his divorce album, and I love breakup records – like Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear, or Bill Withers' +Justments, or even Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights. On "Brilliant Disguise," Bruce is so open about saying it's over. Most people in the public eye go to great lengths to be private, even in the celebrity-obsessed society we live in. But he's just like, "We gave it our best shot, and it didn't work." It's unresolved. You don't get that type of honesty and vulnerability from music very often.
Last year, I spent two weeks going to Springsteen shows. I went to, like, four of them – night after night, at the Apollo, at the Garden, in Philly and in Jersey. I watched him literally climbing the walls of the Apollo. He's in his sixties! I couldn't do that, and I'm way younger than him. I started studying his catalog even more after that.
When Bruce came on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, that was one of the most magical moments ever in the show. He's so all-inclusive, and so not full of ego. I mean, I've seen acts walk through here with, like, 12 bodyguards just to go to the bathroom. Meanwhile, Springsteen walks in our dressing room without knocking, takes a guitar and starts telling us about Nebraska. That's just him. When we performed "E Street Shuffle," he just said, "Follow my lead," and brought the audience up to dance with us. We were all out on the floor, including the entire staff – wardrobe, makeup, producers, everything. He just has this circus-ringleader quality about him. It's awesome.
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LULZ

In September 1984, after Ronald Reagan misappropriated "Born in the U.S.A." for his re-election campaign, Springsteen took his revenge onstage. "The president was mentioning my name the other day, and I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album musta been," he said in Pittsburgh one night. "I don't think it was the Nebraska album." Then he ripped into "Johnny 99" – the pitch-dark tale of a laid-off autoworker who kills a man in a moment of drunken despair, then begs a judge for understanding. "Johnny 99" is supposed to inspire empathy, not horror: "You kinda just gotta know what that feels like, somewhere," Springsteen said of the song

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You **** off, now I'm going to spend my whole day reading that :mad: :thumbsu:

Working on a Dream is tripe, I agree. But Kingdom of Days and Life Itself are pure gems, and according to my LastFM, What Love Can Do is my favourite Bruce song ever :confused:. I listen to Outlaw Pete maybe once every 3-4 months and always dig it.

Sooooo pumped now I have a Brisbane ticket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Back-to-back in Auckland is going to be unreal, although I have a feeling kiwis will be even more sedate concert-goers than Aussies.
 

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Gasometer said:
Like I said....almost..I went from 50 down to 1 and some I just thought 'what?' Cruyff14 for a lot of them.
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I have the issue with the countdown. I still am not up yet to the countdown, but how BIT USA is better than Jungleland is beyond me.
 
Cape Town 1

01. FREE NELSON MANDELA (cover)
02. Badlands
03. Death To My Hometown
04. Out In The Street
05. High Hopes
06. Spirit in the Night
07. Hungry Heart
08. The River
09. Heaven's Wall
10. Atlantic City
11. Johnny 99
12. Pay Me My Money Down
13. American Skin (41 Shots)
14. Because the Night
15. Darlington County
16. Shackled and Drawn
17. Waitin' On A Sunny Day
18. The Rising
19. The Ghost of Tom Joad
20. Land of Hope and Dreams

Encore:
21. We Are Alive (w/ Mandela dedication)
22. Born in the U.S.A.
23. Born to Run
24. Dancing in the Dark
25. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
26. Shout
27. Thunder Road (solo acoustic)
 

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Thats a pretty safe and predictable list for first time in SAF. I want to see the video to Free Nelson Mandela..

4 songs from HH. Would expect at least 4 more in oz, at leat Frankie, The Wall, JLFW and Harry's Place as a minimum.
 
His first ever gig in South Africa, he was never going to take any chances with the set. Nice to see the Saffers got a fairly hit-heavy set for their first time around.

I'm stoked to see Death to My Hometown has survived the break. Heaven's Wall would translate well live IMO, can't wait to see it.
 

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