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A couple of Bruce's gritter dark songs that wouldn't make my top 100 but I like to play every now on then. Not sure why but I like the stark reality of them. You don't want these in the background at a dinner party.

From The Ghost of Tom Joad - Galveston Bay. Best version I have heard was from a couple of years ago when he was on the Elvis Costello spectacle - think it was on ABC2 in early 2011. It was a two part show. I taped it and burnt it on to a DVD. Here is a list of songs he did with Elvis plus he chatted to him about his music and life between songs. Elvis and band and Bruce played each others songs as well as other peoples. See info on show and songs @

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/TV_2009-09-25_Spectacle_(Bruce_Springsteen)

If you don't know the words of Galveston Bay see
http://www.greasylake.org/songs_record_lyrics.php?ID=240&s_song_title=Galveston Bay



The other one is Matamoros Banks from Devils and Dust with many songs on D&D reminding me of the themes from The Ghost of Tom Joad. Matamoros Banks is a song about the Mexicans who try and get into the USA by crossing the river Rio Grande. Most don't make it, they leave promising to meet up with them again on the USA side of the border.

http://www.greasylake.org/songs_record_lyrics.php?ID=1107&s_song_title=Matamoros Banks

 
Cruyff14 said:
HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY? Bring on the Night bops along, Roulette is okay, Back in Your Arms is a love song, I know This Hard Land but not well, don't know the rest. Not a fan of Seeger Sessions either, too folky.
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I know about Santa Claus is Coming to Town if that helps :D

It seems I'm missing out on a fair bit only owning 18 Tracks, and not Tracks itself. Amazon.com here I come.
 
DrVanNostrand said:
Let's see....
Bring on the Night (I thought this was a Police song haha), Merry Christmas Baby, Happy, Roulette, Back in Your Arms, Protection, Follow That Dream, This Hard Land, Losin' Kind, Restless Nights.

On second read through, some I didn't know appear to be from The Seeger Sessions. Never bothered with it myself.
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The Seeger Sessions is fantastic. It's not slow and folky like a dirge. It's Bruce as if the E-Street Band were a ramshackle carny band. I love it. It's loose and great fun.

As for those songs... here's a few of them.

Follow That Dream (originally sung by Elvis Presley)



Protection (given to Donna Summer)



Happy (on Tracks)



Losin' Kind (Nebraska outtake)



This Hard Land (go for the Tracks version, not the piss-poor (by comparison) recording on his Greatest Hits)



Restless Nights (from Tracks, outtake from The River)

http://youtu.be/ilk6MCW1nAE

Enjoy.
 

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DrVanNostrand said:
I know about Santa Claus is Coming to Town if that helps :D

It seems I'm missing out on a fair bit only owning 18 Tracks, and not Tracks itself. Amazon.com here I come.
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I will help you out ;)
 
UpForGrabs said:
The Seeger Sessions is fantastic. It's not slow and folky like a dirge. It's Bruce as if the E-Street Band were a ramshackle carny band. I love it. It's loose and great fun.

As for those songs... here's a few of them.

Follow That Dream (originally sung by Elvis Presley)

Protection (given to Donna Summer)

Happy (on Tracks)

Losin' Kind (Nebraska outtake)

This Hard Land (go for the Tracks version, not the piss-poor (by comparison) recording on his Greatest Hits)

Restless Nights (from Tracks, outtake from The River)

Enjoy.
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Thanks mate.

Oh right, This Hard Land from Greatest Hits. What was I thinking? I listen to the 5 new songs on Greatest Hits all the time. :d'oh:
 
I know I banged on about it last week, but **** me Lost In The Flood is a ****ing epic track. I know some of you aren't the biggest fan of it, but gosh, it's incredible. You get caught up in this wall of sound out of nowhere, it's ****ing epic.
 
Wow. Protection, Happy, and Restless Nights are ace. How on earth did Happy not make Lucky Town?!

Very glad I've been introduced to these. :thumbsu:
 
Time for a bit of fun Bruce after I posted some dark Bruce.

David Letterman had always wanted to get Bruce on his NBC show Late Night with David Letterman. He was supposed to take over from Johnny Carson, and Carson recommended him to be his successor, but NBC went with Jay Leno. Letterman walked so in June 1995 after almost 11 and a half years he did his last show. Bruce was his last musical guest and the second last segment. Letterman was genuinely grateful that he would play on his last show. He said that in 11.5 years he was the only guest that he wanted to get but never came on.

No E street band or even 'the other band" but he joined in with Paul Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band and did a great fun up beat version of Glory Days.




Then there was Clarence's appearance on Letterman back in 1984 mid way thru the Born in the USA tour. He did a sax dominated version or From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come). Bruce and the E Street Band had only played that twice in 1982, at the Stony Pony before Clarence's appearance on Letterman. It's only been played 23 times.
http://www.greasylake.org/songs_record_live_all.php?s_song_title=From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)&s_keyword=From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)

I had never heard it until the Essentials CD came out and immediately loved it. Watch the interview with Clarence after the music. I sent these clips to Ford Fairlane a couple of years ago. If this doesn't get your toe tapping then you have a disability.




And another Clarence interview from Canadian TV around 1981 or 1982 on the Alan Thicke show. Thicke played Jason Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains between 1985-92.

In the interview Clarence talks about the first time he met Bruce at a local bar that had music acts and as he opened the door the wind blew up and ripped the door from the hinge and the door away. The Boss has talked about this moment many times. He then does a song with his band the Red Bank Rockers. Look at those 1980's thread man




 
Bruce gave From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come) to Dave Edmunds in 1982 as it didn't fit on The River. Edmunds recorded it on his D.E. 7th - album

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.E._7th

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D.E. 7th would reach #60 on the UK album charts and #46 on the Billboard 200, becoming his highest-charting solo album ever in the United States. The album's sales were helped by the inclusion of a previously unreleased Bruce Springsteen song, "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)" (Springsteen's version, an outtake from his 1980 album The River, would remain unreleased until 2003). In his 2005 book The Ties That Bind, author Gary Graff explains:

When (Edmunds) went to see Springsteen perform at Wembley Arena (in 1981), he expected a good show but not necessarily a new song to record. "I was backstage in the hospitality area after the gig," Edmunds remembered, "and one of his crew of road managers tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Bruce wants to meet you.' I went back and had this great talk with him, and he played me this song and said, 'I'd like you to do this, if you like it.' He said he'd send me the tape, which he did."

Edmunds' recording of "From Small Things" reached #28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and later appeared on his 2004 "best of" collection (also entitled From Small Things)......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.E._7th

 
DonDraper said:
Apologies if this has been posted already but this is such a beautiful version of this song.

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That was the only song in my countdown that I wish were higher. I must've listened to it about 100 times in the past year.
 

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Continuing my talk of the Seeger Session album... I can't talk about it and not post this clip:



It's Bruce, the Seeger Sessions Band, the Max Weinberg 7, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon and Thomas Haden Church (!) from Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

It's all about the horns. Bruce needs to rewrite history and to never have not used them.
 
Apropos of nothing - the song for all generations. 15 or 50, no retreat baby no surrender.

 
I love how overtime he changed the intro of No Surrender to a "tinnier" faster opening.

We learnt more from a three minute record than we ever did in school, is one of Bruce's greatest line.
 

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Cruyff14 said:
Is there a time when this is performed it's not absolutely magical?

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My absolute favourite Springsteen song.

Cruyff14, yesterday I just got through reading the last 17 pages of this thread and I just gotta say - well done. You have done a brilliant job with it and I don't know anybody who hasn't been affected/touched by at least one Springsteen song in their life.

A big :thumbsu:, and "keep it rockin' boy."
 
AtomicBlonde said:
My absolute favourite Springsteen song.

Cruyff14, yesterday I just got through reading the last 17 pages of this thread and I just gotta say - well done. You have done a brilliant job with it and I don't know anybody who hasn't been affected/touched by at least one Springsteen song in their life.

A big :thumbsu:, and "keep it rockin' boy."
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Cheers AB, I really appreciate this.

What are your top 10?
 
Cruyff14 said:
Cheers AB, I really appreciate this.

What are your top 10?
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Well, I'm much too fickle for a definitive Top 10 because there is always something that I have yet to hear but right now - here it is:

1. Incident On 57th Street
2. Human Touch
3. Badlands
4. Atlantic City
5. Tougher Than The Rest
6. Youngstown
7. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
8. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
9. The Rising
10. Maria's Bed

HM: Murder Inc., Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Reno, My City Of Ruins, Dancing In The Dark
 
AtomicBlonde said:
Well, I'm much too fickle for a definitive Top 10 because there is always something that I have yet to hear but right now - here it is:

1. Incident On 57th Street
2. Human Touch
3. Badlands
4. Atlantic City
5. Tougher Than The Rest
6. Youngstown
7. It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
8. Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
9. The Rising
10. Maria's Bed

HM: Murder Inc., Rosalita (Come Out Tonight), Reno, My City Of Ruins, Dancing In The Dark
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Wow, no Backstreets, Thunder Road, Jungleland,or Racing.

Maria's Bed is a great track.
 

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