Bruce Springsteen

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1978^

Still can be read

 

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Priceless those mags now

I got them for like $2 20 years ago and some market

 

[Gough]

Priceless those mags now

I got them for like $2 20 years ago and some market

I had a good collection of them from the early 70s to mid 90s and my mother got rid of them when I was overseas. I wouldn't have minded so much but she binned them rather than selling them and pocketing some cash for herself.

 

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I had a good collection of them from the early 70s to mid 90s and my mother got rid of them when I was overseas. I wouldn't have minded so much but she binned them rather than selling them and pocketing some cash for herself.

Ikr

Check out eBay and the ridiculous prices being asked for 2000’s copies

I kept a lot of the notable ones…I just need to find them in the box…somewhere

 

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Ikr

Check out eBay and the ridiculous prices being asked for 2000’s copies

I kept a lot of the notable ones…I just need to find them in the box…somewhere

Two boxes of 80s footy and cricket cards went the same way.

 

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Two boxes of 80s footy and cricket cards went the same way.

Well if its any consolation it happens elsewhere; I managed to scavenge a few things here and there but the things I want are gone. I had a complete set of cards that joined up to make a large cartoon. "Where are they?" "dunno"

 

[Cruyff14]

I had fun doing a top 20 since the year 2000.

1. Lonesome Day (2002)
2. Life Itself (2009)
3. Devils Arcade (2007)
4. The Fuse (2002)
5. The Wayfarer (2019)
6. The Rising (2002)
7. Drive Fast (The Stuntman) (2019)
8. The Missing (2002)
9. Sundown (2019)
10. Nothing Man (2002)
11. Last to Die (2007)
12. Magic (2007)
13. Leah (2005)
14. This Depression (2012)
15. One Minute You're Here (2020)
16. Reno (2005)
17. Hello Sunshine (2019)
18. All the Way Home (2005)
19. Radio Nowhere (2007)
20. Good Eye (2009)

Wow, lots of surprises here.

Shocked that Long Walk Home or anything from LTY didn't make the list.

The Fuse is a great track, big fan of it. Nothing Man is magnificent.

 

[revo333]

Wow, lots of surprises here.

Shocked that Long Walk Home or anything from LTY didn't make the list.

The Fuse is a great track, big fan of it. Nothing Man is magnificent.

Letter to You? , 'One Minute Your're Here' is 15.

'Rainmaker' was in contention but stiff to miss out.

Always liked 'The Fuse', it's a great summer track for me.

Pretty obvious which 3 albums I have listened to the most since 2000

 

[Jmac3542]

If Long Walk Home is not in his top 10-15 tunes of all time, well then I’m just a bad judge.

Modern day classic.

 

[revo333]

If Long Walk Home is not in his top 10-15 tunes of all time, well then I’m just a bad judge.

Modern day classic.

Nothing wrong with it, just that he has 50 other songs that sound like it so maybe my ears just prefer the more obscure Springsteen stuff more.

 

[Ram-Man]

If Long Walk Home is not in his top 10-15 tunes of all time, well then I’m just a bad judge.

Modern day classic.

Love that song.

I find I listen to the album Magic a lot ... 12 songs .. 47 minutes .. when I get to the end of Terry's song, which .. it's fer sure the only one , I find myself immediately drawn to go back to the start and listen to Radio Nowhere and it becomes a Bruce cycle I get trapped in.

 

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Love that song.

I find I listen to the album Magic a lot ... 12 songs .. 47 minutes .. when I get to the end of Terry's song, which .. it's fer sure the only one , I find myself immediately drawn to go back to the start and listen to Radio Nowhere and it becomes a Bruce cycle I get trapped in.

There was a guy who carried a play Terrys Song poster to every Melbourne concert a decade back

Never played

 

[Ram-Man]

There was a guy who carried a play Terrys Song poster to every Melbourne concert a decade back

Never played

Just did some research and found this. He gets a bit emotional at the end... as did I.





Can't believe people talking during it ... just don't get it.

 

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Just did some research and found this. He gets a bit emotional at the end... as did I.





Can't believe people talking during it ... just don't get it.

Yeh it’s pathetic

But yeh I played Magic and Letter to You to death when they came out

Two of my faves

 

[Cruyff14]

Letter to You? , 'One Minute Your're Here' is 15.

'Rainmaker' was in contention but stiff to miss out.

Always liked 'The Fuse', it's a great summer track for me.

Pretty obvious which 3 albums I have listened to the most since 2000

Was more shocked at Lonesome Day being number 1 to be honest.

Nothing wrong with it, just that he has 50 other songs that sound like it so maybe my ears just prefer the more obscure Springsteen stuff more.

This is whack haha.

I love the obscure stuff too, but LWH is probably in the top 2-3 songs he has written since 2000.

 

[revo333]

Was more shocked at Lonesome Day being number 1 to be honest.

This is whack haha.

I love the obscure stuff too, but LWH is probably in the top 2-3 songs he has written since 2000.

Imagine the smile on my face when he opened with Lonesome Day at the only Springsteen concert I've been to

Yes, I listened to it again and it's a nice track but nothing there to make me want to listen to it repeatedly like the songs in my top 20 did.

 

[Cruyff14]

Imagine the smile on my face when he opened with Lonesome Day at the only Springsteen concert I've been to

Yes, I listened to it again and it's a nice track but nothing there to make me want to listen to it repeatedly like the songs in my top 20 did.

Oh, I thought you had seen more than one show!

The lyrics are from the very top shelf, also much better live than the studio cut.

 

[Ram-Man]

Imagine the smile on my face when he opened with Lonesome Day at the only Springsteen concert I've been to

Yes, I listened to it again and it's a nice track but nothing there to make me want to listen to it repeatedly like the songs in my top 20 did.

That's the beauty of music - each to their own - certain songs appeal to people in different ways.

In my top twenty after 2000 I think I would only include songs from The Rising, Magic, Wrecking Ball & Letter to You. I do like High Hopes but haven't got right into the other albums such as Western Stars & Working on a Dream as much for some reason - all listenable but I keep coming back to the others.

Well done for giving it a crack revo ... good effort.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

6) Incident on 57th Street (The Wild, The Innocent And The E-Street Shuffle)

Upstairs a band was playing and the singer was singing something about going home

It is simply astonishing that a song with a bar set so high was written so early not just in his career, but in his life. It makes you sit there and scratch your head how someone so young could pen an absolute masterpiece (arguably at least his third by this point in his career). The track is outstanding with its cinematic story telling. I feel as if I am there, witnessing right before my very eyes, the story told in this song.

Incident On 57th Street starts on a high and it never drops from there. The piano is so delicate and draws you in, using the organ in support, while the guitar blows you away with its quick uppercut of power.

"Spanish Johnny drove in from the underworld last night."

What an opening line; up there with the very best in his songbook. We meet Spanish Johnny – and for me, the greatest named Springsteen character in all of his songs. Johnny is a street fighter, and he loves it. He’s offered his feelings to street workers, but they’re not interested. The pimps accusing of being both a cheater and liar. But he soon meets Puerto Rican Jane – another excellently named character – who he seems to be falling for. He wants to take her away from this dark side of town, the underworld.

I absolutely love beginning of the second verse, the phrasing, delivery and structure is perfect and I cannot put in words enough how much I love it.

Well, like a cool Romeo he made his moves, oh, she looked so fine
Like a late Juliet, she knew she'd never be true but then, she really didn't mind
Upstairs a band was playin' and the singer was singin' something about going home

He plays Romeo, to her Juliet. But as much as he loves this girl, the allure of street fighting is too hard to resist.

It’s quite sad that Johnny has found Jane, but she just can’t give him enough fulfilment. The verse where Jane wakes up to see Johnny putting his clothes in is incredibly powerful and vivid. It’s like a movie, and you’re witnessing all this, and you’re shouting at your television in vain at Johnny to not do what he’s going to do – leave Jane.

The breakdown – also in the aforementioned section – with the bass is wonderful. It is like it’s the ticking of the clock, you’re just watching time pass and in this instance, the bass is the time as each note ticks on in the story. It’s also worth paying attention to the organ too throughout the track. It’s magnificent.

The instrumental after the story has been wrapped up is phenomenal. The solo is freakin’ outstanding. It goes for about two and half minutes and I never want it to stop when it does. Not the song needed any more elevation, but this lifts it even higher than humanly possible. You can hear the wails of Jane, and notes tinged with regret of Johnny’s actions. It rises and rises before plateauing and eventually wavering out, to leave the piano to confirm our worst fears. Johnny’s gone and he ain’t coming back.

A bisexual gigolo
A prostitute
Romeo and Juliet
Westside Story
Drugs / heroin addict
Gangs / fights / beatings
Cops
A Car
Unrequited love
Race - let them black boys in to light the soul flame - Hispanics
Desperation and Hope
Unresolved and open ended finish - what could come next for our lovers?

All them golden-heeled fairies in a real bitch fight - could you write a line like that today and get away with no comment?

It covers a lot of ground, that can be left open to interpretation, or just ignored as you appreciate the music. But lots of observations of what is happening on the streets of NY City at the time.

It wasn't until I saw Bruce do this at Hanging Rock in 2013, that I started to really appreciate the song. The record version is good but not as great and as powerful as the live full on version. If I didn't see that live version I might not have found out how good a song it really is. Only performing it once between 1978 and 1999 and that was in 1980, didn't help me find the song.

"It is simply astonishing that a song with a bar set so high was written so early not just in his career, but in his life".... but if the bar wasn't so high, there would be no Born to Run, no Jungleland, no Backstreets, no Racing in the Streets etc.

 

[Cruyff14]

That's the beauty of music - each to their own - certain songs appeal to people in different ways.

In my top twenty after 2000 I think I would only include songs from The Rising, Magic, Wrecking Ball & Letter to You. I do like High Hopes but haven't got right into the other albums such as Western Stars & Working on a Dream as much for some reason - all listenable but I keep coming back to the others.

Well done for giving it a crack revo ... good effort.

What's your top 20 in general?

Hope you enjoyed mine if you had the chance to read it!

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

TheAussiemusicman who goes to big concerts and small gigs around Oz and films stuff and up loads them on to his You Tube channel, was there that night at Hanging Rock 31st March 2013 that I mentioned above, that I attended.

He has filmed Bruce from Perth to Brisbane in 2013, 2014 and 2017 tours, even went to the NZ leg in 2017 and went to a few concerts in USA and filmed several songs in 2023. He has about 2,500 music videos all up and has covered a lot more than just Bruce.

He got the whole Incident on 57th Street down in one video, along with a couple of others that night.

I have had it on my phone for about 8 years and if I go for a long run or walk, and what ever album or podcast I'm listening to has come to an end, and I have 10-15 minutes to go, I play this version of Incident.

I've listened to lots of different versions, from the mid 70's slower version, more up beat 1978 and 1980 version, Bruce just at piano version in Barcelona, and in other upbeat versions this century, but none are better than this one from Hanging Rock, just the equal to it, in many cases.

I also have his New York City Serenade video from Brisbane 2014 with the 7 piece string set on my phone and that gets a decent run as well, on those long runs or walks over the years.

 

[Ram-Man]

What's your top 20 in general?

Hope you enjoyed mine if you had the chance to read it!

No I haven't seen yours as I'm just a newbie to the thread. I had a brief scroll back and couldn't find. Have you got a link?

I'll have a think about my list and see what I come up with ...