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from the same concert and just a beautiful piece of music.

funny, my 74 y/o mother really enjoys The Boss and his music and often talks about his concert from many years back when she saw him..she's not so well these days but I'll call her from the gig next month so she can listen in.
 

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Cruyff14 said:
People seen this? Amazing.



Bruce also wrote a letter to his fans.

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What a man.
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Billboard confirms that this version of Dream Baby Dream is the one from High Hopes. What a great video - could be used as Bruce's obituary as it sums up so well - Bruce, his fans, his band and the shows he puts on.

The more I listen to Dream baby Dream the more the melody hooks me in. My problem is the repetitive lyrics they just don't go anywhere and don't really do it for me. At least its an easy song to learn the words to. :p

For me, 3 of the songs - High Hopes, Just Life Fire Would and TGOTJ just don't capture the energy and punch of the live shows. I saw JLFW at Brisbane 1, he opened with We Take Care Of Our Own and went straight into JLFW I saw High Hopes 3 times and TGOTJ 5 times. I guess for me these 3 songs are a bit like hearing Rosalita for a couple of years, the live version and then going and listening to The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle. It isn't quite the same. I was spoilt listening to the live version of these 3 songs first and the studio production just doesn't capture them the same way. All are very good listenable songs in their own right. All 3 will get played every night down under. I hope he plays JLFW to American and Euro audiences.

But American Skin is near perfect in the studio. The live recordings have too much noise for such a somber and deep song. They have done a great job on this.

Of the 7 original songs

The Wall is my favourite - I can't put my finger on it, but there are shades of some of the stuff off Devils and Dust for me. I think the line " You and your rock 'n roll band, they were the best thing this shit town ever had," will become a favourite of mine. The trumpet in the last minute or so of the song, to me, is like the playing of the last post for a mate/mentor who fell in Vietnam.

Frankie Fell in Love - a fun, full band, wall of sound type song. I'll put my money on him playing this at every show down under.

Harry's Place - the opening bars, I'm thinking Robbie Williams' Rock DJ. This is back to Bruce's early days lots of lyrics, the poem more than a song when it took you a month to learn the words if you didn't have a cheat sheet. Unlike 40 years ago he drops the F word a fair bit throughout it. I can hear Clarence's sax in there as well as Morello's guitar.

Heaven's Wall - from the "gospel sessions" plenty of Morello's screaming guitar, the girls vocals, the full band filling holes. I reckon this is a good driving song. Not overly complex lyrics but a catchy tune you can tap the steering wheel as you drive along.

Down in the Hole - I can see why this was recorded in the Rising session . Patti's vocals at the start. It covers ground some of those songs in the Rising covered - fire keeps on burning line/image. It sounds like he's on the edge of a disaster. Can't fully get into it.

This is Your Sword - folksy Seeger sessions type song.

Hunter of Invisible Game - a nice gentle melodic ballad.

I've listen to the album straight, ie songs 1-12 and mixed it and have to say that there doesn't appear to be any real narrative to me. Bruce has always said his albums are a narrative and you have to have a start and an end that is linked by the songs in between rather just a list of songs. For me this is more list than narrative.
 
RussellEbertHandball said:
Billboard confirms that this version of Dream Baby Dream is the one from High Hopes. What a great video - could be used as Bruce's obituary as it sums up so well - Bruce, his fans, his band and the shows he puts on.

The more I listen to Dream baby Dream the more the melody hooks me in. My problem is the repetitive lyrics they just don't go anywhere and don't really do it for me. At least its an easy song to learn the words to. :p

For me, 3 of the songs - High Hopes, Just Life Fire Would and TGOTJ just don't capture the energy and punch of the live shows. I saw JLFW at Brisbane 1, he opened with We Take Care Of Our Own and went straight into JLFW I saw High Hopes 3 times and TGOTJ 5 times. I guess for me these 3 songs are a bit like hearing Rosalita for a couple of years, the live version and then going and listening to The Wild The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle. It isn't quite the same. I was spoilt listening to the live version of these 3 songs first and the studio production just doesn't capture them the same way. All are very good listenable songs in their own right. All 3 will get played every night down under. I hope he plays JLFW to American and Euro audiences.

But American Skin is near perfect in the studio. The live recordings have too much noise for such a somber and deep song. They have done a great job on this.

Of the 7 original songs

The Wall is my favourite - I can't put my finger on it, but there are shades of some of the stuff off Devils and Dust for me. I think the line " You and your rock 'n roll band, they were the best thing this shit town ever had," will become a favourite of mine. The trumpet in the last minute or so of the song, to me, is like the playing of the last post for a mate/mentor who fell in Vietnam.

Frankie Fell in Love - a fun, full band, wall of sound type song. I'll put my money on him playing this at every show down under.

Harry's Place - the opening bars, I'm thinking Robbie Williams' Rock DJ. This is back to Bruce's early days lots of lyrics, the poem more than a song when it took you a month to learn the words if you didn't have a cheat sheet. Unlike 40 years ago he drops the F word a fair bit throughout it. I can hear Clarence's sax in there as well as Morello's guitar.

Heaven's Wall - from the "gospel sessions" plenty of Morello's screaming guitar, the girls vocals, the full band filling holes. I reckon this is a good driving song. Not overly complex lyrics but a catchy tune you can tap the steering wheel as you drive along.

Down in the Hole - I can see why this was recorded in the Rising session . Patti's vocals at the start. It covers ground some of those songs in the Rising covered - fire keeps on burning line/image. It sounds like he's on the edge of a disaster. Can't fully get into it.

This is Your Sword - folksy Seeger sessions type song.

Hunter of Invisible Game - a nice gentle melodic ballad.

I've listen to the album straight, ie songs 1-12 and mixed it and have to say that there doesn't appear to be any real narrative to me. Bruce has always said his albums are a narrative and you have to have a start and an end that is linked by the songs in between rather just a list of songs. For me this is more list than narrative.
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Good write up.

For me it is a very good album.

High Hopes - Good way to start the album. Yes we're all familiar with it, but even if we weren't, I'd still think it's a good way to open it. The guitar is fast and sets a frenetic pace (to me), the beat reels me in, and I can't describe properly how much horns add to a song. Definitely works well with this, the brass is top notch.

Harry's Place - It feels dirty and gritty. Has this air of danger about it (kind of like Jungleland's final verse in a way). The bass and bass drum drive the song and Bruce's hoarse vocal add to it all. The lyrics really set the image of a dangerous man. Morello's solo kicks ass.

I cbf writing about the rest in (some) depth. I love Frankie Fell In Love (that and Harry are my favourite). Really happy song that you know the band will just smash, should be longer though. Hunter of Invisible Game is fantastic, as is The Wall. Joad kicks a whole heap of ass, Heaven's Wall I didn't like at first but grew on me. Down in the Hole and This Is Your Sword are fantastic, and I do like DBD.
 
Juddism said:


from the same concert and just a beautiful piece of music.

funny, my 74 y/o mother really enjoys The Boss and his music and often talks about his concert from many years back when she saw him..she's not so well these days but I'll call her from the gig next month so she can listen in.
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Have always preferred this intro.

C's sax screams of loneliness and desperation, it is haunting. Love the piano from 1.41 onwards, blended with the harmonica it creates a beautiful piece of music.
 

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Haven't heard any of the songs yet. I'll wait for the release date and get a copy a few cents cheaper (after currency conversion) at a JB in Auckland :thumbsu: Wore my Bruce shirt out on the town last night, not many fans in Rotorua it seems.
 
DrVanNostrand said:
Haven't heard any of the songs yet. I'll wait for the release date and get a copy a few cents cheaper (after currency conversion) at a JB in Auckland :thumbsu: Wore my Bruce shirt out on the town last night, not many fans in Rotorua it seems.
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You can listen to it in full - but not down load it from the CBS site.

After the leak from Amazon and because they are tying with CBS's The God Wife show - they will play 3 songs during next weeks show in they have made it available to the public. So go to the following link and enjoy.

http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/springsteen

MUSIC FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S NEW ALBUM TO BE HEARD FIRST IN UPCOMING BROADCASTS OF “THE GOOD WIFE” AND ON CBS.COM.

The album “High Hopes” will be available exclusively on CBS.com prior to its release.

Songs from the album will be featured during the Jan. 12 episode of “The Good Wife,” preceded by a special sneak preview after the series’ Jan. 5 episode.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2, 2014 – Bruce Springsteen’s latest full-length album, High Hopes, will be available exclusively on CBS.com for streaming prior to its release date, marking the first time that the Network website has been the host for an album debut. Following the Sunday, Jan. 5 broadcast of THE GOOD WIFE (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), a special preview for the following week’s episode will feature music from the forthcoming album and will prompt viewers to visit CBS.com/Springsteen to listen to the new album in its entirety on the site. The album will be available on CBS.com/Springsteen after the broadcast on Sunday, Jan. 5 through Monday, Jan. 13 at 7:00 PM, ET.

In addition, three songs from the album, the title track “High Hopes,” “Hunter of Invisible Game” and “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” will be featured in THE GOOD WIFE on Sunday, Jan. 12 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT). In the episode, “We, the Juries,” Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Will (Josh Charles) each represent one-half of a couple accused of smuggling drugs, but the courtroom becomes mired in confusion and legal technicalities when they insist on separate juries for each client.
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From the SMH. Greetings from Asbury Park was released 5th January 1973 in USA.

Bruce Springsteen's new album High Hopes released early online

January 7, 2014 - 11:53AM

Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album High Hopes has gone online, 10 days before its general release — and on the 41st anniversary of The Boss' debut outing.

Television network CBS had announced it would host the internet-only pre-release on its website, after the conclusion of this week's episode of The Good Wife on Monday, 2pm(AEDT), in a unique tie-in with the legal drama.

But American fans of the New Jersey-born rock'n'roll voice of blue-collar America were delighted to discover the audio stream went online earlier on Sunday evening — and initial reviews were positive.

"By the time that track draws to its haunting conclusion, you'll likely find that despite the rocky start, the album's familiar themes of hope, redemption and love's ability to trump adversity have worked their magic the way they do on any good Springsteen release," wrote Pete Chianca at Blogness on The Edge of Town, a blog dedicated to the 64-year-old rock legend.

As a CBS spokeswoman told AFP, the online stream is available only in the United States. In Paris, only the title track - released as a video a few weeks ago — could be heard on the website; the other 11 songs came up as "currently not available".
Some lucky fans already have High Hopes — Springsteen's first album since Wrecking Ball in 2012 — on their digital players after it briefly leaked out on Amazon.com as an MP3 download last weekend.

Springsteen's label is Columbia Records, a Sony Music Entertainment subsidiary formerly owned by CBS that was behind the surprise online release of Beyonce's eponymous fifth album on December 13. That record is currently enjoying its third week atop the Billboard 200 album chart, having sold more than 1.3 million copies.

Eagerly anticipated, High Hopes is a mix of cover versions, studio out-takes and re-recordings that Springsteen — who has concerts coming up in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand — has called "music I always felt needed to be released."
Nine of the tracks feature Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, and two include the late Clarence Clemons, the much-loved saxophonist in Springsteen's E Street Band.

And one track, Down in the Hole, has Springsteen's children on backing vocals.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/bruce-springsteens-new-album-high-hopes-released-early-online-20140107-30em7.html#ixzz2plUEw7Yv
 
I said Down in the Hole its clear its a song from the Rising period, but after finding the lyrics thanks to Cruyff's link, you can see its about ground zero and going back to try to find remains of a loved one. The lyrics make sense now - very stark imagery.

Lyrics to Down In The Hole :
Sun comes every morning but it ain't no friend
I get dressed and I go back again
The rain keeps on falling on twisted bones and dirt
I'm buried to my heart here in this hurt
Fire keeps on burning, you're waiting in the cold
Down in the hole

Dark and bloody autumn pierces my heart
The memory of your kiss tears me apart
The sky above is turning, the world below's gone gray
I thought that I could turn and walk away
Fire keeps on burning, and I'm working in the cold
Down in the hole

Radio's crackling with the headlines, wind in the phone lines
The sun upon your shoulder, empty city skylines
The day rips apart, a dark and bloody arrow pierced my heart

I got nothing but heart and sky and sunshine, the things you left behind
I wake to find my city's gone to black
The days just keep on falling, your voice it keeps on calling
I'm gonna dig right here until I get you back
Fires keep on burning, I'm here with you in the cold
Down in the hole

Down in the hole
 
What can't the Boss do. Even plays drums on The Wall.
http://backstreets.com/news.html

INSIDE HIGH HOPES
Bruce's illuminating liner notes for High Hopes were made available when the album was announced; we also learned producer credits at that time, as well as which tracks feature Tom Morello. With 11 days to go until the official release, here are 11 additional things we've gleaned from a look inside.

• Clarence Clemons appears on two songs, playing sax on "Harry's Place" and "Down in the Hole." Danny Federici played organ on two songs as well, "Down in the Hole" and "The Wall."

• Sam Bardfeld, from the Sessions Band, plays violin on as many songs as Soozie Tyrell does here, appearing on "Heaven's Wall," "Frankie Fell in Love," and "This Is Your Sword." Their Sessions Bandmate and E Street touring organist Charlie Giordano is on four of the 12 songs.

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• Springsteen himself plays guitar, percussion, bass, percussion loop, organ, synths, piano, banjo, mandolin, vibraphone, and even drums (on "The Wall").

• And for all that, the core E Street Band is well represented: Roy Bittan is on nine of the 12 tracks, Nils Lofgren on six, Steve Van Zandt on four, Garry Tallent on seven, and Max Weinberg on ten of 12 (session drummer Josh Freese [Devo, Paul Westerberg/The Replacements] plays on "This is Your Sword").

• Patti Scialfa, Soozie Tyrell and members of the "E Street Choir" (Everett Bradley, Curtis King, Cindy Mizelle, Michelle Moore) handle a good deal of background vocals. The more suprising backing singers are the Springsteen kids, on "Down in the Hole." Bruce thanks "(at the time, middle school guest vocalists) Evan, Jess and Sam."

• The official credit for "The Wall" reads "By Bruce Springsteen; Idea and Title: Joe Grushecky." [What Joe himself did with his idea and title wound up on his 2002Fingerprints album, as "On the Wall."]

• Thanking the Wrecking Ball tour's musicians and crew, Bruce calls it "one of our most inspiring tours."
- January 3, 2014

http://backstreets.com/news.html
 
http://kslx.com/mark-mayfield/blog/back-with-jimmy

Bruce Springsteen will return to Late Night With Jimmy Fallon January 14th.

Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform on the talk show the same day the new album High Hopes is released. It's the third time Springsteen has appeared on Fallon's show.

In 2010 he promoted The Promise box set by performing "Whip Your Hair" (dressed like he did in the '70s) with Fallon doing his Neil Young impression as well as doing two songs with The Roots.

In 2012 Springsteen promoted Wrecking Ball by appearing on two episodes during what was billed "Bruce Springsteen Week." The other three shows featured Kenny Chesney, John Legend and Elvis Costello performing Springsteen covers.
http://kslx.com/mark-mayfield/blog/back-with-jimmy
 

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