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Springsteen VIII - 2014, tour, album, etc.
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iron yuppie
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Up today is Human Touch, which has me wondering if I haven't accidentally put on a Huey Lewis album.
phanan
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Tougher is my fave as well, but Brilliant Disguise was a great choice as the lead single, signifying a complete change from the previous album.
Tougher should have been a single though, probably in between the title track and One Step Up.
Popmartijn
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It was a single. After One Step Up.
(Though I see now that it wasn't released as a single in the USA. Oh well...)
lazarus
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I totally thought the title track was the lead single, but you're right. What's weird is that Tunnel Of Love was the second single, and released just 2 weeks later. WTF?
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bono_212
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Tunnel of Love is one of my favorite songs that transports me to another place.
I listened to it so much during my sophomore year of college. Every time I hear it, it's like I can instantly see and feel everything that I was doing at that exact time.
I have similar attachments to Ultra Violet and 8th grade. Some songs can just get so intricately tied to one time and place. It's crazy.
I listened to it so much during my sophomore year of college. Every time I hear it, it's like I can instantly see and feel everything that I was doing at that exact time.
I have similar attachments to Ultra Violet and 8th grade. Some songs can just get so intricately tied to one time and place. It's crazy.
LemonMelon
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Tunnel of Love's title track is so dated but so good.
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That's what I liked about the war on drugs' "baby missiles." I mean, if you're going to mimic that sort of 80s synth sound, you better get that tremendously dated part right. Whether that's what the song is supposed to sound like, or sounds like to anyone else, aside...it's a weirdly good kind of dated.
I'm a bad Springsteen fan, though. I haven't heard anything from High Hopes yet.
I'm a bad Springsteen fan, though. I haven't heard anything from High Hopes yet.
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Hell no. Amazing solo, great performance of the song, faithful to those fantastic live performances they did together.
martha
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Second listen, still love the album.
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Got to agree here. This release is worth it for Tom Joad alone. Love it.
iron yuppie
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The original is one of my favorite Bruce songs, so I guess I was going in skeptical. But that solo especially robs the song of its haunting quality. I take it as a song about quiet resolve rather than fiery anger.
martha
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When they did it in Anaheim x years ago, and it was new, it was astounding.
LemonMelon
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The one time I saw Bruce this last tour, he played This Depression and Tom Morello delivered one of his trademark solos for it. Fucking floored me.
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As much as I a) like the original b) am bored with 95% of what Morrello does, there's a c) considering that the rage cover of the song was the first version of it I ever heard, so maybe that's why I'm totally cool with this.
Apparently they played Sun City (the song, not the resort... they ain't gonna play that) last night with Mos Def
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Was curious that they didn't play it the first two nights. Glad it came out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOjkjrfuNmw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Ooh, keep moving West, sir!
And the longest Bruce streak of his career of no shows in Jersey continuuuuuuuues...
Must be the bridge traffic
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AndrewCowley
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Never ending tour!
bono_man2002
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Now you know how Perth felt for 40 years
Ha... fair enough.
It's just odd because 2013 was literally only the second year in his entire musical career where he didn't play a single New Jersey show. The other year was during his post Born in the USA move to California weirs conflict of art days... and now we have dates through May and still nothing for the area.
It's great that he's getting to places he's never been to though... perhaps he feels that he had over saturated the market and if he stays away long enough the next shows he does schedule will be all the better.
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May in California is lovely.
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Are you sure?
Did he play shows in New Jersey or the New York City area in 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2010, and 2011? I mean real shows, not just randomly showing up at a bar to play?
Small club shows and appearances are counted in that streak.
But thanks.
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