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Street,” and you’ll see that Bruce was writing songs here in a way that,īeyond a few exceptions, he never would again.

Shape-shifters like “New York City Serenade” or “Incident on 57th Meandering, and far more freewheeling than anything Springsteen did on Springsteen love on the anthemic pillars of Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge, Wildįelt almost alien on first listen. But for a guy like me, a guy who built his Released in September), and the E Street sound has exhibited remarkableĮvolution as well. Yesterday’s write-up, the production here is already a massive step upįrom where it was just eight months prior ( Greetings dropped in January of 1973, while Wild High esteem that I hold the rest of Bruce’s heyday work. Into this one, in the same way that I struggle to hold Greetings in the For a long time, I had some trouble getting The bit that he mentioned to me in one of our first SpringsteenĬonversations, the bit that has stuck with me through every listen I’ve

What Chris didn’t include in that lovely paragraph, though, is Perfection, with especially “Incident on 57th Street” being as muchĬinematic (i.e. Love, fight, joke and live like they have only that one night, and the Just before the darkness appeared on the edge of town. “The joy and dangerĮvery teenager hopes awaits them each Saturday night have never beenīetter captured than in Springsteen’s portraits of small-town Jersey, Street-poet block party of a record,” Chris wrote. “The Boss hit his first stroke of genius on this jazz-infused, Of us in the General Forum put together a list of albums that needed toīe heard, and I’m going to quote that now because I think it perfectlyĬaptures what The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle, as an album,is all about: This particular Springsteen record a few years ago, when he and a bunch Your hand, I know you’re reading) wrote a pretty remarkable blurb about One of my best friends on the forums, the other Chris (cshadows, raise This moment in my life, and I’m gracious to get the opportunity. Reason Bruce came up this week: I wanted to write about this record at But the other is theĪlbum we’re talking about today, and you can rest assured there’s a Hell, that’s the album that was playing as I drove to my

Record that’s been there for a lot of major changes in my life over the Obviously, is Born to Run, my favorite album of all time and a Going to be my most significant companion. This town in my rearview on Sunday afternoon, my buddy Bruce is probably Heaven Built” as the world begins to shift around you. Too, because there’s nothing like screaming along to “The House That Right ways at the perfect time Japandroids’ Celebration Rock, The new Jimmy Eat World, for one, is connecting in all the

Soundtrack his life, there are a lot of albums that are going to be a As a guy who constantly finds new ways to Move out of my apartment, drive away from this town, and close up thisĬhapter of my life for good. I finished classes yesterdayĪfternoon and started packing up my room last night.
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As always, there's a full Rdio stream of the record below, as well as a link to check it out on Spotify. Yesterday we discussed Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, his debut, and today we're taking on The Wild, the Innocent, the E Street Shuffle. Release of Springsteen's first two albums, which both came out in 1973, Talking about Springsteen-if you know anything about either of us you This week we have a double feature on deck for you, and yes we're
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See discussed in this feature, feel free to throw us a few recs. So if you have an album, artist, or genre you would like to The rules are simple and loose: we won’tĬover anything from this millennium and we will avoid all or mostĪP.net favorites-though we might make an exception if something is A collaborative staff feature that will survey a landscape of renownedĬlassics and unheralded gems alike, most of which no one around hereĮver writes a word about.
