Here’s the second release from Bruce Springsteen’s new record with the E Street Band. If you like the E Street Band live experience, you’ll love it. If you don’t you’ve probably already made up your mind!
I generally prefer my Bruce to be a little more subtle than this but there’s no doubt it’ll sound fantastic in arenas and stadiums. That’s if we ever get to hear music in arenas and stadiums again.
>>>> Tis my new role
That hasn’t gone unnoticed.
and like the video for the last release – they make old folks look cool.
Agree with you comments Mr. Bubbles – E Street band to the max. Sounds like a couple of other songs – Radio Nowhere? – but it will rock the stadiums
When it started, I thought “Oh no, he’s gone back to the nuts-in-a–vice straining vocals”, but the voice progressed from that and I really liked how it builds up to the anthemic chorus. Also think it’s reminiscent of Radio Nowhere, which is no bad thing.
Nice song. Very Tom Petty in construction.
I kept hearing this while listening
Fuck me. This is great. (And of COURSE it sounds like a dozen* other songs – there’s only four* chords. If it was like nothing else it would be Gas Music from Jupiter and you’d hate it).
*Fact-check please Dai!
Can’t help you. I like it a lot though, am more positive about the new album (and the first single has grown on me a bit).
I think he’s on a roll. Western Stars was peak Bruce, and this sounds like peak E Street Band (or at least within a snowball’s throw of it). I just wish he’d called the song “I’m Alive”.
Gas music from Jupiter, ha! That’d be Wolfgang Voight, which certainly is a good deal less catchy and with less of a beat. (Aka dreadful rubbish)
I like the flappyness of the floor Tom at the beginning. Music for septuagenarian’s has its place too.
I love it – it’s flatpack Springsteen, but none the worse for it. It’s like they tip all the parts out on the floor and assembled it slightly different each time – the Max bit, the nostalgia/melancholy, the unexpected melody rise, the earworm chorus, mention of bands and guitars, the bit where everything stop and everyone shouts, the 1,2,3,4, the Roy bit, the sax, the singalong, the bit where it goes on just a little bit too long.
Flatpack Springsteen. Perfect description.
I think he’s really captured on record the experience of seeing Springsteen and the E Street Band live in recent years. Everything you’ve said there is what you get when you see them live now: the Max bit, the nostalgia/melancholy, the bit where everything stop and everyone shouts, the 1,2,3,4, the Roy bit, the sax and the singalong,
And yeah, even the bit where it goes on just a little bit too long.
It’s great. Ot it’s terrible. I’m too far gone with Bruce now to know the difference.
It’s a great formula and as you say, works even better live
Think the music’s great, very Magic sounding, but if the first words of my song were “I hear the sound of your guitar / coming in from the mystic far” I probably would have decided against making a lyric video.
oh boy that is clunky – but at least it’s not ‘On the radio in my brother’s car’
The production isn’t making my fillings hurt, either.
Or woke up this morning. Mind you he made a whole album of songs about waking up in the morning.
Thing the whole song could do without the lyrics being documented. Pap.
Works for me. Provided a much needed lift today. Music with echoes of better times.
I reckon Bruce wrote that in about twenty minutes. It’s got every single Springsteen cliché in there. Magnificent!
Well quite possibly he did, album took 4 days in total I believe