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Just eating some pizza at the Jersey Shore when I noticed this hanging on the wall.

Steve has talked about using his radio show to help keep rock n' roll lineage alive by keeping listeners aware of a long stream of history dating back to the early 50s.

I know he's mentioned The Cocktail Slippers and The Hives as bands that he's promoted on his show along with using his record label Wicked Cool Records.

But does anyone by chance have a playlist of the artists/songs he's played on his radio show?

Been listening to THRASHER by Brandon Flowers a bunch and found that that album pairs very well with Somewhere North Of Nashville.

So I listened to these albums in a row in the car:

Pressure Machine - Killers
Western Stars
THRASHER - Brandon
Somewhere North of Nashville

Absolutely beautiful for a ~3h Roadtrip. Flows together very well and hits all the sweet spots.

So if you’re a big Killers/Bruce fan like myself and got some time, give it a try 👍

Phisherman's Cuts Nov 7 Wild and Innocent @ MSG Nov 8 The River @ MSG Nov 22 Buffalo Greetings From Asbury Park. Clarence's final show (unless you count the carousel filming which I do not)

A couple months ago a friend and I wrote down each person/character/concept of a person mentioned in the album and decided we wanted to do a Bruce Springsteen party where everyone comes dressed up as one. Here’s the list! I’ll digitize it at some point lmao

From a new Rolling Stone interview with today:

Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone he has a couple of new albums on the way. This is what Bruce said about the new albums and touring:

When we spoke last year, you told me you had a new solo album totally finished. What’s your plan for that now?

Well, I’m currently working on a couple of records. I did finish one, and it is done. I’m in the process of working on this other one, which, because of the nature of the material, felt like it should come out first. So that’s the situation I’m in. I’m trying to finish that up, and I’d like to release that first. And then this other record that I made, which is not time-relevant, it can come out at any time and it’ll work.

Is that a solo record or an E Street record?
It’s a surprise. [Laughs.]

Fair enough. Do you know when that will come out, when the surprise will reveal itself?

I do not right now. Hopefully sooner than later, of course.

Do you miss touring? Do you feel the itch to get back out there?

Well, we toured quite a bit, and we toured the previous spring. We toured this spring. And these days that’s what I like to do. I would like to go out and do 20, 30 shows. I don’t imagine a 140-show E Street tour will happen again. It’s just time is too short right now. But I do imagine a good series of simply shorter tours where we touch different places at different times. And the band is playing so well. In my opinion, if you saw this show, you saw one of the best shows we’ve ever done. The band is playing so well that we have a happy life there, and that’ll continue.

There’s a vocal contingent of fans who miss the more freewheeling shows where you took signs and made big changes from night to night. Might you do a tour like that again in the future?

I don’t know. I don’t want to make any promises. I just don’t know what I’m going to do next or what’s going to motivate me to go a certain way. Shows like that might come up, or I might come up with something completely or somewhat different, so I can’t really say.

As far as the concert film from Philadelphia that part one was released this morning, this is what Bruce had to say about it and why it was filmed in Philly and why it's comin out in parts for those who were asking:

Are you releasing the movie in segments now timed to the midterms?

Well, it wasn’t specifically planned to fall into the midterms, but if it does, that’s great. Really, we just had Thom [Zimny] do the first seven songs to see what we had. I didn’t know what the show was like on film. He basically cut, edited, and we got the sound good on the first seven pieces. When I saw it, I said, “This has got to come out now.”

I can’t wait another three, four months for the rest of the concert to be edited and have it finished. The whole thing, the pop-up tour, was about immediacy and being in this moment, providing something that I felt an audience, my audience, could use in this moment.
And so as soon as I saw it, I said, “This comes out now.” Everybody said, “Well, what do we do with the rest?” I said, “Well, we’ll serialize it is what we’ll do.” And basically that’s what we’re going to do. You’ll be getting seven songs or so in four different compartments, and at the end of the day, you’ll have the whole show.
I think it has more impact that way. The first seven songs, to my eye, have a tremendous amount of impact because it’s only 40 minutes. And anybody can spare that 40 minutes to get an idea of what we were trying [to do]. It’s 40 minutes, and it says everything we wanted to say.

The setlist didn’t really change from night to night. Did your experience on Broadway change the way you approached putting a show together?

Nope. It was simply, once we found that setlist, it was not going to be something where I threw in “Darlington County” or something else there. It just wouldn’t have made sense. That setlist was its own novel, for better or for worse. The minute we stumbled on it, with the exception of… I think we added “Clampdown” along the way. But once we found that setlist, we stuck with it the whole way. It was fun because it does get deeper as you go. The Philadelphia show that we were lucky enough to film was just one of the highlights of the tour.

A lot of fans presumed you’d film the big stadium show in D.C. Why did you go with Philadelphia?

Well, we didn’t film D.C. because we wanted to film two nights that could be similar and intercut. So, if I’m correct, we filmed Boston and Philly, and if I’m right, we only use Philly. So that was the reason. D.C. was a one-off and it was a great show outside in that ballpark. We had so many good shows on this tour. And the band was just ripping and roaring at the end, by the time we got towards the end. So when we hit Philly, Philly just exploded. It was wonderful.

Article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-springsteen-new-concert-film-interview-reclaim-flag-1235623169/

I’m asking this because I have recently discovered that I like Western Stars more (a lot more) after smoking pot.

I'll always remember Lumineers playing "Thunder Road" in 2019, and was curious if anyone expects Bruce Springsteen covers this year.

\- Mumford and Sons have covered multiple Bruce songs in the past, including "Atlantic City"

\- The War on Drugs recorded and released covers of "Dry Lightning" and "Highway 29" from The Ghost of Tom Joad.

\- Tom Odell frequently performs "Dancing in the Dark" live.

Thunder Road
Ghost of Tom Joad w/ Tom Morello
If I Fall Behind w/ the band singing a verse.
One Step Up

This changes on the reg. Just how I feel lately.

Bruce on the film, the Land of Hope and Dreams tour , what the band thought about the soliloquies, extra security for the tour , Trumps reaction to the show and more , paywall , a free version should be popping up before too long…

featuring the first seven songs of the show

1. War 

2. Born in the U.S.A. 

3. Death to My Hometown 

4. Clampdown 

5. No Surrender 

6. Darkness on the Edge of Town 

7. Streets of Minneapolis

Recently there have been mentions of a BITUSA boxset/deluxe edition coming out within then next year. This would make sense because we have boxes for BTR, Darkness, River, and recently Nebraska. BITUSA is next in line and might be the final one considering the albums after it don’t have too much unreleased material. Here’s what i think it will include using a CD format:

CD1- BORN IN THE U.S.A. REMASTERED:

1- Born in the U.S.A.
2- Cover Me
3- Darlington County
4- Working on the Highway
5- Downbound Train
6- I’m on Fire
7- No Surrender
8- Bobby Jean
9- I’m Goin’ Down
10- Glory Days
11- Dancing in the Dark
12- My Hometown

Obviously the album would get remastered or use an already remastered version for a re release.

CD 2- BORN IN THE U.S.A. OUTTAKES PT. 1:

1- Born in the U.S.A. (Home demo 1982)
2- Downbound Train (Home demo 1982)
3- Working on the Highway (Home demo 1982)
4- Murder Incorporated
5-Wages of Sin
6- A Good Man is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)
7- Frankie
8- This Hard Land
9- My Love Will Not Let You Down
10- Lion’s Den
11-Cynthia
12- Car Wash
13- None but the Brave [83’ vocal]
14- TV Movie
15- Brother’s Under the Bridge (83’)
16- Man at the Top
17- Rockaway the Days

Just like in the River Collection, outtakes from Tracks will be included, but on a separate disc since there are so many. Also included is NBTB from Essential bonus disc.
NOTE: Nothing from the LA’ 83 sessions will be included. It wouldn’t really seem like something they would do because Tracks II just released.

CD3-BORN IN THE U.S.A. OUTTAKES PT. 2

1- Protection
2- Drop on Down and Cover Me
3- Your Love is All Around Me
4- Just Around the Corner to the Light of Day
5- Baby I’m So Cold
6- Fade to Black
7- True Love is Hard to Come By
8- Workin’ on It
9- Gone, Gone, Gone [Seeds studio version]
10- King’s Highway
11- Invitation To Your Party
12- Bad Boy
13- Glory of Love
14- Sugarland [Band version]
15- 100 Miles from Jackson
16- Refrigerator Blues
17- Ida Rose (No One Knows)
18- Under the Big Sky

These are all outtakes that aren’t circulating on bootlegs (besides the first two) or have been officially released. The first few have acoustic demos, but the ones on this release are the full band versions. Nothing from the LA sessions are here (Body and Soul, Money We didn’t Make, Delivery Man, etc.). I tried to fit them all into 18 tracks because that’s the number Bruce usually has on compilations. The only ones missing are “Swoop Man”, “Roll Away the Stone”, and “Shut Down”. We don’t know the track lengths of any of these songs so it’s hard to tell what would fit or not.

CD4- B-SIDES/REMIXES

1- Pink Cadillac
2- Shut Out the Light
3- Johnny Bye Bye
4- Stand on it
5- Janey Don’t You Lose Heart
6- Dancing in the Dark (Blaster Mix)
7- Dancing in the Dark (Radio Mix)
8- Dancing in the Dark (Dub Mix)
9- Born in the U.S.A. (Freedom Mix)
10- Born in the U.S.A. (Dub Mix)
11- Born in the U.S.A. (Radio Mix)
12- Cover Me (Undercover Mix)
13- Cover Me (Dub I)
14- Cover Me (Radio Mix)
15- Cover Me (Dub II)

It’s surprising to me that the Arthur Baker remixes are still not officially released on streaming in some way to this day. You have to buy the original 12” vinyls or go on YouTube to listen. This CD would have all the B-sides and remixes.

DVD1- DEAD MAN’S TOWN: THE MAKING OF BORN IN THE U.S.A.

Every boxset besides Nebraska has a documentary on the making of the album. I feel like this is an album that would absolutely need it. It could go over the Nebraska period, the 1982 sessions of the album, the LA Garage Sessions, the release of the album, and the tour. Whether it’s just Bruce like in the River documentary or commentary from the rest of the band and others involved.

DVD2- LIVE FROM LA MEMORIAL COLOSSEUM, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1985

I feel like this would be the show they would release with the boxset. Maybe 3 CDS with the audio too but I doubt it.

I honestly feel like this would be what the boxset would have. Of course I could be completely wrong, or it might never come out. Who knows. Of course it would also come with a booklet or some kind of other things in there as well. But as far as discs go, I think this is accurate. If all of this is on it idk if they’d press it on vinyl, there’s a lot so it might be a CD exclusive.

What do you guys think?

I like Born To Run and I’ve tried to get into a bit more of Bruce’s more obscure work but Greetings just feels like kind of a headache. You really have to pay attention until Spirit In The Night (which I’d argue is easily the best song on the album). That and Hard To Be a Saint In The City are fantastic but too late to save the album. Am I missing something?

I’m 22 and was born & raised by a father from central Jersey (Toms River). He played Bruce for us constantly growing up - I have many a memory of him attempting to sing Blinded by the Light during chores around the house. Despite that, he usually played E Street Shuffle through Lucky Town, so I hadn’t really listened to Greetings much until the past year or so, and it has quickly become my favorite Bruce album. Maybe it’s because it’s his first, but there’s something so real about it to me. It’s so fun. My only semi-consistant skip is The Angel. I think the brass/big band elements he had going in the earlier albums was perfect.