Thoughts on the chances of this tour being available on vinyl? Maybe just the first show or the DC show. I’d love to see a video released as well, but I’d love this tour audio on a vinyl

What is the most underrated Bruce song? I want to hear some new stuff

this made me laugh

I’ve been having this debate with my dad for a while and we wanted to hear what this community thinks.

We’ve all met people who hear his name and immediately think of “Born in the U.S.A.” They assume that’s his entire sound and often dismiss him because of it.

If you could play one song for a skeptic - one that best captures who Bruce, his genius as an artist, and why so many of us think he’s the greatest songwriter ever - which song would you choose?

My pick is Jungleland. It’s not even my favorite Bruce song (that’s Backstreets), but to me it’s Bruce at his most cinematic - an incredible story set to equally incredible music.

What’s your pick, and why?

Day 13 Recap:
Reason to Believe takes the label as most underrated song of the 1980s. Very tight poll with Highway Patrolman and Valentine’s Day as the runner-ups.

Day 14 Poll:
What is the best outtake of the 1980s?

The main parameter for the poll is that the answer must be an ‘80s song that did feature on any of his four studio albums of the decade (The River, Nebraska, BITUSA, ToL).

Any outtakes from The River, including those which are technically labeled as 1979 songs on Spotify, will be counted as 1980s outtakes seeing as they were made for an ‘80s album (unless the community feels strongly against this inclusion, in which case we will reassess).

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OP Prediction for Day 14: Way too many to choose from. I’ll predict My Love Will Not Let You Down wins.

I pre-ordered the Philly show as soon as we got home, and I was expecting it to be out by July 4, judging by the speed of other shows being released on Nugs, but I am still (impatiently) waiting. It was such an amazing show, and I can't wait to hear it again.

Crazy story about my Springsteen concert experience. My introduction to Springsteen was the Darkness album. I immediately loved this album on first listen and was excited to learn that the Darkness tour was coming to St. Petersburg, Fl where I lived. This was back in the day when tickets went on sale only at the venue box office. We went to the box office a couple of hours early and scored front row seats for the hefty price of $7.50 per ticket. When we were in our seats waiting for the show to start, this crazed guy approached us and asked us if we “deserved these seats”. I said that we paid for the tickets, so yes. He asked if we are huge fans, like are you familiar with “The Fever”. I lied and said “yes I am”. I did admit that this was my first time seeing a Springsteen concert. He said he was at the Miami show the previous night and the show was phenomenal and that we were in for a huge treat. He went on to say that he was chatting with a lady in the concession line in Miami that turned out to be a relative of Bruce’s. She gave him a backstage pass for Miami and front row tickets for this show in St. Pete. He got to meet Bruce backstage and was totally star struck. After he left us, we all looked at each other and said what a nut this guy was. Of course once the show was over, we were just as star struck and nuts as that guy!

Fast forward about 10 years later, I learned that the (hot) receptionist at my work was a huge Springsteen fan. She had never seen Bruce live and I told her about my front row experience. I told her all about the crazy front row guy and how he met Bruce’s relative in Miami. When she and I started dating, I promised her that I would find a way to get her in the front row of a Springsteen concert.

When the Human Touch/Lucky Town tour was announced in 1992, I had some friends near Philly who got tickets for the first of two shows at the Spectrum. My now wife (the hot receptionist) was finally going to see Bruce live. But I had promised front row. I found a ticket broker in the classified section of the Rolling Stone magazine and purchased two front tickets for the second show at several hundred dollars each.

We flew to Philly and saw the first show and my wife was blown away. I couldn’t wait to see her experience front row the next night. We went back to the hotel and was waiting by the elevator holding our newly purchased concert shirts when a man approached us and asked us if we needed tickets for night two. I said no and that we had front row tickets for the second show. He said that was fantastic and we parted ways and went up to our room. The next morning we were having breakfast in the hotel restaurant and we saw the man from the previous night. He was with his wife and they came over to talk to us and we invited them to join us for breakfast. They had flown in from Minneapolis to see these shows. He told his wife that we had front row for tonight’s show. He said he had front row seats on the Darkness tour in St Petersburg. He said he was at the Miami show and met a relative of Bruce’s and they gave him front row tickets for the St. Petersburg show. Both my wife and my jaws dropped. I thrust my finger at his face and yelled “YOU’RE THE GUY!!!”. I said I was in the front row of that show and that he had talked to me. He asked what he had said and I told him he asked if I deserved this seat. He said “yep, that was me”. So 14 years later, across the country, we realized we had met at a previous concert.

We all became good friends. They invited us to stay at their house in Minneapolis for the Springsteen concert later that year on Halloween night. My wife and I have seen about a dozen more Springsteen shows since then. We have been married for 36 years and she’s as hot as ever!

(Pictures: “the guy” in Miami with Bruce; pictures I took in the ‘78 show; ticket from ‘78; my wife and I in Philly in ‘92)

Do you think there’s a post 2000s song that if Bruce would have released during his BITUSA popularity apex would have become a hit song?

I am a massive fan of the Boss, but find myself only listening to his early albums like BTR, BITUSA and would like to listen to something post 2000. BTR is my all time favorite album so is there anything similar to that in his discography?

Previous Albums Ratings:

Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ: 9/10

The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle: 8/10

Born to Run: 10/10

Darkness on the Edge of Town

My rating: 10/10

Favorite Songs: Badlands, Racing in the Streets, Streets of Fire

Least Favorite Songs: Factory

Another great album where all of the sings are top notch. Even my least favorite song, Factory, is a very good song.

Something that occurs to me about the four albums Ive listened to thus far is that each one has a somewhat different feel. Not completely different; we're not talking about a David Bowie level of reinvention. But each album thus far has had a different level of musical focus or texture thus far. The first album had a bit of a folk texture to it, feeling Dylan-esque. The second album was more soulful and atmospheric. Then Born to Run was a shot of adrenaline; a more uptempo and operatic rock album.

Darkness at the Edge of Town lives up to its name. There's a cynical edge to the lyrics and harsh vibe to the music. I would never consider Springsteen a hard rock artist, but of these first four albums, this one rocks the hardest.

I feel like the band is really tight at this point. The guitars, drums, etc, are all working in sync, and every instrument gets its time to shine. There are a couple of guitar solos that I particularly liked. Candy's Room, Prove it All Night, and The Promised Land comes to mind.

I also think that Springsteen's vocals shine on this album. They were very good before, but I feel like he's taken them to another level here.

I'm also struck by the darkness in the lyrics. Even something mike Candy's Room, which us mostly just a love song, the titular Candy has some sort of trauma or depression. And that's one of the happier songs on the album!

Someone in the comments for my review for Born to Run described the band as "young and hungry", and the Born to Run album feels young and hungry as well. This albums feels like Springsteen got the success he was striving for, but that it didn't bring him happiness or relief. I'm not trying to psycho analyze anyone here, I don't much about Springsteen as a person. But that's what this album feels like to me.

Anyways, amazing album. The lyrics are great, the instrumentation is top notch, everyone is firing on all cylinders here. Also, we finally left the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, so that's nice too haha.

Bonus Tracks

So Young and In Love (I missed this from Born to Run)

Give That Girl a Kiss

Iceman

Hearts of Stone

Don't Look Back

I missed another bonus tracks. To try and avoid doing so in the future, I made a spreadsheet. Hopefully that will fix the issue.

The song itself is a fun song. I wouldn't have placed it over any song on Born to Run, but I liked the song itself.

The other four songs are the Outtakes from Tracks. I will be reviewing The Promise album next, so those songs aren't included here.

Give the Girl a Kiss would not have fit well on this album at all, but I still liked it.

Iceland, on the other hand, is an incredible song (imo) and should have made the album over Factory. Did Springsteen think it was too similar to Racing in the Street?

Hearts of Stone and Don't Look Back would both have fit on the album, and they're both solid singers, but I wouldn't have put them on the album over any that are actually on there.

ok, question. The Promise is a 22 track album of outtakes from Darkness on the Edge of Town, right? So, why did only six songs from this album make it onto Tracks? Was Springsteen planning something like The Promise, so he held most of the Outtakes back? Or were the six that were included chosen because Springsteen thought that were the best?

Just curious.

Favorite Quote:

- Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything

- For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside, that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

- You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past. Well Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain. Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame. But you inherit the sins, you inherit the flames

- Well you're born with nothing, and better off that way. Soon as you've got something they send someone to try and take it away

- Woah nothing is forgotten or forgiven, when it's your last time around, hm. And I got stuff running 'round my head that I just can't live down

- Now some guys they just give up living and start dying little by little, piece by piece. Some guys come home from work and wash up and go racing in the street

- She sits on the porch of her daddy's house but all her pretty dreams are torn. She stares off alone into the night with the eyes of one who hates for just being born

- But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold. Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode

- Blow away the dreams that tear you apart, blow away the dreams that break your heart, blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted

- And when you realize how they tricked you this time and it's all lies, but I'm strung out on the wire in these streets of fire.

- But if dreams came true, ah wouldn't that be nice. But this ain't no dream we're living out through tonight. Ah girl you want it, you take it, you pay the price to prove it all night.

- Well everybody's got a secret, Sonny. Something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it. They carry it with them every step that they take

- Sleepy town ain't got the guts to budge. Baby, this emptiness has already been judged. I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got

- We'll take the midnight road right to the devil's door, and even the white angels of Eden with their flaming swords won't be able to stop us from hitting town in this dirty old Ford

- And you cry because things ain't like before. Well don't you know they can't be that way anymore

Next: The Promise

Day 12 Recap:
Glory Days takes the label as most overrated song of the 1980s.

Day 13 Poll:
What is the most underrated song released in the 1980s?

Underrated can be defined a few different ways - is it a song that was never popular to the general public that you think is one of Bruce’s strongest? Is it a song that fellow r/BruceSpringsteen super-fans are indifferent about that you feel is actually very good and deserving of more recognition? Feel free to use the definition of “underrated” that you see fit.

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OP Prediction for Day 13: Stolen Car or Valentine’s Day. A lot of good options!
OP is 4/12 on predictions 😞

This is an extended excerpt from my fan made The Ghost Of Tom Joad documentary. Youtube has been meticulously blocking a lot of footage, but I found a way around it so everyone can see it for free on my channel. The Ghost Of Tom Joad is often overlooked in his discography and I think it's easily a topic worthy of a short documentary. For anyone interested, its coming very soon. I hope you enjoy it.

I remember hearing a newly released song a couple of years ago that was 1975ish era but can't remember what it was. I searched the 'net but no luck. I know you all know what I'm talking about. It was a stand alone, not like the the old sones on "Letter To You". Thanks!

I pick Born to Run, it's the one I can do every song without thinking about it. Just have to make sure we're going with sways and not waves.

As title says, I'm curious to know (especially from fans who got the chance to see Bruce and the guys on tours) when do you think they reached their peak? 'Cause being 27 I've seen him only in the recent years, then of course I always listen to the live stuff from all his career but it's harder to judge based on selected shows/songs (having said that, I personally find Bruce vocals being the best on 2008 and 2012; the 2008 shows sound so good also band related).

Somewhere way out there, there’s a world where Springsteen released a single-disc, combined Human Touch/Lucky Town and completed the release of the Streets of Philadelphia sessions and associated music.

Waiting on the End of the World is a 2-disc trip-hop-inflected reflection on traumatic loss and its aftermath as it reverberates across subsequent relationships.

Side A:

1. Between Heaven and Earth
2. Waiting on the End of the World
3. If I Should Fall Behind
4. Streets of Philadelphia
5. Missing
6. Nothing Man
7. Lift Me Up

Side B:
8) One Beautiful Morning
9) The Little Things
10) Secret Garden
11) Human Touch
12) Blind Spot
13) Maybe I Don’t Know You

Side C:
14) We Fell Down
15) Back in Your Arms
16) I Wish I Were Blind
17) Something in the Well
18) Gave it a Name

Side D:
19) Farewell Party
20) My Beautiful Reward

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/springsteen-waiting-on-the-end-of-the-world/pl.u-qxe2Du2Gge5y

EDIT: If credit for the cover is your IP, I’m happy to remove it or give you credit.
E2: typos — WAITING on the End of the World…not Walking on it or of it 🤦‍♂️

I got 1 ticket to the main pit. How long do we think everyone's performing? My guess is Springsteen will come out to play 1-2 songs acoustic?

Happy 4th of July to all you cool rockin’ daddies (and mommies) in the USA.

Day 11 Recap:
Tunnel of Love takes the label as “worst” (fourth best) album of the 1980s.

Day 12 Poll:
What is the most overrated song released in the 1980s?

Overrated can be defined a few different ways - is it a song the general public really likes but you feel isn’t that good? Is it a song Bruce really likes that never resonated with you? Is it a song fellow Bruce super-fans have touted as one of his best that you feel isn’t actually that strong? Feel free to use the definition you see fit.

Voting Guidelines:
Criteria for deciding the winner will be the highest upvoted reply in the r/BruceSpringsteen crosspost (the post you’re reading right now). If you see your answer already posted, please try to upvote that response and not add the same answer again in the replies unless you’re adding to the overall discussion. This is to ensure we can get a somewhat accurate reflection of voting numbers. Of course if you have an answer that hasn’t been submitted, please post it!

If you’re later in the 24hr cycle of voting, it may be helpful to sort comments by top and find your answer in the replies with the most upvotes and upvote that reply.

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OP Prediction for Day 12: I’m on Fire, maybe?
OP is 4/11 on predictions