Recorded during Bruce’s Nebraska period, “Wheels Make the World Go Round” was a promising rocker candidate at the wrong time.
Category: Roll of the Dice
A gift to an old friend became the award-winning title song for one of the best films of 2008 and one of the most deeply empathic songs in Bruce’s catalog.
The only electric rocker on Nebraska, “Open All Night” was destined for greater heights than its original arrangement.
Will the real “Seeds” please stand up? Let’s take a listen to the many forms of this unreleased but vital entry in the Springsteen catalog.
Bruce calls it “an annoying fan favorite” and certainly not one of his. But in this blogger’s opinion, “The Fever” is one of the E Street Band’s finest moments on record.
Dripping in symbolism and gorgeous imagery, “Moonlight Motel” is lyrically Bruce Springsteen’s best song. Full stop.
Bruce often leads in to live performances of “I Wanna Marry You” with a gorgeous, unreleased song that pre-dates it by several years.
Part spaghetti western, part Mad Max, part War of the Worlds, “Evacuation of the West” is a brilliant, cinematic, fully realized E Street Band outtake that cries out for an official release.
Let’s break through the deception and illusion and get real.
Written long before 9/11 but perfectly capturing the pain of its first responders, “Nothing Man” is a bleak but ambiguous look at the lasting emotional effects of intense trauma.