Bruce Springsteen’s eleventh studio album is one of his best-sounding and most thematically cohesive. It wears its influences on its sleeves, and we’ll explore them inside.
Category: Roll of the Dice
In 1985, Bruce picked up a book on the new American underclass. When he finally opened and read it a decade later, it inspired one of the strongest songs on his next album.
More than a decade on, Bruce’s seventeenth studio album stands as one of his very best–and the strongest E Street Band album to date.
“Rocky Ground” may be wrapped in gospel trappings, but its themes are as Springsteenian as anything on Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Bruce closes out Lucky Town by revisiting the narrator who opens Tunnel of Love.
Who’d have thought a 60-year-old “Stand By Me” clone would become a fan-favorite centerpiece on tour?
The youngest song on Bruce’s album of covers would have made a fitting title track.
Beneath the overwrought production and busy arrangement lies the soul of a beautiful love song.
A rich, romantic predecessor to “I’m on Fire” inspired by a 1960 Ben E. King hit single, “Spanish Eyes” deserves more airplay than it received.
A half-century ago today, Bruce Springsteen sent the world Greetings from Asbury Park, and rock and roll has never been the same.