A little Valentine’s day (counter?) programming.
Category: Roll of the Dice
Kicking off Valentine’s Week with Bruce’s ode to new love and old friends: “Frankie Fell in Love.”
Be careful what you wish for when you ask Bruce Springsteen to write your campaign song.
“Brilliant Disguise” is a nakedly intimate, exquisitely written, and intensely performed exploration of self-doubt and the mysteries and insecurities of relationships.
Bruce proclaims “Crush on You” to be a masterpiece, and I agree. Only he’s being sarcastic, and I’m not.
In which Bruce redeems one of his least compelling compositions decades after it was released.
For the completists only: A strident, polemic “Black Sun Rising” performed only twice (mercifully) by Steel Mill.
“Stray Bullet” is a dark and haunting outcast from the River sessions.
Springsteen’s “My Love Will Not Let You Down” – an introvert’s inner scream
“Walking in the Street” — a never-released, never-performed alternative path for Springsteen’s “Thunder Road.”