An early Wild and Innocent outtake based on a still-standing bar bears the seeds of classic songs still to come.
Tag: Tracks
Whether in its original Southside Johnny incarnation or its more modern Tracks version, “Hearts of Stone” offers some of Bruce’s most brutally, emotionally honest songwriting.
It may have been inspired by a famous trial, but this Human Touch outtake is more sly than substantive.
If there’s any song in Bruce’s catalog more misunderstood than “Born in the U.S.A.,” it’s this Darkness-era outtake.
Twelve years later, Bruce revisited his narrator from “Brothers Under the Bridges ’83,” now haunted by the war that awaited him.
This understated, underrated 1989 outtake puts a period at the end of “Brilliant Disguise.”
Like the man says, If you’re ever going to stand on it at all, stand on it now. The longer you wait, the slower you get.
It may never have been the barnburner Bruce envisioned, but “Thundercrack” pointed the way to beloved epics to come.
Bruce called it a nonsense song, but he might have been pulling a fast one.
“Rendezvous” is one of Bruce’s best pop songs, born on the road and better that way.