If there’s any song in Bruce’s catalog more misunderstood than “Born in the U.S.A.,” it’s this Darkness-era outtake.
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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.
From the early days of the Born in the U.S.A. recording sessions comes this jewel box of a song that captures the impact of war on the ones left behind.
This retread of “Brilliant Disguise” (with a bit of “I’m Goin’ Down”) adds nothing original to Bruce’s catalog. Cool backing track, though.
The only Born to Run outtake to earn an official release, “Linda Let Me Be The One” is a beautifully melodramatic hat tip to Phil Spector.