Why is early Springsteen the best Springsteen? Because he was just tossing away little joys like this as outtakes. This is a stupid-simple song. But by the time it swings out of that middle eight you ARE cruising up & down the main drag in a seaside town.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1I0nfQqgtM …
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"Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair/It's like the rushing touch of dirty wings them highway angels wear/But tonight we're gonna find out how it feels/We're gonna trade in these wings for wheels" -- that's as good as any lyric that made it to the final song.
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Fun fact: "Born To Run," pretty obviously the most iconic song Bruce Springsteen will ever write, didn't even make it into the Top 20 on the Billboard Singles chart. Now I have a lot of Bruce-skeptic hottakes to be fair, but c'mon: that's a load of bullshit right there.
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I've grown tired of the self-consciously 'mythologizing' Springsteen, but you'd have to have a heart made out of polyurethane not to be stirred by "Born To Run." It's fun to hear all of the bootleg alternate mixes to realize just how much they worried over it to get it PERFECT.
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I have very...nuanced...thoughts about BORN TO RUN, DARKNESS, and THE RIVER. THE RIVER is the one that bugs me the most of all, because the stuff Springsteen left off could have turned it into one of the few truly perfect double LPs. But instead...alas, THE RIVER.
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BTW, I love how Springsteen, after decades of hullabaloo and pleas from fans, finally released the long-lost DARKNESS-era recording of his most famous lost song "The Promise"...and then released the wrong version. This is the one he should've released:https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rw07nnow2n7qbh/The%20Promise%20%28alternate%20version%29.mp3?dl=0 …
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Hard to beat Thunder Road which is song all 23 year olds need to blast while driving in their car
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ah, that's a myth. it was a fake siren on top of the piano bruce was playing, he triggers it with a push-button.
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I love this and thank you for bringing it to my attention. But the energy in this version is so different. The narrator in the studio version is much more weighed down and the stakes feel higher
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Those bloated lyrics need a lot of work... fortunately Bruce did it himself
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