1. “Meeting Across the River”
2. “Nebraska”
3. “Seeds”
4. “Cautious Man”
5. “Wild Billy’s Circus Story”
More than I expected, but I’m sure there’s others I didn’t think of. Some of them would work better as talking blues than others.
“Seeds” seems the most anomalous, by virtue of being an uptempo rocker.
posted 7 December 2009 in Tasty Bits. 1 comment
I deeply regret that Springsteen did not conclude his Super Bowl performance by playing a verse of “Outlaw Pete” (the first song on his new album, Working on a Dream) and then segueing into a barn-burning cover of Kiss’s “I Was Made for Loving You” (which hit #11 in 1979). If you’ve missed it, […]
posted 2 February 2009 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
Wow, The River has a lot of filler. How much? If you pare away all the generic rockers (e.g. “I’m a Rocker”) and other dross on Bruce Springsteen’s 1980 double album, you have plenty of room left over for “Roulette,” a thundering track about a nuclear accident. (It was recorded during the River sessions but […]
posted 29 August 2008 in Tasty Bits. no comments yet
Top of the hour: MTV does a 30-second station ID. The network had retired the classic astronaut footage by 1988, but kept the theme song. This spot is a nifty piece of animation featuring the MTV logo in a gyroscope, with close-ups on doors and windows opening up all over the logo, revealing naked bicycle […]
posted 8 July 2008 in 1988. 2 comments