The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.

That's nice.
Another goal for me when I am bored or stuck at internship

I salute you,
TS

I look up individual songs on Wiki too, always disappointing when it's a stub though I always go on songfacts.com too, but that's also hit and miss.

ANYWAY.

Today I left class halfway through so I can go into the city and get a book called GREETINGS FROM E STREET.

I hope my tutor isn't still in class right this minute waiting for me to come back from the toilet...

But anyway - THE MOST AWESOME BOOK EVER. I think so anyway, I'm sure the diehard fans (am I one of them?) hates it.

I'm only like 9 pages in but I skipped through to all the replica backstage passes and posters Got a lot of new stuff to add to my WALL OF BRUCE.

It's too big for my shelf though Sticks out by like a million feet.

I think that you qualify as a new diehard fan Oli. If years from now you are still listening - and it wasn't just a teenage thing - you will qualify as a true diehard.

I was 27 in 1975 when Born to Run came out. That's when I became a real fan - I had listened before but but wasn't over the top impressed. When I heard that album, I was smacked upside the head LOL. And here I am 35 years later still going to multiple shows Not to mention that Bruce is still DOING multiple shows.

I've been listening to Bruce greatest hits record for many years but never really bother with anything else. But about a month ago I bought the live in NY DVD and was blown away! Right on the couch watching the dvd I transformed into a massive Bruce fan. The last month I bought:

Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition(hammersmith DVD, Documentary DVD)
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Devils&Dust

DVDs

Live in Barcelona
Live in dublin
Storytellers

And Im gonna continue until I have them all.

The Born To Run Anniversary Edition is indeed very good.
Get Tunnel of Love as next album and Live in NYC as next dvd

I salute you,
TS

I absolutely love the storytellers dvd. I rewatched it the other day for the first time in a while.

That version of Thunder Road is my all time favourite version (of my favourite Bruce song), and Jesus Was an Only Song is gorgeous too.

Anybody have a live video of All I'm Thinking Bout Is You? I love that song, and don't know if it has ever been played live.

That DVD set alone has transformed more people into fans than you can count. I could name dozens of them personally. It ranks right up there with the best live concert DVDs.

Darkness on The Edge of Town would be a good edition to that list. It's the album he made straight after Born To Run and it contains some of his best songs from that era.

I don't have a live video of it but it has been played live, I used to have an mp3 of it from the tour.

Get Nebraska. It's a bit bleak, ok very bleak, but the lyrics are unbelievable. I consider it Bruce's best album. If you dig Devils & Dust then Nebraska can't be too much of a stretch anyway.