The Official Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Thread.

All depends on the type of Bruce you enjoy, but for my money (as far as what you don't have yet) Darkness On The Edge of Town, The River, and The Rising should be next on your list.

He did it on the solo Devil's and Dust tour. I've got it on a boot from Hamburg (I was there too) and also one from Florida.

I had to dig these out to check them out and wow!! those solo shows were absolutely amazing! I wish he'd do another solo tour right now!!

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Thunderstrucker
Kathleen
Rob
Ferret
Crushgen24/88

A big thank you for all your recommendations. I love almost everyone of his different styles, the only one I don't care to much about are lucky town and Human touch. One of the reasons I love the storytellers gig is because he shows all the different sides of himself as a song writer. The one album I've been into lately are Devils&dust, brilliant record!

And Kathleen, You are so right The NYC DVD one of the best concert dvds no question about it, The second disc with Jungleland, Thunder road, backstreets its unbelievable good

Ferret: As said above I love devils&dust so nebraska sound like a good choice and I've heard some songs from it and I like it.

And I will get all the other recommendations from you wonderful people!

Oh I'd have to stress that you get THE RISING and MAGIC, which in my opinion are Bruce's two finest albums. I absolutely adore the E-Street sound Brendan O'Brien captured on those albums. Long Walk Home from Magic might be the best song Bruce has made, and the live version with Steve singing at the end is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

One album you don't have to buy is Working on a Dream in my opinion. I never listen it, never.

I salute you,
TS

Yeah I never listened to it either and thought it was the biggest pile of shit on this planet.

Then it crept up on me like a...like a...LIKE A GREEN SNAKE IN BIG, TALL GRASS.

Although that Good Eye and This Life couple, still can't listen to them at all.

I must be about the only Bruce fan who rates WOAD. I love that album. Sure it's much more mellow than most Bruce offerings with the E-Street band but I damn sure like this record.

Outlaw Pete is an epic song.
My Lucky Day is classic Bruce.
Working On A Dream was probably the highlight of his live shows last tour.
Queen of The Supermarket is lyrically weird, yes, but I'm just amazed that Bruce can write a song that is essentially focused on a love centred in a supermarket.
What Love Can Do is great.
This Life is hauntingly beautiful and exquisitely written.
Good Eye is pretty cool heartland american rock.
Tomorrow Never Knows is passable.
Life Itself is fantastic.
Kingdom Of Days is my favourite song on the album.
Surprise, Surprise is nice pop fare.
The Last Carnival is a nice tribute to Danny.
The Wrestler is Bruce at his solo, acoustic best.

While I certainly wouldn't rank it as one of Bruce's best, it's a bloody good effort nonetheless.

Tomorrow Never Knows really is an Amy McDonald track to me and Outlaw Pete has the sample of I Was Made For Loving You in it. The album just was a dissapointment for me after Magic which I think is one of his best.

I salute you,
TS

I agree, Magic is one of his best albums and WOAD is one of the weakest. Yet I think Outlaw Pete represents vintage Springsteen and has actually nothing to do with that late-70´s disco-rock-song by Kiss. The melodic resemblance to the main theme of IWMFLY is obviously only coincidential. Stylistically and thematically, these two songs couldn´t be further away from each other.

Maybe you are right but whenever I hear it when WOAD pops up in iTunes I always have to think of that song from Kiss.

I salute you,
TS