Sorry Oli, put me on the list of people who just can't get into Nebraska as an album.

And for the record, I can't wait for the Hyde Park DVD, no matter what the whiny portion of Die Hards have to say.

We most certainly did have CDs in 1982. That's the year Nebraska was released and that's the year the first Sony CD player was released in the US. I had one instantly since unlike Terri at the time, I loved music. I had 2 little kids and not much money so I didn't go to many concerts during that time but I did invest money into stereo equipment. Some of which I still have I might add.

Dammit. The past is so confusing - It's just one thing after another.

Bought Live In Dublin CD today.

These past two weeks I've sure as hell bought a load of Bruce albums. Soon enough I'll own every damn CD he's released.

It was weird though, they had two copies of Live In Duble that were exactly the same but one was £10 and the other was £14. If I didn't pick up the £10 one I wonder if anyone would have picked the £14...

I got the Dublin 2CD+1DVD digipack.
Although the show is nice to listen to, they removed quite some good songs for the release which were played the nights the cd was recorded like John Henry and You can look but you better not touch. Therefore I prefer the bootleg from the concert he did in holland that includes a seeger version of john henry, cadillac ranch, ramrod, you can look and johnny 99 and ends with Buffalo Gal instead of American Land. Great show, pity I wasnt there.

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Hello fact fans...Relevant to Bruce but not entirely to this conversation...
In the depths of my brain i seem to remember that Born in the USA was the first commercially available CD to be made in the US.

That may have been - the very first CDs that I actually bought were classical CDs and for a while that really was all that was available. Then analog pop albums started getting dumped on CDs which tended to expose all their flaws. Finally a few people started taking advantage of the new technology.

From Wikipedia:

The album was recorded on analog master tapes, and initially issued on both LP and cassette. However, Born in the U.S.A. became the first compact disc manufactured in the United States for commercial release, when CBS Records opened its CD manufacturing plant in Terre Haute, Indiana in September 1984. Discs previously had been imported from Japan.

Go Bruce :D

Just when you think Bruce can't do anything else to make himself cooler, he goes and does that.

I bet he'll be the first man to discover aliens too. That'd be awesome.

Turns out Rosalita will be showing up on the Live In Hyde Park DVD afterall :D

And in other sort-of related news. I named one of my guitars Rosalita. Not after the song (although when I do listen to that song I tend to think about my guitar instead of a girl - is that weird? Some of the lyrics seem like they could be about a guitar!) but because I love the name Rose and every other name with Rose in it.

Oh I'm so glad :)

Oli - do you know the story behind Rosalita? She was a real person you know - still is actually.

I don't know the story so you can tell me anyway if Oli knows it ;)

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TS

Here you go - from an online article a few years ago. You can look her up.

Rosalita by Peter Knobler

Diane Lozito

Diane was "Wild Billy's" girlfriend. It was 1971, the summer of Lozito's high school graduation, and he took her to a little club in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Great band. Billy was very outgoing, knew the guitar player, a guy named Bruce.
Apparently Lozito made an impression. Springsteen, 21, asked a friend “Who is that girl?” “Aw that’s crazy Diane.”
She kept running into Springsteen throughout the summer. “Billy and his friends were major party boys,” Lozito recalls. “But Bruce didn’t drink or get high. One night at the beach, when Billy and the others were drinking, Bruce and I tucked around a rock and started kissing. [If this sounds familiar, throw on Springsteen’s “Spirit in the Night.”] Then I said, ‘It’s time to go” – because I was so scared of getting busted by Billy. That was a nice night. Light coming off the ocean, nothing like it.
Springsteen carried a notebook and was always jotting things down. “The next day he showed me the line ‘She kissed me just right/Like only a lonely angel can.’ He said, ‘I wrote about our kiss.’”
Soon Billy was out of the picture, Lozito and Springsteen talked about moving in together, and she took him to meet her mother. “Bruce charmed her to death,” Lozito says. “When we left the house, he said, ‘Oh, she loved me. She’s gonna say yes!’”
The next day he dropped by. “Did she say we could move in?” Springsteen asked.
“Well, no,” Lozito replied.
“Why?”
“Because my father was a musician, and you’re a musician.” Her parents’ divorce hadn’t gone well. Lozito watched as Springsteen wrote in his book:

I know your mama, she don’t like me
‘Cause I play in a rock and roll band

"OK, your dad," Springsteen said, "he's a musician. He's gotta love me. Ask him."
But Lozito's father told her, "All musicians are bums."
Your papa says he knows that I don't have any money
A year later, Springsteen and Lozito moved in together anyway, and he wrote the classics that turned up on his first three albums – "Spirit in the Night," "Backstreets," "Wild Billy's Circus Story," "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)" – along with performance legends that weren't released for years. "I'd ask, 'Why isn't my name in those songs?" Lozito says. "He'd tell me, 'It's boring having a whole album about the same girl. And nothing rhymes with Diane.'"
Eventually Springsteen met the rest of Lozito's family, including her grandmother, Rose Lozito. In that part of Jersey, it's pronounced Lazita. Rose Lazita. Ah. "He wrote 'Rosalita' in bits and pieces and didn't have a title for it," she says. "My mom is Rita Lozito. Then he met my grandma. So I assume that's where he put it together."
As her boyfriend's celebrity grew, Lozito found life more complex. She told him, "I'm sorry, I'm so tired of being introduced as 'Bruce's girlfriend.'" She was working as a photographer's assistant and attending college. Springsteen wanted her to go on the road with him. "I didn't want to be in the shadow of this person and never have my own life," she says. "I wanted to be the best at my profession, and I couldn't be." In early 1975, while Springsteen was finishing the excruciatingly long project that would ultimately be Born to Run, she packed up and left.
Lozito, now 55, doesn't regret the decision. She went on to become and award-winning art director at several ad agencies, then an accomplished location scout for film, television and print. She married another art director, David Jenkins; a partnership of equals, they now live on a sprawling, sage-filled ranch out West.
More than 20 years ago she visited Springsteen at his hotel after a concert. He saw her and opened his arms. As they embraced, Lozito whispered, "That man behind me is my husband."
"Bruce went 'Eeewww!" she says with a laugh. There were more hugs and kisses from band members she hadn't seen in years. One of the new musicians – "new to me," Lozito says – asked, "Why are you guys hugging her? Who is she?"
Then someone – she can't remember who – informed him. "You know who that is? That's Rosalita!"

Holy crap, I didn't know that story! And what a brilliant one it is too.

Thanks for that Kathleen, I really enjoyed reading it :D

That's indeed a very cool story to read and I thank you very much for posting it Kathleen. I would like to know about all the stories of the songs but it's just a life's work it seems !

Thanks for this little, but valuable information.
It gets me to appreciate the song more.

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TS

Picked this up vintage for $3.00 yesterday.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...780_387429.jpg

I had a dream about Bruce Springsteen last night. I don't remember what the heck was going on, but I remember I kept typing "Working On A Dream" into something repeatedly and then made my dad do it :confused:

Weird.
Especially since it's WOAD.


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Man, I really hate those damn lyric changes Bruce makes in Sandy.

I mean changing the entire "Sandy, the waitress I was seeing..." part to "Sandy, the angels..."

I hate the angels lines but love the waitress ones. Angels is just too typical Bruce, waitress was a little different.

So every live version I have with the except of one has that angels change :(

STUPID BRUCE.

Yeah it's an awesome story.

I wikipedia tune names all the time to see what comes up. Depending on the band you might get a lot of info on the song, recording, gear etc...

I've literally spent hours reading about the main ideas for kinks tunes :)

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

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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 :D 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 ;)

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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.

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!!

To:
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!:D

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

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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.

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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.

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TS