{"mvids":[{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110201","idTrack":"32729953","strTrack":"All or Nothin' at All","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0o4Bzl2rx0","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110203","idTrack":"32729970","strTrack":"Atlantic City","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/txqpxx1355142367.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu1gW-bQ8","strDescription":"\"Atlantic City\" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska, considered to be one of Springsteen's most dour albums in tone. It has since often been heard in a full band arrangement in concert.\n\nSpringsteen writes in his Greatest Hits sleeve notes, he recorded the track in his bedroom, \".....for $1,050 ( the cost of the four-track Tascam recorder), mixed through an old Gibson guitar unit to a beat box....\"\n\nThe song depicts a young couple's romantic escape to the New Jersey city Atlantic City, but it also wrestles with the inevitability of death, as the man in the relationship intends to take a job in organized crime upon arriving in the city. The opening lines of \"Atlantic City\" refer to mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: \"Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too\" (the \"chicken man\" was mafia boss Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his Philadelphia house in March 1981). The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: \"Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.\"\n\nThe song is included on his 1995 Greatest Hits album and on the 2003 compilation The Essential Bruce Springsteen.\n\nThis was one of nine songs that was featured in an episode of the television series Cold Case and played during its climactic murder scene.\n\nAlthough the song came out around the same time as the film of the same name, the two works are unrelated."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926479","strTrack":"Waitin' on a Sunny Day","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qvppqr1355161340.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCxqhu9cio","strDescription":"\"Waitin' on a Sunny Day\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen that was first released in a recording with the E Street Band on his 2002 album The Rising. Although the song was not released as a single in the United States, it was released as a single in Europe, and was a hit in Sweden. It has subsequently become an audience favorite of Springsteen and the E Street Band's concert performances.\n\nWhile many songs on The Rising were written in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, \"Waitin' on a Sunny Day\" was written earlier. Springsteen wrote and recorded the song in 1998 or 1999, but that recording has not been released. On June 17, 1999, during the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reunion Tour, Springsteen and the band played the song for a soundcheck, but they did not play it during any of the actual shows on the tour. The song was finally recorded again in Atlanta during the Rising sessions and was released on that album.\n\nThe song combines a simple, bouncy melody and arrangement powered by drums, acoustic guitars, and Soozie Tyrell's violin with a lyric that describes optimism in a couple's relationship:\n\n    It's rainin', but there ain't a cloud in the sky\n    Musta been a tear from your eye\n    Everything'll be okay ...\n\nThe words of the chorus are deliberately simple, to the consternation of some critics:\n\n    I'm waitin', waitin' on a sunny day,\n    Gonna chase the clouds away\n    Waitin' on a sunny day.\n\nInstrumental breaks during the middle and end of the song feature Clarence Clemons's saxophone set against a glockenspiel and a backing vocal chorus singing \"oohs\" and \"aahs\".\n\nAlthough \"Waitin' on a Sunny Day\" was written prior to the September 11 attacks, the song's theme of wanting to be happy again takes on additional meanings within the context of the album's explicitly themed September 11 songs. In his book The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen, author Jeffrey Symynkywicz views the song as a reflection of the simpler world prior to September 11.\n\n\"Waitin' on a Sunny Day\" is one a few songs on The Rising that recall the E Street Band's R&B roots. Spingsteen has described it as \"a good example of pop songwriting\" and also as the type of song he tends to \"want to throw out...directly into the trash can\" until former producer Jon Landau talks him out of it. Springsteen has also stated that he wrote the song in the style of Smokey Robinson.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926478","strTrack":"Into the Fire","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOQNkyrVe6c","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926477","strTrack":"Lonesome Day","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vxxwuw1355161104.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RoyxLF2ccA","strDescription":"\"Lonesome Day\" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and initially performed by Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was the opening track of his 2002 album The Rising. It was released as a single as the follow-up to the title track on December 2, 2002 and reached #36 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, #39 in the UK, and #47 in Sweden.\n\n\"Lonesome Day\" sets the tone for The Rising album as one of several songs on the album with lyrics that appear to be inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks. However, like other songs on the album, the lyrics work well as a reflection of the general human condition as well as the specific incident that occurred on September 11. The narrator of the song is attempting to deal with the loneliness due to the loss of his (or her) beloved. The narrator sings that \"It's going to be okay/If I can just get through this lonesome day.\" But although the narrator now grieves the loss, he realizes that he did not really know his beloved that well and he acknowledges that he had been less than perfect in his relationship with the now absent beloved:\n\n    Better ask questions before you shoot\n    Deceit and betrayal's bitter fruit\n    It's hard to swallow come time to pay\n    That taste on your tongue don't easily slip away\n    Let kingdom come\n    I'm gonna find my way\n    Through this lonesome day.\n\nThe lyrics in the 2nd verse allude to the possibility of revenge: \"A little revenge and this too shall pass.\" This is representative of one side of the conflicted feelings reflected in the album about the possible response to the September 11 attacks, where some songs like this one and \"Empty Sky\" allude to revenge and others, such as \"Paradise\" and \"Worlds Apart\" hope for mutual understanding. Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh interprets the lines in the 3rd verse that you \"better ask questions before you shoot\" as recognition that revenge will not work.\n\n\"Lonesome Day\" also sets the tone for the album musically. It is a midtempo rock song that also has country music elements. Soozie Tyrell's strident violin is prominent, introducing one of several new musical textures that the E-Street Band employs on the album. Producer Brendan O'Brien himself plays a hurdy gurdy, which musically hints that the narrator is remembering an innocent past that never was.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126388","idTrack":"32926465","strTrack":"Devils & Dust","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qwyrqq1355302853.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8ZQkeZvzc","strDescription":"\"Devils & Dust\" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's thirteenth studio album Devils & Dust, and was released as a single in 2005. Concerning the Iraq War, the song gained critical praise, a Grammy Award for Song of the Year nomination.\n\nThe song tells the story of a troubled American soldier who is presumably serving in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The soldier questions his role and struggles to find guidance in his mission, all the while wary of the changes he is undergoing:\n\n    I got God on my side,\n    I'm just trying to survive -\n    What if, what you do to survive\n    Kills the things you love.\n    Fear's a powerful thing ...\n\nUnsure of whom to trust in a time of tremendous moral ambiguity, the narrator's reliance upon God is tested when he sees his comrade and fellow soldier, Bobbie, dying in \"a field of blood and stone.\" As the song concludes, the soldier maintains that he \"wants to take a righteous stand\" and will continue to search for a morally correct solution. It is thus not an anti-war song in a conventional sense. The line \"I got God on my side\" is presumably a reference to Bob Dylan's classic anti-war song \"With God on Our Side\".\n\nSpringsteen originally wrote the song for the E Street Band and it was soundchecked during The Rising Tour on April 11, 2003 at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. The song was again rehearsed on September 27 and 28 2004 before Vote For Change shows.\n\nAs recorded for the Devils & Dust album, the song has a dynamic arrangement, belying the common image of the album being \"acoustic\" or \"folk\". \"Devils & Dust\" starts off quietly with Springsteen on acoustic guitar. Beginning in the second verse, a muted, ominous synthesizer-and-horns sound begins to be heard, joined in halfway through the verse by a more pronounced, cyclical strings line courtesy of the Nashville String Machine. After the second chorus, Springsteen plays a substantial harmonica solo, high in the mix, as drums and bass from Steve Jordan and producer Brendan O'Brien kick in. The third verse goes quiet again, before drums and percussion return; a reprise of the harmonica line carries the outro.\n\nThe single was released ahead of the album, initially appearing on AOL First Listen on March 28, 2005, then as a digital single on iTunes on March 29, then on radio as of April 4 and finally from other digital music providers as of April 5.\n\n\"Devils & Dust\" saw scant radio airplay and peaked at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the song received much more positive critical acclaim. The song was nominated for three Grammy Awards: Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance; Springsteen won only the last, losing both of the others to U2 songs.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931167","strTrack":"Drive All Night","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8qpTL1wxGQ","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730148","strTrack":"All That Heaven Will Allow","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovZ6JaxvCb8","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730150","strTrack":"Cautious Man","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1lus3XUg7c","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730151","strTrack":"Walk Like a Man","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNPvRvFhKg","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730152","strTrack":"Tunnel of Love","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wwrxpr1355150639.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4K7XZGeHTE","strDescription":"\"Tunnel of Love\" is the title song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as the second single from the album, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Like the first single from the album, \"Brilliant Disguise\", \"Tunnel of Love\" reached number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart. The single had less commercial success in other countries.\n\nLike much of the Tunnel of Love album, \"Tunnel of Love\" was recorded in Springsteen's home studio, called Thrill Hill East, between January and May 1987 with several members of the E Street Band. On this song, Springsteen played several instruments and is backed by Roy Bittan on synthesizers, Nils Lofgren on lead guitar and Max Weinberg on drums. Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa provided backing vocals. Effects on the song include the sounds of an actual family riding a roller coaster in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.\n\nThe song uses a fairground funhouse ride as a metaphor for marriage. The relationship described in the song has three principals - the singer, his wife, and all the things they are scared of. The singer feels that marriage should be simple (\"man meets woman and they fall in love\"), but recognizes that along the way the ride can become difficult and unpredictable. The characters in the song laugh when they see each other in the funhouse mirrors, but it is not clear if they are laughing out of humor, or laughing at each other in derision. The song notes that it is all too easy for two people to lose each other on the \"funhouse ride\" of marriage.\n\nThe music of the song echoes the lyrics. The music is complex and has half of the E Street Band playing on the song. Nils Lofgren's surging guitar sound has been likened to the sound of the bickering couple, and the percussion and synthesizer add to the carnival atmosphere, as does the sound of the roller coaster riding family.\n\nThe chanted vocal bridge at 3:40 in the song borrows the melody from the bridge of the Moody Blues' song New Horizons (from their 1972 album Seventh Sojourn)\n\nThe song was later released on the compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen.\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net did not place this song in its list of the top 3000 songs of all time, but rated it as one of the 1980 songs \"bubbling under\" the top 3000. The song has also been listed as the #20 Best Rock and Roll single of all time by Jimmy Guterman in 1992 and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock. It was also ranked as the #10 single of 1987 by the Village Voice and the Single of the Year in 1987 by the Rolling Stone Magazine.\n\nThe original single's B-side, \"Two for the Road\", is a short song performed by Springsteen alone, accompanying himself on guitar (acoustic and electric) and whistling for one verse. It is a love song, in whose lyrics the singer makes gentle advances to a girl he met after a show.\n\nLike several other videos from the Tunnel of Love album, including \"Brilliant Disguise\", \"One Step Up\" and \"Tougher Than the Rest\", the video for \"Tunnel of Love\" was directed by Meiert Avis. The video narrative reflects the fun house described in the song. The video was later released on the VHS and DVD Video Anthology / 1978-88."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730154","strTrack":"Brilliant Disguise","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/rwqurt1355151311.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idnJnjV_8rg","strDescription":"\"Brilliant Disguise\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album Tunnel of Love. It was released as the first single from the album, reaching the #5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The followup single, \"Tunnel of Love\", also reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, giving Springsteen two consecutive #1's. The single had less commercial success in other countries.\n\nLike much of the Tunnel of Love album, \"Brilliant Disguise\" was recorded in Springsteen's home studio, called Thrill Hill East, between January and May 1987 with several members of the E Street Band. On this song, Springsteen played several instruments and is backed by Roy Bittan on keyboards, Danny Federici on organ and Max Weinberg on drums.\n\nThe lyrics of \"Brilliant Disguise\" represent a confession of self-doubt on the part of the singer. The emotions expressed in the song include confusion, jealousy and anxiety about whether the singer's wife has become a stranger to him. The song deals with the masks people wear and the bitterness that can ensue when we realize the darkness that may lie behind those masks.\n\nThe song's quiet power builds slowly. The sound is scaled back from the typical E Street Band sound. The singer struggles to do things right, but it doesn't help. He can't trust either himself or his wife. Both he and his wife continue to play their roles - he of a \"faithful man\", she of a \"loving woman\", but the singer is nonetheless wracked with self-doubt. A key line towards the end of the song:\n\n\"I wanna know if it's you I don't trust/Because I damn sure don't trust myself.\"\n\nsums up the emotions that resonate throughout the song, and indeed the entire second side of the Tunnel of Love album.\n\nSpringsteen himself wrote about the song \"after '85 I'd had enough and turned inward to write about men, women and love, things that have previously been on the periphery of my work.\"\n\nThe song was later released on the compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen.\n\n\"Brilliant Disguise\" has been ranked as the #1192 best song of all time, as well as the #27 song of 1987 and the #214 song of the 1980s, in an aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net. The song has also been listed as one of the all time great songs in Toby Creswell's \"1001 songs\" and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock. It was also ranked as the #6 single of 1987 by the Village Voice and the #51 single of 1987 by the New Musical Express\n\n\nLike several other music videos from the Tunnel of Love album, including \"Tunnel of Love\", \"One Step Up\" and \"Tougher Than the Rest\", the video for \"Brilliant Disguise\" was directed by Meiert Avis.\n\nThe video of the song effectively reflects its emotions. The singer sits uncomfortably on the edge of a chair. He plays his guitar as he sings the lyrics about what it means to try to trust someone looking straight into the camera, never flinching. This very personal performance can make it difficult to watch, but it effectively reflects the themes of the song.\n\nThe intensely personal \"Brilliant Disguise\" video broke new ground on MTV, being a single shot without edits.\n\nThe video was later released on the VHS and DVD Video Anthology / 1978-88."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730155","strTrack":"One Step Up","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wywsuw1355151551.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkFQHScyti0","strDescription":"\"One Step Up\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 Tunnel of Love album. It was released as the third single from the album, following \"Brilliant Disguise\" and the title track. It reached position #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States. It also reached #2 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Since the previous two singles from the Tunnel of Love album went to #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart, this gave Springsteen three straight top 2 tracks from that album. The song was only released as a single in America.\n\nUnlike much of the Tunnel of Love album, \"One Step Up\" was not recorded in Springsteen's home studio (Thrill Hill East). Rather, it was recorded at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, California. It was recorded between May and August 1987. Springsteen plays all instruments, and future wife Patti Scialfa provided backing vocals. No other members of Springsteen's usual backing group, the E Street Band, are present.\n\nLike several other songs on the album, the song reflects the impending breakup of the marriage between Springsteen and then-wife Julianne Phillips. The song's lyrics are poetic, understated, emotional and eloquent. The song begins by describing a house with a broken furnace and a car that doesn't start, which serve as metaphors for the couple's relationship. Similar metaphors in the song are a bird that won't sing and church bells that won't ring for a new bride-to-be. Although the couple has been together for some time, they haven't learned from their experiences and continue to fight and slam doors. The lyrics refer to the couple's relationship as their \"dirty little war.\" Finally, the singer finds himself at a bar wondering whether to hook up with another woman there, while remembering a dream he had the night before about dancing with his wife. The singer is self-aware enough to recognize his share of responsibility for the couple's difficulties, as demonstrated in particular by the line: \"When I look at myself I don't see/The man I wanted to be\". Dave Marsh describes the song as being \"as miserable a cheating song as even Nashville ever knew.\"\n\nThe music for the song has a bare arrangement, reflecting how personal the song is. It is a quiet ballad with an ironically reassuring melody. The backing vocal provides a haunting echo to the Springsteen's lead vocal. Ironically, given the fact that this is a song about a marriage breaking up, these backing vocals were sung by the woman who would prove to be Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa.\n\nLike several other videos from the Tunnel of Love album, including \"Brilliant Disguise\", \"Tunnel of Love\" and \"Tougher Than the Rest\", the video for \"One Step Up\" was directed by Meiert Avis. The video intersperses scenes of Springsteen singing the song with images reflecting the song's narrative. The video was later released on the VHS and DVD Video Anthology / 1978-88.\n\nLive performance history:\nPerhaps due to the personal nature of the song, it has been performed live only infrequently. Between the Tunnel of Love Express Tour that supported the initial release of the album through July 2005, the song received 48 live performances in concert."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110217","idTrack":"32730157","strTrack":"Valentine's Day","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPycKqf7V9I","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730158","strTrack":"Badlands","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/urvtvq1350762456.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGGZetEkz0","strDescription":"\"Badlands\" was the leadoff track on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and its second single.\n\nThe song tells the story of a man down on his luck and angry at the world, who wants a better lot in life.\nThe classic E Street Band sound is immediately presented on \"Badlands\", as a brief drums intro kicks in to a powerful piano-and-electric guitar riff. The song is taken fast but with a purpose, with Max Weinberg's most dynamic drumming on the album to the fore; indeed it contains his most famous beat, a one-two-three-four-five-six-(double time)one-two-three pattern underneath the verses. Late in the song a brief guitar break leads to a Clarence Clemons tenor saxophone part.\n\n\"Badlands\" was not a commercial Top 40 success, only reaching #42 on the Billboard Hot 100, even worse than the album's previous single \"Prove It All Night\". Badlands did achieve considerable progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio airplay at the time, and classic rock airplay since. Moreover, Badlands has remained quite popular with Springsteen fans and with Springsteen himself. The song has appeared on seven Bruce Springsteen releases: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Live/1975\u201385, the 1995 Greatest Hits, Live in New York City, Live in Barcelona, The Essential Bruce Springsteen, and the Wal-Mart-only 2009 Greatest Hits."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730159","strTrack":"Adam Raised a Cain","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7v0zknMCo","strDescription":"From the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album, this is an \"emotionally autobiographical\" song as Bruce calls it. It is a dark track detailing the complicated relationship between Bruce and his father Douglas Springsteen, a relation that's bitter, dramatic, but loving in its painful way. The aggression and anger on this track will later diminish in later songs, from INDEPENDENCE DAY to LONG TIME COMIN', of which Christopher Phillips writes in Backstreets Magazine #83/84:\n\n    \"Adam Raised a Cain\" is the main reference point here, as \"Long Time Comin'\" spits in the face of that song's \"You know it's never over, it's relentless as the rain.\" Compare \"You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past\" with \"Well, if I had one wish in this godforsaken world, kids / It'd be that your sins would be your own.\"\n\nBruce wrote this song during his lawsuit with former manager Mike Appel, when he was living in a farm in Holmdel, NJ. From his introduction to INDEPENDENCE DAY during the 19 Dec 1978 show at Paramount Theatre, Portland, OR, one can conclude that the song was written around late 1976 or early 1977."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730160","strTrack":"Something in the Night","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bfZby9CN8E","strDescription":"Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, 'Something in the Night' was first released his 1978 album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, although it was played live in various versions since mid-1976.\n\n'Something in the Night' appeared for the first time on 01 Aug 1976 when it was performed live in concert at Monmouth Arts Centre in Red Bank, NJ. Between that date and its mid-1977 studio recording, the song lyrically evolved through several versions. This leads to the conclusion that SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT was written shortly before 01 Aug 1976.\n\nAccording to Dave Marsh, the first evening of the Darkness On The Edge Of Town album recording sessions \"was spent spent laying down demos of about twenty songs Bruce had written and more or less completed during the lawsuit. They included [...] 'Something in the Night' from the live shows of the previous year.\" Bruce Springsteen also recalls that \"SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT, that was a song that we did very first night in the studio, we did it as a demo tape.\"\n\nTwo takes of the song are in circulation: an early outtake recorded in Jun-Jul 1977 at Atlantic Record Studios in New York City, NY, (see the early outtake for more details), and the album version which was recorded in Sept-Oct 1977 at The Record Plant in New York City, NY.\n\nThe original mix of the album's version, taken from the album's original acetates, appears on several bootlegs including The Original Darkness Mixes (E Street Records) and The Heart Of Darkness (Skydisc).\n\nDuring that period (1976-1977), SOMETHING IN THE NIGHT evolved lyrically through several versions."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730161","strTrack":"Candy's Room","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jt5XdnHKcQ","strDescription":"'Candy's Room' is the 4. song on \"Darkness on the end og Town\" Album by Bruce Springsteen\n\n'Candy's Room' is assumed to be about a prstitute named Candy, who is torn between the rich guys, presenting her with material things, and \nthe love she has in a boy. She has fancy clothes and diamond rings \n\n\"She has men who'll give her anything, She wants but they don't see, That what she wants is me. Oh, and I want her so\"\n\nsked if this was true in a 2010 interview with Rolling Stone, Springsteen said, \"Does it really matter? I'll never tell.\" ..."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730162","strTrack":"Racing in the Street","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrxKkELQJiQ","strDescription":"\"Racing in the Street\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. In the original vinyl format, it was the last song of side one of the album. The song has been called Springsteen's best song by several commentators, including the authors of The New Rolling Stone Album Guide.\n\nThe song is a near-dirge-like ballad that begins with a slow, graceful and elegant introduction by pianist Roy Bittan.\n\nThe narrator has a dead end job, but his pride and joy is his '69 Chevy that he and his partner built, and race across the northeast United States to win money gambling against similar racers. The first verse is accompanied only by piano and opens with the narrator singing that:\n\n    \"I got a '69 Chevy with a 396\n    Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor\"\n\nMax Weinberg's drum rim taps signal a somewhat faster pace for the second verse. Midway through, Danny Federici's organ later joins in, combining to form what writer Robert Santelli termed \"one beautiful, seamless sound\". The organ entrance signals one of the lyric's main points, that the narrator divides the world into two types of people: those who \"give up living / And start dying little by little, piece by piece,\" and those like himself who find something to live for, which in his case is going racing in the streets.\n\nHowever, after an instrumental break the third verse unexpectedly takes place with again only piano behind it. The girlfriend the protagonist apparently won from a competitor in one of his races does not share his dream of going racing in the streets. Instead, she \"stares into the night with the eyes of one who hates for just being born.\" But the story ends on a possibly hopeful note, as the narrator attempts to find salvation in the closing lines:\n\n    \"Tonight my baby and me are gonna drive to the sea\n    And wash these sins off our hands.\""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730163","strTrack":"The Promised Land","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvxwrx1350768396.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c6KkP76slY","strDescription":"\"The Promised Land\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. It was released as a single in Europe, backed by another song from Darkness on the Edge of Town, \"Streets of Fire\".\n\nIn the documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness On the Edge of Town, Springsteen said the song is about \"how we honor the community and the place we came from.\" In the same documentary Springsteen noted that elements of the song reflected his own situation when he wrote it. He was unable to record a new album due to a lawsuit, and felt weak, unable to do what he wanted and that he was letting down the other members of the band. The song reflects the sense of despair but also of resilience and determination and desire to transcend his limitations that he was feeling at the time. Ultimately, Springsteen suggested that the message of the song is the need to lose one's illusions of a life without limitations while holding onto a sense of the possibilities in life."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730164","strTrack":"Factory","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zBvfgeGKwI","strDescription":"\"Factory\" is the 6th track on Bruce Springsteens \"Darkness on the Edge of Town\" Album from 1978, and B-side to \"Prove it All Night\" single.\n\nSpringsteen spent 20 minutes writing this song. And it's first time performance was on 23 May 1978 at the Shea Theater, Buffalo NY. A few weeks after the tour started on 21 Jul '78. It was only frequently played (36 times) through the rest of the tour.\n\nFrom the stories told by Springsteen about the song, it's very clear that the song is about his father."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730165","strTrack":"Streets of Fire","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_m9skT35RA","strDescription":"Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, STREETS OF FIRE was first released on his 1978 album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town.\n\n'Streets of Fire' is a short, inner-directed musing, but one that encapsulates the desperation that\u2019s one of the essential elements of \"Darkness On The Edge Of Town\".\n\nBruce wanted this album to be relentless, to never let up \u2014 even for a single refrain \u2014 on its emotional focus. \u201cStreets of Fire\u201d takes that idea and filters it through a wall of distorted, tension-laced guitar.\n\nAnd: one very nasty guitar solo. This is another example that provides that Springsteen is one of the best guitar players out there. The solo is not built on plenty of notes. Instead, he have choosen just the right ones, and leans on them heavily. This is yet another example of Bruce wringing the emotion out of that Fender. Not another example of who is \"The Boss\".\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730166","strTrack":"Prove It All Night","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tvprtq1350771217.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrvIVFE25I","strDescription":"\"Prove It All Night\" is the penultimate song on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and the first single released from it. This is nothing less than a Henrix beater!\n\nThe single gained little traction with Top 40 radio stations, reaching only #33 on the Billboard Hot 100; however it gained considerable play on progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio formats.\n\nIn keeping with a storied tradition of rock songs, these lyrics very effectively equate love with the surrendering of a women's virtue. The protagonist promises to prove his love all night, a vow that can be seen as either opportunistic or youthfully optimistic, depending on one's point of view. Thus it can be experienced as either humorous or sincere, like so many great love songs. Lyrically the song is similar to other Springsteen numbers such as \"Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)\" and \"Thunder Road\". The entire song contains a sense of optimism that the two individuals' quest for love will someday be realized but, at the same time, it seems that the world is closing in on them in that the characters' chances of falling in love are growing more limited as time passes.The song begins with a piano intro played by Roy Bittan. The rhythm guitar work is quite faint, though effectively setting the groove and feel of the song. Following the second stanza is a sax solo which precedes a somewhat intricate-sounding guitar solo by Springsteen.The solo,played quite fast,effectively voices the protagonist's mounting desire to elope."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110218","idTrack":"32730167","strTrack":"Darkness on the Edge of Town","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGld8_HpOQ","strDescription":"Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN is the tenth (and closing) track on his 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town\n\n\"Darkness\" contrasts the lives of two former lovers, one of whom eschewed risk (\"that blood it never burned in her veins\" in favor of the safety of \"a house up in Fairview\" while the other continued to frequent at the \"spot out 'neath Abram's bridge\". In \"Darkness\"' Springsteen examines the costs of both material comfort and discontent. To him, it's too easy to sneer at the person who chooses the nice home at the expense of self-examination, for that too forces a price (\"I lost my money and I lost my wife\").\n\nTo Springsteen, life comes at a pychic cost (\"everybody's got a secret\") that one must be willing to pay because existence will exact it anyway (\"'Til some day they just cut it loose\"). He must be \"on that hill with everything I got,\" but at the same time he grasps that that may not be possible for everyone. In fact, he's not even there by choice: He's there because he must be. Whatever the costs exacted by the darkness on the edge of town, he'll pay them in order to remain true to himself. This may not be the easiest path, but it's his."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730168","strTrack":"Better Days","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmwJQ62Cs_o","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730169","strTrack":"Lucky Town","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZf8eyGpapQf8eyGpapQ","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730170","strTrack":"Local Hero","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdspIGtkrE","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730171","strTrack":"If I Should Fall Behind","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04mRvBaEku4","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730172","strTrack":"Leap of Faith","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wxtqqx1355152298.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouWEZPkbznQ","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730173","strTrack":"The Big Muddy","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx7Qj0mylc","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730174","strTrack":"Living Proof","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYFLxZqVsRg","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730175","strTrack":"Book of Dreams","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"bruce springsteen  Book of Dreams","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730176","strTrack":"Souls of the Departed","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y4DOJEMz8c","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110219","idTrack":"32730177","strTrack":"My Beautiful Reward","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y70iujeP38","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730178","strTrack":"Blinded by the Light","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/uwrypv1350569960.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBjVPf_7g88&hd=1","strDescription":"\"Blinded by the Light\" is a song written and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, although it is mostly known by its 1976 #1 hit version recorded by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. It was released in the United Kingdom in August 1976, where it reached No. 6 in the BMRB charts.\n\n\"Blinded by the Light\" was the first song on, and first single from, Bruce Springsteen's 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. Springsteen's version was commercially unsuccessful and did not appear on the music charts.\nLyrics\n\nThe Earth Band's recording of the song features several changed lyrics. The most prominent change is in the chorus, where Springsteen's \"cut loose like a deuce\" is replaced with \"revved up like a deuce.\"\n\nThis is commonly misheard as \"wrapped up like a douche (the V sound in \"revved\" is almost unpronounced and the S sound in \"deuce\" is easy to mistake as an \"SH\" sound). Springsteen himself has joked about the controversy, claiming that it was not until Manfred Mann rewrote the song to be about a \"feminine hygiene product\" that it became popular.\n\nCover versions and reissues:\n\nManfred Mann's Earth Band released a version of the song on their album The Roaring Silence. Their version includes the Chopsticks melody played on piano. The song reached #1 on both Billboard's Hot 100 and on the Canadian RPM chart on 19 February 1977. The Manfred Mann's Earth Band recording of \"Blinded by the Light\" is Springsteen's only Number 1 single as a songwriter on the Hot 100. In 2002, Danish act Funkstar Deluxe released its disco version of this song.\n\nA \"jazzified\" version can be found on Springsteen's Live in Dublin album, recorded with the Sessions Band.\n\nThe song is featured in the films Blow and Running with Scissors."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730179","strTrack":"Growin' Up","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vpqpsq1350569809.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dy7RTicVr0&feature=related","strDescription":"\"Growin' Up\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. in 1973.\n\nIt is a moderately-paced tune, concerning an adolescence as a rebellious New Jersey teen, with lyrics written in the first-person. The lyrics feature a chorus that is progressively modified as the song continues, with the first chorus being \"I hid in the clouded wrath of the crowd but when they said 'Sit down,' I stood up,\" while the second chorus switches to \"clouded warmth...'come down,' I threw up\" and the third finishes the song with \"mother breast...'pull down,' I pulled up.\"\n\nThe track soon became a live favorite for the Springsteen audiences and Springsteen often told a long history of his problems with his father as an intro to the song. A version of this history can be heard on the album Live/1975-85. The song has been performed live about 270 times.\n\n(An acoustic version of the song, part of Springsteen's 1972 audition for CBS Records, appears on Tracks and 18 Tracks.)\n\nThe song was featured on the soundtracks of the films Big Daddy (1999) and Gracie (2007).\n\nDavid Bowie recorded a version of this song in the early stages of the Diamond Dogs sessions with Ronnie Wood on lead guitar. In 1990 this was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of his Pin Ups album, and in 2004 it appeared on the bonus disc of the 30th anniversary edition of Diamond Dogs. The song has also been covered by Any Trouble, John Hammond, Jr., Portastic and Alvin Stardust. Pearl Jam has also played it live."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730180","strTrack":"Mary Queen of Arkansas","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E2HGJA2nzo","strDescription":"\"Mary Queen of Arkansas\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in 1973. Springsteen played \"Mary Queen of Arkansas\" at his audition for John H. Hammond at CBS Records, who signed him to his first record contract on May 2, 1972, although Hammond was less impressed with this song than with \"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City\" or with \"Growin' Up\". The day after signing the contract, Springsteen recorded \"Mary Queen of Arkansas\" as part of a 12 song demo for Hammond. The demo version of the song was released on Tracks in 1998.\n\nThe song is one of the slower tracks on Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., played on acoustic guitar, and the lyrics of the song may be about a drag queen. The lyrics are dense and reminiscent of Bob Dylan. \"Mary Queen Of Arkansas\" is a slow, quiet acoustic song with a faint country feel to it. The lyrics contain repeated references to the circus (a theme explored in deeper depth on his The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle) as in \"Well I'm just a lonely acrobat, this live wire, she's my trade\" and \"The big top is for dreamers, we can take the circus all the way to the border.\" It is a love song, devoted to \"Mary.\" Like most of Springsteen's songs, particularly the first album, the lyrics are evocative though not detailed. The song appears to be sung in the first person, by a slave in the antebellum American south, to his white mistress, with whom he is having a clandestine affair.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730181","strTrack":"Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6n9rFs_aJE","strDescription":"\"Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from the album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., released in 1973. The song was part of the demo that Springsteen recorded for John Hammond of CBS Records in advance of getting his first recording contract. This demo version was released on Tracks in 1998.\n\nThe song is loosely based on a bus ride Springsteen once took to visit a girlfriend in uptown Manhattan. As a result, the song is basically set in Spanish Harlem, although it contains some anomalous references, such as to actress Joan Fontaine. The characters are more thinly sketched than in other songs on Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., but the song does contain the incongruous rhyming of other Springsteen songs of the period and is full of good humor. Springsteen only rarely plays \"Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?\" in concert, but when he does it is usually enjoyed by the fans.\n\n\"Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?\" is a beat-style pastiche of a journey through city streets. It is fast-paced and has no chorus. One recognizable theme is a movement towards the sky, as in the lines \"drink this and you'll grow wings on your feet\", \"interstellar mongrel nymphs\" and \"(Mary Lou) rides to heaven on a gyroscope.\""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730182","strTrack":"Lost in the Flood","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_h4jxXPENU","strDescription":"The first verse in \"Lost in The Flood\" concerns a man returning home from Vietnam and the song goes on to artistically describe the loss of innocence that was prevalent in the post-Vietnam era...\n\nLater verses concern the returning solider becoming a race car driver and losing his life in a crash during a race riots that happened in Asbury Park. \nBruce was expanding his writing skills, but the picture he was portraying was based on fact, not something imaginary. Witch is typical for Springsteens writing during the years to come.\n\nThe later verses concern life without him.. \ncrime continues in the neighborhood and there is a sense that the American dream is lying bleeding in the street."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730183","strTrack":"The Angel","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_jUSf3-D3U","strDescription":"\"The Angel\" from Bruce Springsteens debu album \"Greatings from Asbury Park N.J.\" was also released as the B-side to Springsteen's \"Blinded by the Light\" single. The song was part of the demo that Springsteen recorded for John Hammond of CBS Records in advance of getting his first recording contract. At the time Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. was released, Springsteen considered it his most sophisticated song. It has had virtually no live performances.\n\nThe song is one of the slower tracks on Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., played on piano. However, late in the recording sessions for Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., Richard Davis overdubbed an upright bass part for the song. The lyrics of the song are about a motorcycle outlaw.The lyrics are full of automobile imagery.\nOne line: \"The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes\" may have been later reworked into the classic line \"The highway's jammed with broken heroes\" on \"Born to Run.\n\nThe lyrics  describe a man referred to as \"the angel\" and a woman who is \"Madison Avenue's claim to fame in a trainer bra with eyes like rain.\" This song has a fully developed automobile theme, including some lines such as \"The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes/in Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors/Followin' dead-end signs into the sores/The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore\". Another notable line is the historic \"hubcap heaven.\" Bruce took one of his early rare photos in front of this site in Monmouth New Jersey. The referenced \"Hubcap Heaven\" is now known as \"The Hubcap Farm\" and is still in business. Bruce once said he would never play this song live, and he went 23 years keeping that promise. In London in 1996, on his acoustic Ghost of Tom Joad Tour, Bruce played the song. Until later 2009, that had been its only live performance. However, on November 22, 2009, in Buffalo, New York, which was the final 2009 show of his scheduled Working On A Dream Tour, he and the E Street Band performed the song, along with the rest of the Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. album. It was the first performance of the song with the E Street Band."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730184","strTrack":"For You","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyo1bMQyEY","strDescription":"Like most of the songs on Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., \"For You\" was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York between July and September 1972. Musicians participating in these sessions included future E Street Band members David Sancious, Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez. It is a climactic, percussion-driven song. Unlike many other songs on Springsteen's debut album, it takes the time to pace and build.\n\nThe lyrics are about a woman who has attempted suicide. She does not need the singer's \"urgency\" even though her life is \"one long emergency\" as Springsteen sings in the chorus (along with \"and your cloud line urges me, and my electric surges free\"). The singer is committed to doing anything to save her, and admires her ability to hang on.\n\nOnce again, the lyrics are evocative of images and not details, and little can be said in description.\n\n\"For You\" has also been covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Format, and Greg Kihn."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730185","strTrack":"Spirit in the Night","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/uqwxqp1350573058.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-S1X-fyk4","strDescription":"The original version of \"Spirit in the Night\" was released on Bruce Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.. It was one of the last songs to be written and recorded for the album.\n\n\"Spirit in the Night\" has been described as the one song on the album on which the music and narrative fit together.Clemons' sax playing and Lopez' drumming match the freedom and ebullience described in the lyrics.\n\nThe lyrics themselves describe a group of teenagers \u2014  Crazy Janey, Hazy Davy, Killer Joe, Wild Billy, G-Man and Mission Man, who is the person in the song telling the story \u2014 going to a spot called \"Greasy Lake\" near \"Route 88\" for a night of freedom, sex, and drinking. But although their escape to the freedom of Greasy Lake is short lived, the emphasis is on the friends' togetherness.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2110220","idTrack":"32730186","strTrack":"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BktOzc8m93U","strDescription":"\"It's Har to Be a Saint in the City\" is the last track on Bruce Springsteen's \"Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J\"\nAnd this is the song that impressed producer Mike Appel so much that he quit his job to become Springsteen's manager, even though Springsteen did not have a record contract yet. This was also the first song Springsteen played at his audition for John Hammond at CBS Records, who eventually signed him to a record contract, on May 2, 1972.\n\n\"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City\" is a fast-paced song. It is a solid rock 'n' roll song when played in concert. Its tone is cocky and arrogant. The lyrics contain an element of religious allegory as the singer boasts of his streetwise toughness. The song is about a young man growing up on the streets of a city, and who is trying to stay \"good\" and do what he believes is right. Unfortunately, \"those gasoline boys sure talk gritty\" and he is inexorably dragged into some very unsaintly activities. One of the more quoted lines is \"The devil appeared like Jesus through the steam in the street/Showin' me a hand I knew even the cops couldn't beat/I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dove into the heat/It's so hard to be a saint when you're just a boy out on the street.\""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912610","strTrack":"Long Walk Home","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywFZqtPlhU","strDescription":"\"Long Walk Home\" is a 2006 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. It first appeared on his Sessions Band Tour of that year, in folk guise in the European leg of the tour in London for one performance only. Reworked with different and shorter lyrics, it was recorded by Springsteen and the E Street Band as a mid-tempo rocker and released on the 2007 Springsteen album Magic. This song was #8 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007.\n\nSpringsteen had said that it was a song about how he felt in the times of George W. Bush. \"In that particular song a guy comes back to his town and recognizes nothing and is recognized by nothing,\" Springsteen told The New York Times' A. O. Scott. \"The singer in 'Long Walk Home,' that's his experience. His world has changed. The things that he thought he knew, the people who he thought he knew, whose ideals he had something in common with, are like strangers. The world that he knew feels totally alien. I think that's what's happened in this country in the past six years.\" \n\nAlthough not released as a single, the song was highlighted when a music video was made and released on 25 September 2007, the same day as the video for Magic first single \"Radio Nowhere\". The video featured real-life scenes from Springsteen's Jersey Shore interpersed with shots of Springsteen at Asbury Park Convention Hall and at Tony's diner on Main Street in Freehold."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912609","strTrack":"Last to Die","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_-qAkqj8D8","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912608","strTrack":"Magic","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgzYSwLqQcc","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912606","strTrack":"Girls in Their Summer Clothes","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wtsuuq1355305184.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PB1a1c9zA","strDescription":"\"Girls in Their Summer Clothes\" is a song by American recording artist Bruce Springsteen, from his album Magic.\n\nMatched with a pop-oriented melody, Springsteen's full-throated singing, and a pop-orchestral arrangement, the lyric portrays a series of warm small-town vignettes:\n\n    Frankie's Diner, an old friend on the edge of town \u2014\n    The neon sign spinning round,\n    Like a cross over the lost and found.\n    The fluorescent lights flick over Pop's Grill,\n    Shaniqua brings the coffee and asks \"Fill?\"\n    and says, \"Penny for your thoughts now my boy, Bill\"\n\n\"Girls in Their Summer Clothes\" has been cited as a singularly \"breezy\" song on the album, though A. O. Scott of The New York Times notes: \"Not that 'Girls in Their Summer Clothes' is untouched by melancholy. Its narrator, after all, stands and watches as the girls of the title 'pass me by.'\" Jay Lustig of The Star-Ledger writes that the song \"unfolds gradually and at its own eccentric pace, with the music, and Springsteen's vocals, getting progressively more intense.\"\n\nIt was released for iTunes digital download on January 15, 2008, as a single-like \"bundle\" consisting of two audio tracks and an accompanying video. As such the \"Winter Mix\" of the song was presented, which featured a single not doubled Springsteen vocal track, some added or enhanced percussion parts, and similar small changes. The release achieved minor chartal success, reaching positions 95 on the Billboard Hot 100, 67 on the Pop 100, and 62 on Hot Digital Songs.\n\nThe music video for the song (entitled \"Girls in Their Summer Clothes (Winter Mix)\") was directed by Mark Pellington. Filmed on the Jersey Shore on a cold winter day, it showed girls and women of various ages, interspersed with shots of Springsteen strumming his vintage Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar. The backing E Street Band was not shown. Parts of the video mirrored the song's imagery, especially the diner scene.\n\n\"Girls in Their Summer Clothes\" was regularly featured on the 2007\u20132008 Magic Tour, often as the first encore song, although it suffered being dropped during a number of shows in early portions of 2008. One such first leg of tour performance was recorded an included in the January 2008 digital download bundle.\n\nIn typically delayed fashion, the song garnered two nominations for the Grammy Awards of 2009, Best Rock Song and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. It won the first, but lost the second to John Mayer's \"Gravity\". Springsteen subsequently confessed that he had not been tracking this closely: \"I didn't even know I was up for a Grammy! I opened the newspaper on Monday and saw that I had won, and thought, 'Well, that's great!'\"\n\nAlthough the song's lush pop-orchestral production approach was extended on many of the tracks of Springsteen's 2009 album Working on a Dream, \"Girls in Their Summer Clothes\" was little played on Springsteen and the E Street Band's associated Working on a Dream Tour."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912604","strTrack":"Your Own Worst Enemy","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2eY9ke24s","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912603","strTrack":"Livin' in the Future","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wlgm7Fehaw","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125332","idTrack":"32912601","strTrack":"Radio Nowhere","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tyxpxy1355305095.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrOYsNCPmg","strDescription":"\"Radio Nowhere\" is the first single released from Bruce Springsteen's 2007 studio album Magic.\n\n\"Radio Nowhere\" was awarded Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Song at the Grammy Awards of 2008.\n\nThe song is an up-tempo, electric guitar-driven, modern rocker that features the work of E Street Band members Max Weinberg on drums, Garry Tallent on bass guitar, Clarence Clemons on saxophone, Steven Van Zandt, Clemons and Patti Scialfa on background vocals, and Nils Lofgren on a guitar part underneath Clemons's sax solo. The opening guitar riff and chord progression are somewhat reminiscent of Tommy Tutone's 1982 hit \"867-5309/Jenny\" with Tommy Tutone lead singer Tommy Heath quoted as saying: \"Everybody\u2019s calling me about it,\" and that, \"I think it's close enough that if I wanted to [take legal action], I could work with it.\"\n\nSpringsteen's 1990s twang reasserts itself in the first verses of the down-mixed vocal line. \"Radio Nowhere\"'s lyrical themes address alienation and a desire for musical and social connection, a theme similar to some of his previous work:\n\n    I was tryin' to find my way home,\n    But all I heard was a drone\u2014\n    Bouncing off a satellite,\n    Crushin' the last lone American night.\n    This is Radio Nowhere . . . is there anybody alive out there?\n\nSpringsteen's lyrics appear to intentionally and repeatedly allude to his previous songs, an important artistic tradition in poetry and songwriting, continuing and reconnecting the artist's chosen themes they wish to emphasize. The lyric \"I was driving through the misty rain\" is likely a reference to his song \"Downbound Train\" on his album Born in the U.S.A. with the lyric \"I feel her kiss in the misty rain.\" And the lyric \"Dancing down a dark hole\" likely refers to his song \"Dancing in the Dark\" from the same album.\n\nIn addition, the line \"is there anybody alive out there?\", while not a previous Springsteen lyric, has been a staple exhortation of his live show. He has been yelling it out for years \u2014 notably during the 1999-2000 E Street Reunion Tour \u2014 as the show enters its final stretch and he wants to rally the crowd one more time. It is also arguably the central question running through his entire body of work, reflecting the primal importance that he gives to the connective power of rock'n'roll.\n\nThe single was released ahead of the album, initially leaking to the Internet on August 22, 2007, to satellite radio the following day and to regular terrestrial radio the day after that. Scott and Todd played the song twice on the morning of August 24 on New York City's 95.5 WPLJ-FM. After the first airing, a disgruntled Sony representative called in ordering them not to play the song again. It is unclear as to whether this was a radio bit, designed to drum up publicity for record, or if the Sony rep was truly upset. Either way, Scott and Todd told the caller that they would not play the song again as long as he was on the phone with them. They proceeded to hang up on him and then play Radio Nowhere for a second time. Later in the day, classic rocker Q104.3 in New York City reportedly played the song several times in a row. The song was also played twice in the afternoon of August 24 by \"Fast\" Freddie of 93.3 WNCD the Wolf, in Youngstown, Ohio. After being contacted by a Columbia Records representative, they stopped playing it. The official release for radio was set for Tuesday, August 28, 2007. \"Radio Nowhere\" received some of its biggest promotion and early airplay from a huge Springsteen fan, Chris \"Mad Dog\" Russo, sports talk host on WFAN in New York, who could not stop raving about it. In fact, callers frequently open their conversations with Russo by chanting Springsteen's \"Is there anyone alive out there?\" line from the song. It was also admired by other artists within rockdom: At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 in Munich, Germany, when asked by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl which song he wished he had written, R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe cited \"Radio Nowhere\".\n\n\"Radio Nowhere\" was made available as a free, limited-timespan download \"exclusively\" from the iTunes Music Store starting on August 28, 2007 (although it was also available from Guardian Unlimited). The site also offered a pre-order of the new album. Sony BMG themselves created the site www.radionowheredownload.com (no longer active), which also offered the single free for Springsteen's fan base in Europe (for whom iTunes is not always an option), making it available for free well in advance of the commercial release of the album.\n\nDespite all this initial drama, the song was not a chart success in the U.S. (with the exception of reaching number 2 on the Triple-A chart). It failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100. The song charted significantly higher in European countries, with it being most successful in Norway and Ireland (peaking at number 2 on both charts). Nevertheless, the song earned a degree of mind share in the mass media. For example, it was used during the broadcast of the final game of the 2007 World Series as the background music for the production credits and underneath a montage of all the major plays of the series. In addition, \"Radio Nowhere\" is being used very frequently in American sports arenas during halts in play. In a similar vein, ESPN Radio's The Mike Tirico Show features \"Radio Nowhere\" as the show's opening theme.\n\n\"Radio Nowhere\" was included in Springsteen's subsequent compilation album, the 2009 Wal-Mart-only Greatest Hits."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768024","strTrack":"Born to Run","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vywryy1355154179.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuThNgl3YA","strDescription":"\"Born to Run\" is a song by American singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen, and the title song of his album Born to Run.\n\nWritten at 7\u00bd West End Court in Long Branch, New Jersey in early 1974, the song was Bruce Springsteen's last-ditch effort to make it big. The prior year, Springsteen had released two albums to critical acclaim but with little commercial success. The lyrics to the song are appropriately epic for his last-ditch, all-or-nothing shot at the stars, yet they remain rooted in the universal desperation of adolescence: Will you walk with me out on the wire, cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider...We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.'\n\nWritten in the first person, the song is a love letter to a girl named Wendy (Wendy let me in I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions...; I wanna die with you Wendy on the streets tonight/in an everlasting kiss!), for whom the hot-rod-riding protagonist certainly has enough passion to love, but perhaps not the patience. However, Springsteen has noted that it has a much simpler core: getting out of Freehold.\n\nIn his 1996 book Songs, Springsteen relates that while the beginning of the song was written on guitar around the opening riff, the song's writing was finished on piano, the instrument that most of the Born to Run album was composed on.\n\nIn the period prior to the release of Born to Run Springsteen was becoming well known (especially in his native northeast) for his epic live shows. \"Born to Run\" joined his concert repertoire well before the release of the album, being performed in concert by May 1974 if not earlier.\n\nThe first recording of the song was made by Allan Clarke of the British group The Hollies, although its release was delayed, only appearing after Springsteen's own now-famous version.\n\nIn recording the song Springsteen first earned his noted reputation for perfectionism, laying down as many as eleven guitar tracks to get the sound just right. The recording process and alternate ideas for the song's arrangement are described in the Wings For Wheels documentary DVD included in the 2005 reissue Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition package.\n\nThe track was recorded at 914 Sound Studios in Blauvelt, New York amidst touring breaks during 1974, with final recording done on August 6, well in advance of the rest of the album, and featured Ernest \"Boom\" Carter on the drums and David Sancious on keyboards; they would be replaced by Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan for the rest of the album and in the ongoing E Street Band (which was still uncredited on Springsteen's records at the time). The song was also recorded with only Springsteen and Mike Appel as producers; it would be later in the following year, when work on the album bogged down, that Jon Landau was brought in as an additional producer. Future record executive Jimmy Iovine engineered the majority of the sessions.\n\nA pre-release version of the song, with a slightly different mix, was given by Appel to disc jockey Ed Sciaky of WMMR in Philadelphia in early November 1974, and within a couple of weeks was given to other progressive rock radio outlets as well, including WNEW in New York, WMMS in Cleveland, WBCN in Boston, and WVBR in Ithaca, New York. It immediately became quite popular on these stations, and led to cuts from Springsteen's first two albums being frequently played as well as building anticipation for the album release.\n\nUpon release in August 1975, the song and the album became unparalleled successes for Springsteen, springing him into stardom, and resulting in simultaneous cover stories in Time and Newsweek magazines."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768025","strTrack":"Thunder Road","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I579UTHm-o","strDescription":"\"Thunder Road,\" was written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and is the opening track on his 1975 breakthrough album Born to Run. It is ranked as one of Springsteen's greatest songs, and often appears on lists of the top rock songs of all time. Rolling Stone magazine placed it as #86 on its \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time.\"\n\nThe song underwent considerable evolution as it was written, with an early version titled \"Wings for Wheels\" first performed at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1975. The phrase \"wings for wheels,\" would eventually be used in the final version of the song's lyrics. Other early versions also mention a girl named \"Angelina\" or \"Christina\" rather than the studio version's \"Mary.\" Among other changes, including entirely different lyrics for some verses, \"Wings for Wheels\" originally concluded with \"This is a town full of losers, and baby I was born to win,\" instead of the studio version's ending, \"It's a town full of losers, and I'm pulling out of here to win.\"\n\n\nThe lyrics to \"Thunder Road\" describe a young woman named Mary, her boyfriend, and their \"one last chance to make it real.\" Thematically, it reads as a nostalgic companion piece to \"Born to Run\".\n\nMusically, the song opens with a quiet piano and harmonica introduction, meant, as Springsteen said years later in the Wings For Wheels documentary, as a welcoming to both the track and the album, a signifier that something was about to happen. Eschewing a traditional verse-and-chorus structure, the song's arrangement gradually ramps up in instrumentation, tempo and intensity. The title phrase is not used until the middle section of the song, and then is not used again. Finally, after the closing line there is a saxophone-and-Fender Rhodes duet in the instrumental coda.\n\nIn this song, Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison \"singing for the lonely\" on the radio. Orbison, one of whose best-known songs is \"Only the Lonely,\" was a huge influence on Springsteen.\n\nThe song's title comes from the Robert Mitchum film Thunder Road. Springsteen declared that he was somehow inspired by the movie despite not having seen it. As he says: \"I never saw the movie, I only saw the poster in the lobby of the theater.\"\n\nAt the end of the \"VH1 Storytellers\"-Show Springsteen concluded: \"So this was my... it was my big, my big invitation to my audience, to myself, [chuckles] to uh... anybody who was interested. Uh... my invitation to a long and earthly, very earthly journey. Hopefully in the company of uh, someone you love, people you love, and in search of a home you can feel a part of. Good luck and good evening.\"\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768026","strTrack":"Badlands","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tqxutx1355154511.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFAr2AbvvF8","strDescription":"\"Badlands\" was the leadoff track on Bruce Springsteen's fourth studio album Darkness on the Edge of Town, and its second single.\n\nThe song tells the story of a man down on his luck and angry at the world, who wants a better lot in life.\n\u201cBaby, I got my facts\n\nLearned real good right now\nYou better get it straight darlin'\nPoor man wanna be rich\nRich man wanna be king\nAnd a king ain't satisfied\n'Til he rules everything\nI wanna go out tonight\nI wanna find out what I got\u201d\n\nThese themes are similar to the motivations of Charles Starkweather who is the explicit protagonist of another Springsteen song Nebraska, although there is no stated connection to Starkweather in this song.\n\nOn March 15, 2012, in a keynote speech to an audience at the South by Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen discussed the Animals' influence on his music at length, praising their harsh, propulsive sound and lyrical content. Saying that his album Darkness on the Edge of Town was \"filled with Animals,\" Springsteen played the opening riffs to \"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood\" and his own \"Badlands\" back to back, then said, \"Listen up, youngsters! This is how successful theft is accomplished!\"\n\nThe classic E Street Band sound is immediately presented on \"Badlands\", as a brief drums intro kicks in to a powerful piano-and-electric guitar riff. The song is taken fast but with a purpose, with Max Weinberg's most dynamic drumming on the album to the fore; indeed it contains his most famous beat, a one-two-three-four-five-six-(double time)one-two-three pattern underneath the verses. Late in the song a brief guitar break leads to a Clarence Clemons tenor saxophone part.\n\n\"Badlands\" was not a commercial Top 40 success, only reaching #42 on the Billboard Hot 100, even worse than the album's previous single \"Prove It All Night\". Badlands did achieve considerable progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio airplay at the time, and classic rock airplay since. Moreover, Badlands has remained quite popular with Springsteen fans and with Springsteen himself. The song has appeared on seven Bruce Springsteen releases: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Live/1975\u201385, the 1995 Greatest Hits, Live in New York City, Live in Barcelona, The Essential Bruce Springsteen, and the Wal-Mart-only 2009 Greatest Hits.\n\nAs evidenced by its appearance on three live offerings, \"Badlands\" is a staple of Springsteen and E Street Band concert performances. It opened shows on the 1978 Darkness Tour before the album had even been released, a slot it held for much of that legendary tour (one such performance from Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum was filmed and released as a promotional video in the early 1980s). It was featured near or at the end of the first set during the 1980-1981 River Tour (one such performance from Arizona State University, famously introduced by Springsteen decrying the election of Ronald Reagan as president the night before, was included on Live/1975\u201385, less the intro), a spot it held for much of the 1984-1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour until the stadium shows, when it was used to keep momentum going out of the opening \"Born in the U.S.A.\". \"Badlands\" was put on the shelf for most of the 1988 Tunnel of Love Express, a mark of how radically that tour sought to throw out stock show elements. Once the 1992-1993 \"Other Band\" Tour was underway, it was quickly added back in for some needed mid-first-set energy. Springsteen seemed to conclude it fit this role, as he kept it in the same \"10 songs in\" position during all of the 1999-2000 Reunion Tour and 2002-2003 Rising Tour shows, recapturing audience enthusiasm after less familiar material such as \"Murder, Inc.\" or \"Worlds Apart\" were performed. On the 2007 Magic Tour, however, the shortened show time resulted in \"Badlands\" becoming even more prominent as the main set closer. For the 2009 Working on a Dream Tour, \"Badlands\" resumed its old role as the show opener; it stayed in that slot until the final two months of the tour - when Springsteen chose to play the Born to Run album in its entirety at a show, \"Badlands\" was usually shifted to be the final song of the main set, which the track \"Born to Run\" had previously held on the tour.\n\nPerformed live, \"Badlands\" features a number of band and audience customary practices. Danny Federici, while he was alive and touring, would play the electronic glockenspiel, which added to carry the opening keyboard riff, immediately announcing the song to the crowd and getting everyone to their feet. Fans clap hands in time to Weinberg's famous part, with newcomers watching and then following the double-time part at the end. During the chorus, when Springsteen shouts \"Bad-lands!\" fans pump their fists in the air twice, once for each syllable of the word. In the years when it slotted at the start of shows, this would be Clemons' first sax solo, which would bring him to center stage and elicit huge cheers from the crowd. The slow-down afterward that is often elongated, with the audience joining Springsteen for the long, wordless \"oooh oooh\"s part. One or more false endings is usually tacked on, to further prolong the experience."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768027","strTrack":"The River","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wwwttt1355154582.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6R77eGx8xM","strDescription":"\"The River\" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, accompanied by the E Street Band. It was the title track of his fifth album, The River, and was a hit single in parts of Europe. It reached #25 in the Netherlands, and reached the top 10 in both Sweden and Norway. Its B-side was either \"Independence Day\" or \"Ramrod,\" depending on the country.\n\n\"The River\" was originally intended to be included on an earlier, one-record version of The River, tentatively called The Ties That Bind. The song itself was recorded at The Power Station in New York in July or August 1979. In an early performance Springsteen cites the inspiration as \"my brother in law and my sister\".\n\n\"The River\" makes use of a haunting harmonica part, and in some ways is a precursor to the style of his next album, Nebraska. The imagery of the chorus and the end of the song were inspired by lines from Hank Williams' 1950 hit, \"Long Gone Lonesome Blues\". The song's depiction of how economic difficulties are interlaced with local culture also presaged the 1980s popularity of heartland rock:\n\n    I come from down in the valley,\n    Where mister when you're young \u2014\n    They bring you up to do, like your daddy done\n\n    ...\n\n    I got a job working construction, for the Johnstown Company\n    But lately there ain't been much work, on account of the economy\n    Now all them things that seemed so important \u2014\n    Well mister, they vanished right into the air\n\nWriter Robert Hilburn described the song as \"a classic outline of someone who has to re-adjust his dreams quickly [, facing] life as it is, not a world of his imagination.\"\n\nThroughout the song the river is viewed as a symbol for the dreams of the future. The narrator keeps his hopes alive even as they realistically begin to fail.\n\n    That sends me down to the river,\n    Though I know, the river is dry.\n    It sends me down to the river, tonight\n\nThe song was debuted in public at the Musicians United for Safe Energy concerts at Madison Square Garden in September 1979, and was featured in the subsequent 1980 film No Nukes three months before The River's release.\n\n\"The River\" was not released as a single in the U.S., but was released as a single in May 1981 in several countries in Western Europe. It placed number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached number 24 on the Irish Singles Chart, number 10 in Sweden's singles chart, number 6 in the Danish Top 20 and had its best showing with a number 5 placement on Norway's singles chart. In the U.S., it gained considerable album oriented rock airplay and became one of Springsteen's best-known songs. It was included on both his 1995 Greatest Hits and 2003 The Essential Bruce Springsteen compilations. The song was also incorporated in the European edition of the 2009 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Greatest Hits.\n\n\"The River\", and a few other songs on The River, such as \"Wreck on the Highway\" and \"Stolen Car\", mark a new direction in Bruce Springsteen's songwriting: these ballads imbued with a sense of hopelessness anticipate his next album, Nebraska. Bruce Springsteen himself has noted that \"Wreck on the Highway\" is one of the songs reflecting a shift in his songwriting style, linking The River to Nebraska.\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net rated this song as the #25 song of 1980, as well as #239 of the 1980s and #1341 all time."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768028","strTrack":"Hungry Heart","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xxxvus1355154839.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYpokhq_-w","strDescription":"\"Hungry Heart\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen on his fifth album, The River. It was released as the album's first single in 1980 and became Springsteen's first big hit of his own on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.\n\nWhen Springsteen met Joey Ramone in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Ramone asked him to write a song for The Ramones. Springsteen composed \"Hungry Heart\" that night, but decided to keep it for himself on the advice of his producer and manager, Jon Landau. Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as \"Because the Night\" and \"Fire\" had been given away and become hits for others, and Landau preferred the trend not continue.\n\nThe title is drawn from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem \"Ulysses\": \"For always roaming with a hungry heart\".\n\nSpringsteen's voice was slightly sped up on the recording, producing a higher-pitched vocal. (Dire Straits had done the same thing on 1978's \"In The Gallery\".) Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles sang backup. The mix of songwriting and production techniques was successful, and \"Hungry Heart\" reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1980 and was his biggest hit until Dancing in the Dark hit #2 in 1984. In the subsequent Rolling Stone Readers' Poll, \"Hungry Heart\" was voted Best Single for the year.\n\n\"Hungry Heart\" was used on several movie soundtracks over the years; including the obscure 1982 Israeli film \"Kvish L'Lo Motzah\" (a.k.a. \"Dead End Street\", which was actually the very first motion picture ever to feature Springsteen music), the 1983 Tom Cruise hit movie Risky Business, the 1992 AIDS drama \"Peter's Friends\", and the 1998 Adam Sandler comedy \"The Wedding Singer\". In the year 2000 the song was used in the film \"The Perfect Storm\".\n\nThe single was not a hit in the United Kingdom when first released, reaching only #44 on the UK Singles Chart. It did better in 1995 when it was reissued in conjunction with his Greatest Hits album; this time, it reached #28. A video clip was filmed on July 9, 1995 at the tiny \"Caf\u00e9 Eckstein\" in East Berlin, featuring German rock star Wolfgang Niedecken and his \"Leopardefelleband\", although neither are heard on the actual audio track, as this so-called \"Berlin 95\" version (which was also released on CD singles) just features Bruce's live vocals and audience noise laid over the song's original 1980 E Street Band studio recording.\n\nOn the day of his murder in December 1980, John Lennon said he thought \"Hungry Heart\" was \"a great record\" and even compared it to his single (Just Like) Starting Over, which as a matter of fact was actually released as a single no more than three days after \"Heart\".\n\nThe \"Everybody's Got A Hungry Heart\" episode of Japanese anime series Battle B-Daman is named after the lyric in the song. Weezer mentions the song in their 2008 song \"Heart Songs\" on their album Weezer (\"The Red Album\")\".\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net rated this song as the #38 song of 1980, as well as #341 of the 1980s and #1870 all time. The song has also been listed as the #1 single of 1980 by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock. It was also listed as #625 on Marsh's list of the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768029","strTrack":"Atlantic City","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qxusvs1355154990.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3eu1gW-bQ8","strDescription":"\"Atlantic City\" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska, considered to be one of Springsteen's most dour albums in tone. It has since often been heard in a full band arrangement in concert.\n\nSpringsteen writes in his Greatest Hits sleeve notes, he recorded the track in his bedroom, \".....for $1,050 ( the cost of the four-track Tascam recorder), mixed through an old Gibson guitar unit to a beat box....\"\n\nThe song depicts a young couple's romantic escape to the New Jersey city Atlantic City, but it also wrestles with the inevitability of death, as the man in the relationship intends to take a job in organized crime upon arriving in the city. The opening lines of \"Atlantic City\" refer to mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: \"Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too\" (the \"chicken man\" was mafia boss Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his Philadelphia house in March 1981). The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: \"Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.\"\n\nThe song is included on his 1995 Greatest Hits album and on the 2003 compilation The Essential Bruce Springsteen.\n\nThis was one of nine songs that was featured in an episode of the television series Cold Case and played during its climactic murder scene.\n\nAlthough the song came out around the same time as the film of the same name, the two works are unrelated.\n\nFrom the Born in the U.S.A. Tour on, \"Atlantic City\" has made fairly regular appearances in Springsteen's band concerts, with a soft-hard-cycle arrangement very similar to that of \"Darkness on the Edge of Town\". Such live versions appear on Springsteen's In Concert/MTV Plugged (1993) and Live in New York City (2001) albums. For the 2006 Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions Band Tour, \"Atlantic City\" was drastically rearranged and featured multiple outros; as such it appears on the Live in Dublin (2007) album.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768030","strTrack":"Dancing in the Dark","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/upxrwy1355155223.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=129kuDCQtHs","strDescription":"\"Dancing in the Dark\" is a 1984 song, written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. Adding up-tempo synthesizer riffs and some syncopation to his sound for the first time, it became his biggest hit and, as the first single released from Born in the U.S.A., propelled it to become the best-selling album of Springsteen's career.\n\n\"Dancing in the Dark\" was the last song written and recorded for Born in the U.S.A. Springsteen's producer and manager Jon Landau liked the album but wanted a sure-fire first single, one that was fresh and directly relevant to Springsteen's current state of mind (because much of Born in the U.S.A. had been written two years earlier). Landau and Springsteen argued and Springsteen later wrote \"Dancing in the Dark\". His irked mood from the day's argument, combined with the frustrations at trying to complete the album, poured out into the lyrics.\n\nIn a first-for-Springsteen effort to gain dance and club play for his music, Arthur Baker created the 12-inch \"Blaster Mix\" of \"Dancing in the Dark\", wherein he reworked the album version. The remix was released on July 2, 1984. The result generated a lot of media buzz for Springsteen, as well as actual club play; the remix went to #7 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and had the most sales of any 12-inch single in the United States in 1984.\n\nReleased as a single prior to the album's release, the song spent four weeks at #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart (his highest charting song to date) in June\u2013July 1984 (it was kept off the #1 spot by Duran Duran's \"The Reflex\" and that year's song of the summer, Prince's \"When Doves Cry\"). It did reach #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart. It was also the first of a record-tying seven top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. \"Dancing in the Dark\" also held the #1 spot for six weeks on Billboard's Top Tracks chart.\n\nAlthough the song only peaked at #5 in Australia, it remained on the charts for most of 1984 and was that country's highest selling single of the year. It spent a total of 64 weeks in the Top 100.\n\nIn the UK, \"Dancing in the Dark\" originally reached number 28 in the UK Singles Chart when released in May 1984. However, the song was re-released in January 1985 and subsequently reached number 4 in the charts, becoming the 27th best-selling single of the year.\n\nThe recording also won Springsteen his first Grammy Award, picking up the prize for Best Rock Vocal Performance in 1985. It also won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance. In the 1985 Rolling Stone readers poll, \"Dancing in the Dark\" was voted \"Song of the Year\". The track has since gone on to earn further recognition and is as such listed one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768031","strTrack":"Born in the U.S.A.","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/suvwup1355155295.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ","strDescription":"\"Born in the U.S.A.\" is a 1984 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. Taken from the album of the same name, it is one of his best-known singles. Rolling Stone ranked the song 275th on their list of \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". In 2001, the RIAA's Songs of the Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). Lyrically, the song deals with the negative effects of the Vietnam War on Americans, but is often misunderstood to be a patriotic or nationalistic anthem.\n\nThe song was initially written in 1981 as the title song for a film that Paul Schrader was considering making and Springsteen was considering starring in (which ultimately became Light of Day starring Michael J. Fox). \"Born in the U.S.A.\" turned out so well that Springsteen used it for his multi-platinum album, and because of this, Springsteen thanks Schrader in the liner notes. Casual home demos were made later that year, following the completion of The River Tour.\n\nA more formal solo acoustic guitar demo was then made on January 3, 1982 at Springsteen's home in Colts Neck, New Jersey as part of the long session that would constitute most of the Nebraska album released later that year. Acoustic versions of several other songs that eventually appeared on the Born in the U.S.A. album were also included on this demo, including \"Working on the Highway\" and \"Downbound Train\". However, Springsteen manager/producer Jon Landau and others felt that the song did not have the right melody or music to match the lyrics, and also did not fit in well with the rest of the nascent Nebraska material. Thus, it was shelved. (This version would surface in the late 1990s on the Tracks and 18 Tracks outtake collections.)\n\nIn March 1982, Springsteen revived the song with a different melody line and musical structure. A full E Street Band version was recorded, with much of the arrangement made up on the spot, including Roy Bittan's clarion opening synthesizer riff and what producer Chuck Plotkin nicknamed Max Weinberg's \"exploding drums\" . The famous snare drum sound on this record is known as \"Gated reverb\" by recording engineers. This is the version that would appear on the Born in the U.S.A. album, a full two years later.\nThemes\n\nThe song was in part a tribute to Springsteen's friends who had experienced the Vietnam War, some of whom did not come back; it also protests the hardships Vietnam veterans faced upon their return from the war.\n\nThe song's narrative traces the protagonist's working-class origins, induction into the armed forces, and disaffected return back to the States. An anguished lyrical interlude is even more jolting, describing the fate of the protagonist's (literal or figurative) brother (in some recordings or live shows, the word brother is replaced with buddy):\n\n    I had a brother at Khe Sanh\n\n    Fighting off the Viet Cong\n    They're still there, he's all gone\n\n    He had a woman he loved in Saigon\n    I got a picture of him in her arms now\n\nThe Battle of Khe Sanh involved the North Vietnamese Army, not the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (the Viet Cong) heard in the song lyrics. Eventually the Americans prevailed and broke the siege, only to withdraw from the outpost a couple of months later. Khe Sanh thus became one of the media symbols of the futility of the whole war effort in the States.\n\nTwo scholars writing in the journal American Quarterly explored the song as a lament for the embattled working-class identity. Structurally, they noted that \"the anthemic chorus contrasted with the verses' desperate narrative,\" a tension which informs an understanding of the song's overall meaning: the nationalist chorus continuously overwhelms the desperation and sacrifice relayed in the verses. They point out that the imagery of the Vietnam War could be read as metaphor for \"the social and economic siege of American blue-collar communities\" at large, and that lyrics discussing economic devastation are likely symbolic for the effect of blind nationalism upon the working class. The song as a whole, they felt, laments the destabilization of the economics and politics protecting the \"industrial working class\" in the 1970s and early 1980s, leaving only \"a deafening but hollow national pride.\"\n\nPolitical reactions:\nIn late August 1984, the Born in the U.S.A. album was selling very well, its songs were all over the radio, and the associated tour was drawing considerable press. Springsteen shows at the Capital Centre outside of Washington, D.C. thus attracted even more media attention, in particular from CBS Evening News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, who saw Springsteen as a modern-day Horatio Alger story. Even more notably, the widely-read conservative columnist George Will, after attending a show, published on September 13, 1984 a piece titled \"A Yankee Doodle Springsteen\" in which he praised Springsteen as an exemplar of classic American values. He wrote: \"I have not got a clue about Springsteen's politics, if any, but flags get waved at his concerts while he sings songs about hard times. He is no whiner, and the recitation of closed factories and other problems always seems punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: 'Born in the U.S.A.!'\" The 1984 presidential campaign was in full stride at the time, and Will had connections to President Ronald Reagan's re-election organization. Will thought that Springsteen might endorse Reagan (not knowing that Springsteen was very much a liberal and thus did not support Reagan at all), and got the notion pushed up to high-level Reagan advisor Michael Deaver's office. Those staffers made inquiries to Springsteen's management which were politely rebuffed.\n\nNevertheless, on September 19, 1984, at a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan added the following to his speech:\n\n    America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about.\n\nThe campaign press immediately expressed skepticism that Reagan knew anything about Springsteen, and asked what his favorite Springsteen song was; \"Born to Run\" was the response from staffers.[citation needed] Johnny Carson then joked on The Tonight Show, \"If you believe that, I've got a couple of tickets to the Mondale-Ferraro inaugural ball I'd like to sell you.\"\n\nDuring a September 21 concert in Pittsburgh, Springsteen responded negatively by introducing his song \"Johnny 99\", a song about an unemployed auto worker who turns to murder, \"The President was mentioning my name the other day, and I kinda got to wondering what his favorite album musta been. I don't think it was the Nebraska album. I don't think he's been listening to this one.\"\n\nA few days after that, presidential challenger Walter Mondale said, \"Bruce Springsteen may have been born to run but he wasn't born yesterday,\" and then claimed to have been endorsed by Springsteen. Springsteen manager Jon Landau denied any such endorsement, and the Mondale campaign issued a correction.\n\nWith \"Born in the U.S.A.\" Springsteen was wildly misunderstood, at least for a short period. With these sound bites from Reagan and other conservatives praising the song and Springsteen, himself, it seemed as though they'd missed the point entirely.[citation needed] Springsteen was lamenting the loss of a true sense of national pride. The working class no longer had a say in the foreign policy or decisions made by the government as a whole. The reverberating chorus of \"Born in the U.S.A.\" was a cry of longing, of sorrow. It was a hollow cry of patriotism that once was, but now ceased to exist.\n\nIn Springsteen\u2019s own words, the song \"Born in the U.S.A.\" is about \"a working-class man\" [in the midst of a] \"spiritual crisis, in which man is left lost...It's like he has nothing left to tie him into society anymore. He's isolated from the government. Isolated from his family...to the point where nothing makes sense.\"  Springsteen promotes the fact that the endless search for truth is the true American way. He was frightened by the government continually rationalizing the Vietnam War.\n\nJournalist Brian Doherty has written: \"The song\u2019s lyrics are about a shell-shocked vet with 'no place to run, nowhere to go.' But who\u2019s to say Reagan wasn\u2019t right to insist the song was an upper? When I hear those notes and that drumbeat, and the Boss\u2019 best arena-stentorian, shout-groan vocals come over the speakers, I feel like I\u2019m hearing the national anthem.\"\n\nGeneral reaction:\n\"Born in the U.S.A.\" peaked at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in late 1984. It was the third of a record-tying seven Top 10 hit singles to be released from the Born in the U.S.A. album. In addition it made the top 10 of Billboard's Rock Tracks chart, indicating solid play on album-oriented rock stations. The song was also a hit in the UK, reaching #5 on the UK Singles Chart.\n\nBeyond the 1984 presidential campaign, \"Born in the U.S.A.\" was widely mis-interpreted as purely nationalistic by those who heard the anthemic chorus but not the bitter verses. One example was when Springsteen played the song live in East Berlin in 1988 and the German audience widely followed the chorus line to express their bonds with the western world and their weariness with their own way of life in the communist system of the GDR.\n\nSpringsteen refused Chrysler Corporation CEO Lee Iacocca's request to use \"Born in the U.S.A.\" in commercials for Chrysler cars, turning down an offer that would have been worth several million dollars.\n\nThe music video for \"Born in the U.S.A.\" was directed by noted filmmaker John Sayles. It consisted of video concert footage of Springsteen and the E Street Band performing the song, poorly synchronized with audio from the studio recording. Released in mid-December 1984, there supposedly had not been enough time to mix the audio from the concert.\n\nThis footage was intermixed with compelling mid-1980s scenes of working-class America, emphasizing images that had some connection with the song, including Vietnam veterans, Amerasian children, assembly lines, oil refineries, cemeteries, and the like, finishing with a recreation of the album's cover, with grizzled Springsteen posing in front of an American flag.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768032","strTrack":"My Hometown","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wswwpq1355155500.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gKSp8WoRg","strDescription":"\"My Hometown\" is a single by Bruce Springsteen off his Born in the U.S.A. album, that was the record-tying seventh and last top 10 single to come from it, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart, making the song Springsteen's only #1 song on this chart to date. The song is a synthesizer-based, low-tempo number that features Springsteen on vocals.\n\nhe song\u2019s lyrics begin with the speaker\u2019s memories of his father instilling pride in the family\u2019s hometown. While it first appears that the song will be a nostalgic look at the speaker\u2019s childhood, the song then goes on to describe the racial violence and economic depression that the speaker witnessed as an adolescent and middle-aged man. The song concludes with the speaker\u2019s reluctant proclamation that he plans to move his family out of the town.\n\nSome of the song's images reference the recent history of Springsteen's own hometown of Freehold Borough, New Jersey, in particular the racial strife in 1960s New Jersey and economic tensions from the same times (i.e. the \"textile mill being closed\" was the A & M Karagheusian Rug Mill at Center and Jackson Streets of Freehold).\n\nThe music video for \"My Hometown\" was a straightforward video filming of a performance of the song at a Springsteen and E Street Band concert late in the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, eschewing fast-paced cutting for slower montages of Springsteen and various band members. Despite its lack of visual excitement, it still managed substantial MTV airplay."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768033","strTrack":"Glory Days","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/rpxtxy1355155715.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQpW9XRiyM","strDescription":"\"Glory Days\" is a 1984 song, written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. In 1985, it became the fifth single released from his massively successful album Born in the U.S.A.\n\n\"Glory Days\" was recorded in April or May 1982 during the first wave of Born in the U.S.A. sessions. Even though the album went through several different phases of what would be on it, \"Glory Days\" was always seen as one of the cornerstones.\n\nThe song is a seriocomic tale of a man who now ruefully looks back on his so-called glory days and those of people he knew during high school. The lyrics to the first verse are autobiographical, being a recount of an encounter Springsteen had with former Little League baseball teammate Joe DePugh in the summer of 1973.\n\nThe music is jocular, consisting of what Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh called \"rinky-dink organ, honky-tonk piano, and garage-band guitar kicked along by an explosive tom-tom pattern.\" It also features a mandolin solo from Steven Van Zandt, one of the sideman's most noticeable instrumental contributions to the Springsteen studio canon.\n\nAn alternate mix of \"Glory Days\" has circulated, which includes a deleted third verse between the second and the last. The missing verse refers to the singer's father sitting on a bar stool at the legion, bitter over his lack of any \"glory days.\"\n\nThe single peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles charts in the summer of 1985. It was the fifth of a record-tying seven Top 10 hit singles to be released from Born in the U.S.A. Marsh named the second volume in his biography after the song.\n\nThe music video for the song was shot in late May 1985 in various locations in New Jersey, and was directed by filmmaker John Sayles, the third video he had done for the album. It featured a narrative story of Springsteen, playing the protagonist in the song, talking to his young son and pitching to a wooden backstop against an imaginary lineup (he eventually lost the game to Graig Nettles). The baseball field scene was shot at Miller Park Stadium in West New York, NJ. The field is inside a city block surrounded mostly by homes. Intercut with these were scenes of Springsteen and the E Street Band lip-synching the song in a bar. The bar performance scenes were filmed at Maxwell's in Hoboken.\n\nAlthough he had left the band more than two years earlier, Steven Van Zandt was invited back to perform in this video, but the two new members of the band, Nils Lofgren and Patti Scialfa, who had not been on the record at all, were also featured. Springsteen's then-wife Julianne Phillips made a cameo appearance at the baseball field at the end.\n\nThe video began airing on MTV in mid-June 1985 and went into heavy rotation.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768034","strTrack":"Brilliant Disguise","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wvyupv1355157732.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idnJnjV_8rg","strDescription":"\"Brilliant Disguise\" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album Tunnel of Love. It was released as the first single from the album, reaching the #5 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States. The followup single, \"Tunnel of Love\", also reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, giving Springsteen two consecutive #1's. The single had less commercial success in other countries."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768035","strTrack":"Human Touch","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xsrtsq1355157821.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85cNRQo1m3A","strDescription":"\"Human Touch\" is a 1992 song recorded by the American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. It was the first single from the album of the same name and was released in 1993. The song topped the chart in Norway and was also a top ten hit in many countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, and Switzerland. In the U.S., the song reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (charting as a double A-side with \"Better Days\"), and topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for three weeks. The song features future American Idol judge Randy Jackson on bass guitar and Toto's Jeff Porcaro on drums."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768036","strTrack":"Better Days","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmwJQ62Cs_o","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768037","strTrack":"Streets of Philadelphia","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/srtuxx1355158111.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z2DtNW79sQ","strDescription":"\"Streets of Philadelphia\" is an Academy Award-winning song, written and performed by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen for the film Philadelphia (1993), the first mainstream film dealing with HIV/AIDS.] Released in 1994, the song was a hit in many countries, particularly Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and Norway, where it topped the singles charts.\n\nThe song was a critical success and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song and four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo, and Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768038","strTrack":"Secret Garden","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/xqrvrx1355158290.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMhtMc1GW8","strDescription":"\"Secret Garden\" is a 1995 single by Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released 27 February 1995 on his Greatest Hits album on Columbia Records. Upon its initial release it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1997. It was then re-released on April 11 of that same year on Sony Records as a two track single, featuring a live version of \"Thunder Road\". (An EP was also released in 1995, featuring two versions of \"Secret Garden\" (\"album\" and \"string\"), live versions of \"Murder Incorporated\" and \"Thunder Road\" and the original version of \"Pink Cadillac\" from \"Greatest Hits.\")\n\nThe song gained much of its popularity after being featured on the soundtrack for the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire peaking at #12 and #15 on the Adult Top 40 and Top 40 Mainstream respectively.\n\nIt was also featured in the film Night at the Roxbury."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768039","strTrack":"Murder Incorporated","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vsxwtr1355158392.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7hvKQ6Uhc","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768040","strTrack":"Blood Brothers","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Xhe7f3VfM","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2113809","idTrack":"32768041","strTrack":"This Hard Land","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3tR6C4s04","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912772","strTrack":"We Take Care of Our Own","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/tysruu1350666053.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkEU3JjNARs","strDescription":"\"We Take Care of Our Own\" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bruce Springsteen. It is the first single from his album, \"Wrecking Ball\". The song is an up-tempo rocker which resembles the sound of the younger bands Springsteen has recently taken under his wing such as Arcade Fire and The Gaslight Anthem.\n\nThe lyrics reflect Springsteen's frustration that \u2013 after several years of economic hard times \u2013 people are less willing to help each other and the lack of accountability he sees in government. The song begins:\n\n    I've been stumblin' on good hearts turned to stone\n    The road of good intentions has turned dry as a bone. \n\nThe narrator asks where he can find merciful hearts or work to set his hands and soul free. However, the refrain \"Wherever this flag is flown/we take care of our own\" strikes a more optimistic and patriotic note...or ironic. Depending on the listener interpretation, the refrain is contrasted in the verses (just like \"Born in the U.S.A), with references to the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina. So Springsteen might suggest that perhaps we dont't \"take care of our own\". NPR's Ann Powers describes the song as \"a bitter anthem\" and states that on this song, as with \"Born in the U.S.A.,\" \"Glory Days\" and even 2008's beautiful \"Girls in Their Summer Clothes,\" \"Springsteen brings out big emotions and then demands we drop the delusions that often accompany them.\n\nThe single leaked to the internet on January 18, 2012 one day prior to its official release for download through amazon.com and iTunes. The song made its live debut on February 12, 2012 at the 54th Grammy Awards."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912773","strTrack":"Easy Money","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAKSuTqIRs","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912774","strTrack":"Shackled and Drawn","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwGvGjaXLQU&feature=related","strDescription":"\u201cI woke up this morning shackled and drawn.\u201d It\u2019s a working man song, starts out like folk and ends in gospel. \u201cWhat\u2019s a poor boy to do in a world gone wrong?\u201d, asks the singer. You can work your life hard, it\u2019s all just \u201canother day older, closer to the grave\u201d. The party is with the bankers who got all the money, and not with the working people: \u201cGambling man rolls the dice, working man pays the bill. It\u2019s still fat and easy up on banker\u2019s hill. Up on banker\u2019s hill, the party\u2019s going strong. Down here below we\u2019re shackled and drawn.\u201d At the end of the song there is a female singer, straight out of the gospel church, calling repeatedly: \u201cI want everybody to stand up and be counted, I want everybody to pray together\u201d."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912775","strTrack":"Jack of All Trades","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9VBxcDDIhs","strDescription":"\"Jack of All Traders\" is the number 4 track on the \"wrecking Ball\" album of Bruce Springsteen, \"The Boss\"\n\nThis is a working man song, like a slow waltz with an electronic beat to it. The singer takes on every job he can acquire: gardener, roof mender, carpenter, car mechanic, farmer. \u201cI take the work that God will provide, I\u2019m the Jack of all trades, we\u2019ll be alright.\u201d This is someone who is taking care of his own. If you work hard enough and have faith, you will be alright: \u201cWe stood the drought, we\u2019ll stand the flood. There\u2019s a new world coming, I can see the light.\u201d There seems to be a positive answer to the question Bruce asked at the start of the album: \u201cWe\u2019ll start caring for each other again.\u201d Although in the end, there is still a slight edge to this positive message: \u201cIf I had me a gun, I\u2019ll find the bastards and shoot them on sight.\u201d Who are the villains? \u201cThe banker man grows fat, the working man grows thin. It\u2019s all happened before and it\u2019ll happen again.\u201d Bruce is channeling Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u2018I Ain\u2019t Got No Home\u2019 (\u201cThe gambling man is rich and the working man is poor\u201d). The song ends in sampled loops and a guitar solo from Tom Morello. Mid-song has horns and a trumpet solo by Curt Ramm."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912776","strTrack":"Death to My Hometown","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgcJDNcyRFA","strDescription":"\"Death to My Hometown\" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bruce Springsteen and it is expected to be the third single from his album, Wrecking Ball. It is a thinly-veiled protest song notable for Springsteen's experimentation with Celtic-Rock rhythms.\n\n\"Death to My Hometown\" became a staple of the Wrecking Ball Tour, usually being played towards the beginning of the sets. The tin whistle riff from the album version was handed over to the newly assembled 5-piece horn section during the shows. The song has been played at every Wrecking Ball show as of June 11, 2012.\n\nThe song is an allegorical protest song concerning the causes and fallout of the 2008 Economic Crisis. Springsteen uses archaic imagery to show how \"death\" came to his hometown not by war, but by reckless economic practices. He also references the lack of accountability for the dishonest practices by bankers that lead to the crisis in the first place. \"The greedy thieves who came around/And ate the flesh of everything they found/Whose crimes have gone unpunished now/Who walk the streets as free men now,\" he sings."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912778","strTrack":"Wrecking Ball","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqASHIMbkcg","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912780","strTrack":"Rocky Ground","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/yyrsvt1350675649.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id2Rss2RfgQ","strDescription":"\"Rocky Ground\" is a song written and recorded by American musician Bruce Springsteen. It is the second single from his album Wrecking Ball and was released exclusively in select stores as a limited-edition 7-inch 45-rpm vinyl single as a part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012.\n\nThe song made its live debut on March 9, 2012, during Springsteen and the E Street Band's performance at the Apollo Theatre.\n\nThe song is heavy with a religious theme and features a gospel choir backing Springsteen. Singer Michelle Moore provides backing vocals along with rapping, a first for a Springsteen album. Springsteen has stated he originally attempted to do the rapping himself but was not satisfied with the sound.\n\n\"Rocky Ground\" contains excerpts of \"I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord\", a traditional gospel song performed by Congregation of the Church of God in Christ and recorded by Alan Lomax in 1942."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912781","strTrack":"Land of Hope and Dreams","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUmmYO0Yro","strDescription":"\u201cLand of Hope and Dreams\u201d was first introduced on the E Street Band reunion tour back in 1999, and at this point feels firmly ensconced in the Springsteen canon \u2014 it\u2019s not for nothing that Springsteen Nation has adopted the lyric \u201cfaith will be rewarded\u201d as its unofficial motto, especially come ticket-buying time.\n\nStill, if inclusion of a studio version here sounded like an odd choice, particularly given the minimal ESB participation on Wrecking Ball, all doubts are erased when Clarence Clemons\u2019 saxophone blares through your speakers, just as Springsteen extols the \u201cbells of freedom ringin.\u2019\u201d That moment, coming on the heels of the restrained rising-up of \u201cRocky Ground,\u201d  serves in a way as the album\u2019s climax, fostering a feeling of despair turning into faith, even through tears.\n\nRead more: Three-Sentence Review: Bruce Springsteen, 'Land of Hope and Dreams' | Blogness on the Edge of Town http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/springsteen/2012/03/01/three-sentence-review-bruce-springsteen-land-of-hope-and-dreams/#ixzz29mCoqfBS\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2125344","idTrack":"32912782","strTrack":"We Are Alive","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNy-js7vHb0","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926480","strTrack":"Nothing Man","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYkcAKwyEw","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926481","strTrack":"Countin' on a Miracle","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1fGOqpwkpk","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926482","strTrack":"Empty Sky","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7oTsPDutpQ","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926483","strTrack":"Worlds Apart","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OckLJwdDm_A","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926485","strTrack":"Further On (Up the Road)","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZnsfe1MFY","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926487","strTrack":"Mary's Place","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GbWwDIo8XU","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926488","strTrack":"You're Missing","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Hayn1tNpE","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926489","strTrack":"The Rising","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/wttquu1355162118.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnB4dkVRJI","strDescription":"\"The Rising\" is the title track on Bruce Springsteen's 12th studio album The Rising, and was released as a single in 2002. Springsteen wrote the song in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City. It gained critical praise and earned Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance of the year, as well as a nomination for Song of the Year. Rolling Stone named it the 35th best song of the decade. VH1 placed it 81st on its list of the \"100 Greatest Songs of the '00s\".\n\nThe single was released ahead of the album, initially appearing on AOL First Listen on June 24, 2002 and then being officially released on July 16. There was a considerable marketing push for the single and the subsequent album, based on the September 11 connection and on being the first studio recordings from Springsteen with the E Street Band in 15 years. \"The Rising\" also debuted Springsteen's collaboration with producer Brendan O'Brien, who gave Springsteen a somewhat more modern-sounding feel than did former producer Jon Landau. Although \"The Rising\" was not a pop hit, peaking at only #52 on the Billboard Hot 100, it achieved significant radio airplay early on and kept it in some quarters, making #24 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #16 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #1 on the Triple-A chart in the U.S. It did not place on the UK Singles Chart.\n\n\"The Rising\" was included on both of Springsteen's subsequent compilation albums, 2003's The Essential Bruce Springsteen and 2009's Wal-Mart-only Greatest Hits. A concert performance was also included on the 2003 Live in Barcelona video release."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926490","strTrack":"Paradise","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6PGQakIyw","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126389","idTrack":"32926491","strTrack":"My City of Ruins","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v1esiP0w6c","strDescription":"My City of Ruins\" is a 2000 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, and included on his 2002 album The Rising.\n\nThe song was written in November 2000, for an Asbury Park, New Jersey Christmas show benefit to help promote the revitalization of the city. Once a popular resort destination in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Asbury Park had succumbed to significant amounts of blight for a variety of reasons, including the ill-effects of the Great Depression, the opening of the Garden State Parkway, and race riots.\n\nThe song first starts describing the current state of Asbury Park, the deterioration, and the absence of people in the area.\n\n    There's a blood red circle\n    On the cold dark ground\n    And the rain is falling down\n    The church doors blown open\n    I can hear the organ's song\n    But the congregations gone\n\nThroughout the song, Springsteen continues to describe the city using images such as men loitering on a street corner and buildings with boarded up windows. The song ends, however, on a hopeful and optimistic note by powerfully imploring the city to \"rise up\" from the decay.\n\n    Come on rise up!\n    Come on rise up!\n    Rise up\n\n\"My City of Ruins\" was first played on December 17, 2000 at Asbury Park Convention Hall.\n\nThe song took on an entirely new meaning soon after the September 11 attacks, offering a message of hope and rising from the ruins. The most famous live performance of the song came on September 21, 2001 during the America: A Tribute to Heroes national telethon. With only a guitar and a harmonica, Springsteen opened the program, introducing the number as \"a prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters\" and modifying a few phrases in the song. He was joined on stage by Patti Scialfa, Steven Van Zandt, Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell and Clarence Clemons. It was included as the first track on the subsequent album released of the telethon performances.\n\nA studio recording of \"My City of Ruins\" was then incorporated as the concluding track of Springsteen's September 11-themed, July 2002 album release The Rising.\n\nThe song was widely used by New Zealand television stations during coverage of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.\n\n\n-----\n\n\n(Notable covers\n\nEddie Vedder performed the song at the 32nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors as part of the multi-artist tribute to Bruce Springsteen who was one of the five recipients of the honor in 2009. In January 2010 pearljam.com announced that Eddie Vedder's cover would be available on iTunes to raise funds for Haiti earthquake disaster relief efforts. It entered the Hot 100 the following month, peaking at #92)"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931168","strTrack":"Wreck on the Highway","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNVrzbRat3A","strDescription":"\"Wreck on the Highway\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was originally released as the final track on his fifth album, The River. The version released on The River was recorded at The Power Station in New York in March-April 1980.\n\nA melancholic song with a false ending, \"Wreck on the Highway\" features prominent organ and acoustic guitar parts. The lyrics describe a man who witnesses a hit-and-run auto accident on a rainy, isolated highway, and subsequently haunted by the vision and unable to sleep. It is directly inspired by Roy Acuff's country song of the same name and similar theme from the 1940s, which is a cover version of the 1938 recorded song I Didn't Hear Nobody Pray by the Dixon Brothers. While Springsteen's song has elements of a country arrangement, its music is more haunted and less sentimental.\n\nAlong with the title track, \"Independence Day\" and \"Point Blank\", it is one of the verse-chorus songs on The River that was essentially a short story or character sketch. \"Wreck on the Highway\", and a few other songs on The River, such as the title track and \"Stolen Car\", mark a new direction in Bruce Springsteen's songwriting: these ballads imbued with a sense of hopelessness anticipate his next album, Nebraska as well as a turn towards pessimism in Springsteen's overall artistic and personal world-view. Bruce Springsteen himself has noted that \"Wreck on the Highway\" is one of the songs reflecting a shift in his songwriting style, linking The River to Nebraska. \n\nA slow-tempo song, \"Wreck on the Highway\" has not been particularly common in concert, with about 100 performances in Bruce Springsteen concerts through 2008. Nearly all of those performances occurred during the 1980\u20131981 River Tour. The song was revived occasionally for electric piano performances on the 2005 solo Devils & Dust Tour.\n\nIn the UK, \"Wreck on the Highway\" was released as the B-side of the single \"Cadillac Ranch.\""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931150","strTrack":"Sherry Darling","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fXq_rWb5ls","strDescription":"\"Well this morning I ain't fighting tell her I give up\nTell her she wins if she'll just shut up\nBut it's the last time that she's gonna be ridin' with me.\"\n--\"Sherry Darling\", The River\n\nSpringsteen's sense of humor has been a topic of minor debate among the Legends of Springsteen editors. On one hand, nearly every song of Springsteen's is full of lost souls who run away from dark places only to find more misery. On the other hand, in concert, he'll take these songs and make them into joyous crowd sing-a-longs (see \"Hungry Heart\"). However, Bruce's more humorous side shines through in \"Sherry Darling\". His silliest song to-date ironically appears on his third (or fourth) darkest album (I'd rank Nebraska and Darkness ahead of it; Wrecking Ball come close). These lyrics highlight the exasperation we've all felt when arguing over nonsense - it always gets to a point where silence trumps any feeling of victory you'd get in winning an argument. "},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931151","strTrack":"Jackson Cage","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdt7M0WSoxc","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931152","strTrack":"Two Hearts","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOZ4tXDtLM","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931153","strTrack":"Independence Day","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/upsxry1355298969.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2U5yDRos0","strDescription":"\"Independence Day\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was originally released on his fifth album, The River. It was recorded at The Power Station in New York February and May 1980.\n\n\"Independence Day\", along with the title track, Wreck on the Highway and Point Blank, is one of the verse-chorus songs on The River that was essentially a short story or character sketch. It is one of the darker hued songs on The River. The lyrics are about a home that can no longer hold both father and son. The song is sung by the son to the father, opening with the line \"Papa go to bed now, it's getting late\", reversing the usual command of a father to a son. The son recognizes that despite their similarilties, the father and son would never agree but just continue to argue constantly, and so it was time for the son to leave home. One reviewer said \"Independence Day is an unusually sad, beautiful and private song, with a slow piano and a languid saxophone solo, as well as delicate organ and acoustic guitar work\". The song has been described as Springsteen's best recorded vocal, with an unerring sincerity which fuels the song.\n\nAlthough released on The River in 1980, \"Independence Day\" was written in 1977 and was originally played in the Darkness on the Edge of Town tour. \"Independence Day\" has been a reasonably popular concert song, with 190 performances through 2008. A concert version of \"Independence Day\" was released on the live album Live/1975\u201385.\n\n\"Independence Day\" was released as the B-side on the single release of \"The River\" in several countries and as the B-side of \"Sherry Darling\" in others.\n\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931154","strTrack":"Hungry Heart","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/srvwsp1355299093.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYpokhq_-w","strDescription":"\"Hungry Heart\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen on his fifth album, The River. It was released as the album's first single in 1980 and became Springsteen's first big hit of his own on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.\n\nWhen Springsteen met Joey Ramone in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Ramone asked him to write a song for The Ramones. Springsteen composed \"Hungry Heart\" that night, but decided to keep it for himself on the advice of his producer and manager, Jon Landau. Previously, upbeat and catchy Springsteen songs such as \"Because the Night\" and \"Fire\" had been given away and become hits for others, and Landau preferred the trend not continue.\n\nThe title is drawn from a line in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem \"Ulysses\": \"For always roaming with a hungry heart\".\n\nSpringsteen's voice was slightly sped up on the recording, producing a higher-pitched vocal. (Dire Straits had done the same thing on 1978's \"In The Gallery\".) Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles sang backup. The mix of songwriting and production techniques was successful, and \"Hungry Heart\" reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1980 and was his biggest hit until Dancing in the Dark hit #2 in 1984. In the subsequent Rolling Stone Readers' Poll, \"Hungry Heart\" was voted Best Single for the year.\n\n\"Hungry Heart\" was used on several movie soundtracks over the years; including the obscure 1982 Israeli film \"Kvish L'Lo Motzah\" (a.k.a. \"Dead End Street\", which was actually the very first motion picture ever to feature Springsteen music), the 1983 Tom Cruise hit movie Risky Business, the 1992 AIDS drama \"Peter's Friends\", and the 1998 Adam Sandler comedy \"The Wedding Singer\". In the year 2000 the song was used in the film \"The Perfect Storm\".\n\nThe single was not a hit in the United Kingdom when first released, reaching only #44 on the UK Singles Chart. It did better in 1995 when it was reissued in conjunction with his Greatest Hits album; this time, it reached #28. A video clip was filmed on July 9, 1995 at the tiny \"Caf\u00e9 Eckstein\" in East Berlin, featuring German rock star Wolfgang Niedecken and his \"Leopardefelleband\", although neither are heard on the actual audio track, as this so-called \"Berlin 95\" version (which was also released on CD singles) just features Bruce's live vocals and audience noise laid over the song's original 1980 E Street Band studio recording.\n\nOn the day of his murder in December 1980, John Lennon said he thought \"Hungry Heart\" was \"a great record\" and even compared it to his single (Just Like) Starting Over, which as a matter of fact was actually released as a single no more than three days after \"Heart\".\n\nThe \"Everybody's Got A Hungry Heart\" episode of Japanese anime series Battle B-Daman is named after the lyric in the song. Weezer mentions the song in their 2008 song \"Heart Songs\" on their album Weezer (\"The Red Album\")\".\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net rated this song as the #38 song of 1980, as well as #341 of the 1980s and #1870 all time. The song has also been listed as the #1 single of 1980 by Dave Marsh and Kevin Stein and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock. It was also listed as #625 on Marsh's list of the 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made.\n\nAt the beginning of The River Tour, Springsteen and the E Street Band played the song as an instrumental for the first verse and chorus. During the November 20, 1980, show in Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, right after the single hit the Top 10, the audience spontaneously sang the lyrics back to the band during this intro. A tradition was thus born of Springsteen always letting the audience sing the first verse and chorus.\n\nSuch a performance from December 28, 1980 at Nassau Coliseum (with Volman and Kaylan guesting) is included on the Live/1975-85 box set, but the ritual became even stronger during the 1984-1985 Born in the U.S.A. Tour, when \"Hungry Heart\" was a featured selection early in the second set. Even in Japan, where not many fans knew the words, this was still one of the best-received songs of his performances.\n\n\"Hungry Heart\" was a regular in Springsteen band concerts through the early 1990s, but beginning with the 1999-2000 E Street Band Reunion Tour, it has only been irregularly performed, exemplifying a later-era Springsteen practice of avoiding his most popular radio hits. When it is played, it is often with guest artists singing along, since it is one of Springsteen's easiest songs to perform.\n\n\"Hungry Heart\" regained its prominent placement in setlists during the last portions of the 2009 Working On A Dream Tour, where Springsteen would crowd surf during the middle of the song.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931155","strTrack":"Out in the Street","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sl10b20SoA","strDescription":"\"Out in the Street\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from the 1980 album The River. It was recorded at The Power Station in New York between March and May 1980, as one of the last songs recorded for the album. Originally Springsteen was going to keep the song off the album because it was so idealistic.\n\nWhile the album is noted for the juxtoposition of dark emotional songs (\"The River\", \"Independence Day\") and upbeat pop songs (\"The Ties That Bind\", \"Hungry Heart\"), \"Out in the Street\" is a mixture of both worlds. Along with \"The Ties That Bind\" and \"Two Hearts\", \"Out in the Street\" is one of the key songs on The River about the need for community. The lyrics are reminiscent of the girl/party theme, and also evoke empathy for the blue collar working class. However, there is a sense of freedom in the chorus when the protagonist of the song leaves work and walks \"Out in the Street.\"\n\nThe song features an echoing piano line played by Roy Bittan and also features a saxophone solo from Clarence Clemons. The final coda features weaving vocals from Springsteen, Roy Bittan, and Steven Van Zandt. For one line, Springsteen stops singing, leaving just Steven Van Zandt singing the \"meet me out in the street\" refrain and sounding like a plea to be met, altering the tone of the song for that moment from its otherwise assertiveness.\n\n\"Out in the Street\" has become a live favorite for E Street Band concerts and was performed at length during the 1999\u20132000 Reunion Tour, as captured on the Live in New York City album and video. During The River Tour, the vocal weaving was performed similar to the record. However, with Steve Van Zandt's absence on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, the vocal weaving was occupied by Patti Scialfa and Nils Lofgren with Roy Bittan no longer singing. By the Reunion Tour, the vocal weaving was split between Springsteen, Van Zandt, Scialfa, Lofgren, and Clarence Clemons. Springsteen also has the audience join in.\n\nCBS soap opera Guiding Light had one of its character Brandon/Lujack Luvonaczek Spaulding played by actor Vincent Michael Irizarry cover the song with a video in which it aired on its serial in the spring of 1985 as part of a storyline.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931156","strTrack":"Crush on You","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNa1484_oAE","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931157","strTrack":"You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08o2jMVUfJw","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931158","strTrack":"I Wanna Marry You","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-8Svei9GM","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931159","strTrack":"The River","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/ruqppw1355299222.jpg","strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utVR3EgQkH","strDescription":"\"The River\" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, accompanied by the E Street Band. It was the title track of his fifth album, The River, and was a hit single in parts of Europe. It reached #25 in the Netherlands, and reached the top 10 in both Sweden and Norway. Its B-side was either \"Independence Day\" or \"Ramrod,\" depending on the country.\n\n\"The River\" was originally intended to be included on an earlier, one-record version of The River, tentatively called The Ties That Bind. The song itself was recorded at The Power Station in New York in July or August 1979. In an early performance Springsteen cites the inspiration as \"my brother in law and my sister\".\n\n\"The River\" makes use of a haunting harmonica part, and in some ways is a precursor to the style of his next album, Nebraska. The imagery of the chorus and the end of the song were inspired by lines from Hank Williams' 1950 hit, \"Long Gone Lonesome Blues\". The song's depiction of how economic difficulties are interlaced with local culture also presaged the 1980s popularity of heartland rock:\n\n    I come from down in the valley,\n    Where mister when you're young \u2014\n    They bring you up to do, like your daddy done\n\n    ...\n\n    I got a job working construction, for the Johnstown Company\n    But lately there ain't been much work, on account of the economy\n    Now all them things that seemed so important \u2014\n    Well mister, they vanished right into the air\n\nWriter Robert Hilburn described the song as \"a classic outline of someone who has to re-adjust his dreams quickly [, facing] life as it is, not a world of his imagination.\"\n\nThroughout the song the river is viewed as a symbol for the dreams of the future. The narrator keeps his hopes alive even as they realistically begin to fail.\n\n    That sends me down to the river,\n    Though I know, the river is dry.\n    It sends me down to the river, tonight\n\nThe song was debuted in public at the Musicians United for Safe Energy concerts at Madison Square Garden in September 1979, and was featured in the subsequent 1980 film No Nukes three months before The River's release.\n\n\"The River\" was not released as a single in the U.S., but was released as a single in May 1981 in several countries in Western Europe. It placed number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. It also reached number 24 on the Irish Singles Chart, number 10 in Sweden's singles chart, number 6 in the Danish Top 20 and had its best showing with a number 5 placement on Norway's singles chart. In the U.S., it gained considerable album oriented rock airplay and became one of Springsteen's best-known songs. It was included on both his 1995 Greatest Hits and 2003 The Essential Bruce Springsteen compilations. The song was also incorporated in the European edition of the 2009 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Greatest Hits.\n\n\"The River\", and a few other songs on The River, such as \"Wreck on the Highway\" and \"Stolen Car\", mark a new direction in Bruce Springsteen's songwriting: these ballads imbued with a sense of hopelessness anticipate his next album, Nebraska. Bruce Springsteen himself has noted that \"Wreck on the Highway\" is one of the songs reflecting a shift in his songwriting style, linking The River to Nebraska.\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net rated this song as the #25 song of 1980, as well as #239 of the 1980s and #1341 all time."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931160","strTrack":"Point Blank","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/vvvyty1355299843.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX8M_1r0LDs","strDescription":"\"Point Blank\" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and first released on Springsteen's 1980 album The River. In Europe, it was also released as a single in 1981, backed by another song from The River, \"Ramrod\" Although it was not released as a single in the US, it did reach #20 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.\n\n\"Point Blank\" was written in 1978, and was the first song Springsteen wrote after completing the Darkness on the Edge of Town album. \"Point Blank\" had its live premiere on July 7, 1978 in a concert on the Darkness Tour at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, California, at which \"Independence Day\" was also premiered. In its 1978 incarnation, the lyrics dealt with the singer's girlfriend's drug addiction. A live 1978 performance from Houston, Texas is included on a DVD in The Promise box set.\n\n\"Point Blank\", along with the title track, \"Wreck on the Highway\" and \"Independence Day,\" is one of the verse-chorus songs on The River that was essentially a short story or character sketch. As with \"The River\" and \"Independence Day,\" this song deals with the disappointments of working-class family life. With The River, Springsteen figured out how to create an album on which happy songs like \"Sherry Darling\" could co-exist with painful songs like \"Point Blank.\" And \"Point Blank\" is one of the most painful songs on the album. The emotions covered by the song include disappointment, fear, loneliness and desperation.\n\n\"Point Blank\" is also one of several songs on the album dealing with the conflict between dreams and reality. The singer dreams that he is still with his former girlfriend and they are dancing together. But waking up, he realizes he saw the girlfriend standing in the doorway trying to stay out of the rain, looking \"like just another stranger waitin' to get blown away.\" The ex-girlfriend is the subject of the song's narrative. She grew up fast, but rather than getting the life she wanted, she ended up on welfare. The singer sings that:\n\n    I was gonna be your Romeo you were gonna be my Juliet\n    These days you don't wait on Romeo's\n    You wait on that welfare check\n\nThis was the third reference to a Romeo in a Springsteen-penned song, earlier ones being \"Incident on 57th Street\" from the 1973 album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle and \"Fire\", which was covered by Robert Gordon in 1978.\n\nThe music is highlighted by Roy Bittan's sensitive piano playing and Springsteen's singing, alternating between vulnerability, disbelief and anger.\n\nAuthor Rob Kirkpatrick describes the theme of the \"Point Blank\" as \"you're born dying.\" Jeffrey Symynkywicz described the theme as being that \"there is an inexorable decline that is carved at the heart of life.\" Springsteen has stated that one of the themes of the song is the fact that if you ease up as you get older, you effectively cease to exist. When introducing the song at a 1981 concert, Springsteen stated:\n\n    A song ain't no good until somebody hears it. By yourself you can't have an effect. You have to reach out. This is a song about someone who loses that power, which is the most powerful thing in the world \u2013 your ability to affect your friends' lives ... and my life ... and maybe I can do somethin' for you. So ... this is called \"Point Blank.\"\n\nThere are at least two theories as to the origin of the title. One theory is that it comes from the 1967 Lee Marvin movie Point Blank. Another is that it came from a comment made by an ex-girlfriend during the heat of an argument."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931161","strTrack":"Cadillac Ranch","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qxrqrr1355300456.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIomLMfAli8","strDescription":"\"Cadillac Ranch\" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen that was first released on Springsteen's 1980 album The River. In 1981 it was released as single in Europe, backed by \"Be True\" in France and by \"Wreck on the Highway\" in the UK. Although it was not released as a single in the US, it did reach #48 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. A favorite in concert, a live version was included on Live/1975\u201385. A version was also included on the documentary film Blood Brothers.\n\n\"Cadillac Ranch\" is an exuberant, playful rocker with rockabilly influences. The song begins with pounding drums and a memorable intro guitar solo by Springsteen. The upbeat tempo remains unperturbed throughout the song. Unlike other Bruce Springsteen songs, on which he and Clarence Clemons would solo consecutively,Springsteen played an in-fill on this number, while Clemons' sax solo can be heard on the outro section. Bruce would seldom play the in-fill live while embarked on the Born in the USA tour and onwards. According to music critic Dave Marsh, it \"made dinosaurs dance.\" It is highlighted by Clarence Clemons' saxophone solo. Author June Skinner Sawyers called the song \"pure rowdy fun\" and listed it as one of Springsteen's ten funniest songs. John Cruz of Sputnik Music called the song \"just plain fun,\" noting its infectious beat. However, the theme of the song is \"the transitoriness of all existence\" and the inevitability of death. Marsh called the song \"one of the smartest songs ever about the inevitability of death. Marsh further noted that although the protagonist of \"Cadillac Ranch\" seems similar to the protagonists of earlier Springsteen records, in this song he appears naive and vulnerable rather than bold and innocent.\n\nThe song's title comes from Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. Cadillac Ranch is a sculpture showing ten Cadillac automobiles with their hoods buried in the ground. Springsteen used Cadillac Ranch as a metaphor for his theme; that these once elite cars are now expendable.\n\nAmong the real life people namechecked in the song are Burt Reynolds, Junior Johnson and the deceased James Dean. However, in concert Springsteen can be flexible with the names used. For example, in 1985 concerts in Australia, Reynolds was replaced by the fictional Mad Max.\n"},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931162","strTrack":"I'm a Rocker","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuV3LKuwNw8","strDescription":""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931163","strTrack":"Fade Away","strTrackThumb":"http://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/track/thumb/qrryss1355301232.jpg","strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3LfdRQ9iEA","strDescription":"\"Fade Away\" is a 1980 song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, accompanied by the E Street Band. It was contained on his album The River, and the second single released from it in the United States.\n\nThe song was recorded at The Power Station in New York in March to June 1980, one of the last songs to be recorded for the album. Musically and lyrically it is a slow, pained lament:\n\n    Well now, you say you've found another man, who does things to you that I can't\n    And that no matter what I do, it's all over now between me and you girl\n    But I can't believe what you say!\n    No, I can't believe what you say ...\n\nRock author Jimmy Guterman wrote that \"Fade Away\" is \"certainly among his most pessimistic and helpless depictions of life and love gone wrong.\"\n\nThis was the second single taken from The River, released in February 1981 in the U.S. and in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. (In the UK and Europe, \"The River\" was released instead.) In the U.S., \"Fade Away\" was not as successful as the previous single from the album, \"Hungry Heart\", but still reached #20 on the U.S. pop singles chart. It was only performed sporadically on The River Tour, and not at all for nearly the first two months. The judgement behind its selection as the second single was questioned and the choice was blamed for slowing down sales of the album. It was then dropped from Springsteen's concert repertoire completely, only rematerializing for a handful of solo renditions on the 2005 Devils & Dust Tour. E Streeter Steve Van Zandt has proclaimed \"Fade Away\" as one of his favorite Springsteen songs, but thinks that it is not played in band shows because it is too slow. Regardless, he says, \"It's just one of those funny, lost little gems, you know?\" It was finally given an E Street Band performance again at Stockholms Stadion on June 7, 2009 during the European second leg of the Working on a Dream Tour; Springsteen made reference on stage to Van Zandt's desire to hear it.\n\nMeanwhile, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (old Van Zandt cohorts) had added \"Fade Away\" to his concerts from the 1980s on, and it would be included on his 1997 Spittin' Fire live album. Southside's renditions have often been of a slow, bluesy nature, accompanied only by bandmate Bobby Bandiera."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931164","strTrack":"Stolen Car","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPobte6iqSU","strDescription":"\"Stolen Car\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was originally released on his fifth album, The River. The version released on The River was recorded at The Power Station in New York in January 1980.\n\n\"Stolen Car\", along with a few other songs on The River including the title track and \"Wreck on the Highway\", mark a new direction in Bruce Springsteen's songwriting. These ballads, imbued with a sense of hopelessness, foreshadow his next album, Nebraska. Like \"The River\", \"Stolen Car\" is an inner-directed, psychological song that deals with a failing marriage. The protagonist of \"Stolen Car\" is driven by his loneliness to car theft, hoping to get caught but fearing to just disappear. Essentially, he wants to get arrested just to prove he exists. Alternatively, \"driving a stolen car\" can be viewed as a metaphor for living in a false, failed marriage where \"getting caught\" would require admitting this failure to himself, friends and family. The fear of disappearing into the darkness is really the fear of not \"getting caught\" and instead spending the rest of his life living a lie, leaving nothing real behind.\n\nThe recording uses minimal backing, with soft piano and synthesizer punctuated by tympani-like drums. Springsteen's biographer Dave Marsh wrote that the recording fades away \"without a nuance of reluctance. There is nothing more here\u2014just a waste of life and a man brave or stupid enough to watch it trickle away.\" Bruce Springsteen himself has noted that \"Stolen Car\" is one of the songs reflecting a shift in his songwriting style, linking The River to Nebraska. He has also stated that the protagonist was the character whose progress he would be following on the Tunnel of Love album, and that he served as the archetype for the male role in future songs Springsteen wrote about men and women.\n\n\"Stolen Car\" and another song from The River, \"Drive All Night\", played a key role in setting the tone of the 1997 film Cop Land.\n\nA slow moving song, \"Stolen Car\" has not been particularly common in concert, with 54 performances in Bruce Springsteen concerts through 2008, with most of those performances having occurred during the 1980\u20131981 River Tour.\n\nThe aggregation of critics' lists at acclaimedmusic.net did not place this song in its list of the top 3000 songs of all time, but rated it as one of the 1980 songs \"bubbling under\" the top 3000. The song has also been listed as one of the all time great songs in Toby Creswell's \"1001 songs\" and as one of the 7500 most important songs from 1944 through 2000 by Bruce Pollock.\n\nAlternate Version:\nAn alternate version of the song exists that was released on the album Tracks. This version, sometimes referred to as the \"Son you may kiss the bride\" version of the song, was recorded at The Power Station in July 1979. This version was originally intended to be released on a single album that was to be released in 1979 and called The Ties That Bind. This album was eventually scrapped and expanded to become the double album The River. In this process, \"Stolen Car\" was rerecorded in the version released on The River.\n\nThe version of the song on Tracks has a different, less haunting, instrumentation and a somewhat quicker pace than The River version. But the main difference is the lyrics. The Tracks version includes three additional verses in which the protagonist recalls the good days of his marriage and regains hope. He renews his marriage vows but as he kisses his wife at the end of the ceremony, the feelings of hopelessness return and he resumes his desperate driving of stolen cars hoping to get caught. The lyrics of this version also include river imagery used in some other songs on The River, including the title track and \"Hungry Heart\"."},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931165","strTrack":"Ramrod","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luq3D92xbg","strDescription":"\"Ramrod\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for his fifth album, The River, released in 1980. It was recorded at The Power Station in New York in June or July 1979. The song was actually written earlier and recorded for Springsteen's \"Darkness on the Edge of Town\" album, but that recording was not used for its release on The River.\n\nAlthough \"Ramrod\" was never released as the A-side of a single, it reached #30 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1981. It has remained a popular song in concerts by Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band, with about 410 performances through 2008, and appearing on both the CD and DVD versions of Live in New York City.\n\nIn the Netherlands, \"Ramrod\" was released as the B-side of the \"Point Blank\" single in 1981. In other countries it was released as the B-side of \"The River.\""},{"idArtist":"111277","strMusicBrainzArtistID":"70248960-cb53-4ea4-943a-edb18f7d336f","idAlbum":"2126730","idTrack":"32931149","strTrack":"The Ties That Bind","strTrackThumb":null,"strMusicVid":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGBGc3eW6Uk","strDescription":"\"The Ties That Bind\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It was the opening song on his fifth album, The River. It was recorded at The Power Station in New York in May or June 1979. It was one of the earlier songs Springsteen wrote for The River, as it was written on the road during his 1978 tour. The song was also often performed during the latter part of that tour.\n\n\"The Ties That Bind\" was originally intended to be released as the title track of a single album that was to be released in 1979. This proposed album was eventually scrapped and expanded to become the double album The River.\n\nThe songs on The River reveal a tension between the need for community and the need to be alone. \"The Ties That Bind\", along with \"Two Hearts\" and \"Out in the Street\", is one of the key songs on the album about the need for community. It is a pulsing rocker that was influenced by Jackie De Shannon's \"When You Walk in the Room\", Creedence Clearwater Revival's \"Who'll Stop the Rain\" and by The Searchers.\n\n\"The Ties That Bind\" has been a reasonably popular song in concert over the years, with about 200 performances through 2008. An encyclopedia about Bruce Springsteen took its name from the title of this song. "}]}