Bruce Springsteen's "Magic"
Bruce Springsteen's "Magic"
Bruce's new album with the E-Street Band comes out tomorrow. Let's discuss it here as we feel compelled to.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
I really like "Radio Nowhere", seems a real return to the "Darkness on the Edge of Town" sound, and the few songs he played on the Today show the other morning were sounding good too. I'll be grabbbing it tomorrow too, could be a real winner.
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
I just picked it up, but thanks to the iPod era I can't listen to it until I rip it to my computer at home (my computer at work doesn't have a headphone jack). Oh well, something to look forward to!
The salesperson at HMV told me that if I listen to the CD and decide I don't like it that I can return it, even if it's already opened. I had never had anybody tell me that at a music store before; I wonder if it's yet another tactic to try to get people wanting to buy from record shops.
The salesperson at HMV told me that if I listen to the CD and decide I don't like it that I can return it, even if it's already opened. I had never had anybody tell me that at a music store before; I wonder if it's yet another tactic to try to get people wanting to buy from record shops.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
Listened once so far and enjoying is so far. It definitely has a lot of that classic Springsteen appeal to it. "Livin' In The Future" in particular sounds like it could have been recorded twenty-five years ago.
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
I'm halfway through my first listen as I write this, and I must say that I am knocked out. Haven't given the lyrics a close listen to yet, but melodically and musically, this is fantastic. Agree with Blue about Livin' in the Future and the song that follows it, Your Own Worst Enemy is a great melody. Love it!
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Another New Springsteen Album Already Done?
October 05, 2007, 10:45 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Bruce Springsteen isn't always known for working quickly, but he just may have another new album already in the can on the heels of "Magic," released earlier this week via Columbia.
"There's another group of songs that exist that I think are great songs and should end up somewhere, but they just didn't quite fit with this group," says producer Brendan O'Brien, who helmed "Magic" as well as 2002's "The Rising" and 2005's "Devils & Dust."
O'Brien declined to comment on murmurs that the new album could be out as soon as next spring, saying only, "I'll defer to others on that one."
What's clear is that O'Brien has played a key role in one of the most prolific period of album releases in Springsteen's storied career. Before "The Rising," the Boss hadn't made a new studio album in seven years, and hadn't recorded with the E Street Band in nearly 20.
"He had produced his own music with other people for a long time," O'Brien says. "If he was meeting with me, it meant he maybe wanted to try something new and inspired. He needed somebody to help him get over the hump."
In contrast to the somber, Sept. 11, 2001-themed "The Rising," the folk-leaning solo album "Devils & Dust" and last year's all-traditional "The Seeger Sessions," "Magic" offers some of the most melodic songs Springsteen has written in years. The material is tailor-made for the onstage power of the E Street Band, which has just begun a North American tour.
O'Brien credits Springsteen with allowing him to participate in the vetting process, which in turn shaped the mostly high-energy vibe of the new album.
"It was clear he wanted that kind of input, and I let him know right away that that's something I like to do and am helpful with," he says. "On this one, we met at his place and he sat down and played me a bunch of songs. I would be looking at the lyric book while he was singing them. He'd finish, we'd talk, and we'd make notes."
Once ensconced at O'Brien's Atlanta studio, the producer set Springsteen up with a pared-down core band of drummer Max Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent and pianist Roy Bittan to record basic tracks. Contributions from E Streeters like guitarist Steven Van Zandt, keyboardist Danny Federici and saxophonist Clarence Clemons were added later.
"As best I can tell, everyone else seems at peace with that," O'Brien says. "We'll bring Danny and Steve in, but by that point, I have a better idea as to what we need them for. It makes their overdubbing much more specific."
October 05, 2007, 10:45 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Bruce Springsteen isn't always known for working quickly, but he just may have another new album already in the can on the heels of "Magic," released earlier this week via Columbia.
"There's another group of songs that exist that I think are great songs and should end up somewhere, but they just didn't quite fit with this group," says producer Brendan O'Brien, who helmed "Magic" as well as 2002's "The Rising" and 2005's "Devils & Dust."
O'Brien declined to comment on murmurs that the new album could be out as soon as next spring, saying only, "I'll defer to others on that one."
What's clear is that O'Brien has played a key role in one of the most prolific period of album releases in Springsteen's storied career. Before "The Rising," the Boss hadn't made a new studio album in seven years, and hadn't recorded with the E Street Band in nearly 20.
"He had produced his own music with other people for a long time," O'Brien says. "If he was meeting with me, it meant he maybe wanted to try something new and inspired. He needed somebody to help him get over the hump."
In contrast to the somber, Sept. 11, 2001-themed "The Rising," the folk-leaning solo album "Devils & Dust" and last year's all-traditional "The Seeger Sessions," "Magic" offers some of the most melodic songs Springsteen has written in years. The material is tailor-made for the onstage power of the E Street Band, which has just begun a North American tour.
O'Brien credits Springsteen with allowing him to participate in the vetting process, which in turn shaped the mostly high-energy vibe of the new album.
"It was clear he wanted that kind of input, and I let him know right away that that's something I like to do and am helpful with," he says. "On this one, we met at his place and he sat down and played me a bunch of songs. I would be looking at the lyric book while he was singing them. He'd finish, we'd talk, and we'd make notes."
Once ensconced at O'Brien's Atlanta studio, the producer set Springsteen up with a pared-down core band of drummer Max Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent and pianist Roy Bittan to record basic tracks. Contributions from E Streeters like guitarist Steven Van Zandt, keyboardist Danny Federici and saxophonist Clarence Clemons were added later.
"As best I can tell, everyone else seems at peace with that," O'Brien says. "We'll bring Danny and Steve in, but by that point, I have a better idea as to what we need them for. It makes their overdubbing much more specific."
This morning you've got time for a hot, home-cooked breakfast! Delicious and piping hot in only 3 microwave minutes.
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I agree with most others that this is a really exciting return to form.
I haven't enjoyed a Springsteen album as much since The River (not having really liked Tunnel of Love). You can't beat that BIG full-on East Street Band sound. I particularly like the two BIG, orchestrated, Spectoresque ballads, Your own worst enemy and Girls in their summer clothes. One minor gripe is that Clarence's sax solos should be much LOUDER (like on The River).
I haven't enjoyed a Springsteen album as much since The River (not having really liked Tunnel of Love). You can't beat that BIG full-on East Street Band sound. I particularly like the two BIG, orchestrated, Spectoresque ballads, Your own worst enemy and Girls in their summer clothes. One minor gripe is that Clarence's sax solos should be much LOUDER (like on The River).
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Mrs Monkster --- Honey , Im home!
Jackson ---- Did you get my Springsteen CD?
Mrs Monkster --- Of course honey bunch!! - oh ....and they were having a Sale so I just got these really nice shoes, a real bargain at only $350 and a handbag to go with them of course, and they had these lovely ear rings ...... and well, I really needed a new dress......and this blouse just matches it perfectly dont you think ..... and then I found this lovely skirt , and this gorgeous .........etc etc etc
Jackson ---- Did you get my Springsteen CD?
Mrs Monkster --- Of course honey bunch!! - oh ....and they were having a Sale so I just got these really nice shoes, a real bargain at only $350 and a handbag to go with them of course, and they had these lovely ear rings ...... and well, I really needed a new dress......and this blouse just matches it perfectly dont you think ..... and then I found this lovely skirt , and this gorgeous .........etc etc etc
echos myron like a siren
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
with endurance like the liberty bell
and he tells you of the dreamers
but he's cracked up like the road
and he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load
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Agree 100% re: the sax sound and those two numbers. This is just a great album. Incredibly catchy- I think that melody-wise it is probably Bruce's strongest album ever.Fishfinger king wrote:I agree with most others that this is a really exciting return to form.
I haven't enjoyed a Springsteen album as much since The River (not having really liked Tunnel of Love). You can't beat that BIG full-on East Street Band sound. I particularly like the two BIG, orchestrated, Spectoresque ballads, Your own worst enemy and Girls in their summer clothes. One minor gripe is that Clarence's sax solos should be much LOUDER (like on The River).
Mrs. Doofster (sorry, I'm in a time warp): Honey, thanks so much for sending me to the mall! I got your CD and only spent $4552.37!
Jackson: Thanks, Darling! But. . . $4552.37???
Mrs. Doofster: Oh, yes. . I just couldn't resist the department store travel agent's special 37-day cruise to Ubabababango. What a deal! By the way, I met Mrs. migdd quite by accident and opened up a joint account at 36.75% in order to book the cruise for four. . .hope that's okay, Sweetest!!!
Jackson: Thanks, Darling! But. . . $4552.37???
Mrs. Doofster: Oh, yes. . I just couldn't resist the department store travel agent's special 37-day cruise to Ubabababango. What a deal! By the way, I met Mrs. migdd quite by accident and opened up a joint account at 36.75% in order to book the cruise for four. . .hope that's okay, Sweetest!!!
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