David Masciotra's Top 15 Springsteen Songs of the Decade

Here's a decent list of the 15 best Springsteen songs of the last ten years. Even better...his implications of how much better the young fans are than the old rockers.

http://trueslant.com/davidmasciotra/2010/07/12/not-a-jukebox-springsteens-top-15-of-the-decade-and-the-growth-of-an-artistic-voice

And, for what it's worth, here is my (superior) list of the top 15 Springsteen songs of the last decade:

1. The Rising
2. Devils and Dust
3. Lonesome Day
4. My City of Ruins
5. Jesus Was An Only Son
6. Long Walk Home
7. How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times
8. The Wrestler
9. Into the Fire
10. The Last Carnival
11. Waiting On A Sunny Day
12. You're Missing
13. Terry's Song
14. My Lucky Day
15. American Land

Super Bowl Journal

...don't miss Springsteen's "Super Bowl Journal"

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/superbowljournal.html

Working on a Dream

Wow...it's perfect.

Click here to listen to it...
Working on a Dream: "
1. Outlaw Pete - Bruce Springsteen
2. My Lucky Day - Bruce Springsteen
3. Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen
4. Queen of the Supermarket - Bruce Springsteen
5. What Love Can Do - Bruce Springsteen
6. This Life - Bruce Springsteen
7. Good Eye - Bruce Springsteen
8. Tomorrow Never Knows - Bruce Springsteen
9. Life Itself - Bruce Springsteen
10. Kingdom Of Days - Bruce Springsteen
11. Suprise, Suprise - Bruce Springsteen
12. The Last Carnival - Bruce Springsteen
13. The Wrestler (Bonus Track) - Bruce Springsteen"

Stephen Colbert - Bruce Springsteen

Asubry Park Rehearsals

Check out this site to see the songs Springsteen has been working on for the new tour:

http://www.pointblankmag.com/conciertos

Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home

There may be a song better than this one...but, I haven't heard it yet.



Also, Sam Cooke may have the most perfect voice on God's green earth.

And, for Springsteen fans like me...it's hard to under-estimate the influence of Sam Cooke on the Boss. Specifically, Springsteen has sucked his vibe straight out of the marrow of the following songs:

(What A) Wonderful World
Meet Me At Mary's Place
Having A Party
Twistin' the Night Away

In some sense, if there's no Sam Cooke, there's no Bruce Springsteen.

Also, here's Sam Cooke singing Blowin' in the Wind.

Bruce Springsteen: Magic

"We’ve been together since 1974 and I don’t think I’ve ever seen him more excited than he is right now about this record.”

-- Jon Landau (Springsteen’s manager)

Christian Music

The distinction between "Christian music" and "secular music" is truly an unhelpful one. A couple exceptions (people who do find it helpful): the Christian music industry, parents who don't want to be involved in their children's culture...these are stereotypes, I'm sure, but I think there's something there. These three lyrics came to mind this morning as I was thinking of some songs that contain honest reflections of the world.

We spend all day getting sober
Just hiding from daylight
Watching TV
We just look a lot better in the blue light
Well, you know I gotta get out
Bit I'm suck so tight
Weighed by the chains that keep me...

And this girl listens to the band play
She says "where have you been?
I've been lying right here on the floor"
Well, I got all this time
To be waiting for what is mine
To be hating what I am
After the light has faded
- Adam Duritz

I ain't never been to Vegas but I gambled up my life
Building newsprint boats I raced to sewer mains
Was trying to find me something but I wasn't sure just what
Funny how they say that some things never change
- Ryan Adams

In the garden at Gethsemane
He prayed for the life he'd never live,
He beseeched his Heavenly Father to remove
The cup of death from his lips

Now there's a loss that can never be replaced,
A destination that can never be reached,
A light you'll never find in another's face,
A sea whose distance cannot be breached

Well Jesus kiss his mother's hands
Whispered, "Mother, still you tears,
For remember the soul of the universe
Willed a world and it appeared."
- Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen On Tour: 1968 - 2005 by Dave Marsh