Favorite Bruce Springsteen song?

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09 Jun 2010, 2:12 pm

Mine happens to be One Step Up. All of Tunnel of Love however is a great album. One step up reminds me of a lot of things, and the ending is used in one of my scenes, that would be the part from the last guitar solo to where he does that humming thing.

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09 Jun 2010, 3:22 pm

I really like the one that goes "we went down to the river, and into the river we.." something, something... can't remember the rest, but it was a lovely song. Very emotional.

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09 Jun 2010, 3:33 pm

I like the one where he equates his desire for someone with being on fire. It sounds kinda gay, but if you hear it it's a very sexy song.

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09 Jun 2010, 3:38 pm

Shadwell wrote:

I like the one where he equates his desire for someone with being on fire. It sounds kinda gay, but if you hear it it's a very sexy song.

That's "I'm on Fire." That song is also very good. That's the one with the lines "Sometimes its like someone took a knife baby edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my skull. At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train runnin' through the middle of my head."

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09 Jun 2010, 5:53 pm

Ackman wrote:

Shadwell wrote:

I like the one where he equates his desire for someone with being on fire. It sounds kinda gay, but if you hear it it's a very sexy song.

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire

Its a cool song, but to me it always sounded like the mutterings of a pervert as he cases a home, looking for a way to break in...

'Thunder Road' on Born to Run is a great song...I like 'Spirits in the Night' from Greetings from Asbury Park, and 'Stolen Car' from The River.

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09 Jun 2010, 6:08 pm

Two Faces is another good song. It's also on Tunnel of Love

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09 Jun 2010, 7:53 pm

brilliant disguise

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10 Jun 2010, 4:24 am

My favourite Bruce Springsteen song is the Wilbury's Tweeter and the Monkey Man.

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11 Jun 2010, 1:11 pm

JUNGLELAND!! !! !

Close runners up include "Rosalita", "Born to Run", "For You", "Spirit In the Night", "Blinded By the Light", and "Thunder Road!!

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11 Jun 2010, 1:14 pm

"Born in the USA"

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11 Jun 2010, 1:39 pm

Human Touch

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06 Jul 2010, 5:39 pm

Atlantic City, such a sad, sad, song. It's easy to understand how Springsteen did the music for the film 'The Wrestler'
Dancing in the Dark is full of exuberance, and youthful longing as are many of his songs.

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06 Jul 2010, 6:01 pm

I can't say I'm a huge fan, however the entire 'Nebraska' album kind of reminds me of a dark and sinister equivalent to Woody Guthries 'dustbowl ballads'. There is something in it's stripped back bluesey feel and it seems to an outsider to be a great reflection of Regans cold war USA.
As for a favourite song? I probably haven't got one though 'Candys Room' off 'Darkness on the edge of town', 'The River' off 'The River' or anything off side one of 'Nebraska' would probably be my pick, for different reasons.

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06 Jul 2010, 6:31 pm

RedHanrahan wrote:

I can't say I'm a huge fan, however the entire 'Nebraska' album kind of reminds me of a dark and sinister equivalent to Woody Guthries 'dustbowl ballads'. There is something in it's stripped back bluesey feel and it seems to an outsider to be a great reflection of Regans cold war USA.
As for a favourite song I probably haven't got one though 'Candys Room' off 'Darkness on the edge of town', 'The River' off 'The River' or anything off side one of 'Nebraska' would probably be my pick, for different reasons.

peace j

Yeah, he definitely presents a viewpoint from below. His portraits of the US are very honest and brutal, not your 4th of July version.

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06 Jul 2010, 7:42 pm

Lene wrote:

I really like the one that goes "we went down to the river, and into the river we.." something, something... can't remember the rest, but it was a lovely song. Very emotional.

It's a song called The River from his 1980 album The River. My favorite Springsteen song is Streets of Philadelphia. I also like Something In The Night, Meeting Across The River, Tunnel of Love and Human Touch.

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