Artist – Album: Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On the Edge
of Town
Released: 2nd
June 1978
Sounds Like: A working class hero is something to be
Last time, on Bruce Springsteen’s album – Huge,
wall-of-sound music partially hid the Bosses’ disdain for the working class
hero that he had previously celebrated.
On Darkness on the Edge of Town, his characters are still
losers, and they can only really find solace in driving and working like they
love it. Despite the, as ever, euphoric anthems the boss manufactured there is a
terribly disillusioned sentiment to his songs on this set; possibly his most
depressing aside from the notorious Nebraska.
The adult rock of ‘Adam
Raised a Cain’ is quite good, but the rest of the first half is much more
interesting – ‘Badlands’ is a full-on
Born to Run-esque sing-a-long ; ‘Something
in the Night’ and ‘Candy’s Room’ are
wistful indie rockers. ‘Racing in the
Street’ is the obligatory, end-of-side slow burner, replete with
bittersweet lyrics. The second half of the album begins with the excellent ‘The Promised Land’ and continues in a
similarly impressive fashion.
Anthemic but disenfranchised, Darkness on the Edge of Town fulfils
both of the typical Springsteen themes. It’s a full on classic, and definitely
worth a listen if you’re interested.
To be continued...
Albumaday... rating:
8/10
1. Badlands
– 4:01
2. Adam
Raised a Cain – 4:32
3. Something
in the Night – 5:11
4. Candy’s
Room – 2:51
5. Racing
in the Street – 6:53
6. The
Promised Land – 4:33
7. Factory
– 2:17
8. Streets
of Fire – 4:09
9. Prove
It All Night – 3:56
10. Darkness
on the Edge of Town – 4:30
Listen to ‘Badlands’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF1jH6Cv0tk
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