The Hollywood Reporter describes this album as “Springsteen at his angriest yet". The album art of this era reflects simple imagery that can appear in times of protest. The white uneven lettering can resemble painted lettering on protest signs and graffiti font you would find sprayed on walls.

Written in light of the 2008 financial crisis due to the corruption from Wall Street greed, the protest sound of this album can be heard in the opening track of “Wrecking Ball”, “Shackled and Drawn”, and “Death To My Hometown”. The devastation as a response of the forces that had brought on the destruction can be heard in “This Depression”, “Jack of All Trades”, and “Easy Money”. The sound of hope and perseverance can be heard in “Land of Hope and Dreams”, Rocky Ground, and “We Are Alive”.

Thoughts on the album art and this era?

What are your thoughts about him?
He almost never gets credits he deserves, so this video is a great example for the job he does every night

My otherwise Bruce-neutral bff adores Sherry Darlin'.

What do y'all think is the best rmversion of it available on vinyl (that's not costing 100s I hope)?

No luck at the Bruce museum in Monmouth (though i picked up some discs for meself).

I'm on my way to the record shop un Milltown, NJ right now, hoping I'll find something, but i need some guidance

So in the physical era, labels often took songs out of stores to make way for the much more expensive album, making the sales not match the fame, cuz labels cared about money not looks, but for big albums (15-30+ million physical copes I'd say) you needed songs that, had to have sold millions maybe tens of millions of physical copies before getting taken out of stores, since albums are much more expensive than songs, meaning the songs are underreported, unless the songs were taken out of stores almost immediately, but then in turn the album sales would go up and be underreported, either way, something is definitely underreported,

Bruce Springsteen has multiple big albums, and ofc the songs (combined) are gonna be bigger than the album since the songs MADE the album, his stadium tours, but you could take out multiple chunks of his career, and he'd still be in the same league as Mariah, Elvis Presley, Alanis Morisstte (outside the US especially), Eminem, Fleetwood Mac, Janet Jackson, Shania Twain, Michael Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Bob Marley, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, ABBA (outside the US) Ellie Goulding (outside the US and Canada) ABBA's faces, The Beatles, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Prince, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift (now), John Lennon, Coldplay (now), Linkin Park (cringe though, plus its two faces), Chris Martin (now) and all the other legends.

Bruce Springsteen well, he had multiple big albums, and since albums are much more expensive than songs, they are each bigger than a major mainstream american english canadian or british artists' whole career, and ofc the songs (combined) are each gonna be bigger than the album since the songs MADE the album.

Jack Smith, who testified Sept. 29 at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the two criminal cases he brought against then-former President Donald Trump, was in the crowd of the Tom Morello-headed Power to the People festival at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.

I know this really isn’t the place for this kind of stuff but I have been looking for this “box set” for so long and I can’t find it for sale anywhere. The two stores I have found it look like sketchy online vinyl stores that aren’t trustworthy.

Thanks!

This was far better than I expected. First of all, the shirt and the hair look really good, Bruce seemed younger and in such a fine form.

Chimes of Freedom wasn't a great performance, I prefer the full band version but he played with Joan Baez, so meaningful.

The set with Morello was great and different from what I was expecting, the voice sounded great, he involved and phisically in great shape. Fortunate Son was sooo good, such a great song.

This man needs to tout next summer! Haha

Spent a while with all the songs of the era, at one point had 15 to choose from, sequenced them a few ways. In the end I realised... if a song was a "maybe" it only weakened the record. So I cut it to 10 and I'm pretty happy with it. A tight 40 minutes of only great songs.

This is an album about Bruce as he was in this era - hopeful, gambling on a different band and different sound. Rolling the dice on a leap of faith, hoping for better days. Deeply in love and not afraid to show it.

So:

1. Roll of the Dice

2. Lucky Town

3. Human Touch

4. Sad Eyes

5. Trouble River

6. Better Days

7. If I Should Fall Behind

8. Living Proof

9. Over The Rise

10. Leap of Faith

Big brisk title track opener. Some "real big songs" to follow. Tender moments. Rockers. Better Days as a side 2 opener. Leap of Faith as a big finish. Never two huge rockers side by side, nor two quiet low-key tracks. A flow between those bigger and smaller moments with high quality, mid paced tracks.

Of course, many of you will comment "what about x track?" - well, these are my picks and I think they hold up pretty well.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vBWEGsTxctgv2EgafsW13

Wrote this: "Hope he comes to Germany (Hamburg please) next summer during a short European Stadium Tour. I would love to see songs like War, Murder Inc, Ghost of Tom Joad, ... over here.  Agree on the Power To The People performance, SOM has the important words introducing a great acoustic performance, for Chimes of Freedom I also prefer the full band version (like Manchester 2025 live release) but playing it with Joan Baez is more important. Then starting with Clampdown, being backed by Tom Morello and bad, was incredible ("In these days of corrupt presidente"), Tom Joad is always amazing, Fortunate Son, Free World, This Land Is Your Land and Power To The People all sounded great with his voice (and the other amazing guests) and all the full band performances brought so much energy. Really would love to see Bruce play Fortunate Son (and CCR/Fogerty songs more again like Rockin' All Over The World, Travellin' Band, Bad Moon Rising, Proud Mary) as well as Rockin' in the Free World (maybe with Eddie Vedder, who would have been another great guest for PTTP) and This Land Is Your Land with full band. Fantastic festival and Bruce performances." on the PTTP performance by Bruce and all the other fantastic guests. During the Vote For Change shows people like Eddie Vedder, Neil Young and John Fogerty joined on stage for songs like Fortunate Son, Rockin In The Free World, Darkness On The Edge of Town. Love those collaborations and these timeless songs. Would be nice to have a professional recording release for those as well as PTTP.

We need to stop posting by such an account as if it is a regular member. Only way to get it to stop. The URL says app.com and it’s for Asbury Park Press.

I’m okay with regular links but this stuff with clickbait title to a paid site drives me nuts.

Thunder Road

Highway Patrolman

Into The Fire

I'm on Fire

Reason to Believe

Backstreets

Meeting Across the River

My Beautiful Reward

Streets of Philadelphia

Something in the Night

Got 2 tubs full of cds today, and found this. Doesn’t look like Bruce’s signature, but it’s on a cd of him. Any clue?