bruce springsteen

Working on a Dream (Deluxe Version with bonus DVD)
$18.94
This is Bruce Springsteens best,
for so many reasons because it shows the happy side of him,
most of his older songs are great too but there always depressing.
I think this is his best work yet keep up the good work bruce!

Born to Run
$9.99
It was the summer of 1975. I was entering my senior year in college. And popular music was languishing, still not recovered from the breakup of the Beatles in 1970. The music charts included such hits as "My Eyes Adored You" by Franki Valli, "Mandy" by Barry Manilow and "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tenille. The critics, just like myself, were waiting for the next "big thing" in music. Something ground-breaking, earth shattering, mind-blowing. The Beatles had done that with "Sgt. Pepper" a long 8 summers earlier. Would we ever have an experience like that again listening to music?

Then out of nowhere(well actually from the swamps of Jersey) came Bruce Springsteen with this album. From the first drop of the needle, it was obvious that this was something special. This wasn't KC and the Sunshine Band or John Denver...heck, this wasn't even Paul McCartney and Wings. No this was something unique, powerful and important. Music had its new voice.

Bruce has gone on to make other great music. He continues to provide 3 hours of some of the best live concerts you could ever hope to see. But it was with this album, it was at that moment in August '75, that many of us got to have that experience for the first time. The experience of Bruce's greatness. The experience of his music transending the average, the mundane of daily life. Taking us on a journey that we will never forget.

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run T-Shirt - Medium
$17.95
From Bruce Springsteen comes this standard cotton short sleeve T-Shirt in white that features the artwork from The Bruce Springsteen Born To Run Album.

Working on a Dream
$13.96
Bruce Springsteen's Working On A Dream is the follow-up to his 2007 release Magic. Whereas Magic had dark overtones and a sense of dread, Working On A Dream is a more optimistic album, although sadness does creep in from time to time. The album's opener is an exercise in sonic bombast, the spaghetti western styled "Outlaw Pete". The song is one of the better sounding efforts on the album, but the lyrics are a little over the top. "My Lucky Day" is classic Springsteen with a driving guitar base that wouldn't sound out of place on The River or Darkness. The title track is a homage to President Obama and is so likeable and earnest that you can forgive the silly whistling break in the middle of the song. "Queen of the Supermarket" has a nice sound, but may go down as having the worst lyrics to any song in Mr. Springtseen's vast catalog. "What Can Love Do" is a solid rocker while "The Life" evokes memories of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds with its layered textures. "Good Eye" is a strange blues inspired song that finds Mr. Springsteen utilizing a voice distorter that he used on the live version of "Reason To Believe" on the Magic tour. While that was extremely effective in concert, it just sounds odd on this song. He rounds nicely on the lovely "Tomorrow Never Knows" which has a pretty shuffling beat. "Life Itself" and "Kingdom Of Days are two, more or less, by the numbers songs that are good, just not great. "Surprise, Surprise" is a straight up Wall of Sound production with a swirling, layered sound scape that explodes out of your speakers. "The Last Carnival" is a moving tribute to the late Danny Federici that Mr. Springsteen sings with true feeling. The album closes with "The Wrestler" a song Mr. Springsteen wrote for the movie of the same name. It is a sparse, mostly acoustic number with lyrics that perfectly capture the essence of the film. It is the best song on the album and one of his best of the decade.