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eva longoria — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:45:39 -0000

I can say for Bruce Springsteeen that his dream is very genuine.

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Betfair Bonus — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:58:09 -0000

This has inspired me to get out some of the old CDs. Thanks for the post.

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يوتيوب — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:59:30 -0000

It's great to see him living his dream. He's still very much alive and kicking.

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Russell Verner — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:58:28 -0000

After reading your post.., I remember a song entitled "The way we were" Great post..

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commercial health insurance — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:16 -0000

He promises, what he delivers!!

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web directory — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:54:29 -0000

His Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A were great.

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sharoncollinsr — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:29:45 -0000

I think Though he brought it back for Obama (I think he looked awkward on the campaign trail) that bigger Bruce and wide-ranging social commentary has devolved into personal stuff again, and it's good. He's always better showing, rather than telling, on the social stuff. Plus, mortality beckons... voucher code | promotion codes are more important than ever to people trying to save money on their shopping online.Such as New Look Voucher Codes | Asda Voucher Codes | Tesco Voucher Codes | Adobe Coupon Codes | Expedia Coupons|Newegg coupon codes|Musicians Friend Coupon Codes and Kohls Coupon Codes A minute or two online can save you big money.

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Stroke Treatment — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:37:09 -0000

It's great to see him living his dream. He's still very much alive and kicking.

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Oakley Sunglasses — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:57:58 -0000

I can see that Bruce Springsteen is really healthy.. I mean, in is age?? 59 yrs old??
He really take care his health.. I wish he wear sunglasses when he was singing.. to be cool =p

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buddhakwee — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:03:02 -0000

Every people have a dream and i too have a dream
I love children ^^

Stop Dreaming Start Action

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Cheap Bruce Springsten Tickets — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:57:54 -0000

59 years old! 59 years old?! He is better looking, more fit & has more energy then guys half his age.
i thought he was boss when I was a kid & I still think he’s boss now. He’s Super Boss!Springsteen’s chart success probably has more to do with the fact that middle aged men.

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Jason_Chervokas — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:47:06 -0000

Sean, I don't mean to condescend, just reacting to a widespread response a lot of people have to Springsteen's unabashed romantacism.and the corny stuff in the Super Bowl set. I'm a romantic I guess (my favorite Springsteen album is "The Wild, The Innocent & the E Street Shuffle," second fav would be "Born to Run"), so I dig it, and this is Springsteen's most romantic album in years. It think its long past time to make it cool to be romantic. What the world needs now is love, sweet love.

I didn't like "Devils & Dust " either; I agree w/ your comparison of "Radio Nowhere" to "57 Channels;" and I didn't like "The Rising" either which sounded mostly forced, and in places very much rehashed ("Mary's Place").

"Tom Joad" took me a while. Didn't like it on its release then years later came back and fell in love w/ it--I think it's chockablock w/ well crafted story songs about contemporary America in a folkie tradition so that's almost perfectly designed to ring all my bells. It ain't "Nebraska," but it's a fine piece of work.

I liked "Magic" quite a bit--loved "Summer Clothes," "Your Own Worst Enemy," and especially "Gypsy Biker," which I think is classic Springsteen ("Long Walk Home" sounded good but also seemed like the kind of quickie Springsteen song the Boss could knock out in his sleep). On this new record I particularly love "What Love Can Do," which offers a pretty heavy sentiment about love--not sacchrine or banal pop song love but the real power of love--familial and not just romantic; "Queen of the Supermarket"--which is just the kind of crafted pop number built around a single trope that I like; "Kingdom of Days," w/ which, as a 45 year old guy married for almost 20 years, I identify; "Surprise," which is a light, quick song, but honest and touching, different, fresh; "Life Itself;" and "This Life." I also dig "Outlaw Pete" which is nothing but a modern version of the kind of western gunslinger ballads Marty Robbins made famous but weird, overly grandiose, quirkie, all characteristics which make me like it more. It's certainly a better western movie than Baz Luhrmann's "Australia;" and at 8-minutes it's a lot shorter.

I'm a Springsteen fan of more than 30 years, and on a more intellectual level an admirer of his songcraft. I'll check out anything he does, but haven't loved a lot of the stuff he's done over the last 10 years. I do, however, really like this new one. It just feels good and even the slight songs like the title track are earwormy for me.

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Sean — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:38:22 -0000

" But unless you’re the hipper than thou type who needs your rock angst-ridden or not at all, you may find, as I do, that this is Springsteen’s most listenable album of original tunes in many years. "

Ah, the old angst-ridden, hipper than thou types. If you don't like Springsteen's incessant recycling, you must be one of those hipsters. Sounds pretty condescending to me.
Twenty-two years ago I really took to Tunnel Of Love (it was tough, tender, funny, modulated somewhere between Nebraska and Born in the USA, and on "One Step Up" heartbreaking) but I cannot fathom what he's been doing since. Tom Joad is dullsville to me. The Rising, an admirable failure with a few worthwhile stabs at 9/11, but too much of his usual corn/nostalgia thrown in as well. Devils and Dust was slow, arid and not very compelling. Magic had "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" and "Long Walk Home" but "Radio Nowhere" was as clueless as "57 Channels." As for the new one, I've heard it twice and it sound pretty tepid to me. "Outlaw Pete" is what, exactly? And the title cut is not slight, it's transparent, invisible, not there. ("CCR chug?" Now I know why I no longer read Jon Pareles") Really, I don't get any of this. Even in his early days when I didn't fall exactly in line behind a record I still understood his appeal, found him funny (say "Darlington County") or overwrought ("Jungleland") or devastating ("Atlantic City") the music was there. Over the past two dacades much of what I've heard sounds listless, tired, reworked. (You mention "Sinaloa Cowboys," which is a great idea but a dreary execution.)

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tomwatson — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:39:47 -0000

Another Side of Bruce Springsteen - I like that.

I think this record (which is tied to the writing period of Magic, you're right) was "freed up" by Bruce's work on the Seeger Sessions disk and tours - not that it's that kind of music, but with the boisterous, just-for-fun, tub-scrapin' music of the Seeger stuff, Springsteen shrugged off some of that "responsibility" as you call it - the self-appointed musical poet of 9/11 etc...

Though he brought it back for Obama (I think he looked awkward on the campaign trail) that bigger Bruce and wide-ranging social commentary has devolved into personal stuff again, and it's good. He's always better showing, rather than telling, on the social stuff. Plus, mortality beckons...

Supermarket is a wonderful song - goofy, the remembrance of a near 60ish songwriter of his younger days, a song about suburbia, a widely-shared experience (I stocked many a shelf in my day, occasionally distracted by the winsome glances of the graceful checkers), and a sense of irony. Those who argue that it's his "worst song ever" just don't listen. I wish I'd written it.