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Thursday 31 October 2024

Is a Dream a Lie if it Don't Come True?

 


The River the 5th studio album by Bruce Springsteen from 1980 was the first album of his that I bought on vinyl at the time of release.(the only other one being Western Stars).

I played it half to death around then. As his popularity grew many of the songs, and in particular, Hungry Heart, were played continuously on the radio and soon lost their allure.

The title track popped up on the I-pod the other day when I was peeling apples  and stopped me in my tracks - I know any opportunity. The lyrics are astonishingly good.

It was followed by the even more brilliant  Nebraska and then came Born in the USA and it was pretty much downhill from there on in.


Bruce Springsteen - The River

Bruce Springsteen - Out in the Streets

Bruce Springsteen -Cadillac Ranch

3 comments:

  1. It is the only Bruce album I own (like you bought when it first came out). Still enjoy listening to it but not enough to make me want to buy more.

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  2. I bought the album as a cassette in a supermarket in California in 1982 and it accompanied us for weeks on our route through the western United States. Great stuff

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    1. Sounds like the ideal place to listen to it.

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