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I bought and listened to it for the first time yesterday... (I know, I know...)

I was in a record shop with my good friend Essexboy, explaining (rather lamely) over a coffee (it is a record shop with a coffee shop at the back - why aren't they all like this?) that a new E Street Band album wasn't a priority for me right now, I guess 'Magic' was the last one that really did anything for me and that was on the back of a tour. I guess I'd just prepared myself to be underwhelmed.

Martin convinced me and as we were leaving the shop I grabbed a copy of the grey vinyl and bought it. I downloaded it on Apple Music for the journey home. These were genuinely the first notes of this record I'd heard. I pulled up to the gates of my drive and sat there to let 'I'll see you in my dreams' finish and was filled with all sorts of emotions.

It's a great record, possibly best since the 80s? I could hear it belting out of the arenas and that live show feeling came back to me, the queuing for the pit, the wristbands, the rain, the cold (Sunderland & Manchester 2012 anyone?). This is why I love the E Street band.

'Priest' is one of my all times, I was dreading him fucking it up, but he didn't, nor 'Janey', nor 'Orphans'. They were all done right, and didn't jump out as I thought they might, this is a skilful record in that respect, it works as an album from start to finish.

If we ever get a tour, then 'Ghosts' will be the one he fucks up for me, an elongated band intro song, like '10th' on the reunion tour, or WOASD, on every tour since The Rising. But hey, I'll take that. I'll take that all day long.

Welcome back E Street Band.

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