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Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes, review  3 out of 5 stars(only 3 stars)

By   The Telegraph

12:01AM GMT 28 Dec 2013

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cul...gh-Hopes-review.html

 

As one of rock’s great storytellers, Bruce   Springsteen usually makes albums with a strong narrative thrust   binding the songs together. So what are we supposed to make of a new CD that   opens with a rocky cover of a folk song about finding hope in a hopeless   world, ends with an atmospheric take on the romantic Dream Baby Dream   (originally by synth band Suicide) and, in between, roams across topics   including institutional racism, Vietnam, 9/11 and the everlasting triumph of   our Lord Jesus Christ? 

Although substantially re-recorded and presented as a new collection, these 12   tracks are odds and ends, “leftovers” from other sessions and new versions   of songs that have taken different forms on the road. Springsteen has always   written a lot of material which he shapes and filters, with some songs –    ones that many fans consider classics – discarded from his sets as he goes.   Previously, these sorts of rejects have surfaced on compilations, notably   the excellent Tracks box set from 1998. 

This time, he has revamped and re-recorded lost songs to bring them up to   date. You can hear the old, meaty saxophone of Clarence Clemons (who died in   2011) and the rangy piano playing of Danny Federici (who died in 2008), but   they’re combined with the new, slashing art-attack guitar of Rage Against   The Machine’s Tom Morello, who was brought in to expand the E Street Band   line up in 2012. 

Morello is the album’s guiding spirit. But while his agit-pop sensibility is a   good fit with Springsteen’s socio-political conscience, his effects-laden  guitar playing operates at odd angles to the deep roots sensibility of the E Street sound. He slashes and burns through American Skin (41 Shots), a raging, angry anthem inspired by the 1999 police shooting of immigrant Amadou Diallo, giving Springsteen the contemporary edge he has been looking   for.

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UMMMM

The little star thing says 3 but only has 2 filled.

Not only can this person type trash about things he doesn't know....but he can't count either

So how can we take him seriously??

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