I completely agree with Mando. PG&E got my power back on tonight so I was finally able to listen to it. Now to take that shower since the hot water is back on.
Nice you're still here, Tara.
I completely agree with Mando. PG&E got my power back on tonight so I was finally able to listen to it. Now to take that shower since the hot water is back on.
Nice you're still here, Tara.
@Ducky_Slattery posted:'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.
I feared the same, I feel the same.
some real old timers on this thread!
Hey! I never age - all the clean Canadian living!
@ccliffy posted:Hey! I never age - all the clean Canadian living!
Yeah Canada!
The more I listen...of the new songs (I love the 3 oldies big time)..but of the new songs, I’ll see you in my dreams is rising to the top. It’s a great song, really enjoying it...esp up loud!!
After several listens, I have to say that I love the music but the lyrics don't speak to me as much as other albums. I connected much more with albums like Wrecking ball than I do with this one. Maybe it's because I am not going through the same losses that he is or because I don't believe in prayer/ghosts/afterlife but the songs just lyrics just don't connect with me.
Very soon after hearing WESTERN STARS I called it his best since TUNNEL OF LOVE, and my opinion on that hasn't changed.
LETTER TO YOU is the best since WESTERN STARS. Initially, in the week or so after the leak, I was able to rank the songs, at least in groups. Since then nearly every song sounds like the best while it plays. Like WS, I have a hard time playing isolated cuts. I usually listen to the entire thing front to back.
I liked it. I don't know why 'they' choose to open the album with one minute you're here....to be its a poor opener but apart from that it's a corker.
Like, way better than pretty much every non-solo record since the Rising
I listened to the album a few times when I first got it but for some reason just forgot about it. It's a damned shame that he wasn't able to tour around this album as the album could have been great to tour around and the songs certainly would have stuck with me more.
The album is so good that I would welcome every new song being played in a live show.
Could not say that about "Jack of all trades" or "Death to my hometown". Apart from the title track I could not do much with the WB songs when they appeared in the setlist.
But if we ever will be able to see the E Street Band live - be so lucky as to get tickets - and they will play "Ghosts" or "I'll see you in my dreams"... it will be as good as listening to "Badlands" or "No Surrender".
That's high praise indeed. I think I'll give it another much more closer listen.
I love the album. I wish Bruce had recorded all his post BITUSA albums like this: him and the E Street Band live in the studio with minimal overdubbing. There’s a spontaneity and intensity that is missing on every album since BITUSA. Also, none of the songs are throwaways. My problem with The Rising, Magic, and Wrecking Ball is if he’d been forced to keep it to 40+ minutes, there is a great album. Unfortunately, they all contain mediocre to bad songs that belong on Tracks Two. Most of Devils and Dust, Working On a Dream and High Hopes should have stayed in the vaults and maybe make it onto Tracks Two. On Letter to You, the E Street Band and the overall sound mean that even mediocre songs still sound great.
Thematically, as someone who has lost my wife’s and my parents and several good friends, this album articulates my feelings the same way the first six albums captured what it was like living in America when I was in my twenties and early thirties.
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