First two tracks, Hitch Hikin' and Wayfarer are excellent.
So far so good.
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Not yet 😖 Comes out tomorrow down here. (It’s midnight now)
Tucson Train sounds better with each listen!
Western Stars, the title track is the first song I am playing twice.
I just had to hear the line "Coyote with someone's Chihuahua in it's teeth, skitters past my verandah in the night."
The vocal sounds very different on this song, compared to the other new ones I've heard so far. The tone isn't as sharp. I'm going to guess this was the last song recorded, possibly much later than 2011-2012.
Hazydavo (dmnsg) posted:Not yet 😖 Comes out tomorrow down here. (It’s midnight now)
Comes out tomorrow where I am as well. 
Sleepy Joe's Café will have to grown on me. Just okay IMO.
Stuntman (Drive Fast, Fall Hard) reminds me of The Wrestler, for obvious reasons. The swelling strings and piano touches make this one a very cinematic track.
Chasin' Wild Horses is very melancholy. Would fit right in with most of GOTJ.
Getting heavy into the "character-driven" songs here. Great stories.
Absolutely beautiful steel guitar into piano segue to begin Sundown!
I find this one to be the most Bruce sounding so far, until the bridge, which is sung in a high register. Now we're into Glen Campbell - Jimmy Webb territory. And it's beautiful territory.
Another play twice song for me.
Somewhere North of Nashville very cinematic as well. Sounds like Bruce sitting right next to you, telling a story.
Nine songs into this disc, I'm going "Yeah, this is a great fuckin' album!"
Stones is just damn beautiful.
The drums come in nicely, finally they are more prominent.
This song sticks in your head, much like the next two that we know - Miracle and Sunshine.
In my head, this album is coming together whole now....and wow....feels like I'm watching little movies.
There Goes My Miracle and Hello Sunshine, which most of us have heard, fit in thematically and sonically, after hearing the first 10 songs.
Hunter Of Invisible Game would have fit nicely between the two. Or as the final song.
Moonlight Motel is a campfire dirge, in all the good ways.
Love stones, Moonlight Motel, Western Stars, Wild Horses. Great record. He did it again!!
CrookedCrutch posted:There Goes My Miracle and Hello Sunshine, which most of us have heard, fit in thematically and sonically, after hearing the first 10 songs.
Hunter Of Invisible Game would have fit nicely between the two. Or as the final song.
Moonlight Motel is a campfire dirge, in all the good ways.
Totally agree, Hunter of invisible game would fit much better in this record then in High Hopes.
NunoPorto posted:CrookedCrutch posted:There Goes My Miracle and Hello Sunshine, which most of us have heard, fit in thematically and sonically, after hearing the first 10 songs.
Hunter Of Invisible Game would have fit nicely between the two. Or as the final song.
Moonlight Motel is a campfire dirge, in all the good ways.
Totally agree, Hunter of invisible game would fit much better in this record then in High Hopes.
I'll never for the life of me understand the reasoning for releasing High Hopes the way they did. The format was just plain strange. It should either have been 1) - release those songs as part of a bigger Tracks 2 box set, or 2) - put the songs out on a series of four or five track EPs like they did with American Beauty. Furthermore, by portraying the album as a grab bag of leftover tracks like they did in announcing its release, it gave everyone the impression that "here's a bunch of songs that weren't good enough for the discs they were recorded for."
So everyone was down on it before they even heard it. They fucked up.
Most of the songs are very good. The Morello stuff could have been one really cool EP.
CrookedCrutch posted:NunoPorto posted:CrookedCrutch posted:There Goes My Miracle and Hello Sunshine, which most of us have heard, fit in thematically and sonically, after hearing the first 10 songs.
Hunter Of Invisible Game would have fit nicely between the two. Or as the final song.
Moonlight Motel is a campfire dirge, in all the good ways.
Totally agree, Hunter of invisible game would fit much better in this record then in High Hopes.
I'll never for the life of me understand the reasoning for releasing High Hopes the way they did. The format was just plain strange. It should either have been 1) - release those songs as part of a bigger Tracks 2 box set, or 2) - put the songs out on a series of four or five track EPs like they did with American Beauty. Furthermore, by portraying the album as a grab bag of leftover tracks like they did in announcing its release, it gave everyone the impression that "here's a bunch of songs that weren't good enough for the discs they were recorded for."
So everyone was down on it before they even heard it. They fucked up.
Most of the songs are very good. The Morello stuff could have been one really cool EP.
The only reason i see is that they wanted to tour again and that was the excuse.
Ahhh and they wanted to record a studio version of 41 shots
NunoPorto posted:Love stones, Moonlight Motel, Western Stars, Wild Horses. Great record. He did it again!!
Totally agree, absolute great! I like it a lot!
His best record since Magic. No doubt.
Chasin' wild horses hits you deep. Western stars is a great song. Sundown shows how Bruce can sing.
Really great record, sequenced very well. Drive Fast-Wild Horses-Sundown.
Not feeling it 😔
Tucson Train and Moonlight Motel are my favorites!
IMO, a jewel box of a handful of gems, including Chasin', Hello Sunshine, Moonlight, Western, Stones, and perhaps Tucson Train (which just hooks me). Sundown doesn't impress and feels like a (very poor man's) retread of 'Girls'. Really love most of the production (which I haven't felt about a BS album in decades) including how he gives the music an opportunity to breath such as in the last 80 seconds or so of Chasin'. I know the sonic landscape is very different this time, but the engineered sound is more musical and less compressed (?) than most recent albums? I want to play half of the album over and over and over again while I do not really need to hear some of the others ever again, albeit there is a whole-greater-than-sum-of-the-parts value to the album. Moonlight, Chasin, and Stones hit me the most. Grateful and appreciative for new and different music. Enjoy.
PupoTexas posted:IMO, a jewel box of a handful of gems, including Chasin', Hello Sunshine, Moonlight, Western, Stones, and perhaps Tucson Train (which just hooks me). Sundown doesn't impress and feels like a (very poor man's) retread of 'Girls'. Really love most of the production (which I haven't felt about a BS album in decades) including how he gives the music an opportunity to breath such as in the last 80 seconds or so of Chasin'. I know the sonic landscape is very different this time, but the engineered sound is more musical and less compressed (?) than most recent albums? I want to play half of the album over and over and over again while I do not really need to hear some of the others ever again, albeit there is a whole-greater-than-sum-of-the-parts value to the album. Moonlight, Chasin, and Stones hit me the most. Grateful and appreciative for new and different music. Enjoy.
Those 3 are my favourites two. Are great Springsteen songs that i guess i ll listen in the future like all the others great we know from the past. But i think the 3 pre-releases heard in the record context make sense and are growing on me much more now. (Sorry about my english). Ah i also like Hitch Hikin, sorry (lol)