45 Years On The Run
Actually, it's pretty special how long good pop and rock music remains popular.Many albums that were released in the 60s and 70s are still being listened to in great numbers.That is the same as that they regularly put on music that was popular in 1915 in 1965.That didn't really happen.But with the great albums from pop history.
In 1975 Bruce Springsteandreally broke through with the albumBorn To Run.This week exactly 45 years ago.It was not his first album, but it was the first with structured songs with a head and a tail.The songs onGreetings From Asbury Park, N.J. andThe Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle both from 1973, were oftandcontinuous flows of thought with a less clear structure (except for exceptions), in which definitely the talents and musical qualities of Springsteandand the first beginning of the E Street Band were visible, but it was not material for the charts.That was onBorn To Run Well, different.
It is not a long album: 8 songs spread over 39 minutes All 8 are the look-through into the thoughts and worries of the ordinary man..Lost youth inThunder Road andBorn To Run, the need to flee from the daily rut inNight, lost innocence and love inBackstreetsandShe's the One, how far money problems a person can drive inMeeting Across the River.Born To Run is the story of a searching soul.
Tth Avenue Freeze-Outlater turned out to be autobiographical and is about how Springsteandand legendary saxophonist Clarence Clemmonds found a goal in their music (and still no one knows what a Tth Avenue Freeze-Outreally is...).
“Whandthat change was made uptown
And the Big Man joined the band
From the coastline to the city
All the little pretties raise their hands
I'm gonna sit back right easy and laugh
WhandScooter and the Big Man busts this city in half, oh”
And then, as a closing track, the gloomy but oh so beautifulJungleland.Dreams that break up in an indifferent world.Appearance falls away against the harsh neon light of a city in which a lot is happening, but in which no one really cares about the other.
“Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz betweandwhat's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment and try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded, not evanddead, tonight in Jungleland”.
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Maddys FoodFun
4 years ago
Topblog! Leuk om te lezen dat je ook zo van muziek houdt en ja dit is kwaliteit wat nooit verveeld en verloren gaat.
