Brucemas 2.10

[inlovewithnight]

"Racing In The Street." Which is not any of the ones I said I might talk about today. But, well. Whatever. I'm not feeling well, cut me about 20% of a break.

Comments

[likeadeuce]

The title kind of tells you what you're getting on that album.

Heh -- when I was making Charlie's Bruce-mix today, I put little notes about each of the albums that the songs were from (Greetings is the "I'm going to be a rock god" album, "Born to Run" is the "look, I AM a rock god" album, etc). For "Darkness," I put, "Pretty much what it sounds like."

So many Bruce songs are very ambivalent, which is why the same song can break your heart AND make you want to dance, and why there are so many possibilities in different versions. I know I've said before -- speed "Racing" up, or slow "Dancin' in the Dark" down, and the songs almost flip flop each other in terms of mood.

Nice analysis; I hope you feel better soon and have a great day with your family tomorrow.

[phoebesmum]

This is an odd one. He played it at the O2, and I cried. But if you break it down, you've got the oddest rag-bag of bits and pieces. There's an echo of And Then He Kissed Me to the intro, the 'Summer's here and the time is right' is an obvious homage to Dancin' in the Streets, and it plays out with something that sounds oddly like Crocodile Rock, although I could not offhand tell you which came first. And it's about cars, and largely incomprehensible, although someone on one of the Bruce lists kindly explained it to me the other day, only I've forgotten again. Hey, I know a Chevy is a car, that's something! And yet it's a three-minute slice of heartbreak. Only Bruce could do this.