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One year. One hundred albums. One hundred reviews.: 7. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
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One year. One hundred albums. One hundred reviews. I aim to review 100 albums I've not heard before in a year. So roughly two a week. Not too tricky then. But occasionally I have to go out and look for the cat. And I have asthma. We'll see how it goes. Why Are You Doing This? What Kind Of Music Will You Review? Saturday, 21 May 2011. 7 Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town. The first single I bought was Bruce Springsteen's. Born in the USA. Were the Bruce albums I loved. And rejected songs con...
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Music On The Sea: The Boss is Back in Town
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Music On The Sea. Sunday, 21 November 2010. The Boss is Back in Town. The recent release of Bruce Springsteen's. Darkness on the Edge of Town. Remaster, together with deleted sessions and outtakes from the record, makes me wonder if a new Springsteenism is at work in contemporary American music. Listening to. For the first time, I was struck to resemblances to much more modern releases, and three in particular: Japandroids'. The Airing of Grievances. And the Arcade Fire's. The Arcade Fire: Modern Man.
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The Middletown Blog: On Springsteen and Working-Class Heroism
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Sunday, October 24, 2010. On Springsteen and Working-Class Heroism. In rock, during the 1970s and 1980s, Bruce Springsteen projected the image of an American blue-collar hero. What's interesting for me about the whole Springsteen phenomenon, though, is the massive white-collar following he has amassed. Tongue-in-cheek, I've sometimes wondered if Springsteen is a liberal yuppie's fantasy-come-true of what a working-class man should be. Working-class icon. Woo...
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