Tuesday, March 6, 2012
HOLD TIGHT TO YOUR ANGER, AND DON'T FALL TO YOUR FEARS: Early impressions of Wrecking Ball? I'll start with this: I was not impressed with the title track when it was debuted on the last tour -- felt more like a novelty than anything else -- but in its new incarnation, it's an intense, moving rocker. What I've heard so far across the album suggests Bruce's best work since The Rising, at least, and possibly better. I look forward to this next week of intense listening and re-listening.
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Love it, especially the title song, All My Tears, and the Dylan cover. Her voice is etherial, and it totally deserved the Grammy it won.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree it's better than any of the post-Rising releases -- I'm reserving judgment (for a few more listens, at least) on where it fits in the overall canon. Most of the songs ought to be great live - certainly the ones played on Fallon last week, and we already know that LoHaD and American Land sound great in concert. I think "Shackled and Drawn" will be a crowdpleaser too. The really slow ones, like the special edition track "Swallowed Up (In the Belly of the Whale)," probably won't see the light of day (see what I did there?) in concert.
ReplyDeleteAs long as there's nothing as album-stopping (in a bad way) as "Outlaw Pete," I'll be thrilled. Seriously, 8 minutes of "OOOOUUUUTTTLLLLAAAAWW PETE!" is not the way to start a Springsteen album.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great bathroom break in concert, though.
ReplyDeleteJack of All Trades is haunting....
ReplyDeleteNot sure what you're referring to here, Sconstant....?
ReplyDeleteI'm not a Bruce Fan, and so to my Adult Album Alternative-listening ears, Wrecking Ball is a 1997 album by Emmylou Harris which was much-played and -lauded.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_Ball_%28Emmylou_Harris_album%29
Just being goofy / slightly annoyed at Bruce taking an already-taken-in-the-next-genre-over album title.