Category: Roll of the Dice (590)
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Roll of the Dice: Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)
March 2, 2018
By Ken Rosen
Haters gonna hate it, but I’m gonna love it: “Let’s Be Friends” is one of my favorite tracks on The Rising.
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Roll of the Dice: Drive All Night
February 27, 2018
By Ken Rosen
You can find the heart of many Springsteen songs in a single line. In “Drive All Night,” it’s in the sax solo–it says more than any lyric ever could.
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Roll of the Dice: You Gotta Be Kind
February 23, 2018
By Ken Rosen
An unfinished, unreleased demo that would resonate particularly well these days.
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Roll of the Dice: I'll Work For Your Love
February 14, 2018
By Ken Rosen
A little Valentine’s day (counter?) programming.
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Roll of the Dice: Frankie Fell in Love
February 12, 2018
By Ken Rosen
Kicking off Valentine’s Week with Bruce’s ode to new love and old friends: “Frankie Fell in Love.”
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Roll of the Dice: Forward!
February 9, 2018
By Ken Rosen
Be careful what you wish for when you ask Bruce Springsteen to write your campaign song.
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Roll of the Dice: Crush on You
February 2, 2018
By Ken Rosen
Bruce proclaims “Crush on You” to be a masterpiece, and I agree. Only he’s being sarcastic, and I’m not.
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Roll of the Dice: All or Nothin' at All
January 30, 2018
By Ken Rosen
In which Bruce redeems one of his least compelling compositions decades after it was released.
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Roll of the Dice: Black Sun Rising
January 27, 2018
By Ken Rosen
For the completists only: A strident, polemic “Black Sun Rising” performed only twice (mercifully) by Steel Mill.
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Roll of the Dice: Stray Bullet
January 26, 2018
By Ken Rosen
“Stray Bullet” is a dark and haunting outcast from the River sessions.