Let’s take a moment to revisit Bruce’s only EP with all new material.
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Roll of the Dice (590)
Bruce Springsteen’s best party song since “Sherry Darling” is buried at the bottom of his 1996 EP.
If there’s any song in Bruce’s catalog more misunderstood than “Born in the U.S.A.,” it’s this Darkness-era outtake.
The second track on Western Stars is another song with an itinerant hero, one whose freedom came at a price.
It’s one of Joe and Bruce’s best songwriting collaborations and on-stage moments, as fresh today as it was when they wrote it a quarter-century ago.
From way back in Bruce’s short-lived college days comes this earliest of his published writing.
It’s big and brassy; it swings and it struts. And more than any other song in Bruce’s catalog, no two performances are alike.
Bruce’s original River-era composition, a stellar E Street Band performance and Gary’s passionate vocals make for a standout track on an album full of them.
It’s one of Bruce’s most audacious songs ever, a ten-minute, waltz-time, post-apocalyptic allegory for the decline of civilization.
It sticks out like a musical sore thumb, but lyrically “Burnin’ Train” is right at home on Letter to You with its theme of longevity through great sex.