Sony
1978
Darkness On The Edge Of Town
About This Album
Coming three years, and one extended court battle, after the commercial breakthrough of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town was highly anticipated. Some attributed the album's embattled tone to Springsteen's legal troubles, but it carried on from Born to Run, in which Springsteen had first begun to view his colorful cast of characters as "losers." On Darkness, he began to see them as the working class. One song was called "Factory," and in another, "Badlands," "you" work "'neath the wheel / Till you get your facts learned." Those "facts" are that "Poor man wanna be rich / Rich man wanna be king / And a king ain't satisfied / Till he rules everything." But Springsteen's characters, some of whom he inhabited and sang for in the first person, had little and were in danger of losing even that. Their only hope for redemption lay in working harder -- "You gotta live it everyday," he sang in "Badlands," but you also, as another song noted, have to "Prove It All Night." And their only escape lay in driving. Springsteen presented these hard truths in hard rock settings, the tracks paced by powerful drumming and searing guitar solos.
Track List
(try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7)
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This solid album carries the same theme consistently throughout, sometimes brooding, sometimes crunching and pounding, and sometimes wailing and soaring. Powerful, angry, dark, majestic rock. Bruce sings his heart out. I want to pump my fist by the end of the title track.
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brooding and seething with rage this is The Boss at his best; Candy's Room still gives me the chills all these years later
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for my money, this is bruce's best record. hope sony gives it the same "thirty year salute" that BTR had in '05.
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