That Bruce Springsteen has a new album out has filtered into my awareness. I considered ordering it, and reconsidered, and reconsidered again. I so rarely listen to music any more. I wondered how many Bruce Springsteen albums I own that I don't listen to now.
So I went and looked. I have
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
The River
Born in the U.S.A.
Tunnel of Love
on vinyl. I know I had Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ, and I'm pretty sure I had Darkness on the Edge of Town, but they were on cassette and probably ended up baked onto the dashboard of my 1983 Chevrolet Celebrity while parked in Lot 1 at the University of Maryland.
I'm not a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, but there are some songs I really like, the ones I'd use on mix tapes. Rosalita, for example, from The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. On The River it was Hungry Heart. (I make no apology for the fact that my favorite songs are not deep cuts.) I like everything on Born to Run, and for Born in the USA, well, I was a teenager in the '80s. We must have all been issued a copy of this record. I like I'm on Fire, and now when I hear the rest of it...now that I'm not hearing it all the time...I don't mind it.
It seems like I stopped listening to anything other than the radio when I got out of school, with one exception: when I was going through my separation/divorce I pulled out records. Tunnel of Love was one of them (rather obvious, really; it was Springsteen's divorce album. The rest of that playlist included Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years, Jim Croce's You Don't Mess Around With Jim, and a lot of John Hiatt.)
Maybe I'm not depressed enough to need a new Bruce Springsteen album.
Posted by Nic at April 26, 2005 11:21 AM