Wrecking Ball. Wrecking Ball is the most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made.
He is angry and accusing in these songs, to the point of exhaustion, with grave reason. The America here is a scorched earth: razed by profiteers, and suffering a shameful erosion in truly democratic values and national charity. The surrender running through the chain-gang march and Springsteen's muddy-river growl in "Shackled and Drawn"; the double meaning loaded into the ballad "This Depression"; the reproach driving "We Take Care of Our Own," a song so obviously about abandoned ideals and mutual blame that no candidate would dare touch it: This is darkness gone way past the edge of town, to the heart of the republic.
Springsteen has been here before, a lot. He drew from his own father's working life for the numbed spirits on the assembly line in 1978's "Factory. " 'We Take Care Of Our Own': Bruce Springsteen's New Wave Of Social Protest : The Record. Why Bruce Springsteen is still attacking the 'fat bankers' and 'robber barons' As rock ‘n’ roll’s No 1 chronicler of the life of the working man, it’s not lost on Bruce Springsteen that his ultra-privileged lifestyle leaves him open to criticism from right-wing critics.
But the so-called “limousine liberal” is insistent that despite the 400-acre horse farm in New Jersey, the Beverly Hills mansion and £150million in the bank, his upbringing in a rough-and-tumble Catholic working class neighbourhood continues to inform not only his songs, but his life. Raised in Freehold, New Jersey – he still lives 15 minutes away – his father Douglas Frederick was mostly unemployed and his mother Adele was a legal secretary. “I think politics comes out of psychology whether we like to think so or not,” Springsteen, 62, says during a flying visit to France to promote his new album Wrecking Ball.
“My experience growing up was that my mother was the primary breadwinner, she worked very hard every day. “Lack of work creates a loss in itself. Getty He still admires Obama. Bruce Springsteen: I enjoy artists who take on the world. If so, it is a conversation that is taking a bleak turn.
Springsteen has long chronicled the underbelly of the American Dream but this time he sounds sad, angry and even, at times, close to defeat. It is his Grapes of Wrath, an album for the New Depression. Despite the anthemic roar and gutsy drive of the opening track, We Take Care Of Our Own, Wrecking Ball is not the kind of back-to-basics E Street rock Springsteen has been essaying in recent years.
Reaching into the raucous roots of his Seeger Sessions, referencing gospel, folk and blues while bringing in drum loops, hints of hip hop and a raw mix that pushes vocals high, Springsteen appears keen to build bridges between the past and the present, finding contemporary resonances in timeless sources. It also features the last sax solo from his long-time sparring partner, the late Clarence Clemons. Something Else! sneak peek: Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball (2012)
Bruce Springsteen’s much-anticipated new studio album Wrecking Ball is — much as all the advance hype has suggested — a somewhat radical left turn for the artist, both musically and quite literally in the case of the lyrics.
But it is also nowhere near the huge departure some of those early dispatches from the recording studio may have led some to believe. Wrecking Ball is still instantly recognizable as a Bruce Springsteen album. Reports using words like “experimental,” “loops” and “hip hop beats” to describe these songs — while not entirely off-base — don’t mean so much that Bruce has adopted some new-fangled, “hippity-hop, ya’ don’t stop” type of sound. Instead, Springsteen has simply expanded upon, and added new dimensions to the folk, blues, country and especially gospel influences that were always there anyway. Those political lyrics you’ve been hearing so much about are likewise nowhere near as angry as you may have heard. [SOMETHING ELSE! [SOMETHING ELSE! Glen Boyd. Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball preview. Wrecking Ball preview: listen online to Bruce Springsteen – Easy Money. Bruce Springsteen ‘Wrecking Ball’ Album Streaming. Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball: track by track review.
Wrecking Ball: brucespringsteen.net: Bruce Springsteen. Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album) Exclusive: Bruce Springsteen Explains His Experimental New Album. Bruce Springsteen Promised Land 1.14.12 LOD show. Bruce Springsteen discusses "Wrecking Ball" Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American' At a Paris press conference on Thursday night, Bruce Springsteen was asked whether he was advocating an armed uprising in America.
He laughed at the idea, but that the question was even posed at all gives you some idea of the fury of his new album Wrecking Ball. Indeed, it is as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie, a thundering blow of New Jersey pig iron down on the heads of Wall Street and all who have sold his country down the swanny. Springsteen has gone to the great American canon for ammunition, borrowing from folk, civil war anthems, Irish rebel songs and gospel. The result is a howl of pain and disbelief as visceral as anything he has ever produced, that segues into a search for redemption: "Hold tight to your anger/ And don't fall to your fears … Bring on your wrecking ball. " "What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account," he later told the Guardian. We Take Care Of Our Own - Bruce Springsteen. Bruce Springsteen - "We Take Care of Our Own" ((Grammy Awards 2012))
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