Bruce Springsteen - Magic
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Artist: Bruce SpringsteenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Radio Nowhere
- You'll Be Comin' Down
- Livin' In the Future
- Your Own Worst Enemy
- Gypsy Biker
- Girls In Their Summer Clothes
- I'll Work For Your Love
- Magic
- Last To Die
- Long Walk Home
- Devil's Arcade
- Bonus Track 1
Free Music Notes for Magic
Free Music Review: Sappy
Hit: 1 Stars
So far as I know, I've only heard one song from this album. Is that enough to do a review of the album? I think so. The song is "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," and I've only heard it recently because the music video gets played *constantly* at the gym I recently started attending. I heard the song several times and hated it right away, but at first I had no idea it was Springsteen. It doesn't sound at all like him. It sounds like Green Day or maybe Coldplay trying to be as sappy as they can to make the biggest possible score in the pop market.
Even worse is the video. (That was how I found out this was a Springsteen song.) Good God. Is this really Bruce Springsteen? I already knew that too often, pharmaceutical commercials look like music videos, and music videos look like pharmaceutical commercials, but this video seems to be the textbook case. You can't possibly get any more emasculated. "Do you suffer from feminine itch?" the screen seems to ask. "Try Magicil. Ask your doctor for details!"
Is this really the guy who did "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and "Nebraska"? Is he reduced to doing macho poses with an acoustic guitar on a hilltop while a camera circles around him? Intercut with pretentious images of "girls" of all ages staring serenely and majestically into the camera? Did he not make enough money from this previously multi-platinum albums that he has to resort to lite FM musical stylings?
This song is so bad, so syrupy, so dull, so tedious, so awful that I wouldn't listen to the rest of the album if it were given to me.
Maybe Bruce can go on tour with Celine Dion. As for me, I wear earplugs at the gym.
Magic Poster
Thirty-five years as a justifiable rock musician allows Bruce Springsteen an opinion on the state of over-the-air radio, and he takes it--and takes the medium to the woodshed on the ruthless "Radio Nowhere." The opening smash sets the tone, with the ageless Boss wondering, "Is there anybody out there?" before imploring, "I just want to hear some rhythm." Then, with E Street Band in tow, Springsteen goes on to retrace every step between here and Greetings from Asbury Park, hand-delivering more could-be, would-be hits than anything he's done since Born in the USA. Credit producer Brendan O'Brien for the wall of sound that backs "Girls in Their Summer Clothes," which sets the atmosphere for one of the great vocal performances by Springsteen, who plays the misfit "in the cool of the evening light" watching the girls "pass me by." With piano, glockenspiel, and infinite guitars, the rocker "I'll Work for Your Love" recalls The River, with Springsteen even settling for blue-collar hero in matters of the heart. "Livin' in the Future" could be an out-take from Darkness on the Edge of Town, with shades of Election Day blasting away with the boastful sax of Clarence Clemons and Little Steven's relentless backing vocals. There's even a hint of Nebraska on "Terry's Song," an earnest (and mostly solo) accolade with Springsteen acknowledging the death of a friend: "When they built you, brother/They broke the mold." The hidden track closes this unforeseen comeback, and for 48 minutes the nearly 60-year-old Bruce Springsteen sounds 35 again. --Scott HolterMagic, Bruce Springsteen's new studio recording and his first with the E Street Band in five years, is set for release by Columbia records on October 2, 2007. Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, the album features eleven new Springsteen songs and was recorded at southern tracks recording studio in Atlanta, Ga.
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Magic, Bruce Springsteen's new studio recording and his first with the E Street Band in five years, is set for release by Columbia records on October 2, 2007. Produced and mixed by Brendan O'Brien, the album features eleven new Springsteen songs and was recorded at southern tracks recording studio in Atlanta, Ga.
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