Bruce Springsteen - Magic
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Free Music Review: Bruce is Magic!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is PURE MAGIC! "The Girls in Their Summer Clothes" is such a perfect summer song! Makes me long for summer, and the Jersey Shore!Free Music Review: I love it!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is wonderful!! The Boss sounds as great as ever, and he proves once again that he still has a lot to say. My only regret is that I didn't buy it sooner! "Living in the Future" is a kick, "Radio Nowhere" says what I think a lot of people are thinking. Just a wonderful CD all the way around!Free Music Review: What's Magic is that the Boss is still making music like this
Hit: 4 Stars
Well, saying this is the Boss' best work is quite superlative. Saying "Magic," is a quality album that sounds fresh for any artist regardless of age (but Bruce is turning 60) is more accurate. Here's where I'm coming from. I caught Bruce and the E Streeters twice mind you on the Born In the USA tour and listened to his three or four CD live album countless times. My whole family to include my 60's (age not era mind you) parents, brother, and my two kids are big Boss fans, but I'll not blindly rush to heap praise on "Magic," just because the Boss did it. There are moments here that equal some of his better work but as a whole I'd have to say it falls in the middle of the pack...ahead of Lucky Town and that other forgettable album that came out at the same time, but definitely behind the Boss's best, "The Rising," and "Darkness on the Edge of Town."
"Magic" starts off with a kick in "Radio Nowhere," the fairly ubiquitous pop rocking rave-up. There are pleasant moments throughout but the album's highlights (besides Radio Nowhere) are the absolute driving and mad "The Last To Die." It goes, "blood will spill and hearts will break, who'll be the last to die for a mistake," and by listening to the chorus it sounds like Bruce may be making some social commentary about the Iraq war but when you listen to the bridges, it might be about something else. Bruce spares no punches in concert about the subject of "Magic," another of the album's highlights. "I got shackles on my wrist / Soon I'll slip 'em and be gone / Chain me in a box in the river / And I'll rise singin' this song / On the road the sun is sinkin' low / There's bodies hangin' in the trees / This is what will be, This is what will be" Dark, Bruce, dark.
Just when you go and think Bruce has lost all faith he produces another of the album's highlights in "Long Walk Home." Something about these lyrics leaps right out at me and grabs me by the heart, "Here everybody has a neighbor / Everybody has a friend / Everybody has a reason to begin again / My father said "Son, we're lucky in this town / It's a beautiful place to be born / Nobody crowds you, nobody goes it alone...means certain things are set in stone / Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't" There goes Bruce believing in our hometown again, believing in beginning again, even though it seems he's temporarily lost faith in some of our nation's policies.
This is very good Bruce which on any day is better than 90% of the stuff out there. After all these years, the man and his group of merry-makers from the Jersey shore are still relevant, are still fresh. But don't go into this thinking this is the best Bruce. That's a hard row to hoe my friend. Get it now...you must have a little magic in your life. --MMW
Free Music Review: VERY poor production/engineering
Hit: 1 Stars
I've been a huge fan since '74, have everything produced, attend multiple shows each tour, etc. I have had the record (CD)7 months at the time of writing this review. The bottom line is that I love the music and hate the production/engineering. As others have already said, the compression and distortion have resulted in me simply not listening to it anymore. I have tried and tried - *many* times - since October; and I simply cannot enjoy it. For what it's worth, I have a superb, expensive audio system, and I hear minor differences in sources easily. While Bruce's catalog has varied greatly with regard to sound quality, this is the only CD I no longer listen to because of the sound. If this had even average sound for Bruce, I'd easily give it a 4 or 4.5. By the way, I have listened to the CD in my car, and on other systems - with the same result. As others have said, I feel *very* frustrated and sad about this release.
p.s. I generally liked the production/engineering of The Rising, so I am not bashing Brendan O'Brien in any way.
Free Music Review: BEST BOSS ALBUM EVER
Hit: 5 Stars
There, I said it. I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
Why is Bruce still, after 7 months on the magical "Magic" Tour, averaging 8 or 9 of this album's tunes a night? Because he, and the band, and the audience, all know that these are some of the best songs he's ever written...ever. For once, "the new stuff" makes everyone happy -- the players and the listeners.
Buy this album, listen to it, and love it. It's Springsteen's ultimate masterpiece. That's all I have to say.