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Dankel
Gender: Male
Location: England 
- #21
- Posted: 03/11/2026 17:05
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| Johnnyo wrote: | Racing In The Street by Bruce Springsteen (From the album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 
"Tonight tonight the strips just right, I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats, so come out now everyone And we'll go racing in the street,"
Not just Bruce’s greatest ballad but his greatest song with the most beautiful piano intro from Roy Bittan.
The song, with its narrative about a guy in a dead-end job whose outlet is racing his car and winning money gambling on the outcome, fits seamlessly into the Springsteen narrative of the people that he grew up with. He writes and sings from the heart and about things that he understands.
Springsteen has said that this song commemorates the racing in the street that occurred outside Asbury Park, New Jersey. Springsteen songs from the 1970s often celebrated the car, another great track being Thunder Road, There seems to be something in the American male psyche that celebrate the car or the freedom that having a car affords you.
What can get lost on the narrative of this song is the part played by the girlfriend. There’s a lot of sympathy and understanding for the protagonists girlfriend in this song, which again, is a trait of Springsteen in his writing.
I love this song because it sounds “true”. It’s authentic and real and brilliantly, understatedly performed. The perfect Springsteen song. Hell, just a perfect song.
NB - I tried to post a YouTube of the track, but failed (yet again). Will try again later[/img] |
Great Choice - I don't think there is a bad track on this album, although if I was to choose one track it would be Darkness On The Edge Of Town
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Johnnyo
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Location: London Town
- #22
- Posted: 03/11/2026 20:05
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| Dankel wrote: | | Johnnyo wrote: | Racing In The Street by Bruce Springsteen (From the album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
"Tonight tonight the strips just right, I wanna blow 'em all out of their seats, so come out now everyone And we'll go racing in the street,"
Not just Bruce’s greatest ballad but his greatest song with the most beautiful piano intro from Roy Bittan.
The song, with its narrative about a guy in a dead-end job whose outlet is racing his car and winning money gambling on the outcome, fits seamlessly into the Springsteen narrative of the people that he grew up with. He writes and sings from the heart and about things that he understands.
Springsteen has said that this song commemorates the racing in the street that occurred outside Asbury Park, New Jersey. Springsteen songs from the 1970s often celebrated the car, another great track being Thunder Road, There seems to be something in the American male psyche that celebrate the car or the freedom that having a car affords you.
What can get lost on the narrative of this song is the part played by the girlfriend. There’s a lot of sympathy and understanding for the protagonists girlfriend in this song, which again, is a trait of Springsteen in his writing.
I love this song because it sounds “true”. It’s authentic and real and brilliantly, understatedly performed. The perfect Springsteen song. Hell, just a perfect song.
NB - I tried to post a YouTube of the track, but failed (yet again). Will try again later[/img] |
Great Choice - I don't think there is a bad track on this album, although if I was to choose one track it would be Darkness On The Edge Of Town |
Darkness is my favourite album of all time and I have four 100 / 100 tracks from the album to add to this thread. I just wanted to spread them out a bit. The title track just might be one of them.
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