Album of the day (#340): Darkness on the Edge of Town

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  • Posted: 10/17/2011 19:00
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Today's album of the day

Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen (View album)

Year: 1978.
Overall rank: 159.
Average rating: 82/100 (from 128 votes).



Tracks:
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy's Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness At The Edge Of Town

About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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  • Posted: 10/17/2011 20:42
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The whole atmosphere is great. Title track is a great song
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  • Posted: 10/17/2011 21:52
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Great album to listen to if you're just taking a walk at night.
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Best track: Prove It All Night
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  • Posted: 10/17/2011 22:52
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Someday someone's going to have to help me understand exactly what Springsteen's appeal is. I just don't see it.
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  • Posted: 10/18/2011 05:12
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Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland.
Got a head-on collision, smashin in my guts man.
Im caught in a crossfire that I don't understand.
But there's one thing I know for sure girl:
I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes
I don't give a damn for just the in-betweens.
Honey I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now.


-Badlands

And that's how the album begins. It's over the top, and intentionally and unapologetically so. Springsteen's having the time of his life on this one, and he doesn't care who knows it. That's what I love about Darkness.

Of course the lyrics are corny. That doesn't matter. What matters is that this is what the man likes... it's exclusively his, and he drives it home to the listeners with unbridled passion and sincerity. Nobody can match that, IMHO. And it's all caught on tape. Born To Run didn't make me a Springsteen fan. This album did. It takes guts... and it takes nerve... to pull something like this off, and make it work. He's got both.

The first time I heard it, I couldn't believe that someone was actually doing stuff like this. I became a fan instantly.
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