Bruce Springsteen Forum

Radio Nowhere 8/10
You'll Be Comin' Down 5/10
Livin' In The Future 7/10
Your Own Worst Enemy 7/10
Gypsy Biker 7/10
Girls In Their Summer Clothes 5/10
I'll Work For Your Love 5/10
Magic 7/10
Last To Die 9/10
Long Walk Home 7/10
Devil's Arcade 10/10
Terry's Song 8/10

Durchschnitt: 7,1

"Radio nowhere" hat mich auch sofort begeistert,
habe jetzt noch "living in the future" gehört. Finde auch das super.
"Magic" hat mich nicht ganz so sehr begestert, ist aber auch was zum öfter hören, glaube ich.
"Long walk home" finde ich in der Version einfach klasse. Mehr habe ich noch nicht gehört. Will mir die Forfreude auf die CD nicht ganz nehmen.

radio nowhere 10/10
you´ll be coming down 10/10
livin´ in the future 5/10
your own worst enemy 9/10
gypsy biker 6/10
girls in their summer clothes 9/10
I´ll work for your love 10/10
magic 7/10
last to die 9/10
long walk home 10/10
devil´s arcade 8/10
terry´s song 10/10

radio nowhere 8/10
you´ll be coming down 7/10
livin´ in the future 7/10
your own worst enemy 5/10
gypsy biker 6/10
girls in their summer clothes 4/10
I´ll work for your love 6/10
magic 7/10
last to die 9/10
long walk home 10/10
devil´s arcade 8/10
terry´s song 9/10

Hihi, kleine Anekdote am Rande:

Soeben Telefongespräch geführt mit dem Plattenladen meines Vertrauens wegen Bruces neuem Album. Der nette Herr kramte in einem soeben eingetroffenen Karton - und siehe da, ein Exemplar von "Magic" befindet sich darin. Ich hab gleich äußerstes Interesse angemeldet und darf mir das Exemplar heute noch abholen.

*unbändigfreu*



(und dann kann ich ja endlich meine "offizielle" Rezension loswerden)

uncut review:

Probably as early as his fifth album, 1980's “The River”, Springsteen reached that sparsely populated stratosphere of artists recognised by surname alone, with a personal mythology so well entrenched that his newest records were best described in terms of their predecessors. “Magic”, then, Springsteen's 15th studio album, is “Born To Run” crossed with “Tunnel Of Love”, an attempt to recover the indomitable youthful fury of the former, astutely tempered by the older, wiser, sadder resignation of the latter.

The album's more exuberant intentions are telegraphed by opening track "Radio Nowhere", a glorious signature E Street Band tear-up in the manner of "No Surrender", clearly written in anticipation of shaking the seats at the back of the hangars they'll be touring in. The succeeding cuts possess similar swagger - "You'll Be Comin' Down" a withering evocation of fading beauty set to a pulsing "Glory Days" strum, "Livin' In The Future" anchored by a Clarence Clemons sax riff cheerfully recycled from “310th Avenue Freeze-Out".

It's on this latter tune that a thematic undertow begins to pull. There's a lot of decay and corruption freighted in the busy lyrics, and when Springsteen sings "My faith's been torn asunder, tell me is that rollin' thunder/Or just the sinking sound of something righteous going under?", he's well aware that Rolling Thunder was both a riotously bohemian and optimistic Bob Dylan revue, and a monstrous American military rampage. Springsteen's uneasy - but increasingly assertive - self-appointed role as America's conscience is given further rein on "Last To Die", the chorus paraphrasing the question put by a young John Kerry in 1971: "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake?"

For all that, the album's best moment is its most restrained and contemplative. "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" is a gorgeous, heartbreaking lament, the simple man-in-love content of, say, "All That Heaven Will Allow" now soured by the cruel inevitabilities: it sounds, as it was, written by a man pushing 60, watching balefully as those girls "pass me by". The references to breezes crossing porches, and seeking solace in a place on "the edge of town" affectingly personalise the best mid-life crisis anthem since Don Henley's "Boys Of Summer".

As such, the song perfectly encapsulates “Magic”'s rather oddly mixed tone. It trades in giddying, irresistible, full-steam-ahead-and-damn-the-torpedoes rock'n'roll. But at its heart, it's essentially a thoughtful wander in search of personal and national innocence.

ANDREW MUELLER

interessanterweise kommt das hier so vielgescholtene girls... bei den kritikern alles andere als schlecht weg.

wobei natuerlich die meinung der kritiker nicht erheblich ist. aber ich mochte das stueck auch von anfang an.

Me too.

my current magic-ranking:

1. long walk home
2. I´ll work for your love
3. radio nowhere
4. last to die
5. you´ll be comin´down
6. girls in their summer clothes
7. magic
8. your own worst enemy
9. devil´s arcade
10. gypsy biker
11. livin´ in the future

Livin´ in the future

Auf 11???

Mit der beste Song auf dem Album...

zumindest einer der 12 besten songs.

ansichtssache eben. mir sagt living... auch nicht so viel.

Die beste Scheibe von Bruce und Co. ist und bleibt für mich THE RIVER!
Magic ist ne nette Scheibe,aber scheint mir zu sehr auf die schnelle gemacht geworden zu sein.

Herausragend..Magic
Gut.....Radio Nowhere,Terry´s Song,Last to Die,Long Walk Home
Ganz nett...Devils Arcade,Livin in the Future
Bedeutungslos...Gypsy Biker
Schon vergessen.....You´ll be comin Home,Your own worst Enemy,Girls in their Summer Clothes,I´ll work for your Love

Gut das die Geschmäcker verschieden sind.

Hi Geronimo!
Teile deine Ansicht über den Song "Magic" - einfach klasse.

"You'll be ... " und "Girls ... " hätte er sich verkneifen können.

Gruß, Ethan