Bruce Springsteen Forum

Bruce Springsteen – We Take Care of Our Own
Anguish and challenge run thick and fast, at a martial-rock clip, in the first single from Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming election-year address, Wrecking Ball (due March 6th). “I’ve been stumblin’ on good hearts turned to stone/The road of good intentions has turned dry as a bone,” he laments in the first verse, a precise, devastating assessment of a nation exhausted by economic straits and locked in an uncivil war of values stoked by selfish Washington gridlock. It gets worse: “Where are the hearts that run over with mercy?” Springsteen asks with deep ragged disbelief. “Where’s the work that will set my hands, my soul free?” There is a quick reference to a shame that now seems like a lifetime ago: the black and poor of New Orleans, abandoned to sweaty feral hell in the Superdome during Hurricane Katrina. But it is a still-dark stain on our honor, now acted out in campaign vitriol about lengthening welfare rolls and the “food stamp president.”
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‘We Take Care Of Our Own’: Springsteen’s New Wave Of Social Protest
One thing about “We Take Care of Our Own” is pure Boss, though: the lyric. This is a bitter anthem crafted for a political moment that, for progressives like Springsteen, demands cruel clarity. The way its hook — the seeming don’t-tread-on-me sentiment of the title line — plays against other lines like “I been stumbling on good hearts turned to stone/The road of good intentions has gone dry as bone” or “We yelled ‘help’ but the cavalry stayed home” is pure Boss. Just as he did on “Born In the U.S.A.,” “Glory Days” and even 2009′s beautiful “Girls In Their Summer Clothes,” Springsteen brings out big emotions and then demands we drop the delusions that often accompany them. When he delivers an old line like “from sea to shining sea,” his patriotic stance is a spit back in the face of power — a demand that, in hearing such America-first language fresh, we admit that it’s hollow unless it serves a real populist vision.
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First take: Bruce Springsteen’s patriotic ‘We Take Care of Our Own’
Never one to stray too far from his core mission of crafting solidly structured rock songs built on a blueprint passed down from American generation to generation, “We Take Care of Our Own” — except for one modern wash of guitar, a few echoed drum pops, and one (big) glaring absence — sounds like a track that could have been on any his classic albums from 1975 to 1984, from “Born to Run” through “Born in the U.S.A.” (excluding his acoustic “Nebraska”). These records are undeniably rock ‘n’ roll and constructed with the help of his E Street Band.
His first recording since the death of saxophonist Clarence Clemons, the new song is notable for what’s not there — the horn player’s sonic bursts and furious tenor declarations. Absent too is an indication of whether the music is constructed by the E Street Band or whether, like his most recent studio album, “Working on a Dream,” it is a solo record. The backing band suggests the former, as does the glockenspiel a la “She’s the One,” the hum of the organ and the piano melody, coupled with a Phil Spector-esque string section drifting above.
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Das amerikanische “Rolling Stone Magazin” hat Bruce Springsteens Singleauskopplung “We Take Care Of Our Own” unter die Lupe genommen und mit vier Sternen bedacht. Im besagten Onlinebericht schreibt David Fricke, dass Bruce Springsteen eine Nation anklagt, die durch die Weltwirtschaftskrise und Kriege erschöpft ist.

Auszug aus dem Rolling Stone Artikel:

Ann Powers von NPR.org schreibt, dass Bruce Springsteen mit “We Take Care Of Our Own” eine bittere Hymne geschaffen hat und nach Lösungen sucht.

Auch die LA TIMES hat über die Bruce Springsteen Singleveröffentlichung berichtet.

Gestern war alles noch "Einheitsbrei" und nun ist es der tollste Song überhaupt

Sehe ich genauso. Er hat es eigentlich nicht nötig, versucht es aber immer und immer wieder, nochmal DIE "Hitsingle" zu landen.

Von der Musik her hätte er m.E. auch gut auf WOAD gepasst, aber ich bin ja eh einer der wenigen hier, denen WOAD gefällt.

Guter Bericht!
"Here’s hoping that, come March, the politically charged “Wrecking Ball” will find just the right balance between E Street and K Street."
Was ist mit K-Street gemeint?

"K Street" is the common and often negative metonym for Washington's lobbying industry.[5][6] Many of the major Washington lobbying firms are located on the section in Northwest Washington which passes from Georgetown through a portion of downtown D.C.[1]. The term lent its name to the K Street Project, an effort by the Republican Party to integrate the party more closely with lobbyists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_(Washington,_D.C.)

Sehe ich genauso. Er hat es eigentlich nicht nötig, versucht es aber immer und immer wieder, nochmal DIE "Hitsingle" zu landen.

Man stelle sich vor: es ist 1984, aber das Internet gibt es schon. Gerüchte tauchen auf über ein neues Springsteen Album, es soll sehr rockig sein, mit viel Gitarren, ein paar der besten Sachen, die er je geschrieben hat ... und dann erscheint die Vorabsingle, ein durch und durch auf Radiotauglichkeit getrimmtes Popnümmerchen, das aus nichts als Keyboards zu bestehen scheint ... welch ein Hass wohl Dancing in the Dark entgegengeschlagen wäre

Ich habe den Song nun 5-6 mal via youtube/iphone gehört und will noch kein abschließendes Urteil wagen. In `ner richtigen Anlage kann man sicherlich mehr rauskitzeln. Der Song ist für mich okay - nicht mehr und nicht weniger...Lucky day vom letzten Album fand ich da "agressiver" und "rockiger". Nun ja, lassen wir uns überraschen was noch noch folgen mag!

@ the hitter

Sarkasmus? So würde ich, wenn überhaupt, nur bei "Thunder Road" abgehen...