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Bruce Springsteen - The Rising Audio CD

A fair review of the Bruce Springsteen "The Rising" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bruce Springsteen reviews here, or go back to the Bruce Springsteen tabs.

Bruce Springsteen Band: Bruce Springsteen
Title: The Rising
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Release Date: 2002-07-30
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Lonesome Day 2: Into The Fire 3: Waitin' On A Sunny Day 4: Nothing Man 5: Countin' On A Miracle 6: Empty Sky 7: Worlds Apart 8: Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin) 9: Further On (Up The Road) 10: The Fuse 11: Mary's Place 12: You're Missing 13: The Rising 14: Paradise 15: My City Of Ruins

A Masterpiece

This is not one of "his best efforts since. Once in a long time comes an album with so many perfect songs. . . "
This is it dear reader: one of the Boss's best albums ever! Don't read any more as words are nothing. Buy - listen - understand.
Good luck.
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I'm a believer
His career started a bit before my 'time' of when I first started listening to music, and while I liked some of his radio-popular hits I never felt the need to buy any of his music. I was never really what I would consider a Springsteen fan.

Until I heard this album while in a friend's car, and was blown away. Each song just pulled me in, and held me there all the way to the end. Even after a few years of listening to this album now, I still enjoy every moment of it and find something new in each song when I listen to them. The songs feel like they are written by somebody REAL, writing and singing about real emotions and problems in life, and it's believable and makes you feel part of his world.

Rock on Bruce - you've made me a fan.


Everyone has a price
The effort is desperate but the result is not bad: Bruce sounds terrific with the Old Band (with the exception of Skin to Skin which makes the hideous mistake of trying to make Bruce sound SEXY). He was nearly washed up as a solo artist so he had to get the Old Band back together. It caught on: The Boss got lucky. The problem is that he is now being marketed as an American Icon. Yet the photographs of him look as phony as central casting. Yet it sells. Bruce and his handlers should thank God for his credulous following and dumb luck . Bruce, once a genuine songwriter and artist, has been transformed into a talented prostitute.


As the towers fall, Springsteen rises
He showed more resolve on "The Rising" than he'd shown in years; the fact that the music is inseperable from the September 11th attacks isn't detrimental at all, instead ensuring that this remains one of Springsteen's most interesting records. Having almost disappeared through three lackluster albums in the 1990s, Springsteen got back on track in 2002 to hold together and inspire post-9/11 America. Songs like "Lonesome Day" and the brilliantly uplifting "Waitin' on a Sunny Day" are just what the doctor--or, in this case, the Boss--ordered. If "Worlds Apart" overdoes itself, "Empty Sky" is remarkably powerful ("I woke up this morning to an empty sky"), and the wandering depression of "Nothing Man" and the insecurity of "You're Missing" are spot-on. Most telling is "Mary's Place," which could've been on "Born to Run," only here Springsteen wonders, "Tell me, how do we get this thing started?" And if the happy-go-lucky bomp of "Let's Be Friends (Skin to Skin)" doesn't convince you that Springsteen's as hip as ever, its "doo doo do do"-ing should: anyone who can release as much stellar material as Springsteen and still sound like they have something to say while "doo doo do do"-ing at his age is truly gifted. .


Not his best, not by a long shot.
Poor Bruce Springsteen, getting old and moving sideways, wrapped-up in leftist political struggle, confused about life. . sad, oh so very sad.

His 'glory days' behind him, he pushed this one out. The music sounds forced, stale; like a poem without a theme or a rhyme; like a sunset on a clear night. Nothing fresh here, only confused notes and words. This one misses the boat (in my opinion, and after all, these reviews are only opinions).

If you can relate to this CD, good for you. If you can connect to the music, good for you. But I know what's good and this isn't good at all.

Bruce can do better; he's done oh so much way better!

If you want real Springsteen; real hard, raw, innocent, righteous stuff, you gotta try the 'Tracks' 4-disc compilation. Now that's what music is!

Thanks for reading this.

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