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titololucky townartistabruce springsteen etichettacolumbian. dischi1data24 marzo 1992supportocd audiogenerepop e rock internazionale----brani1.better daysascolta2.lucky townascolta3.local heroascolta4.if i should fall behindascolta5.leap of faithascoltaas
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It takes a Leap of Faith.,
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This review is from: Lucky Town (Audio CD)
If ever there was an underdog that need championing, then this album surely qualifies.Though not completely panned upon it's release, it was hardly held up to much critical acclaim either.Put out simultaneously with "Human Touch", that record in my eyes was the album the Boss felt he had to release, containing songs that he felt the public expected to hear, "Lucky Town" however feels and sounds like the album he wanted to make, or indeed maybe even needed to make.
In this respect "Lucky Town" is a very honest and personal record, detailing a specific ongoing portion of Springsteen's life, much like "Tunnel of Love" had done 5 years previously.Not only though is this (for the most part) a more upbeat, optimistic album , it also contain some of Bruce's best writing, the songs being full of memorable, meaningful couplets and verses.From the belting opening "Better Days", with lines line "I took a piss at fortune's sweet kiss, it's like eating caviar and dirt,it's a sad funny ending when you find yourself pretending, a rich man in a poor man's shirt", and the whole premise of "Local Hero", Springsteen is able to take a humble, almost self-mocking view of himself and his life up to that point.Both songs along with the title track, with it's opening lines of "House got too crowded, clothes got too tight,and i don't know just where i'm going tonight" suggest a man about to break loose, on the verge of something special.These feelings are encapsulated perfectly in the gorgeous closing song, where Springsteen sums up the prevailing mood, "Searching for My Beautiful Reward". Inbetween we get glimpses that maybe the Boss has found what he has been looking for, "If i Should Fall Behind" is one of the most beautiful love songs ever written, and details the two seperate entities in any relationship trying to find the pace of the other.In "Living Proof" Bruce sings how "This boy sleepin' in our bed" is that "little piece of the Lord's undying light" he has been waiting to witness, and divine "Book of Dreams" should certainly be played at every wedding. I think maybe you have to be a certain age to really connect with these songs, to have been down but crawled back up, or been hauled back up.Other Springsteen fans will rightly point to other albums as their favourites but "Lucky Town" works for me as a whole entity, each song compliments the others, they cannot be seperated or added to without messing up the structure.It is an album full of superb songs but also an album in which the finished article is greater than the sum of the individual parts.It is certainly worth a Leap of Faith to experience it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Springsteen on top form,
By AJ (Berkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lucky Town (Audio CD)
I can only echo the sentiments of most of the other reviewers.
This is, according to the experts Bruce SPRINGSTEEN's weaker period. I can't help but think that those who knock this album haven't really listened to it. It's purely and simply vintage SPRINGSTEEN and is a pleasure from start to finish. Stand out tracks? well, more than one - my favourite being LIVING PROOF which has a terrific beat coupled with dynamic lyrics. Is there a rock artist whose words are so easy to identify with? I don't think so. BETTER DAYS is a great tune, as are LUCKY TOWN and LOCAL HERO which follow it. Not just a rocker though because BOOK OF DREAMS and BEAUTIFUL REWARD are great ballads. If you are a SPRINGSTEEN follower and this album has passed you by, then give it another try. Honestly, this is pure 5 star material.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
3.5 actually, and creeping upwards,
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This review is from: Lucky Town (Audio CD)
1992. Bruce finally breaks his streak and produces a pair of clunkers.
Two albums at the same time, nice marketing trick, if not original, but not necessarily twice as good. But in his defence, these genuinely are two different albums. "Human Touch" he probably sweated over for some considerable time, desperately trying to find his muse. In large part, he failed. Finally, he seemed to have emptied what had seemed to be a bottomless well of great tunes and often greater lyrics, substituting a plodding, uninspired soft-rock sound driven by pro-session men. I've never worked out why he dropped the E Streeters in pursuit of new sounds and musical approaches, only to settle on journeymen studio players. The heart and soul went with the tunes. "Lucky Town" on the other hand, seems to have been a later burst of genuine inspiration, recorded quickly and largely solo. In a fit of indecision - or perhaps pushed by Landau and the sales guys to finally deliver some turnover after 5 years without a new record - he released both CDs. The Bruce of a few years before would have quickly seem the truth and canned "Human Touch" as not up to scratch. The net result was that the overly long and strained "HT" drowned out the simpler, more genuine "LT". In retrospect, this has done "Lucky Town" a great disservice, as recent revisits suggest there is some really good material here. "Better Days", "Fall Behind", "Leap of Faith", "Reward" are all decent songs. There are no Bruce classics here, but there are good songs and heartfelt performances. "Human Touch" unfortunately fails to improve with age.
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