Backstreets

...sentimental, but it was far from a cheap nostalgia exercise, as songs like Thunder Road, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out and a supremely potent Backstreets were brought to life, sizzling with immediacy. With talk that this may be the E Street Band's...

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...but it was far from a cheap nostalgia exercise, as songs like "Thunder Road," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and a supremely potent "Backstreets" were brought to life, sizzling with immediacy. The house lights were brought up for the...

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...who lives to drag race at night, Springsteen offers a memorable description of the work place: "Rat traps filled with soul crusaders." "Backstreets": At six-and-a-half minutes, it's the album's second longest track, and is marked by the...

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...fledgling career back in the mid-'70s. Unsurprisingly, the title track and "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out" earned big cheers, but album cuts "Backstreets" and "Meeting Across the River" were equally striking. If anything, the jazzy cool of the...

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By Kevin C. Johnson Post-Dispatch Pop Music Critic Long-running Bruce Springsteen fanzine Backstreets called Sunday night's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert at Scottrade Center a by-the-numbers disappointment. But we're...

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...knew that going in so there were no surprises there, but we'll talk about it for a moment. In a word, incredible. Yep, they nailed it. "Backstreets" was a transcendent performance and Bruce was able to summon a lot of the intensity such a...

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...and cinematic in scope. It's not a concept album, per se, but thanks to the richly drawn characters in songs like "Thunder Road," "Backstreets," "Meeting Across the River," "Born to Run" and the epic "Jungleland," it plays out like the...

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He duets with Axl Rose on "Come Together," backs up Roy Orbison on "Pretty Woman" and joins the E Street Band for a blistering "Backstreets." Extras: hours of bonus footage and performances. TOP CHEF: NEW YORK - SEASON FIVE (2008, A&E,...

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...there, when songs like "Prove It All Night" began with a blistering guitar intro that was longer than the song itself, and where "Backstreets" included a lengthy mid-song rap (then called "Sad Eyes") which eventually formed the foundation...

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...world was closing in on him. But on Born to Run, the possibilities still feel limitless, even as characters like the brooding lovers in "Backstreets" are beginning to realize that it's not going to be so easy to "walk like the heroes we...

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