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THREE YEARS BACK, or was it four, Bruce Springsteen was seen in Boston by rock critic Jon Landau, who pronounced the now-famous judgment on him: I have seen the future of rock and roll and its name is Bruce Springsteen." That was a pretty tall order for a raggedy-looking dude from Asbury Park, N. J. to fill. That and Time Magazine's talk of him as the new Bob Dylan put a great deal of pressure on Springsteen to produce a suitable follow-up for his smash 1975 album, Born...
...three years and a million delays (because of legal problems) later, Springsteen's fourth album is here. Unfortunatley, the boy from Asbury Park seems to have lost something during those years, because Darkness on the Edge of Town is not really the album everyone has been wating to hear for so long...
...took several listening and a retreat to earlier albums to understand why Darkness on the Edge of Town is not the great Springsteen album. Much of the new album fails to swing, bounce, rock or ring as true as Springsteen's earlier stuff. It gets right down to a comparison of the different drummers on the albums. Max Weinberg, who handles drums on this album, plods unimaginatively compared to Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez, who lays down the beat on The Wild, the Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle. Moreover, Springsteen has given this album a very dense texture, creating...
Another problem that hampers Springsteen involves his lyrical themes. It usually rings hollow for rock stars to sing in the first person about the drudgery of the working man, but Springsteen does it here on several cuts, including "This Promised Land" and "Factory." In other songs, Springsteen returns to the well of the road, fast cars and the outsider-looking-in that has supplied him form the start. But now the release and freedom that he used to find there has vanished, to be replaced by desperation and bitterness. On the title track, he sings that he has lost...
...Stones become part of history and Springsteen becomes reminiscent of our high school years, groups like Steely Dan and Electric Light Orchestra have attempted to inject some creativity into rock style. In the process, ELO turned into bubble-gum celluloid some time ago, and Steely Dan drifted into the realm of jazz (or rock-jazz, as some like...