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April 11, 2012

Mixtape: Songs You Used To Sing To Me (April 2012)

Themes of traveling, of old towns and dying towns, of towns not like yours and just like yours; of roads and escape, of running and driving and just getting away; of drinking, of fighting, of loving; of trains and cars and flying and floating; of old songs, of punk rock, of rock and roll.

All of that and more is what permeates within the confines of Songs You Used To Sing To Me, which features David Byrne and Caetano Veloso dueting on Talking Heads tracks; songs from The Hunger Games; old songs, covers, and new songs from Springsteen, Birdy, Delta Spirit, Heartless Bastards, fun. and Lynda Kay.

Foxy Shazam opens with:

I want my friends to think I’m awesome.

I want this world to think I care

I don’t care at all.

and Bruce ends with:

This train…
Carries saints and sinners
This train…
Carries losers and winners
This train…
Carries whores and gamblers
This train…
Carries lost souls

So hit the links below and take a ride.

Mix Tape 52: Songs You Used To Sing To Me (April 2012) tracklist:

  1. Foxy Shazam – Wanna-be Angel
  2. Keane – Silenced By The Night
  3. Walk the Moon – Anna Sun
  4. Taylor Swift – Eyes Open
  5. Bruce Springsteen – Death To My Hometown
  6. Delta Spirit – Idaho
  7. Will Johnson – Old L.A.
  8. Lynda Kay – Jack & Coke
  9. Caetano Veloso and David Byrne – [Nothing but] Flowers - Live
  10. Heartless Bastards – Got To Have Rock And Roll
  11. Foxy Shazam – I Wanna Be Yours
  12. Fun. – Why Am I the One
  13. Jayme Dee – Rules
  14. Birdy – 1901
  15. Rosi Golan – Can’t Go Back
  16. Miranda Lambert – Run Daddy Run
  17. Tired Pony – Get On The Road
  18. Caetano Veloso and David Byrne – Road to Nowhere - Live
  19. Bruce Springsteen – Land of Hope and Dreams

You can click the links above to listen to the individual tracks on Spotify, or the whole playlist here, or download it from Mediafire here.

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nwkarchivist:

When he leaned into the microphone, ripped off his black leather jacket and blasted, “Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run,” the Jersey teeny-boppers went wild. After four foot-stomping encores they were ready to crown Bruce Springsteen the great white hope of rock ‘n’ roll.

Newsweek October 27, 1975

This is a big part of the reason why the Bruce Springsteen machine can’t be stopped.

I agree with many parts of this AV Club article on Springsteen’s success, including not being that fond of 2009’s Working On A Dream (good, not great), and that every time I see the Boss play, it’s better each time, but there’s a few places I zig where they zag:

  • One of my favorite albums, not just of The Boss’s oeuvre, but of all albums, is 2002’s The Rising. A magnificent album from opening track “Lonesome Day” to the end track “My City Of Ruins”.
  • I’ve bought all of Jimmy Buffett’s albums over the last decade. He may know what he’s doing for his fans, but, none of them have come close to being anywhere near as great as even the most mediocre of Springsteen’s ‘00’s releases, and Springsteen’s ‘00’s releases have been pretty fantastic. (I too think We Shall Overcome is incredible.) But no, Springsteen makes great albums, Buffett puts out albums. I buy ‘em all. I have a disease.

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