Kill´s 50 greatest albums ever - #40

[Kill]

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DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN
(1978)

While Bruce Springsteen was working on "Darkness on the Edge of Town", there was a serious legal battle going on behind the scenes. The Boss was in an angry and morose mood, feeling pushed around by his ex-manager Mike Appel and ready to pour all of his wrath into a dark beauty of an album. "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is a pessimistic post-"Born to Run" scenario, where love ends in "Candy´s Room" and "Racing in the Street" is what the men do after work to distract themselves from their lives.

It´s a gloomy world, and only on a few occasions, traces of optimism shine light into the the album´s dark. "Badlands" shows an unbent Springsteen which reminds one of "Born to Run", "Prove it all Night" is an energetic and raw song that became a 10-minute epic on live shows. Still, on "Darkness on the Edge of Town", the rock legend paints his by far most dismal picture. "The highway´s jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive", he´d sung only three years earlier. Seems this is were they ended up.

[white Boy]

wait, wats 41? or were can i look at the list, and thats a really gangsta album cover

[Machiavelli]

wait, wats 41? or were can i look at the list, and thats a really gangsta album cover

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=90702.0

[Elevz]

The cover reminds me of tony montana in that apartment where they fuck up his buddy with a chainsaw... Gangsta! Yeah, props for the hookup, I'll give this a listen and see if it's something for me.

[Lincoln]

LOVE this album, one of my favourites from the Boss.

[Elevz]

Allright, I checked it out and it just doesn't really seem to fit me well. Sounds like something my parents would like. Tracks like "The promised land" and the album's title track would definately do good on a classic movie soundtrack though.

[Lincoln]

This album isn't getting nearly enough responses, it's a brilliant one.

[white Boy]

i listened to a couple songs, its really hard to understand exactly what he says, but musically i def enjoyed some of the tracks, ill give it a more in depth listen later

[Javier]

Anybody has a a WMA to mp3 converter that they recommend for me to DL?

[-Euthanasia-]

i have one

u want it

it converts wma to mp3 like any wma/mp3 converter should. but what you might not expect is the uncanny ability to convert mp3 to wma. where does it stop, people?

[Kill]

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