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  1. I gotta say the cover art is fairly trash in my opinion
  2. This may or may not be Heaven's Wall. Still no idea yet though.



    Scrap that.

    From www.amazon.com:

    Track Listings
    1. High Hopes (Tim Scott McConnell) - featuring Tom Morello
    2. Harry's Place * - featuring Tom Morello
    3. American Skin (41 Shots) - featuring Tom Morello
    4. Just Like Fire Would (Chris J. Bailey) - featuring Tom Morello
    5. Down In The Hole *
    6. Heaven's Wall ** -featuring Tom Morello
    7. Frankie Fell In Love
    8. This Is Your Sword
    9. Hunter Of Invisible Game * -featuring Tom Morello
    10. The Ghost of Tom Joad - duet with Tom Morello
    11. The Wall
    12. Dream Baby Dream (Martin Rev and Alan Vega) - featuring Tom Morello

    ''High Hopes' finds Bruce Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the E Street Band members in various large and small combinations as well as guitarist Tom Morello on eight tracks. Besides Morello, the album also includes appearances on several songs by Clarence Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008, on what Springsteen calls "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade." The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks Springsteen's 18th studio album. As Bruce writes in the albums liner notes, "I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording."

    The AMAZON BONUS LIMITED EDITION* version also includes a live DVD of Bruce and the E Street Band performing the entire "Born In The U.S.A." album in London, England, during the historic Wrecking Ball World Tour.

    *This version will be available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY.'

    If Down in the Hole or Heaven's Wall were to be covers, one would assume that the original songwriters would be credited the same as they are in High Hopes, Dream Baby Dream and Just Like Fire Would.
  3. The DVD with BITUSA worries me though. Not particularly keen on a full album BITUSA show when Bruce is back over here. This release is getting me nervous about that now.
  4. Happy with another "new" Springsteen cd. Sounds interesting to me.

    I do not know what it is with BITUSA these years. Still hope for a complete WB live dvd, with the played songs of WB.
  5. the only thing i'm "tired" of is having video always from London lately
  6. I thought you'd be used to Landau and Bruce's recycling of footage?
  7. New Bruce album is always good news imo. But its a bit of a shame that 3 songs are pretty well known (for me at least).

    Ah well, its still something nice It's only been 2 years since Wrecking Ball was released so its fast, especially comparing with our Irish friends.
  8. ^ you described my feelings exactly. Also, eager for a new tour
  9. I'm not sure there will be one.
  11. Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes Liner Notes

    I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add "High Hopes" to our live set. I had cut "High Hopes," a song by Tim Scott McConnell of the LA based Havalinas, in the '90s. We worked it up in our Aussie rehearsals and Tom then proceeded to burn the house down with it. We re-cut it mid tour at Studios 301 in Sydney along with "Just Like Fire Would," a song from one of my favorite early Australian punk bands, The Saints (check out "I'm Stranded"). Tom and his guitar became my muse, pushing the rest of this project to another level. Thanks for the inspiration Tom.

    Some of these songs, "American Skin" and "Ghost of Tom Joad," you'll be familiar with from our live versions. I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording. "The Wall" is something I'd played on stage a few times and remains very close to my heart. The title and idea were Joe Grushecky's, then the song appeared after Patti and I made a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It was inspired by my memories of Walter Cichon. Walter was one of the great early Jersey Shore rockers, who along with his brother Ray (one of my early guitar mentors) led the "Motifs". The Motifs were a local rock band who were always a head above everybody else. Raw, sexy and rebellious, they were the heroes you aspired to be. But these were heroes you could touch, speak to, and go to with your musical inquiries. Cool, but always accessible, they were an inspiration to me, and many young working musicians in 1960's central New Jersey. Though my character in "The Wall" is a Marine, Walter was actually in the Army, A Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry. He was the first person I ever stood in the presence of who was filled with the mystique of the true rock star. Walter went missing in action in Vietnam in March 1968. He still performs somewhat regularly in my mind, the way he stood, dressed, held the tambourine, the casual cool, the freeness. The man who by his attitude, his walk said "you can defy all this, all of what's here, all of what you've been taught, taught to fear, to love and you'll still be alright." His was a terrible loss to us, his loved ones and the local music scene. I still miss him.

    This is music I always felt needed to be released. From the gangsters of "Harry's Place," the ill-prepared roomies on "Frankie Fell In Love" (shades of Steve and I bumming together in our Asbury Park apartment) the travelers in the wasteland of "Hunter Of Invisible Game," to the soldier and his visiting friend in "The Wall", I felt they all deserved a home and a hearing. Hope you enjoy it.
    —Bruce Springsteen

  12. I'm leading myself by this comment:
    Originally posted by bartajax:According to a Dutch website, tomorrow the name and date for the new album will be official, just as a new tour will be announced.

    Since the first part of the statement (date and name of the album) was true, I was assuming the second one would be as well. I hope it is, at least!
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