1-2 Powershift

I bought Born in the USA when it came out; I was 11 years old and this seemed to me to be the only real 'rock n roll' record out there that I knew about at the time. I can still remember playing it over and over - I loved the bombast of the title track, and I LOVED Dancing in the Dark, - still do to this day. The track that still gets me choked up, and I can still picture where I was sitting when I first heard it, is Bobby Jean.  Funeral slice of funeral slices. But for some reason, in a move that did not fit in my later musical personality at all, it never really occurred to me to get Bruce's other records. I wore the HELL outta Born in the USA (still have the cassette) but it never occurred to me to pick up anything else. Many, many years later Op gave me a mix tape of Bruce cuts (remember mix tapes?). I remember riding the Dog down to Charlottesville and I had it in my walkman, kinda listening, not really paying attention etc and then a song called Livin On the Edge of the World came on.  And just like that, I was in love.  - XMASTIME

The other day we celebrated the day Bruce recorded Nebraska, and rightfully so.  But let's not forget that at least two songs from the album, Open All Night and State Trooper, contain lyrics from the inexplicably left off The River shoulda-been classic Livin' On the Edge of the World.  Superslice. Changed my world.