"Drama" is a cheap word that doesn't mean much. I prefer the word ART. Read the lyrics to this song and it's trite recycled cliches, but Bruce made all that rubbish into ART. There are apprentices, there are skilled journeymen, there are masters. But when you really need the job done right, THE BOSS shows up for work! Trite cheezy lyrics, one eye-rolling stereotype after another, cheap raw materials available into abundance. Turned into ART. By the hands of the most skilled craftsman!
There are only 2 types of people on earth 🌎 : 1 : Bruce Springsteen fans 2 : The people who never went to a Springsteen live show This rule has never been broken yet since 1973
Bruce may owned the rights to this song but Clarence Clemons truly owned it. It is the best all-time saxophone solos in rock n roll history....hands down. RIP Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici
@@del7i540 I agree, but great musicians use those annoying sounds to make great art. Just think of the joy and meaning you've experienced through REALLY annoying-sounding instruments like guitars, bass, or even drums! Or the most annoying sound ever invented, the Human Voice ;)
This song - i could literally write a book about this song, the lyrics, the journey, the story, the power, the emotion, the stunning arrangement, the rawness, the genius, the rock & roll, the spine tingling opening bars of the piano, the tempo changes...i could go on. I first heard this song at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2003 and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, the song reduces me to tears at times. I feel there's an obligation akin to breaking the law when it comes to listening to this song in that you absolutely must listen to it in its entirety, it's well documented how Bruce painstakingly agonised putting this together so perfectly and man it was well worth it, that Sax solo is perfection, i could (and have sometimes) listen to it all day. This song is and will remain my favourite song forever (456 plays on iTunes), it's an absolute masterpiece.
Here is the sign of a great song. It was released in 1975. You first heard it in 2003 and it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. End of story. Brilliant.
I honestly believe this may be the definitive video performance of this classic. When you see Bruce standing in the shadows at the back of the stage pumping his fist with the crowd as Clarence delivers that epic solo, it's pure magic.
This song just speaks to you and takes you to a different place. Clarence just nails this , love this song. R. I.P. Clarence. Long live The E Street band.
Man, that saxo solo gets me everytime... in tears. The complexities of this piece of music, from the lyrics to the instrumental composition are beyond any composer's dream.
Bruce's haunting yawp and Clarence's sax crying out in the night. For me, these two have always been unforgettable. Growing up in NJ back in the day, when this was still new music, I used to tell people who didn't like Bruce's style to listen to this song. Inevitably they'd change their minds.
I am nearly 60 and sitting in a lounge in Delhi at 1.30h in the morning waiting for the flight home to Ireland. Man, I am energized again. Never tired listening to this song.
Artist would struggle to create this song with modern technology. Let alone Bruce created it 50 years ago and unlike other 70s artist he hasn’t remastered it or any other song for that matter. That’s what I call perfection
Has to be said - one underrated display of awesome talent in this video has to be Prof. Roy Bittan’s piano playing after the sax solo. Pure darkness in the place and he doesn’t drop a single note! Amazing stuff 🎹
my family & friends always tease me about my love for bruce. my mom grew up in the 70s/80s and she always jokes about him, but think about it, how can someone think of such poetic, meaningful lyrics? and 10 minutes worth of them like for this song. i don’t mean to sound like one of those teenagers who is all “i was born in the wrong gEnErAtIoN”, but no other artist, at least from 2018/2019 can compare, at least in my opinion.
Isabella Johnson I understand how you feel I’m only 20 and I try telling my girlfriend and sisters about these songs but they don’t care since it’s older. They will never understand the true depth that Bruce’s music has so just turn the volume all the fucking way up and jam out to some rock n roll my friend
You're in the right geNeŕation! Even the Boss has flaws. His 84 show in Tacoma WA, he broke the Union and used scab labor. My Dad lost work like everybody else.
@@Knightstalker45 im 15 and i think these days theres too much music about drugs and violence. If jungleland was just the sax solo then it would still be better then everything made in the last decade. Theres just no culture these days :(
I slept outside of a Sears store, at a shopping mall in the Calumet Region, using a parking lot pylon for a pillow, to be the third in line to score tickets for this tour at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, up on Lawrence Avenue. I was third row from the stage, getting misted by the spray of sweat from Bruce and the E Street Band. Twenty-three years later, I told that story to the Professor, Roy Bittan, when I was waiting on him at a restaurant in Malibu. He dragged me over to his table and made me retell the story to his guests. The only guy who got a bigger kick out of that story was the Boss himself, when I told it to him and Patty, when I was serving them in a restaurant in Beverly Hills, years later. The point being that the artists are touched every bit as much as we are. And sometimes, it's in those seemingly unwitnessed transactions that that meaning is conveyed.
ive seen tons of bands in my days, and not one can be compared to Bruce and the E street band. his voice, his presence, the band members excellent playing, the music, everything. people ask who is the best band live you've ever seen and my honest answer is always Bruce. seen him 4 times, the latest this year at Gillette stadum in Foxboro Mass.
If you never saw Clarence play this on his sax you've missed the bus. The amount of emotion coming thru that solo is , , i cant describe it in words, put some good headphones on and crank the volume
Bruce might be the greatest of all time- but what everybody misses is that he's the greatest because he's assembled the E Street Band. They are 60 % of Bruce. Anybody better than Mighty Max ? Or Little Steven ? Clarence ? The Professor ? Nils Lofgren ? Now Jake ? I think the Boss has the most talented people in the business with him. That's why he/ they are the greatest. Have been since '69.
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley, do lyrics ever get any better. Been fan since 1972, am 77 now and seen Bruce a number of times,and have everything he has ever recorded,but it is hard to think he and the E St Band have ever been better than this period.I remember some years ago Andrew Marr,political TV guy one Sunday Morning on his show played just the sax solo. He then said best sax solo from best sax player from best band in the world,how true.
This song would have never been so great without Clarence Clemons' hands down. That man commanded this song with his amazing saxophone skills and owned it PERIOD. 👏
everything in this song is a masterpiece, I just want to point out one thing. When Clarence does his solo, he puts so much passion into it and the composition is perfect. when he plats it really does sound like he's singing from the sax. and near the end of the solo, there's a high G. that note, I swear it sounds like a voice crack in the singing, it's so DAMN FOOKIN AWESOME!!!
Clarence's sax solo is majestic and is rightfully recognized as a truly great solo. Overlooked by many are Roy's always stellar piano work as the intro and finale of this masterpiece. Further I believe the guitar solo by Steve in this recording is one of his finest. It is amazing that after all these many, many years this song is always fresh and I savor every listening.
I saw him on this tour at The Capital Center in Maryland. I am not the biggest Bruce fan around but I will say that over the more than fifty years I have seen some of the greatest bands in Rock history, NO ONE puts on a show a like these guys. That night they played for three and a half hours at full energy the whole time, and played every song anyone could have wanted to hear from his then only about five albums. Twenty thousand people left that place exhausted. I still don't know how he did it. If you like Jungleland then you need to hear an early tune of his, "Incident on 57th Street " from The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.
It took my wildest best troubled reluctant friend to talk me into seeing Springsteen when he played in Dallas. Mark died of a heroin overdose not long after, but I’ll always be grateful for one of the most incredible nights of my life for being Mark, no Chaser. 😂🎉😅
YES, you got it right. it is the best song ever. Good work. See my favorite just look it up ABWH live 1990 and you'll see my all time #1 show but this should probably be my number 1 show. The difference is I proposed to my wife during ABWH and I saw this with my first love BEFORE my now almost 40 years + girl and wife. So you decide. It's one and two all time, check out the ABWH 1990. look it up. See me if you need help.
One of Bruce's epic ballads that really brings back memories of Clarence. Really missed. Along with Danny. Life is precious. The solo.......thanks "Big Man". RIP Clarence and Danny.
This was the first leg of The River tour the night after they played San Diego. Before MTV blew up and made him a household name. It was the end of the innocence.
A magical performance to one of the greatest ballads of all time. For me as a piano guy, Roy’s work on the 88’s is a leap into something interstellar. The raw emotion Bruce and the big man bring to this performance is probably one for the ages. Thoughtful, powerful music, I can’t ge enough of it.
The Rangers had a homecoming In Harlem late last night And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine Over the Jersey state line Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants Together they take a stab at romance And disappear down Flamingo Lane Well the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl And the kids round here look just like shadows Always quiet, holding hands From the churches to the jails Tonight all is silence in the world As we take our stand Down in Jungleland The midnight gang's assembled And picked a rendezvous for the night They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign That brings this fair city light Man, there's an opera out on the Turnpike There's a ballet being fought out in the alley Until the local cops Cherry Tops Rips this holy night The street's alive As secret debts are paid Contacts made, they vanish unseen Kids flash guitars just like switchblades Hustling for the record machine The hungry and the hunted Explode into rock 'n' roll bands That face off against each other out in the street Down in Jungleland In the parking lot the visionaries Dress in the latest rage Inside the backstreet girls are dancing To the records that the DJ plays Lonely-hearted lovers Struggle in dark corners Desperate as the night moves on Just one look And a whisper, and they're gone Beneath the city two hearts beat Soul engines running through a night so tender In a bedroom locked In whispers of soft refusal And then surrender In the tunnels uptown The Rat's own dream guns him down As shots echo down them hallways in the night No one watches when the ambulance pulls away Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light Outside the street's on fire In a real death waltz Between what's flesh and what's fantasy And the poets down here Don't write nothing at all They just stand back and let it all be And in the quick of the night They reach for their moment And try to make an honest stand But they wind up wounded Not even dead Tonight in Jungleland
After we finished football practice in 1975, my brother bought this album “Born to Run” and we played it all night long at our Mom’s house. Remember it like it was yesterday. A great memory of good times.Still one of the greatest albums ever! Saw Bruce 4 times live. . .
Best song I have heard in my life for longevity, been listening to it since 1975 and listen to it multiple times weekly if not daily. Sometimes back to back with the 75 version from England .They are the best versios of it. Crazy but that's rock music and the Boss and me.
Such a beautiful composition, so much talent and passion. Haunting. It really takes me back to those years between the mid 1970's through the 1980's, such a rich time of great music.
“E Street” can be more than an address or a moniker. Let it be a wonderful concept for those who understand what these songs truly are. “E Street” can be Family, Friends, Love, Blood, Soul, Country, Humanity, Universe. “E Street” is essentially everything we are and can possibly know - as long as we don’t get stupid and fuck it all up.
I don't know another rock song that runs you through the gamut of emotions. Heartbreak, triumph, alienation, love. I agree with Joe Thompson that there's an entire book, an entire world, in this song. I'd compare it to Bach's Chaconne. Majestic.
I absolutely Love this Song 💗💗💗💗💗 The sheer emotions I feel when I listen to this Masterpiece ❤️❤️😍❤️❤️❤️ Tears listening to Bruce tell the story of Song. You imagine everything he's singing. The piano playing and all's quiet ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍 The intro. Everything is Beautiful til The Big Man Clarence does his saxophone 🎷 solo. Pure Love 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank You Bruce Springsteen and The East Street Band ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ RIP Clarence Clemons 🕊️🕊️🙏😭❤️🥰🥰😍
One of the best songs ever written. Most def one of the best examples of Clarence Clemons sax genius. Nobody comes close to some Clarence R.I.P. There will never be another like him.
back in the day u could score good floor seats as prices did not show as big a difference in price as now,, one can go to a concert and has to look at screen to see the super nova, to me if one asks does it take away from ur experience I gotta ask huh, yes, as you will not lose ur hearing for a few hours, Guns and Roses were deafening, if I had to do it all over again I would have to chose screen, lol
Undoubtedly one of his best songs ! The piano transgressions are unreal. It goes from high emotions to low emotions through the entire song. Whether it is deliberate or not it is genius.
I feel genuinely sad for those who have never connected with this masterpiece, this is so much more than a song,it's 9 minutes of absolute drama.
"Drama" is a cheap word that doesn't mean much. I prefer the word ART.
Read the lyrics to this song and it's trite recycled cliches, but Bruce made all that rubbish into ART.
There are apprentices, there are skilled journeymen, there are masters. But when you really need the job done right, THE BOSS shows up for work!
Trite cheezy lyrics, one eye-rolling stereotype after another, cheap raw materials available into abundance.
Turned into ART.
By the hands of the most skilled craftsman!
There are only 2 types of people on earth 🌎 :
1 : Bruce Springsteen fans
2 : The people who never went to a Springsteen live show
This rule has never been broken yet since 1973
Bruce may owned the rights to this song but Clarence Clemons truly owned it. It is the best all-time saxophone solos in rock n roll history....hands down.
RIP Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes!
Sax is soooo overrated and mostly ANNOYING as most woodwinds are.
Damn right.
@@del7i540 I agree, but great musicians use those annoying sounds to make great art.
Just think of the joy and meaning you've experienced through REALLY annoying-sounding instruments like guitars, bass, or even drums!
Or the most annoying sound ever invented, the Human Voice ;)
Holy f. What a powerful song. It’s an opera in a box. A seven minute trip to heaven and hell. Glad I was around to see this.
"A seven minute trip to heaven and hell."
Man, you're quite the artist yourself if you can come up with youtube posts like THAT!
@@devilsoffspring5519 I don't remember making that post..... sounds like me though. Thanks for the like.
@@johnbacci1074 It's your screen name so who else would have written it? That's a good ass line man! You could use that shit in a song :)
@@devilsoffspring5519 Thanks. It's a song that I cherish.
Old lady, here... loved this song since the 70s. Rest in Peace, Big Man.
The greatest sax solo of all time!!!!!!!!!!!
AMEN !
Gives me chills everytime
Clarence Clemons is a legend for that sax solo. One of the most powerful pieces if music I've ever heard. The entire song is an absolute masterpiece.
I get tears every time I hear it
RIP to the big man
This song - i could literally write a book about this song, the lyrics, the journey, the story, the power, the emotion, the stunning arrangement, the rawness, the genius, the rock & roll, the spine tingling opening bars of the piano, the tempo changes...i could go on. I first heard this song at Old Trafford Cricket Ground in 2003 and it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, the song reduces me to tears at times. I feel there's an obligation akin to breaking the law when it comes to listening to this song in that you absolutely must listen to it in its entirety, it's well documented how Bruce painstakingly agonised putting this together so perfectly and man it was well worth it, that Sax solo is perfection, i could (and have sometimes) listen to it all day. This song is and will remain my favourite song forever (456 plays on iTunes), it's an absolute masterpiece.
756 plays here, I Know what you mean.
Manchester, May 2003. I was there at that show!! Absolutely life-changing.
Here is the sign of a great song. It was released in 1975. You first heard it in 2003 and it made the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. End of story. Brilliant.
completely agree, i couldn't have said it better myself. greatest song in the world.
Well *PERFECTLY* said
Thank You So Much for sharing how MUCH
*I* *FEEL* .
Clarences' solo is truly an amazing piece of music, ONE of the best Sax Solo's I have ever heard,, truly a masterpiece..... Rip Big "C"
I honestly believe this may be the definitive video performance of this classic. When you see Bruce standing in the shadows at the back of the stage pumping his fist with the crowd as Clarence delivers that epic solo, it's pure magic.
Check out the Hammersmith, London show from 1975...it’s also an epic performance of Jungleland... 😊
Yes.....a moment in history🎷🎷🎷 that light shining on "The Big Man"
My memory of that song is the same as yours!
Yeah, his performance at Hammersmith was such a theatric experience! Especially during Jungleland. Just brilliant.
Testify!!!!!
This song just speaks to you and takes you to a different place. Clarence just nails this , love this song. R. I.P. Clarence. Long live The E Street band.
This was easily one of the best tours in rock history.
Yes it was
Man, that saxo solo gets me everytime... in tears. The complexities of this piece of music, from the lyrics to the instrumental composition are beyond any composer's dream.
very emotional steering song, gets me every time.
Absolutely awesome!
40 years later and this song still stirs emotions. A classic. R.I.P. Big Man
Best song of all time in my opinion . Clarence is flying high :(
Bruce's haunting yawp and Clarence's sax crying out in the night. For me, these two have always been unforgettable.
Growing up in NJ back in the day, when this was still new music, I used to tell people who didn't like Bruce's style to listen to this song. Inevitably they'd change their minds.
Saw on this tour. A night I'll never forget.
Me too. LA.
He played this song at mount smart stadium literally cried one of the greatest moments of my life
I am nearly 60 and sitting in a lounge in Delhi at 1.30h in the morning waiting for the flight home to Ireland. Man, I am energized again. Never tired listening to this song.
Artist would struggle to create this song with modern technology. Let alone Bruce created it 50 years ago and unlike other 70s artist he hasn’t remastered it or any other song for that matter. That’s what I call perfection
Has to be said - one underrated display of awesome talent in this video has to be Prof. Roy Bittan’s piano playing after the sax solo. Pure darkness in the place and he doesn’t drop a single note! Amazing stuff 🎹
once you've played it for years, it comes naturally
Muito lindo maravilhoso
Bruce voz linda melodias lindas amo ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The music of the Jersey Shore. So glad I grew up there... Happy Heavenly 80th Birthday Clarence Clemons. RIP
One of the all time best songs ever written and performed
RIP Clarence Clemons the Big Man
January 11, 1942 - June 18, 2011
In my humble opinion the greatest rock song ever written
It's not an opinion. It's fact
Clarence puts his heart into this. The sax solo with the most feeling ever. RIP brother
my family & friends always tease me about my love for bruce. my mom grew up in the 70s/80s and she always jokes about him, but think about it, how can someone think of such poetic, meaningful lyrics? and 10 minutes worth of them like for this song. i don’t mean to sound like one of those teenagers who is all “i was born in the wrong gEnErAtIoN”, but no other artist, at least from 2018/2019 can compare, at least in my opinion.
Isabella Johnson I understand how you feel I’m only 20 and I try telling my girlfriend and sisters about these songs but they don’t care since it’s older. They will never understand the true depth that Bruce’s music has so just turn the volume all the fucking way up and jam out to some rock n roll my friend
Knightstalker45 they might figure it out someday. You should take them to just one show and they’ll be shook!
You're in the right geNeŕation! Even the Boss has flaws. His 84 show in Tacoma WA, he broke the Union and used scab labor. My Dad lost work like everybody else.
I hear ya mart, this type of music is the best
@@Knightstalker45 im 15 and i think these days theres too much music about drugs and violence. If jungleland was just the sax solo then it would still be better then everything made in the last decade. Theres just no culture these days :(
I slept outside of a Sears store, at a shopping mall in the Calumet Region, using a parking lot pylon for a pillow, to be the third in line to score tickets for this tour at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, up on Lawrence Avenue. I was third row from the stage, getting misted by the spray of sweat from Bruce and the E Street Band.
Twenty-three years later, I told that story to the Professor, Roy Bittan, when I was waiting on him at a restaurant in Malibu. He dragged me over to his table and made me retell the story to his guests. The only guy who got a bigger kick out of that story was the Boss himself, when I told it to him and Patty, when I was serving them in a restaurant in Beverly Hills, years later.
The point being that the artists are touched every bit as much as we are. And sometimes, it's in those seemingly unwitnessed transactions that that meaning is conveyed.
I'm in awe, tears down my eyes. this is why the E street band is the best Rock and Roll band ever.
Right On as I approach the beginning of a new life with some adversity in the path which will be politely removed.
ive seen tons of bands in my days, and not one can be compared to Bruce and the E street band. his voice, his presence, the band members excellent playing, the music, everything. people ask who is the best band live you've ever seen and my honest answer is always Bruce. seen him 4 times, the latest this year at Gillette stadum in Foxboro Mass.
El tiempo pasa, nos hacemos viejos, pero vuelves a escuchar esto en la oscuridad y...
La piel de gallina, una y mil veces, siempre siempre,
You can feel that sax solo with your whole body
Amen Bro and beyond words.
If you never saw Clarence play this on his sax you've missed the bus. The amount of emotion coming thru that solo is , , i cant describe it in words, put some good headphones on and crank the volume
Bruce might be the greatest of all time- but what everybody misses is that he's the greatest because he's assembled the E Street Band. They are 60 % of Bruce. Anybody better than Mighty Max ? Or Little Steven ? Clarence ? The Professor ? Nils Lofgren ? Now Jake ? I think the Boss has the most talented people in the business with him. That's why he/ they are the greatest. Have been since '69.
Now people have to name me a better artist, rock moment, cultural-collective moment, whatever moment after seeing this video. I’m still waiting.
Queen at live aid rivals anything in history
This song makes me feel extremely grateful to be alive.
I can never hear this song too many times... This is truly the magnum opus of Clarence IMO. RIP big man.
That sax solo is absolutely mind blowing.
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley, do lyrics ever get any better. Been fan since 1972, am 77 now and seen Bruce a number of times,and have everything he has ever recorded,but it is hard to think he and the E St Band have ever been better than this period.I remember some years ago Andrew Marr,political TV guy one Sunday Morning on his show played just the sax solo. He then said best sax solo from best sax player from best band in the world,how true.
Heaven rings endlessly as a Big Man sax solo!
The River will always be my favorite.
The piano music is heavenly.
Just a great song.
It is so difficult to find something like this...
BIG MAN...live for all time..
This song would have never been so great without Clarence Clemons' hands down. That man commanded this song with his amazing saxophone skills and owned it PERIOD. 👏
everything in this song is a masterpiece, I just want to point out one thing. When Clarence does his solo, he puts so much passion into it and the composition is perfect. when he plats it really does sound like he's singing from the sax. and near the end of the solo, there's a high G. that note, I swear it sounds like a voice crack in the singing, it's so DAMN FOOKIN AWESOME!!!
Clarence's sax solo is majestic and is rightfully recognized as a truly great solo. Overlooked by many are Roy's always stellar piano work as the intro and finale of this masterpiece. Further I believe the guitar solo by Steve in this recording is one of his finest.
It is amazing that after all these many, many years this song is always fresh and I savor every listening.
Play this song, close your eyes and imagine it was a movie.
It would be an absolute blockbuster.
Total.
in my high school creative writing class we did a screenplay unit and mine was a no dialogue short film with this in the background
Everytime I hear thIs song, I cry
One of the greatest songs ever written......period
Awesome. Stevie, Clarence and Bruce are in the zone!
My best Springsteen’s song !
Really is the greatest song of all time
Scooter and the Big Man... just listening to the interview with Howard Stern about Bruce playing guitar as Clarence passed. Very touching
A Springsteen masterpiece...to add to the many.
I saw him on this tour at The Capital Center in Maryland. I am not the biggest Bruce fan around but I will say that over the more than fifty years I have seen some of the greatest bands in Rock history, NO ONE puts on a show a like these guys. That night they played for three and a half hours at full energy the whole time, and played every song anyone could have wanted to hear from his then only about five albums. Twenty thousand people left that place exhausted. I still don't know how he did it. If you like Jungleland then you need to hear an early tune of his, "Incident on 57th Street " from The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle.
As Jon Stewart said - he “empties the tank, EVERY time” So perfect, five words that capture him perfectly
@@bcal4877 Stewart's were were great but second best! (I thought I said it better). Ha!
How does anyone even envisage an epic song like this? It makes my hair stand on end!
You make a great point. Bob Seger has said he didn't realize he could write a song like "Night Moves" until he heard "Jungleland."
Let's hear it for the biggest man you ever saw: Clarence "Big Man" Clemons
It took my wildest best troubled reluctant friend to talk me into seeing Springsteen when he played in Dallas. Mark died of a heroin overdose not long after, but I’ll always be grateful for one of the most incredible nights of my life for being Mark, no Chaser. 😂🎉😅
Perhaps the best song, ever!
YES, you got it right. it is the best song ever. Good work. See my favorite just look it up ABWH live 1990 and you'll see my all time #1 show but this should probably be my number 1 show. The difference is I proposed to my wife during ABWH and I saw this with my first love BEFORE my now almost 40 years + girl and wife. So you decide. It's one and two all time, check out the ABWH 1990. look it up. See me if you need help.
My Springsteen's favourite song
His early work stood the test of time. Clearly proof of a great artist.
Bruce is just... the GOAT. Greetings from Uruguay.
One of Bruce's epic ballads that really brings back memories of Clarence. Really missed. Along with Danny. Life is precious. The solo.......thanks "Big Man". RIP Clarence and Danny.
This was the first leg of The River tour the night after they played San Diego. Before MTV blew up and made him a household name. It was the end of the innocence.
A magical performance to one of the greatest ballads of all time. For me as a piano guy, Roy’s work on the 88’s is a leap into something interstellar. The raw emotion Bruce and the big man bring to this performance is probably one for the ages. Thoughtful, powerful music, I can’t ge enough of it.
Most bands hope to recreate their songs in concert. Bruce blows his songs up into epic journeys
What is love?
That sax solo!
RIP Big Man!
The Boss and The E Steeters at the very TOP of their game...Sheer perfection......
The Rangers had a homecoming
In Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town, rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance
And disappear down Flamingo Lane
Well the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo
Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl
And the kids round here look just like shadows
Always quiet, holding hands
From the churches to the jails
Tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand
Down in Jungleland
The midnight gang's assembled
And picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign
That brings this fair city light
Man, there's an opera out on the Turnpike
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Until the local cops
Cherry Tops
Rips this holy night
The street's alive
As secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanish unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switchblades
Hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted
Explode into rock 'n' roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street
Down in Jungleland
In the parking lot the visionaries
Dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing
To the records that the DJ plays
Lonely-hearted lovers
Struggle in dark corners
Desperate as the night moves on
Just one look
And a whisper, and they're gone
Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender
In a bedroom locked
In whispers of soft refusal
And then surrender
In the tunnels uptown
The Rat's own dream guns him down
As shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
And the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded
Not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland
The Sax 🎷 is pure class ....big man rip
As a drummer, Max was the Alpha for me. All I wanted to be was Max....50 years old and I am still chasing that.
A perfect short story. This is the ultimate definition of a rock opera.
Clarence Master of the Universe!
Greatest sax solo ever!!
Last minute vocals r f***cking amazing
What a song, what a performance 👏
I'm 15 and i first heard this song a year ago. Now it's my favorite song of all time
Last album that was worth listening to.😢
After we finished football practice in 1975, my brother bought this album “Born to Run” and we played it all night long at our Mom’s house. Remember it like it was yesterday. A great memory of good times.Still one of the greatest albums ever! Saw Bruce 4 times live. . .
Sax solo brings tears to your eyes the greatest ever RIP big man
Love u all
Coalville badger 👍
Pure perfection and can I give equal love to the big man and the professor. Unreal
As soon as I hear that intro piano tinkle I can’t help but smile at the thought of things to come!
Best song I have heard in my life for longevity, been listening to it since 1975 and listen to it multiple times weekly if not daily. Sometimes back to back with the 75 version from England .They are the best versios of it. Crazy but that's rock music and the Boss and me.
5:53 greatest moment in music history but don’t skip to it just listen to the whole song and cry when the time comes
Every time.
Such a beautiful composition, so much talent and passion. Haunting. It really takes me back to those years between the mid 1970's through the 1980's, such a rich time of great music.
“E Street” can be more than an address or a moniker. Let it be a wonderful concept for those who understand what these songs truly are. “E Street” can be Family, Friends, Love, Blood, Soul, Country, Humanity, Universe. “E Street” is essentially everything we are and can possibly know - as long as we don’t get stupid and fuck it all up.
Greatest sax solo ever,by far.
What a performance !
I saw 2 shows in Chicago one month before this here….it had that same magical electricity…
I don't know another rock song that runs you through the gamut of emotions. Heartbreak, triumph, alienation, love. I agree with Joe Thompson that there's an entire book, an entire world, in this song. I'd compare it to Bach's Chaconne. Majestic.
After all these years...Still a master piece
BEST SPRINGSTEEN SONG EVER
The sax...and the howl at the end. Love it.
ALPINE VALLEY WISCONSIN 1984 37 YRS LATER STILL RECALL IT THANKS BOSS BIG BAN RIP AND THE E STREET BAND NEVER SEE IT AGAIN BUT THE MEMORIES PRICELESS
One of the best songs ever written!
Here to let the Big Man and the Boss blow my Pandemic blues away. And they always deliver. "Tonight? Tonight!"
Bruce wailing like a banshee.Amazing!
I absolutely Love this Song 💗💗💗💗💗 The sheer emotions I feel when I listen to this Masterpiece ❤️❤️😍❤️❤️❤️ Tears listening to Bruce tell the story of Song. You imagine everything he's singing. The piano playing and all's quiet ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍 The intro. Everything is Beautiful til The Big Man Clarence does his saxophone 🎷 solo. Pure Love 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank You Bruce Springsteen and The East Street Band ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ RIP Clarence Clemons 🕊️🕊️🙏😭❤️🥰🥰😍
One of the best songs ever written. Most def one of the best examples of Clarence Clemons sax genius. Nobody comes close to some Clarence R.I.P. There will never be another like him.
I think, people are too close to this immediacy. I think Springsteen will, in the future, go down as one of the all time best....stage or stdio..
ça c'est un solo Big man !!
My first Bruce show. Second to last row, long ways back.
Lucky you man!!
back in the day u could score good floor seats as prices did not show as big a difference in price as now,, one can go to a concert and has to look at screen to see the super nova, to me if one asks does it take away from ur experience I gotta ask huh, yes, as you will not lose ur hearing for a few hours, Guns and Roses were deafening, if I had to do it all over again I would have to chose screen, lol
That tone is magical. Unique to the Big Man. COVID watching in Hawaii August 1, 2020
Undoubtedly one of his best songs ! The piano transgressions are unreal. It goes from high emotions to low emotions through the entire song. Whether it is deliberate or not it is genius.