I was a night shift taxi driver years ago, and what Bruce managed to distill in several verses is just incredible to me. The raw struggle and despair out there in the world. The things people will confess to a young taxi driver out of emotional desperation.
@JuanSchwartz4 ай бұрын
Its true. I drove for a few yrs in a small mill town here in sw Washington. And it was horrifyingly beautiful if that makes sense.
@ZackHamlin14 ай бұрын
I do Uber on the side and it is absolutely true. The trauma dunking would shock me at first and I wouldn’t know how to respond at all. but I realize now they just need to talk.
@lookupthereupinthetrees98604 ай бұрын
@@ZackHamlin1 it feels like an important social obligation. I remember spending two hours trying to talk a woman out of ending her life. She'd just walked in on the man she'd intended to marry cheating in front of her. Stood there watching him in the doorway. You've never seen such despair.
@ZackHamlin14 ай бұрын
@@lookupthereupinthetrees9860 I agree. I vividly remember a conversation with a man whose wife of 10+ years had just left him for a guy at her gym. He said he was an engineer and made great money so she didn’t have to work. She fell in love with some guy at the gym while he was working every day and I was taking him to the bar on a Saturday night because he said he had no idea how to talk to women in his 40s, so there he was. The worse part was he didn’t even want another woman, he wanted his wife but he accepted the fact that she didn’t love him anymore. He was just too lonely to sit in his new bachelor pad he’d just had to move in. I put myself in his shoes afterwards and it really shook me up.
@SicilianGirl1082 ай бұрын
@@lookupthereupinthetrees9860 just the fact that you talked to her, at such a*crucial " moment,I'm sure, made all the difference!!🙂👍🌠🌛 Hopefully she realized that character wasn't in her league,5 huh worthy of 2e😢w h feel b Call 1😢er v voice d btwho the hell wants someone like him 😏?!! You are surely One of The Good ones🙂👍🌜🌟🌠✨📻✨ Please don't ever change!🙂✌️📻🎵🌛
@ashleymonday2983 жыл бұрын
The anguished howls in the background give this song a haunting quality that sticks with you long after the song is over.
@tracieramson9151 Жыл бұрын
howls of lost souls waiting to come back as the song says
@tracieramson9151 Жыл бұрын
Debts no HONEST man can pay...that's the story of life with COVID..those out of work had 2 choices..# 1 Live off credit cards if ya have them or live off the Food banks .not prices are going up on one thing and Up on another..Where did our American Dream Die and go off too and is it ever comin Back
@pattipaulsen71717 ай бұрын
Perfectly said❤
@MichaelKurse3 ай бұрын
Like this better than Born in The USA.🤔🤔🤔🤔🤗🤗🤗
@ClassicTVMan1981X3 ай бұрын
And the harmonica solos.
@nicolebetz8484 Жыл бұрын
I heard this song for the first time today while I was feeling really sad, missing my parents. Today would've been their 61st and 59th birthdays. I just know it was sent from them for me. ❤️
@catboi118811 ай бұрын
Wow 🥺 young ...I miss my mother. Worst part of aging is experiencing the loss of our loved ones 😢
@eudaimoniac714311 ай бұрын
Wow!!!!! My parents shared the same birthday 9/22. My father overdosed on my 45th (4/5) birthday in one of those hotels that line Rte.30 (which is the road with the billboards). Thanks for sharing your pain. I come here because this was also the last song I sent him before he died. Music was our language!!! Thanks for being vulnerable. ❤
@enzothebaker2211 ай бұрын
I'm sorry that your folks are gone, it seems they were so young. I'm sure they would appreciate your memory of them. I have no advice but have been where you are; it'll be ok.
@williamannette5588 ай бұрын
What kind of narcissist are u? Lol
@ConeFlower-gx2qk3 ай бұрын
I’m can’t listen to my fathers house without crying. I just lost my dad and it’s hard I understand
@bernettaepperson41223 жыл бұрын
The working man's Shakespeare !!
@popejake33813 жыл бұрын
In his time shakespeare actually wrote his plays for the working class, so Bruce springsteen may very well be this generation's shakespeare
@roho1001111 ай бұрын
Amazing that he wrote, sang (lead & backup), played every instrument, mixed and produced this track all by himself. Some prefer the live version, I will always love this version; so raw, soulful & personal.
@SPP6213 жыл бұрын
This video beautifully captures the period in the early '80s before the economy turned around. Gambling came to AC in 1979, but large sections of the city were still crumbling and faded.. Prosperity left a lot of people behind, and that's what this song is about. Springsteen is at his best writing about people who dream of something better despite the tragic circumstances of their lives.
@thepanel29353 жыл бұрын
Yes, I think the issue of gambling on the Atlantic City boardwalk should be getting more discussed here in the _Comments_ section. Gambling did indeed bring prosperity to AC, before which the city looked like a hellhole... I know about these things because I lived in Detroit. Twice.
@tracieramson9151 Жыл бұрын
same thing over here on the West coast..parts of Los Angeles..San Francisco and Portland and Seattle...things go in cycles
@vinny.deadmou5d4611 ай бұрын
@@thepanel2935 guess u haven't been in the past 30yrs..A.C. is a complete drug infested, murder filled city..It is very bad n has only gotten worse.. Crap, they've cleaned up north Camden which is nice now compared n north Camden was the rawest ghetto ice ever been through and I've been through them all
@brianwood723710 ай бұрын
Well said
@exercisethemind47849 ай бұрын
Atlantic City never recovered after gambling took over. They should have capitalized on the fact that they had gambling and the beach. Never did.
@BRLaue3 ай бұрын
The whole album is a perfection of not so quiet desperation.
@christophzeit62822 ай бұрын
Interestingly enough, the Born in the USA wlbum has the very same depressed and desperate tone. The songs were just mixed differently and provided with an up beat 80s synth sound.
@BRLaue2 ай бұрын
@@christophzeit6282 and interesting as well is that Born was hugely successful and Nebraska is largely unknown among casual Boss fans.
@mafia_dave322 ай бұрын
What is more sad is Bruce has embraced the evil that has done this to us .
@Oscar-rb5hqАй бұрын
@@christophzeit6282im pretty sure bruce wanted a more raw sound but they wouldn’t allow it, listen to the acoustic version of the song born in the USA
@kendrathorpe445811 жыл бұрын
"Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back." I cannot hear those lyrics without wanting to wail in a sweet despair as my heart is shattered by the longing in that voice.
@Majora999 жыл бұрын
Nebraska is easily Springsteen's most under-appreciated album.
@TheSeaOwl9 жыл бұрын
That's a fact.
@Luke-lp3su9 жыл бұрын
+Sean Johnson Its his best work in my opinion.
@JasonPerryman8 жыл бұрын
+Sean Johnson Going through Bruce's stuff on youtube, and taking a preference to his more acoustic 'working man's struggles' albums, I kinda like Nebraska the most so far.
@nathanoehme76578 жыл бұрын
Under-appreciated by whom? Any Springsteen fans i know rate it as his best work.
@franciscochacon43198 жыл бұрын
It's the opposite...........one of his best albums
@CrazyJoeChaCha2 жыл бұрын
Rest In Peace Don Phil Testa. At least your son got vengeance. Unfortunately he was also murdered only few years later. Rip Capo Salvie
@mrzek9114 жыл бұрын
He's captured a lifetime's worth of despair and hope, sadness and love, agitation and determination, all in three and a half minutes.
@DatMagJoostWeten12 жыл бұрын
Bruce is allowed to play on my funeral in 2079, when I'm 85 and he is 130 and still ROCKING!
@mikewagner1614 Жыл бұрын
Greeting friend. read your comment from 11 years ago. hopl all is well. God bless! peace DatMag
@kaspervletter2904 ай бұрын
Zeker vriend, zal ik ook doen
@ijbolistani3 ай бұрын
@@kaspervletter290 lol andere nederlander hier
@psywizard88010 жыл бұрын
BRUCE YOU HAVE BEEN THE BOSS FOREVER NOW. SAW YOU IN 83. YOUR STILL JAMMING IN 2014. MISS CLARENCE. THE BEST SAX PLAYER I EVER HEARD. GOD BLESS HIM! ROCK ON BRUCE!!!
@peterlandriault5733 Жыл бұрын
as someone not from America, Bruce Springsteen makes me feel like I have lived there all my life
@fredfredburger51503 ай бұрын
He's an ambassador for the US of A. A damn good one.
@floridaman87232 ай бұрын
As being someone born and raised in NJ, this song in particular is Atlantic City to the finest detail.
@romancandle4162 ай бұрын
A great compliment, and a true one. I grew up in Texas with stories of the cowboys and pioneers. I love guys like Springsteen because they bring those American myths into the modern day. Everybody knows about the Wild West of the 1800s...but this is a song about the Wild East of the 1900s. So different, yet so similar. That's America.
@romancandle4162 ай бұрын
@@floridaman8723 Amen to that. Everybody deserves to be proud of their home state. Take it from a Texan: Jersey has soul.
@UnknownHumanOnline2 ай бұрын
@@floridaman8723why you moved to Florida brother? What is the difference? I don't like in USA just curious. Peace
@ClassicTVMan1981X8 ай бұрын
One of the few albums released in 1982 to be so simplistic! This is like Bruce Springsteen's take on Willie Nelson's 1975 breakthrough Red-Headed Stranger, which also had a stripped-down sound.
@trixiedixie2312 жыл бұрын
"Maybe everything that dies someday comes back"....... wow!!!! The simplest words but they have so many meanings. I love everything he sings!
@aronkaspar6369 Жыл бұрын
In 2023 the entire country is dying
@davec484 Жыл бұрын
@@aronkaspar6369 But most of the country is boosted. And Bruce has helped in that cause. Wouldn't allow the non-boosted to attend his shows. Wanted them shunned from society. He is a true rebel. Speaks truth to power. He represents the best of humanity. What a guy.
@petewajda3083 Жыл бұрын
@@davec484America has far bigger issues than that but go on
@davec484 Жыл бұрын
@@petewajda3083 It's hard to be a Saint in the city.
@darrenlangton39966 жыл бұрын
Is it just me, or does nobody feel that the Nebraska album is Bruce's rawest and finest work?
@jjseandxcefree3 жыл бұрын
best record nebraska ...the only one i still listen to after 30 years.
@kalmia013 жыл бұрын
Me🖐️ This album is a very precious, old friend to me. And in my humble opinion one of the deepest poetry in music ever written about human condition, and our relation with life and death
@dwaynesbadchemicals3 жыл бұрын
My favorite of his.
@mp29k3 жыл бұрын
It’s not just you!
@sidevalver3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely unbeatable!
@samsuzza20082 жыл бұрын
“Put on your stockings babe cause the night’s getting cold” man that line gets me every time.....love your work Bruce
@andrewwynne69344 жыл бұрын
Life is beautiful, and worth living. But damn is it hard.
@LewisRobinson-up5de3 ай бұрын
'Damn braces. Bless relaxes.' -- William Blake
@haan96594 жыл бұрын
I heard this song the first time on a random radio station while cruising at night on a highway. Damn this song hit me hard. Thank you Bruce for this song, got me through tough times
@robertoponce80773 жыл бұрын
I heard the song first with The Band and got very impressed, now I listen to this original masterpice and I didn't expect to be so different, both are so great!
@toriwoods98003 жыл бұрын
My favourite Bruce track, been playing this since I was 15 yrs old. 35 yrs later, still playing this.
@freezinginhere3 жыл бұрын
I'm new to this one. I heard it covered by the band a few years ago and was sold on the lyrics. When I found out it was springsteen it made so much sense.
@davidcox55882 жыл бұрын
definitely relate. discovered this album by mistake, (Columbia House Record Club sent it to me if you remember that) and still love every song on it
@kevinobrien9626 Жыл бұрын
@@davidcox5588 Mine was Columbia too, pennies on the dollar for the cassette. (You know why they went out of business? Because of the legal principle, a "lack of response" cannot be interpreted as a "yes.") I was maybe 14. This is his best-ever song. A close second is "The Line."
@chuckstandiford2976 Жыл бұрын
Mine also! I started at age 18 in 1982. This is the song for my life.
@Fizwalker10 ай бұрын
While I was a kid, I loved Born in the USA (Amusing by itself because I was born in the UK). I found this track later, and it's one of my favorites.
@Plain_Pixel8 жыл бұрын
There's something so touching about black and white footage of things passing by as you drive, no matter what it's of lol.
@psychickitty18 жыл бұрын
yes, true. cleaner lines.
@latlanticcityphil8 жыл бұрын
Indeed, that gives things a Classic touch
@TheGregory997 жыл бұрын
Love the black and white! John Waite's Restless Heart is another one that I love!
@Iceis_Phoenix6 жыл бұрын
RJ Foster makes it vintage
@wrestlingfan21215 жыл бұрын
They sure as hell don't
@mary41152 жыл бұрын
Brings back a lot of memories. Growing up in Jersey, going down the shore in the summer. My parents & their friends taking the bus to AC for the weekend….good times, good people. My parents are long gone now 💔
@linsayspence70702 жыл бұрын
But, they are still with you, and perhaps this song reminds you,and helps to keep them by your side.
@shawndillon4930 Жыл бұрын
Sorry for your loss,but to quote to quote a line from said song: "everything that dies,someday comes back..."
@laureen723 ай бұрын
'well, i got a job - tried to put my money away, but i got debts that no honest man can pay' wow!
@lawrencebrighty2412Ай бұрын
I think that this song is sooooo underrated and it is a fantastic song that I have connected with in my life 😎🎙🎸🎸🎷🎹🥁🤘🤘🏴⚘🇺🇸🍺
@p0hostАй бұрын
What are those debts?
@ccincmn10 жыл бұрын
As a life long punk/thrashmetal banger.. This song gets to me every time. In my opinion its one of the most beautiful songs ever written
@chrisdriver77763 жыл бұрын
Have you heard the version done by "The Band?"
@dwaynesbadchemicals3 жыл бұрын
It is haunting.
@brettscott82882 жыл бұрын
Much respect for you. I appreciate that you can appreciate other forms of music. In HS I was friends with a metalhead who said the origins of some rock came from the blues/Sinatra/big band. I was blown away...but looking at some Crue, Aerosmith , Zeppelin and other bands I can definitely agree. Jimmy King, hope you're doing well, wherever you are!👍
@ginadesloriers72652 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@davejhotch2 жыл бұрын
I’m clearly late to the party, but the Rodney Parker and 50 Peso Reward version is pretty awesome too. I’m glad I found a group of guys who can appreciate different versions
@sandrinepi13 жыл бұрын
I have an absurd amount of love for this song. So beautiful.
@scorzi14 жыл бұрын
Actually thought of this song the last time I was in Atlantic City. Inside the hotels are lights and money and opulence, and all around the boardwalk and beach is bleakness and abject poverty that gets ignored while everyone gambles. You could see the framework of the old buildings from the 50's and 60's and the way things used to be and it was really sad.
@alexneville81683 жыл бұрын
Interesting comment. I've thought about this song and the way the city is now, especially after having Watched Boardwalk Empire. I've never been there but I bet its in a sad state.
@TheGMan.3 жыл бұрын
Picture beachfront north Philadelphia with a boardwalk
@brianreagan2289 Жыл бұрын
Not like that anymore … but if u hide in the Fox News basement you have a weird phobia of cities now … boardwalk is great .. beaches are great. Food is the best around. Just the way it is bc. All new stuff being built … the whole island is a playground from end to end..
@nnz18992 ай бұрын
There was a docuseries about sports gambling on Showtime Network called Action. You see the tragic environment that Atlantic City has become. @@alexneville8168
@scorzi14 жыл бұрын
His voice is so wistful for so many things. If the song is about a lost love, every listener remembers their lost love. If it's about a childhood place, we all remember our individual place. His lyrics completely transcend and should be the songs that go over movie montages about the open road, summer nights, young love, and growing up.
@theodorewurz84244 жыл бұрын
This song is about (fictional) hired muscle involved in a mob conflict, back in '81.
@douglasjankey7580 Жыл бұрын
Bravo ! Your last sentence is epic. A+++
@TravertineArt3 жыл бұрын
"Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night" So begins Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City". In addition to thrusting the listener into the middle of a sad and powerful story, the verse lets us date the action of the song to one particular day in history: March 16, 1981, the day after mafia boss Philip "Chicken Man" Testa was killed by a bomb under his front porch in Philadelphia. Today is the 40th anniversary of that day. "Atlantic City" is a song about a man who, despite his desperation, clings for dear life to the crazy belief that there's a chance things will get better. In doing so, maybe he tells us something about America as the factories were closing down, about hope, and about ourselves. "Everything dies, baby, that's a fact. Maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
@thepanel29353 жыл бұрын
I lived in Detroit. Twice. I can relate to what you're saying, because it certainly applies to the Rust Belt, too.
@jgw30002 жыл бұрын
A short time later they blew up my uncle's house also, after he sold it for cash to an unnamed buyer, just north of Philly
@southwest33692 жыл бұрын
And then, became the rise of little and little Phil !
@danevertt32102 жыл бұрын
@@jgw3000 whoa whoa your gonna need to explain here. I’ve followed mafia history heavily…..what are you speaking of???
@jackobtailly45182 жыл бұрын
@@jgw3000 who was youre uncle
@michaelfrasco9781 Жыл бұрын
My favorite artist! Fellow Jersey boy!!I may be biased, but for all who appreciate songwriting and touching the human spirit, we are better for having Bruce Christen our lives for over 50 years!!!
@roscoefoofoo12 жыл бұрын
"Put on your stockings, baby, 'cause the night's gettin' cold...." Tenderness amid crisis. He is SO good at voicing the gracenotes the keep us human through & despite our pain. "But with you I'll forever stay...." Loyalty amid fear. The haunting echo on the almost-howling backup vocal--gorgeous. He gets too wall-of-sound operatic sometimes. But when he wants to, he can do so much with so little, musically--just as so many of his characters have to do.
@sarahstacy8111 жыл бұрын
The Boss at his best. This song is basically a country tune . It was more country than what was coming out of Nashville at the time. And still is. Great singer and album.
@langdonogeay11413 жыл бұрын
I love you
@SamueldeChampagne Жыл бұрын
Folk tune.
@burtreynolds29695 жыл бұрын
And to think, this album was recorded on a cassette four track in a bedroom with two Sm 57 microphones. Then mixed down on to an old crusty boombox that was pulled out of the mud after it fell out of a boat.
@cmcgrath5025Ай бұрын
This is Springsteens best work, such a raw insight into American life, I can't stop listening
@marcbarham98545 жыл бұрын
I am not American but when I hear this it touches my heart and the words go so deep. So deep, I cry.
@Yuffie1314 жыл бұрын
I could listen to this song on repeat and never get tired of it. I love it.
@jcm374 Жыл бұрын
Ditto!
@Toriv-dq3dt7 жыл бұрын
This man is immortal.
@paulfinglas4486 жыл бұрын
Haunting melody
@bigboyedward6 жыл бұрын
it sure is
@bensmyth4505 ай бұрын
Haunting piece of artwork, the mandolin and harmonica are fantastic
@reddwing43683 жыл бұрын
Bruce's sad songs Always cut the deepest For me Thank god for him
@totoado13 жыл бұрын
he recorded this track in his bedroom with a 4 track cassette hands down he is a pure genius
@MAUREENALLEN793 жыл бұрын
Wow, no shit! Cool
@hkynut993 жыл бұрын
Wow Impressive
@ponc74283 жыл бұрын
It's true...!!! A Genius
@mukhanovP3 жыл бұрын
Not only this track, he recorded entire Nebraska album
@scottthuong26093 жыл бұрын
R u sure?
@PC-ub4tv Жыл бұрын
My mom worked at the Taffy shop that they show in this video. Love you Mommy.
@treffbennett359512 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Bruce writes directly from his soul and his lyrics contain no gloss-he paints pictures that ALL of us can understand and relate to.The Boss is just an amazing observer of life and all that comes with it.Damn proud to share the planet with him!!!
@sammyandmaxsmith6635 ай бұрын
I saw this video for the first time on that old USA Network show Night Flight. I was 13 or 14 years old and hated it. Now I'm 56 and it's one of my favorite songs of all time.
@mariacolla593910 күн бұрын
O BRUCE E UM POETA, RETRATANDO O QUE VAI EM SUA ALMA E COMSEGUE PERCEBER QUE ESSA DOR NÃO É SOMENTE DELE. EU TENHO UM POUCO MENOS DA IDADE DO BRUCE E NASCI E VIVO EM UM PAÍS MUITO DISTANTE DO PAÍS DELE. AS HISTÓRIAS E EPOCAS/TEMPOS QUE ELE CONTA VIVENCIEI TAMBÉM, MAS COMO NÃO SOU POETISA, NÃO SEI CONTAR. PORÉM QUANDO OUÇO SUAS MÚSICAS VOLTO NAQUELE LUGAR TAMBEM QUE ERA 5UDO IGUAL EM QUALQUER PARTE DO MUNDO. A ÚNICA DIFERENÇA ERA O IDIOMA , COMO HOJE.AMO O BRUCE.
@Clownhole4209 жыл бұрын
"Everything dies baby that's a fact, maybe everything that dies some day comes back." Long live Nebraska.
@SimoneCalloni6 жыл бұрын
His best album!
@HighSpeedNoDrag6 жыл бұрын
I once had this LP and it may be in my parents garage out in Oklahoma.
@UnlikelyWeTry6 жыл бұрын
No. Long live ATLANTIC CITY NJ
@johntuttle32455 жыл бұрын
"I got debts no honest man can pay"
@thescarletarcanatarot5 жыл бұрын
Rob Dermody Bill introduced me to this song years ago. Then I totally got why he loves Bruce’s music so much
@thomasswafford2504 жыл бұрын
This is the song that got me hooked on Springsteen. He never made a better album than this one.
@juliahamilton63897 жыл бұрын
Ranks among the best songs on his best album, and ranks with anything Bob Dylan ever did. Moving and bleak, this captures perfectly the underbelly of the glittering lights. Amazing. Period.
@allsportsdoctor91636 жыл бұрын
"...underbelly of the glittering lights." That's beautiful. Are you a writer?
@juliahamilton63896 жыл бұрын
No, but thanks for the compliment. Was an English major and teacher. Wish the best to you!
@stevelempitski25695 жыл бұрын
He wrote it during the war between the New York and Philly mobs over control of the area after gambling went in. Sammy "the bull" Gravano was one of the lead hitmen for the NY mob during the war...
@robertwalter23865 жыл бұрын
not quite anything mr. dylan did young lady but dam close-and close only as bruce learned from him-just sayin!
@citileft4 жыл бұрын
Bruce is a wonderful artist. His best work is among the finest pop music ever made, but he is in NO way close in artistic genius to bob Dylan. He is to Dylan as the kinks are to the Beatles. Or as Bob Seger is to Bruce Springsteen. Sorry Boss fans. That doesn’t mean he’s not great. Dylan is Picasso. Bruce is Leger. Nothing to be ashamed of. One invents out of his own head and the other is a refiner of other’s ideas.
@saradavison1337 Жыл бұрын
Even though I was born in 1984, b-c my Mother (& Father) we’re HUGE FANS; I apparently could sing full Songs from BRUCE before I could actually formulate my OWN Sentences, LoL! Bruce Springsteen is the SHAKESPEARE of Rock & Roll. He’s an AMAZING STORY TELLER, making everyone FEEL (every Lyric in each of his Songs! (And you will FEEL the Music with All of Your Senses!). I’m a THROUGH & THROUGH ITALIAN- IRISH JERSEY GRIL. LMAO! I Truly Comprehend, UNDERSTAND, & FEEL HIS songs (Beautiful Lyrics) & ALL the History not JUST in Jersey, but the US & around the World. His songs are About growing up, Falling in Love, the Political Climate during that time, Wars, Friends, (of COURSE) Growing Up in a Middle Class Italian-Irish Family, the Struggles, Happiness, Getting Married, & Raising a Family back here in New Jersey! If Your a Person Who LOVES ROCK N’ ROLL, (EVEN IF YOU DONT KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT HIM OR E-STREET Band You MUST put on your Bucket List to see him LIVE IN CONCERT!) It’s an UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE YOU’LL NOT ONLY LOVE, But will want ta go ta as MANY SHOWS AS POSSIBLE, LoL. Let’s say he was doing 10Concerts at MetLife Stadium (Home of NY GIANTS & JETS) 10 nights in a Row… Each of the Nights He would play a COMPLETELY Different Set, and has ALWAYS been one of the very FEW Musicians who would Changes the Melodies of His Songs too! His Concerts are LIFE CHANGING- Whether it be that your not his Biggest Fans, or simply don’t know much of His Material. Trust Me- You don’t want to Miss Out on that Experience (Show). He NEVER has a Headliner, an Intermission, & WILL PLAY NONSTOP for 3&1/2 ta 4 Hours! Name me ONE Rockstar that does ANY of those things. LoL- But you can’t….! Because there’s ONLY ONE ESTREET BAND, there’s ONLY 1 BOSS ( of Rock & Roll)! And that’s BRUCE!!!!
@mathmusic14905 жыл бұрын
Song gives me the chills....and add that Bruce echo in the background doing harmony in the choruses and................I'm shakin' from chills!
@bart2969 Жыл бұрын
Probably one of the best folk songs ever written
@leechurchill19655 жыл бұрын
_Nebraska_ was entirely demos, never to be performed in a studio. The album is raw perfection.
@giouli1234562 жыл бұрын
The song depicts a young couple's escape to Atlantic City, New Jersey, but it also wrestles with the inevitability of death as the man in the relationship intends to take a job in organized crime upon arriving in the city, partially due to desperation caused by his “debts.” The opening lines of "Atlantic City" refer to the then-recent Mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: "Well, they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night/Now they blew up his house too." The "Chicken Man" refers to Philadelphia crime family boss Phil "the Chicken Man" Testa, who was killed by a rival gangster who planted a nail bomb in his Philadelphia rowhouse in March 1981.[4] While Atlantic City is considered the turf of the Philadelphia crime family, there was considerable in-fighting at the time among the Italian-American Mafia for dominance of the organized crime rackets in the city following the city's proposed legalization of gambling in 1976. By the 1970s and early 80s, Atlantic City had experienced a significant decline from its heyday as a prominent resort town in the early 20th century, and the introduction of legal gambling was proposed as a potential means of reviving the economically struggling city. The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding legalized gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: "Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
@johnobrien31792 жыл бұрын
One of the best comments I ever read
@giouli1234562 жыл бұрын
@@johnobrien3179 Thanks John
@Onlydust2 жыл бұрын
For me your comments bring this beautiful song to life. Many thanks
@jackobtailly45182 жыл бұрын
The death of the chicken man led to three mob war in philly
@ninamartinez51712 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely the best comment.
@zosothezephead837 Жыл бұрын
I'm in the UK and I didn't know Atlantic City (the place). I was expecting to see something like Vegas. Jeez, that place looks like Blackpool, UK on a bad day.
@Acerara17612 жыл бұрын
My cousins from Ireland played this all the time when I was there last summer, those memories will alway flash back with this song
@annaliffey2 жыл бұрын
☘
@tajreddy18843 жыл бұрын
"Put on ur stockings babe..the nights getting cold...Everything Dies Babee and that's a Fact.."..Pure Poetic Genius ..😆😆😆with a complaining voice..these 2 lines have haunted me me for the past 30 years..😏😏😏
@brucespringsteen24903 жыл бұрын
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@DreamClean12 жыл бұрын
He recorded it in his bedroom on a four track which only makes it so much more impressive.
@broadband01183 ай бұрын
This song resonates with me in two ways. I'm English and in 1978 I visited Atlantic City. On the same trip, I went to see Springsteen for the first time at the Spectrum, Philadelphia.
@ptempleton0711 жыл бұрын
His concerts are the best. I paid a week's wages to see him in 2012. It was worth every penny!
@steveskin112 жыл бұрын
Nothings better than listening to this song at high volume while driving down the Garden State Parkway on the way to Atlantic City!
@shanecaliff35163 жыл бұрын
Quite possibly the best song ever written...a masterpiece
@akinlabiakingbade41002 жыл бұрын
My favourite Bruce Springsteen song. In my top 3 songs of all time.
@MrSone732 жыл бұрын
2008 i was in Atlantic city.......Thks Bruce for the song,,,
@juliahamilton63898 жыл бұрын
The best album by Springsteen ever and this is one of the best songs on it. Period
@jamesprice38038 жыл бұрын
Somehow he gets to the heart of America, like Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Mark Twain. America is not always beautiful, but God bless her.
@DanielMeglan8 жыл бұрын
👆
@psychickitty18 жыл бұрын
agree. Bruce sings it like it is and it ain't always pretty. but then life seldom is
@Savorist7 жыл бұрын
America isn't just of and for white men, brother. Look around - America will surprise the fuck out of you.
@jedimasterjoe53867 жыл бұрын
kittyand fox you dum as fuck
@pantallasecreta50637 жыл бұрын
America is most than USA.
@alenabethke47486 жыл бұрын
all of bruce's songs are universal and timeless
@SimoneCalloni6 жыл бұрын
To me, Bruce Springsteen is the Johnny Cash of his own generation. Different artists, different legends, but both of them used their own simple, direct style to talk about, remember and honour those who are held back by society. They don't even fear to talk about criminals and prisoners, they've always looked for a hint of humanity in the loneliest person.
@bigtony24992 жыл бұрын
Lots of similarities between the two. However biggest difference between Cash and Springsteen is that Bruce wrote all his own content. Makes you look at it different that he could put pen to paper and perform it too.
@katc50512 жыл бұрын
@@bigtony2499 Huge difference. And I have all the respect in the world for Johnny Cash's immense talent.
@bigtony24992 жыл бұрын
@@katc5051 no knock to Cash, the man is a legend in his own right. Bruce just has different talent but also the same talent at the same time.
@BardianAngel2 жыл бұрын
@@bigtony2499 Why would you say Content there when what you mean is songs? A song is a beautiful piece of human expression. Content is something corporations sell to us.
@tracieramson9151 Жыл бұрын
Bruce and John bon Jovi
@billrana237311 ай бұрын
One if not THE greatest tracks a goose pimple one take a bow Bruce
@bernettaepperson41223 жыл бұрын
Thank God for giving us The Boss !!!!!
@xLaoztu2 жыл бұрын
One of the most beautiful songs I ever heard and didn't even realized it was Bruce. The version I am used to hearing is The Band's version which is just as amazing as this.
@fizanthony2 жыл бұрын
The Band version is just that...The Band, it's cool, it's their style but nothing will ever top this version
@ShrapnelTwo Жыл бұрын
When the mandolin comes in on the bridge. Hits so hard
@EastJazzman8 ай бұрын
Cold Case brought me here, thank you!
@pierluigiservida62563 ай бұрын
One of my favorite songs of Bruce, probably the most underrated. I discovered his music thanks to this video, on the italian TV in 1983.
@JR-zv6qm6 ай бұрын
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, maybe everything that dies some day comes back...That line has haunted me since I heard it so many years ago.
@Kidofrodo11 жыл бұрын
In my opinion his best song... Also the most poetic
@jerry409311 жыл бұрын
I don't really listen to springsteen too much anymore, but this song has to be one of my favorites. Just a great song wth good lyrics and a nice sound,"Well now everything dies, baby that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
@christoJihad214 жыл бұрын
I remember how blown away at Nebraska when it first came out. I still love it, it's one of my favorite all-time albums. He's great!!!
@diosantana26596 жыл бұрын
Well our ...luck may have died and our love may be cold but...with you forever I'll stay. Born and raised in NJ in this era. God bless NJ and the boss
@Chummy87 жыл бұрын
Nice to see classic Rt. 30. It really hasn't changed much.
@JackLevybrooklyn3 жыл бұрын
Can't say there are many songs out there that give me the chill like this one (And the river of course). I once listened to it on repeat so many times that I kept hearing it while I was sleeping...
@MadMan73110 жыл бұрын
Another example of the brilliance of Bruce Springsteen.
@cincol3r8 жыл бұрын
Bruce is and will always be the Boss :)
@Broatch67 жыл бұрын
go tell trump
@PoshLifeforME8 жыл бұрын
Don't you ever die Boss
@tw1815058 жыл бұрын
we all got it coming
@Adam-od5xl8 жыл бұрын
do good and you'll live on in the memories of the living
@ericarottiers79468 жыл бұрын
+PoshLifeforME he won't don't worry!!!! he'll live on and on and on...
@paulfromannemasse8 жыл бұрын
not in 2016, please...
@Broatch68 жыл бұрын
and if He ever has to go in our hearts He'll grow
@MattJesuele7 жыл бұрын
There's a sadness in being from New Jersey that I'll never ever shake, and which this song nails perfectly. Truly great.
@johnmondry223 жыл бұрын
If you're sad about being from Jersey I really hope you moved away and don't ever come back again
@MattJesuele3 жыл бұрын
@@johnmondry22 hah that’s exactly the kind of shitty attitude people don’t miss when they leave! A lot of the state has the feeling of a place whose best days are behind it. If you can’t see or admit that, I’m sorry, but that doesn’t make it any less true.
@thejellyshelly3 жыл бұрын
I hear you ❤️
@neelabhchoudhary20633 жыл бұрын
I’m from New Jersey and I don’t feel that at all
@MattJesuele3 жыл бұрын
@@neelabhchoudhary2063 That’s cool, you’re allowed to have your own opinion
@mikeharty45365 жыл бұрын
I cannot imagine a happier, more cheerful tune than this one.
@Negative.mrb13 жыл бұрын
Beautiful song backing vocals are haunting
@kathleentischer853 Жыл бұрын
Im currently in AC for the first time in my life (work related) and I burst into tears reading that inscription @2:11 this is the most depressing place I've ever been. I'm from Chicago I've seen downtrodden areas. But not quite this BAD!
@JosephHaubert6 ай бұрын
This song is epic live. I prefer it either stripped down to a guitar or a full band.
@shepwatkins2 ай бұрын
Haha. You are not wrong. This was a great album. Listened to it driving a bunch
@lisathomas30824 жыл бұрын
This video makes me sad. I remember my parents taking me and my sister to the breach pre- casino! Picnic lunch, potato salad, fried Chicken, boiled eggs!and the walk to the beach was sooo long! 😢😢
@johntuttle32455 жыл бұрын
in 2008 i was a very desperate man in a very desperate situation of life....this tune was forever in my mind the entire time......still brings me too tears to think about life at that moment
@GonzoDuke10 жыл бұрын
The Perfect American Love Song!
@jeff37812 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Cape May County, this was always the theme song while traveling up the parkway to spend the night in AC. Nebraska is genius. Darkness is always my #1 but Nebraska is easily #2!
@Robbiehondros2 жыл бұрын
Being a kid you dont have control of what music is playing, your parents Jam while you listen. My dad always played bruce and i never really heard this song until this morning driving to work. Im 32 now. Song completely slaps and hits that curiosity nerve like a boss. No pun intended
@cambridge38313 жыл бұрын
All these years on, this song still haunts, better than ever. Masterpiece.
@brucespringsteen24903 жыл бұрын
Hi there Thanks for your love and support that has brought me this far, it has been a hard time for me going through this but your love and support keeps me going and standing strong in this difficult times. I do read your heartwarming comments and I truly appreciate all you’ve done for me throughout the years. It’s a season of love😍❤️❤️ for me and so I decided to put a smile on the faces of my fans by going through my KZbin channel and checking out on my fans, so I can get to communicate with my fans better through discussion of depth and humor listening to o and criticism of my career.💞💞🙏💖💕
@bernardhossmoto5 жыл бұрын
Happy 70th Birthday, Bruce!
@regparkin56613 жыл бұрын
Herd this song I was in bed late at night on my radio I think it was 1981 I never got over it next day went out and bought it sill love it Springsteens best work thanks Bruce
@brucespringsteen24903 жыл бұрын
Hi there🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 Thanks for your love and support that has brought me this far, it has been a hard time for me going through this but your love and support keeps me going and standing strong in this difficult times. I do read your heartwarming comments and I truly appreciate all you’ve done for me throughout the years. It’s a season of love😍❤️❤️ for me and so I decided to put a smile on the faces of my fans by going through my KZbin channel and checking out on my fans, so I can get to communicate with my fans better through discussion of depth and humor listening to o and criticism of my career.💞💞🙏💖💕💕
@magzdilluh3 жыл бұрын
Haunting haunting
@davidb4328 Жыл бұрын
I've loved this song for a long time, but the line "everything dies baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies some day comes back" hits different after you've lost someone.
@BodeVanLot14 жыл бұрын
This is an absolutely timeless song. Springsteen is a master of atmosphere.