RELATABLE 🎵 Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days REACTION

[@moebandy70]

I would not call Bruce Springsteen a former rocker. He's starting his world tour in February - still rockin'!

[@joesmith8725]

Bruce! The Boss. Big song in the '80s. Had that old school '50s/'60s rock n roll style to it. Also the piano sound. Song is about glory days of a persons' past. Especially sports, school, love, etc. They play this song a lot at sporting events.

[@jeffjones6221]

Bruce was never a favorite of mine, but he does have a handful of really good tunes...and this is one of them. Hell, I'm 60, soon to be 61. Seems I was in high-school a few months ago....

[@davidsutton9117]

I could have said this myself, although I would have subtracted 13 years. LOL

[@wombatwilly1002]

Ditto!

[@bwilliams463]

Makes me think of my best friend from middle school, who sadly passed away late last year. We'd get together for karaoke and talk about the good times we had when we were younger. I'll always miss you, bud. Wherever you are.

[@reymontcantil199]

Don’t forget that Bruce Springsteen is a writer as much as a rock n roller. His stories are about people he’s met, people he grew up with and lots of things are from just books he’s read, like lots of writers. He has a wide swath of topics but makes it relateable to common people which explains his huge popularity. He might have played some ball but we know that he always wanted to be a singer tho.

[@roydivo6189]

Bruce is a singer/songwriter blue collar gritty rocker from the east coast, you either love him or hate him. I grew up listening to him and went into the deep dive of all his early songs full of heartfelt lyrics, I love ‘em and have all his albums. Always loved this song, and appreciate it more now that I’m older.

[@randytorres8211]

In this song, Springsteen sings about a chance encounter with an old friend who was a star baseball player in high school. This fellow is Joe DePugh, and the encounter really did happen. Springsteen and DePugh were classmates at St. Rose of Lima School in Freehold, New Jersey and played baseball together in the Babe Ruth League (ages 13-15). They were good friends, but drifted apart as Springsteen pursued music while DePugh took a shot at sports (he tried out for the Los Angeles Dodgers). In the summer of 1973, DePugh was walking in to a bar called the Headliner in Neptune, New Jersey while Springsteen was walking out. Bruce went back in, where he and his old friend talked about the good old days until the bar closed. When "Glory Days" was released, DePugh was living in Vermont, where word got out that he was the subject of the song. Springsteen confirmed the story at his 30th high school reunion in 1997, but DePugh wasn't there; they finally met up again in 2005 when they met for lunch and once again relived their glory days. (Freehold historian Kevin Coyne sleuthed out this story, which was published in the New York Times). Springsteen: "The first verse actually happened, the second verse mostly happened, the third verse, of course, is happening now." Originally, this contained a fourth verse which mentioned Springsteen's father working on the Ford assembly line. (Songfacts.com)

[@nerdskeeskee]

This is an old school banger great reaction guys thanks!

[@aaronarnold7653]

Ahhh...da Boss

[@mournblade1066]

I never get tired of this song.

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Boss man coming on strong. When Born to Run came out in 1975. I said look out. Here he comes. It's on now. 🤟🤟❤

[@bishopsheen6897]

This reminds 1986 NewYork Mets when I was 15 years old and was a huge Mets fan!!!! Mets were the kings of the baseball world that year

[@lightsideofthemoon13]

So happy to see more of Bruce on here. Even happier that you guys enjoy him.

[@TracyfromNC]

Perfectly true song!

[@curiousman1672]

Oh ya, relatable. Everybody feels nostalgic at one point or another. Maybe high school, maybe college. Mine was college. It was just a time that always went my way, goals were effortless. Quite the time. Then life happened.

[@richdiana3663]

His glory days lasted longer than most and yes, this was solidly within them.

[@Dinosaurs_with_laser_guns]

For sure! And he’s still active I think.

[@ddwchamp]

One of Springsteen's guitarists plays in Soprano, Silvio Dante.

[@dionisioiacobelli6689]

The mighty Max Wienberg on drums.

[@TracyfromNC]

The video is great...he and his son. You'll see his band having so much fun!

[@willfromyadkinville]

iconic album!

[@badkitty4922]

I'm not a big Springsteen fan but, this is one of his songs I really like. I can relate to this in many ways now that I'm much older than when the song first came out. Thanks for reacting to this!💖💖😘😘

[@timothymoran6061]

He has soooo many songs, so many styles. Give a listen to his discography, you’ll surely find more you like.

[@David-fe4ts]

Don’t give up!! Never give up. You two are special. Hang in. Lex ky,

[@GrimrDirge]

This song hits harder every year.

[@leesmith9299]

this song makes me nostalgic for times i never had

[@JrobAlmighty]

Ahhhhh I remember those days

[@thefullnomad6543]

As a Canadian, if you ask me who the most iconic American performer is who most captures what America is, good and bad, I'd say it's Bruce Springsteen. There is no more iconic American rocker than Bruce. Period. When the Born in the USA album came out (with this on it), Bruce was everywhere for 3 years nonstop. He defined a certain part of the '80s.

[@tylerhackner9731]

One of my favorite 80s Bruce songs

[@thedukeofagita3730]

The legendary E Street Band at the iconic Stone Pony. Straight Jersey.

[@surlechapeau]

Brad & Lex, you’ll love his "Jungleland" and "Spirit In The Night" ! The redhead in the band is his wife Patti Scialfa.

[@JayCross]

The piano riff sounds like J. Geils Band, but it's another player name Roy Bittan, who has had a prolific career.

[@michaelcollier9893]

Favorites by Bruce: Racing In The Streets, The Promised Land, Tunnel Of Love, The River, Cover Me, I'm On Fire, Pink Caddilac, Caddilac Ranch, and Prove It All Night.

[@susanelkins3068]

Springsteen is a genius--PLease more!!!!

[@mikmaqwoman]

Jusr recollecting memories of younger days

[@davenewman1970]

Bruce is a beast

[@kupski1964]

The keyboard is ala 50's sound

[@NenadTrajkovic]

The Boss!

[@twwtjohns]

I remember this song from when my sons played Little League. Whenever there was a tournament or Allstars they'd play this song.

[@jeroenheijmans1445]

Hé is not à former rocker He is still rockin and his shows still last for 3 hours

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

Grew up with this guy & he is indeed 'the Boss'. He was on a talk show a week or so ago. Still touring, has a new album, he's written a book & loving being a grandpa. Very cool dude.

[@donaldbeard6231]

This video was the one that I really liked 🎉

[@mkmstillstackin]

Brilliant point on Lex's part at 6:04. Does Bruce actually look back today and think the "Born in the USA" 80's phase of his career was in fact a second coming of his "Glory Days"? 🤔

[@saintsataniko2116]

I was never a big Springsteen fan, but I always loved this song. Haven't heard it in ages but was literally thinking about it a few weeks ago, still feeling perplexed why he chose to say "speedball" instead of "fastball." I think when I was younger, I thought "what the Hell, he doesn't know a thing about baseball?" But now I know it was clearly a choice he made. I guess he thought it sounded a little more like something an old man might call a fastball; a little more pure and naïve in some way. Whatever he was thinking it was the right choice because I'm still thinking about it so many decades later.

[@Indy1831]

The greatest American singer-songwriter ever!

[@SteveA308]

Not even in my top 50 Bruce songs but love that you cover him regularly :)))) happy christmas!!

[@quincee3376]

Classic!

[@TheMikelleh]

If you want to see what performers he and his band were, watch the live “ROSALITA” video. They are one of if not the greatest live shows ever. They did 3 or 4 hour shows. You never felt cheated. The 70s were his Glory Days, but this was his most successful album.

[@HidingFromFate]

Rosalita was the first Springsteen song they reacted to, probably about 4-5 months ago. A live version, looked to be from the 80's.

[@joesmith8725]

@@HidingFromFate Actually they reacted to about a year ago lol. With Lex mother. They liked it and Lex mom already knew Bruce.

[@HidingFromFate]

@@joesmith8725 yikes, time flies. ok, consider me corrected.

[@joesmith8725]

@@HidingFromFate No worries, Same here lol. Memory slips me sometimes, too. Gettin old.

[@dodiereynolds386]

This song is about young people that were special in high school and are having a tough time adjusting to real, normal unspecial life .

[@SilentBob731]

And here is the benefit of having a crap teenage experience...no "Glory Days" gone by to lament. That being said, love this tune...BRUUUUUCE!!!! 🤘🤟✌❤

[@keetahbrough]

COVER ME.. by Brucie. XD with bruce springsteen, there are the hits, but i think almost everyone my generation has a favorite song of his.. that was the soundtrack for many coming of age moments... xo

[@ChrisTian-rm7zm]

I don't think the "I" in this song is necessarily Bruce Springsteen himself. Rather, I think he is simply telling the story from the perspective of an ordinary working class American. There are other songs where Bruce Springsteen resorts to this stylistic device, such as "Born in the USA" or "The River".

[@frankbonacci4972]

When they made this video, Bruce and the band just walked into a bar and told the people that if they acted as if everything was normal, they'd like to shoot a video there. And they did.

[@haveuforgotten]

I love the Boss

[@stevenblock9712]

One of the great "bar songs"!

[@pamphillips5968]

So good!!

[@mournblade1066]

You need to check out "Nebraska" by Bruce Springsteen. I saw her standing on her front lawn just twirling her baton Me and her went for a ride, sir, and ten innocent people died From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska, with a sawed-off .410 on my lap Through to the badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path Yeah, a bit different in tone from "Glory Days." About half the songs from _Born in the U.S.A._ were actually outtakes from the _Nebraska_ sessions.

[@David-fe4ts]

My favorite was wooly bully. Lol I lost mind watching you too.

[@trishriley9681]

❤️

[@kheaslip6639]

Lex you are always are very perceptive , to me the glory days are my younger years, looking and feeling in top condition having a great time, as you get older you look back at those times. I think everyone has a time in their life that they would say , those were my glory days!

[@maureenlyons-brennan1146]

They filmed the stage scenes at Maxwell’s bar in Hoboken, NJ.

[@WhiteMaurice]

G-Sheet!

[@SIXX2772]

One of his best and about time guys. lol by the way, the glory days are passing yall by as we watch this.

[@FUBAR1986]

Glory days….. when you get older, you’ll understand this song better and long for the days of our high school

[@joedonlewis9820]

That's a good one from his Born In The USA album. Another good video from that album is Dancing In The Dark, where he pulls a young Cortney Cox out of the audience to dance with him on stage (evey girls dream, brilliant )

[@pamphillips5968]

He had a way

[@xxleo2487]

When I was in 4th grade I got a no box for Christmas and this was my first tape

[@react2reactions246]

Idk if you guys still take requests, but I’ve always wanted you to react to his song, Jungleland. There’s actually a live version on YT, the thumbnail has the saxophone player on it. It’s incredible, you won’t regret it!

[@scottdarden3091]

There is a ad on Hulu for OTR and I swear it's Lex ☺️😂

[@steverusso177]

love the earlier stuff try "my hometown" "the river"

[@RobinT-treehugger]

That's his wife, Patty, the redhead singing backup.

[@Robert-ty3qi]

That's Silvio from the Sopranos singing next to Bruce

[@justinatest9456]

This whole album is great. Check out My Hometown.

[@joshfuller2026]

1st!!!! St.louis says whats up!!great song

[@aaronarnold7653]

Almost..lol

[@chantellecline6945]

I love this whole album from him, you should definitely check it out a lot of great songs on it.

[@henrycole7015]

A favourite early song is Blinded by the Light. Great lyrics. You Reacted to Manfred Man's version, please check out Bruce's live acoustic performance on VH1.

[@Frankie--da-fixer]

My favorite Bruce song is Hungry Heart,Check it out when you can!!

[@davidbanachek7966]

If you happen to be a fan of the Sopranos tv show, did you notice the guitarist is Steven Van Zandt who played Consigliere Silvio Dante on the show?

[@johnmcguigan7218]

He actually started out as a Bob Dylan wannabe, singing folk songs. I saw him play an early gig at the Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA, and it was no great shakes. So he reinvented himself as a hard rocker, which was one smart career move.

[@Trifler500]

You're really not supposed to try to figure out his glory days. You're supposed to imagine looking back on your own glory days, even if you have more to come.

[@memorast]

He has a new album out that has bunch of 60s covers … its great

[@chrisreinhardt5493]

Nice

[@alanneel1369]

when you get to your mid 40s you will think about school days more and more

[@xdarockstar2560]

You should react to Sixx AM we will not go quietly

[@EgbertWilliams]

What most people don't realize is that what he's really singing about is looking back on the past too much and kind of getting stuck in it, as if it were the best of times. He also subtly implies that a person should live in the present instead of wasting time thinking about the past. It's not spelled out,, but it's there.

[@jedigreg4636]

YES his true glory days was when he made this video - he was NEVER more popular than this time frame in the 80s.

[@johnnybravo5964]

You guys should do one on Home free: man of constant sorrow cover. They are an acapella band, you will like it. I think I’ve mentioned them about 3 times, lol But they are good

[@Jessedog11]

i can only tale 15-20 seconds of Springsteen before we change the channel

[@estoy1001]

If you can't relate, guess what? You are currently in your glory days. The trick is live like you're still in them.

[@snowdog03]

His glory days would have been the early 1960s I think.

[@TheNewRevolution]

This song takes me back to 1 great summer. I was working a few hours a week making great money and selling weed on the side, I lived at home so got to blow all my money. I was seeing a young blonde whose parents both worked during the day, so I spent my days with her. I was seeing another blonde whose mother worked nights as a nurse so I would spend all night at her house. A few times a week I was also seeing a third blonde who was older and had her own house....and there were also others....ahh Glory Days indeed. I could do that sort of thing as a young man. I could keep up. Of course fall came and the 2 High School girls has 1rst period Chorus together..I was busted. Both dropped me like a bad habit. The older woman found a boyfriend willing to commit so she stopped seeing me as well. To be honest I needed a break anyway. I burned the candle at both ends, said yes to everything, and lived in glorious indulgent degenerate hedonism as long as I could. That summer was legendary. I wouldn't change 1 thing about it. Every man should be lucky enough to have at least 1 period in their life where you have to turn opportunities down because there's just too many options. I was down for it all. I even remember losing friends because some of them were jealous....I didn't have time for them anyway.

[@pamphillips5968]

I don't miss it but it was a pretty good ride.

[@user-gt2uf8cq9y]

The song is happy music about sad stuff, where the baseball pitcher best times were pathetically in high school, and the woman's real life is one of crying disappointment so she takes herself back in fantasies to before she married the loser who left her. Similar to how some people think Bob Seger's incredibly sad song "The Ring" is thought to be a happy song by some people.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Bruce Springsteen's glory days were 1975 when his album "Born to Run" dropped. He was on the covers of "Time" and "Newsweek" at the same time. He went from being relatively unknown with a small but deeply devoted cult following, about to be dropped from the record label, to being the international "Next big thing" nearly overnight.

[@gregquinn7817]

Ultimate Peaked in High School Song

[@haroldsockey6987]

Christmas songs: Small Town Titans - The Grinch kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5S4q2CwdqaHhKs

[@amb6899]

Fans are very upset with him now due to ridiculous ticket prices. Off topic but important to say. He sure has a great voice. This was out in 85 or 86. Probably didn't write it if he did probably about his younger days. You both may dig I'm Going Down, Radio Nowhere, Hungry Heart. Got sooooo tired of Born to Run, overplayed. Refreshing to hear this instead of Born to Run as almost everyone doing reactions react tom

[@catsaregovernmentspies]

Fans are also upset with him because he went full commie.

[@jasonelward8215]

Please check out a band called Gnome... their song wenceslas. 🤘

[@TracyfromNC]

Adulting is just hard.

[@robintackett7039]

It’s the season…try Stretchy Pants by Carrie Underwood.

[@dougman23]

2 random observations, re: Springsteen and Glory Days. 1. Why is Steven Van Zandt in the video? He left. Bobby Jean is all about this. I don't know that I know the story there 2. How many members of the band, producers, managers, label employees, A&R...and none of them could suggest Bruce change "throw that speedball by you" to "throw that fastball by you"? This has bugged me since 1985. For all I know, his baseball friend had a lucrative herion and coke sales side hustle

[@darkstardan3309]

Do “Thunder Road” for a true American love story.

[@gerrardspring744]

Please please check out Sam Stone by the late great John Prine