In his memoir he says he didn't learn to drive till pretty late and didn't have a license till his third album. In fact there is a newspaper or magazine article from 1974 or 1975 about David Bowie inviting Bruce to come visit him at the NYC recording studio where Bowie is working on an album (Bowie ended up recording two Bruce songs and releasing one on an album). Bruce finally gets to the studio (from New Jersey) after a combination of hitch hiking and a bus ride. Imagine driving along listening to Springsteen on your cassette player, picking up a hitch hiker and he turns out to be Bruce himself. Bruce even credits his many years of hitch hiking with introducing him to many, many kinds of people he would otherwise never have gotten to meet and talk with about their lives.
This song came from a conversation Bruce had one night in New Jersey with a guy about his souped up car and his passion for racing it. Just imagine being that specific guy and hearing your story immortalized. And listened to by millions and millions of people all over the world, decade after decade, for eternity. If he told someone else "that song is about me" no one would probably believe him.
2min53 --- THE BOSS STOPS TIME. what the jeff is with the amazingness of this recording! It's the best version I've ever heard! The ghostly reverb is epic, again, Bruce was clearly contorting the space time continuum with his lyrical brilliance! For me he sings this perfectly - and I'm not talking about mere singing technique - he sings it as if his life depends on it. It's bloomin' beautiful. Bruce, The Boss, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! Regards. Someone you inspired to write music X
@@kindnessfirst9670 CAME BACK FROM army/Spain in late summer 78 -fucker just blew me away -still does -first saw him in 81-BIBLICAL IS THE ONLY WORD WORTHY OF THAT NITE-I'M FOREVER CHANGED/BETTER??? TOMMY27
Just how can one man create such musical brilliance,it must be past life stuff,to be so gifted and destined for writing masterpiece after another,and performing them in his own way, making other performers look small.
I prefer the more standard lyrics and longer live concert version with the extended piano crescendo, but any way you cut it...this song is still wonderful.
"well come on out now little one and come racing in the streets,well come on out now little one and put your red shoes on,well come on out now little one we'll go dying in the street -what else can we do???"Thanks -moving and timelessly beautiful-the best song you or anyone has written in 50 years-timeless beauty TOMMY27
Those racing in the street's at the end sound similar to the throw it all away's of the The Promise studio outtake from the documentary of the same name.
Probably gearheads, bemoaning the mismatch of "fuelie heads" to a 318. Chevy small-block heads wouldn't fit on a Mopar engine. I went to a trade high school in the 80's. I remember popping the tape in, driving somewhere. It was the album version. One of my buddies was in automotive, as soon as soon as he heard, "I got 69 Chevy with a 396, fuelie heads and four on the floor..." he pointed out, "Ya' can't put fuelie heads on a big-block!" The final lyric at least had matched the manufacturer, Chevy motor to Chevy heads!! Progress! The sizes still wouldn't work. The song isn't "about" cars though. They're a story telling device, a means for the characters' deliverance and connection in life. Hotrodders can get picky about such details though. And Bruce had only become a legal driver in his 20's. Ironic perhaps. Even he laughs about though. Oh well. And Brian Wilson never surfed!
"I got tired of waking up in a world that somebody else owned." What a fantastic lyric.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT . I HAD NOT EVEN NOTICED , THERE ARE SO MANY KILLER LINES IN THIS SONG .
see i realised that a long long long time ago - free the oppressed TOMMY27
In his memoir he says he didn't learn to drive till pretty late and didn't have a license till his third album. In fact there is a newspaper or magazine article from 1974 or 1975 about David Bowie inviting Bruce to come visit him at the NYC recording studio where Bowie is working on an album (Bowie ended up recording two Bruce songs and releasing one on an album). Bruce finally gets to the studio (from New Jersey) after a combination of hitch hiking and a bus ride. Imagine driving along listening to Springsteen on your cassette player, picking up a hitch hiker and he turns out to be Bruce himself. Bruce even credits his many years of hitch hiking with introducing him to many, many kinds of people he would otherwise never have gotten to meet and talk with about their lives.
You'll get chills listening to this while driving alone at night. Truly magical.
What a beautiful and sweet vocal delivery.
It's more haunting than the album version.
this song makes me want to fall in love and sit in the car and listen to this song during the hard times
Hauntingly Exquisite.
A Rare Pearl of Soul Love carried on the notes of raw beauty from the heart of a beautiful man.
How can one dis-like this?
This song came from a conversation Bruce had one night in New Jersey with a guy about his souped up car and his passion for racing it. Just imagine being that specific guy and hearing your story immortalized. And listened to by millions and millions of people all over the world, decade after decade, for eternity. If he told someone else "that song is about me" no one would probably believe him.
Why didn't I discover this a million times sooner? This will haunt me forever...
I will never forget this
This performance leveled me...chilling is an understatement
2min53 --- THE BOSS STOPS TIME. what the jeff is with the amazingness of this recording! It's the best version I've ever heard! The ghostly reverb is epic, again, Bruce was clearly contorting the space time continuum with his lyrical brilliance! For me he sings this perfectly - and I'm not talking about mere singing technique - he sings it as if his life depends on it. It's bloomin' beautiful. Bruce, The Boss, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! Regards. Someone you inspired to write music X
True of entire "Darkness" album.
@@kindnessfirst9670 CAME BACK FROM army/Spain in late summer 78
-fucker just blew me away -still does -first saw him in 81-BIBLICAL
IS THE ONLY WORD WORTHY OF THAT NITE-I'M FOREVER CHANGED/BETTER??? TOMMY27
A masterpiece.
Most haunted and haunting vocal delivery I have heard for ages...
I can only IMAGINE how great this version would have been with Roy doing his classic solo at the end.
Holy Shit!! Powerful stuff.
Never heard this before.
Thank you for posting it.
Just how can one man create such musical brilliance,it must be past life stuff,to be so gifted and destined for writing masterpiece after another,and performing them in his own way, making other performers look small.
this version is scary compared to the Album version but heck its great
Dolcissimo Bruce in questa versions !! 😌😌😄😍😍😘♥️🎸💋💟
Esta canción me lleva lejos. Es increíble lo bien que me hace sentir! *.*'
great version i like the ending !
O-M-G
Why didn't we get more of this amazing stuff on Bruce's 30th Darkness on the Edge of Town anniversary album?
Love this one! And also the pic. :-)
dying in the street.. damn
You heard it right mate -heartfeft -beautiful /destructive /poingnent and real thanks TOMMY27
I prefer the more standard lyrics and longer live concert version with the extended piano crescendo, but any way you cut it...this song is still wonderful.
Stephen Mason where may I find that? Link please?
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Bruce should have released this version on the Darkness outtakes rather than the recorded version.
you got the two best audio transcribers money can buy on either side of your head :D
"well come on out now little one and come racing in the streets,well come on out now little one and put your red shoes on,well come on out now little one we'll go dying in the street -what else can we do???"Thanks -moving and timelessly beautiful-the best song you or anyone has written in 50 years-timeless beauty TOMMY27
PS -its bent-rob banks-a'la DILLINGER/SWEDEN 08/09-CHECKITIOUT
wow would love to see these lyrics
Those racing in the street's at the end sound similar to the throw it all away's of the The Promise studio outtake from the documentary of the same name.
GO BOSS
Questa versione e molto bella!!😅😅😍😍😘😘🎸🎷💓♥️🎶💯
VOCÊ E DE MAS BRUCE
Nice version.
it sounds like this is actually Racing in the streets(78) solo piano take
best stuff ever i live this life and will in my next life fuely 327 muncie cragers bleach and t backs
lunga vita al BOSS
Who the F gave this a thumbs down.
Probably gearheads, bemoaning the mismatch of "fuelie heads" to a 318.
Chevy small-block heads wouldn't fit on a Mopar engine.
I went to a trade high school in the 80's. I remember popping the tape in, driving somewhere.
It was the album version.
One of my buddies was in automotive, as soon as soon as he heard,
"I got 69 Chevy with a 396, fuelie heads and four on the floor..."
he pointed out, "Ya' can't put fuelie heads on a big-block!"
The final lyric at least had matched the manufacturer, Chevy motor to Chevy heads!!
Progress!
The sizes still wouldn't work.
The song isn't "about" cars though. They're a story telling device, a means for the characters' deliverance and connection in life. Hotrodders can get picky about such details though.
And Bruce had only become a legal driver in his 20's.
Ironic perhaps. Even he laughs about though. Oh well.
And Brian Wilson never surfed!
The lyrics are not quite right?
These were the early lyrics and can be found on The Promise Title "Racing In The Street 78"
YOU NEED TO CHECK YOUR HEARING & FIND YOUR SOUL .
I thought that his piano "Thunder road" was good, this kicks its butt.....