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Death to My Hometown. Ron Aniello, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau (executive prod.) " Death to My Hometown " is a song written and recorded by American musician Bruce Springsteen and was the third single from his album, Wrecking Ball. It is a protest song, as well as a prominent example of Springsteen's experimentation with Celtic rock rhythms.
Released: January 19, 2012. "Rocky Ground". Released: April 21, 2012. "Death to My Hometown". Released: May 7, 2012. Wrecking Ball is the seventeenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on March 6, 2012, on Columbia Records. It was named best album of 2012 by Rolling Stone [2] and along with the album's ...
A portion of the Karagheusian Rug Mill as it stood, long abandoned, in Freehold in 1990. "My Hometown" is a single by Bruce Springsteen off his Born in the U.S.A. album as its closing track, that was the then-record-tying seventh and last top 10 single to come from it, peaking at #7 on the Cash Box Top 100 [4] and #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
"Lonesome Day" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and initially performed by Springsteen and the E Street Band. It is the opening track of his 2002 album The Rising.It was released as a single as the follow-up to the title track on December 2, 2002 and reached #36 on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart, [2] #39 in the UK, [3] and #47 in Sweden. [4]
In "Johnny 99" Springsteen sings about an auto worker who gets laid off in Mahwah, New Jersey and shoots and kills a night clerk while drunk and distraught. [3] As a result, he is apprehended and is sentenced to 99 years in prison, but requests to be executed instead. [3] On the song, Springsteen is accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, [3 ...
"Darkness on the Edge of Town" is the last song on the 1978 album of the same name, Darkness on the Edge of Town, by Bruce Springsteen. It was the last song recorded and mixed, and in April 1978 it was designated the title song to a thematic album whose songs portray the struggles of the less-fortunate, not only to survive, but to keep their spirit and will to live.
The song is a seriocomic tale of a man who now ruefully looks back on his so-called "glory days" and those of people he knew during high school. The lyrics to the first verse are autobiographical, being a recount of an encounter Springsteen had with former Little League baseball teammate Joe DePugh in the summer of 1973. [4]
In Belmar, New Jersey – the town from which the E Street Band took its name – an ice cream stand is named after the song. "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" has become a staple of Springsteen's E Street Band concert tours, with regular appearances from the 1975 and on the Born to Run tours through the 1984 legs of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour, with ...