Well here is a review from the LA Times on WOAD:

Snap Judgment: Bruce Springsteen's 'Working On a Dream'
04:02 PM PT, Nov 24 2008

Possibly the single most telling thing about this sweetly uplifting first offering and title track from Bruce Springsteen's new album, due Jan. 27, isn't the reality-rooted optimism of the lyrics or even the stately, sweeping classic rock music, but a brief musical interlude between verses.

What would typically offer room for a scorching guitar solo or blistering sax contribution from Clarence Clemons instead has a passage that is whistled. When was the last time life in these United States gave Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band reason to whistle?

The sunrise come, I climb the ladder
The new day breaks and I'm working on a dream

Not surprisingly, the new-day-dawning number was introduced to the public during a Barack Obama rally just before the election. (The recording by the Super Bowl-bound rocker got a partial airing on Nov. 16 during the broadcast of an NFL game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Washington Redskins, as part of a halftime highlights package, and it's also available as a free download today, Nov. 24, at Springsteen's web site.)

When he reaches that verse, more than halfway through the chiming rock tune, it's the most chipper he's sounded in ages. But in the lead-up to it, telegraphed musically by those always heart-rending suspended-fourth chords that open the track, Springsteen acknowledges the struggle that won't magically disappear even with a new leader, even when it's one of whom he approves.

There isn't any overt political bent to the song, but the celebratory message is hard to miss. Brendan O'Brien's ringing production is refreshingly clear, especially on the heels of the distressing sonic muddiness that seriously compromised the appeal of last year's "Magic" album, which O'Brien also produced.

I'm working on a dream
Though trouble can feel like it's here to stay
I'm working on a dream
Our love will chase the trouble away

Springsteen sounds a hopeful note, for his fans, and Americans in general.

--Randy Lewis

Bruce Springsteen
"Working on a Dream"
Columbia
*** (3 stars)

Here is a great quality "The Wrestler"-song in full.  What a great song!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSvJvSwmd4

Oh boy another song to come out next week!!
Listen to snippet here:http://www.amazon.com/My-Lucky-Day-Amazon-Exclusive/dp/B001MA4PZS/ref=sr_1_15?ie...

here is the backstreet.com blurb:

SECOND SINGLE READY FOR DOWNLOAD FRIDAY
Slowly but surely, we'll be getting a better sense of Working on a Dream. While the title song remains an iTunes exclusive download for the next couple weeks, a second track from the new album is about to drop elsewhere: starting Friday, "My Lucky Day" will be an Amazon.com exclusive download (and there's a sample snippet there now).

Speaking of Amazon: they've been listing a CD/DVD Deluxe Edition of Working on a Dream. A little investigation tells us a Deluxe Edition with a bonus DVD is indeed in the planning stages, but not necessarily with the "30 minutes of tour footage" advertised on Amazon. We'll keep you posted when we determine exactly what's in store.

Excellent stuff. Love that bassline. At this rate, I'm going to need another new album by January 26th as they appear to be making them all available by Christmas.

At least by the time the tour starts two weeks after the album comes out, you cant make excuses for not knowing the new songs.

Thanks, Nelly!  God I love this band!!!


a youtube link also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK_JliVTvII

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Nov 30^th, 2008 at 9:50am:


Can't get Nellie's version to work. Too many gremlins (left over RO gremlins?). But this version sounds great. Nice rocker. Better than WOAD. Probably better than Radio Nowhere. Definitley better than the other day songs from The Rising. Waitin on and Lonesome...Ugh I'll take this one for sure.

Gazza wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2008 at 6:37am:


I don't know about dogs bollocks?????....

but it is a great song and definitely one that stays on your head!!!

Ade wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2008 at 6:50am:



That's a good thing then?....I thought English was supposed to be the official language of RO.

It means it's excellent

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/dog's%20bollocks.html

Also :

A usage with a positive (albeit still vulgar) sense is "the dog's bollocks". An example of this usage is: "Before Tony Blair's speech, a chap near me growled: ‘'E thinks 'e's the dog's bollocks’. Well, he's entitled to. It was a commanding speech: a real dog's bollocks of an oration". Sometimes the phrase is shortened to just "the dog's" or "the bollocks" . There are also several broadly synonymous substitute phrases that are sometimes used for humorous effect, including "the mutt's nuts", "the dog's danglies", "the badger's nadgers" etc.

This phrase has found its way into popular culture in a number of ways. There is a beer brewed in England by the Wychwood Brewery called the "Dog's Bollocks" as well as a lager cocktail

PartyDoll MEG wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2008 at 5:09pm:


Ya think

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Hey Platter,why don't you go back to listening to Britney Spears and leave this rock & roll stuff to the adults.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2008 at 8:45pm:

Goodness, Leftie

definitely an enlightening moment...

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who said it has to be?

and 'ground breaking' things are often a heap of shite anyway.