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Member Since: 4/5/2003
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The Wild, the Innocent and the Broadway Boogaloo

Artist Song
Bruce Springsteen  It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (Demo) 
The Lovin' Spoonful  Summer in the City 
The Crystals  Uptown 
The Brian Setzer Orchestra  Jet Song (from West Side Story
Ben E. King  Spanish Harlem 
Marvin Gaye  Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) 
Bob Dylan  Spanish Harlem Incident 
The Viscounts  Harlem Nocturne 
Patti Smith Group  So, You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star 
Neil Young  On Broadway 
Van Morrison  Slim Slow Slider 
Patty Labelle & the Blue Belles  I Sold My Heart to the Junk Man 
Grover Washington, Jr. (with Paul White)  Midnight in Manhattan 
Fantastic Johnny C  Boogaloo Down Broadway 
Cannonball Adderley  Walk Tall 
The Spirits of Rhythm  Junk Man 
Tom Waits  Somewhere (from West Side Story
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band  Incident on 57th Street 
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band  Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band  New York City Serenade 

Comment:


Being a Thematic Variorum of the Second Side of the Scooter's Second Album
LPs had two sides -- and the sequencing thereof once had a vital r(le in the production. It's true. At parties, you might get called upon to enter into a spirited debate over "Resolved: that Abbey Road, Side Two is more excellent than Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, Side Four." Hope you brought your index cards.
The flipside of The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle has always been a favorite of mine. It takes the Escape/Redemption thing into the gritty uptown areas and lets it loose on an interesting cast of characters. There's pimps with axe-handles and streetboys with switchblades, gold-heeled fairies with thirty-eights and stack-heeled ladies with a pronounced tendency to boogaloo. And the piano and the sax are something else.
So, what are we doing here? Trying to create an aural landscape in which that second side, the three songs at the end of this mix, can re-enact itself. You, too, can escape and be redeemed. Bruce is the Junk Man of our hearts: listen to the Junk Man, ah, listen to the Junk Man -- he's singing.
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hemizen
Date: 2/14/2004
very solid
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valis
Date: 2/14/2004
Outstanding..!
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Adam Bristor
Date: 2/14/2004
Very interesting.
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J.M.
Date: 2/26/2004
Variorum indeed...