Other Mixes By chapbell
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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.
Feedback:
very solid
Outstanding..!
Very interesting.
Variorum indeed...