Wrecking Ball
If America named a singer/songwriter laureate, it would surely be Bruce Springsteen. Like his heroes Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, the iconic rocker chronicles the grand struggles and small triumphs of everyday people. Though *Wrecking Ball* was written and recorded before the start of 2011\'s Occupy protests, it reflects the same frustration and even anger at the heart of that movement. Sampled loops and electronic percussion pepper the album, the Boss’ first studio effort since 2009\'s *Working on a Dream*.
Bruce Springsteen's 17th studio album is an overtly political affair, with songs that tackle hypocrisy, greed, and corruption set to a musical backing of Civil War snares, gospel howls, and chain-gang stomps.
Bruce Springsteen has spent nearly 40 years writing songs that define every-schlub humanism in rock music. And yet when he sang, on the first single from his 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, “we take care of our own / wherever this flag’s flown,” he didn’t get the benefit of the doubt from some people. The assumption…
The Boss has always had an uneasy relationship with fame—not so much the celebrity aspect, but the wealth. Singing about…
On the heels of last fall's Occupy Wall Street protests arrives Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball, his most vibrant studio album of original material since 1984's Born in the U.S.A.
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In determining exactly what went wrong here, it’s useful to compare Wrecking Ball with Neil Young’s Living with War.
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Bruce Springsteen angrily laments economic destruction in his new album Wrecking Ball.
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