A Personal History

So, I've been a big fan of the BOSS for a long time. When I was a kid there was nothing better than Born in the USA. I would dance around the living room singing along. So I got older and forgot my youth, until one day I was in this insane record store/junk store that was in a back alley of this bad neighbourhood. Just boxes and boxes, and this sketchy guy rolling joints in the corner. Everything was a buck. I was caught by the stark cover of Nebraska. I brought it home, and was hooked. I started buying all the other albums, missing only a few. One of those was Born to Run. Which I now adore ( as Ian and Amy know, they saw me stumbling to sing to the title track at 4:00am in a toronto karaoke bar). A few months back I was hitting the thrift stores when I encountered Tunnel of Love. I thought to my self, how the hell did I miss this one. Well due to turntable problems ( damn 26 year old rare scottish Hi-Fi equipment not so east to find spares!) I didn't listen to the album to yesterday. It is fantastic. He seems to step away from the characters he often uses in his songs, these songs are bare and personal. Like Nebraska there is an absence of the E Street band, though in contrast to Nebraska, the space is filled with synthesizers and drum machines.

Tougher than the rest