'High Hopes' finds Bruce Springsteen in a number of different musical settings, and includes the E Street Band members in various large and small combinations as well as guitarist Tom Morello on eight tracks. Besides Morello, the album also includes appearances on several songs by Clarence Clemons, who passed away in 2011, and Danny Federici, who passed away in 2008, on what Springsteen calls "some of our best unreleased material from the past decade." The album was recorded in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Australia and New York City and marks Springsteen's 18th studio album. As Bruce writes in the albums liner notes, "I felt they were among the best of my writing and deserved a proper studio recording."
T**R
Decent cd
Pretty good cd. Some songs are explicit but cd is still good overall
M**Y
This album by Springsteen is fantastic. All the songs have true meanings
This album by Springsteen is fantastic. All the songs have true meanings, such as the effect of the economy on the middle class, the problem of police shootings of minorities. The music itself is haunting. I would recommend this album to anyone. I play the album at least once a week; it's that great.
A**R
reatb collection of songs
Every song is a delight--Tom Morello is more than icing on the cake. What a musician.
T**.
Five Stars
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D**R
I like everything the boss does
I like everything the boss does. I'm happy that, at his age, he's still touring and recording albums like High Hopes, and hasn't lost his energy and connection with his many fans.
K**V
Four Stars
Enjoyable
D**.
Five Stars
Thank you
K**R
High Hopes
What can I say? It is the Boss of my choice of music. I always like the lyrics included in his cd's. With his new songs, you get a better insight.
D**S
Missed Opportunity for Beauty
I think when Bruce released this album he was obviously really taken with Tom Morello's guitar sound. The truth is it doesn't necessarily work that well with the Springsteen sound. I love the sound really, it's almost Hendrixy at times and on slower numbers can be floaty and melodic, but I don't think he adds anything to the title track.It's the title track and Tom Joad that really spoil the album - High Hopes itself was a perfectly good b-side when it was originally released, but did it really need resurrecting and elevating to the status of a title track? - and of course the downbeat folky sound of the original Tom Joad is absolutely perfect, and I'm sure would be recognised as such by the original dust-bowl refugees, not to mention Woody and Steinbeck.In fact this album was a missed opportunity in regard to what tracks could have been usefully included - four tracks which came out on a limited edition EP called American Beauty.My version of this album starts with American Beauty's four tracks and misses off High Hopes and Ghost Of Tom Joad. What you end up with then is a flawless 14 track album, where the vinyl versions two sides would end with the two cover versions, Just Like Fire Would and Dream Baby Dream. Case closed.
E**Y
it's his best album since The Rising
For a long time after I bought this, I'd want to get in my car and listen to it when I was doing other things. Sometimes I'd finding myself wanting to listen to it even when I was already listening to it. Whilst this is nominally a ragbag of re-recordings of old material, to my mind, it's his best album since The Rising. There are one or two misfires on this-a cover of The Saints' Just Like Fire Wood doesn't really work-but, in the main, it's a set of wonderful songs. The re-imagining of the Ghost of Tom Joad, in particular, is one of the most viscerally thrilling things I've ever heard, The Hunter Of Invisible Game is beautifully strange and, in Vietnam Memorial The Wall, Springsteen manages to do in four minutes something Oliver Stone didn't quite manage to pull off over the course of three films. This might be a collection of off-cuts, but it's better than a lot of his rival's proper albums.
N**E
A different Springsteen
Wasn't sure if I liked this CD or not at first, but after playing it a couple of times, it's great. Some tracks are a bit less punchy than his usual stuff, but show that he can do different styles of music. The lyrics and the melodies are every bit as good as you expect from him.
S**R
High Hopes fulfulled?
A new album from Bruce Springsteen is something I always look forward to. This was no different and the anticipation was fulfilled. Although I am still digesting this new offereing fully this is a fully enjoyable experience.Tom's contributoin has introduced a different and intereing domention to the overall sound of the group Of course, and like anyone else, I already have my favourites but I found it particularly pleasureable to hear contributions from Danny and 'The Big Man' again- very nostalgic I look forward to the next visiit from Bruce and the bnand to the UK
C**S
Back to his best.
The best thing for a decade and more. Put simply the best since 'The Rising' and right up there with his greats. An absolute return to form. I hesitated for ages about buying it due the fact that his last few albums have been decidedly average - this is hopefully the beginning of a retrin to the great albums that littered his career up to an including the aforementioned 'The Rising'. Wonderful.
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