High Hopes (Album)
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Publication |
January 14, 2014 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP, download |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
56:24 |
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Ron Aniello, Bruce Springsteen |
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Studio (s) |
Stone Hill Studio |
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High Hopes (English: "big hopes") is the eighteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen . It was released on January 14, 2014 on Columbia Records . High Hopes does not contain any new titles, all songs on the record are older and left over from the productions of the previous albums or have been part of Springsteen's live program for years. The themes that Springsteen sings about are not new, the songs revolve around the “multifaceted decline of the American working class”, as in the older productions.
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1. | High hopes | 4:58 |
| 2. | Harry's Place (feat. Tom Morello ) | 4:04 |
| 3. | American Skin (41 Shots) (feat. Tom Morello) | 7:23 |
| 4th | Just Like Fire Would (feat. Tom Morello) | 3:56 |
| 5. | Down in the hole | 4:59 |
| 6th | Heaven's Wall (feat. Tom Morello) | 3:50 |
| 7th | Frankie Fell in Love | 2:48 |
| 8th. | This Is Your Sword | 2:52 |
| 9. | Hunter of Invisible Game (feat. Tom Morello) | 4:42 |
| 10. | The Ghost of Tom Joad (feat. Tom Morello) | 7:33 |
| 11. | The Wall | 4:20 |
| 12. | Dream Baby Dream (Version 2014) | 5:02 |
Springsteen sings about the controversial Amadou Diallo case in American Skin (41 Shots) and about a little gangster from New York City in Harry's Place . The song The Wall was written after a visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC and is dedicated to Walter Cichon, one of Springsteen's musical idols, who fell in the Vietnam War .
review
Tobias Rapp heard the album for Der Spiegel magazine and found it “different” to the newer Springsteen albums, that it was “freer, more airy, more joyful”. High Hopes is a “good record”, Rapp concludes.
Jan Kühnemund from ZEIT , on the other hand, found the record “unbearable” and attested Springsteen “cheesy nagging”, this time underlined by Tom Morellos' “Brett aus Wurstigen Mackersoli”. The record is "as surprising as a cross-country skiing holiday" and contains "oily moans".
Jens Bauszus from Focus was clearly more impressed, attesting Springsteen to a “remarkable form” and seeing high hopes as a continuation of the series “impressive late works”. Bauszus is particularly fond of American Skin (41 shots) . The song is a "beguiling" and "graceful" manifesto that is one of the best that Springsteen has recorded in recent years.
Web links
- High hopes on laut.de
swell
- ↑ German music database ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , January 23, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Tobias Rapp : Deceived outbreak , review in Der Spiegel magazine , issue 3/2014 of January 13, 2014, p. 126.
- ↑ Jan Kühnemund: Please stop, boss! , Article from January 9, 2014 on zeit.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
- ↑ Jan Bauszus: Rage against the fairground - Bruce Springsteen rages with new force , article from January 11, 2014 on focus.de, accessed on January 21, 2014.
