Wrecking ball, votre avis sur l'album

yvvan a écrit:dans high hopes, il n'y a pas grand chose d'écrit pour l'album, ce sont des fonds de tiroirs ou des reprises retravaillées...

CC Rider a écrit:Tentons de réhabiliter "aille Hopes"!
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yvvan a écrit:à part LOHAD, je suis pas sûr qu'il y ait d'autres titres écrits bien avant?
halley oop est très bien, il semble être une prolongation en terme effectivement d'audace sonore commencé avec WB (rocky ground, lohad, ou swallo machin...)

Fabrice a écrit:American Land oui bien sur. Pour ce qui est des autres titres cités comme Wrecking Ball ou Jack Of All trades, j'en suis moins sur. Il est plus que probable que des titres du projet d'album "gospel" sur lequel il travaillait en 2011 aient servi pour Wrecking Ball. Comme il l'a a toujours fait (je veux dire recycler).

Hugo Spanky a écrit:

Fabrice a écrit:American Land oui bien sur. Pour ce qui est des autres titres cités comme Wrecking Ball ou Jack Of All trades, j'en suis moins sur. Il est plus que probable que des titres du projet d'album "gospel" sur lequel il travaillait en 2011 aient servi pour Wrecking Ball. Comme il l'a a toujours fait (je veux dire recycler).

J'ai au moins un bootleg de 2009 sur lequel il joue déjà wrecking ball, 3 ans avant l'album. Peut être le bootleg est-il mal daté mais le reste du répertoire est cohérent. Pour jack of all trades, il me semble avoir lu qu'il en parlait lui même comme d'un titre écrit au moment de la crise des subprimes, soit 2007/2008.

Brucebase a écrit:Following the conclusion of 2009's Working On A Dream Tour, Springsteen started to work on new material. It appears that "We Take Care Of Our Own" was among the earliest of the new songs to be written, in late 2009 / early 2010. "Shacked And Drawn" and "Rocky Ground" followed soon after. Springsteen has said that these three songs "came along for almost a gospel album package I was thinking about." Bruce has indicated that he wrote 30-40 songs in this period.

Initially, his focus was on solo material; "just me and a guitar singing these songs", as Bruce put it. The subject matter of these songs was similar to the overall tone of Wrecking Ball - greed, corruption and the current state of America. In January 2011 he started to work with producer Ron Aniello and the focus moved away from a solo album: "Then Ron brought a large library of sound that allowed me to explore – like maybe a hip-hop drum loop or country-blues stomp loop. The actual drums came later. There was no preconceived set of instruments that needed to be used, I could go anywhere, do anything, use anything. It was very wide open." While the album utilises loops, all the instruments are real - there are no computer generated instruments on the album.

Unlike the previous two albums that were recorded with the E Street Band, Wrecking Ball features an extensive list of guest musicians. In fact, there are only three songs that feature the E Street Band - "Wrecking Ball", "Land Of Hope And Dreams" and the bonus track "American Land". The rest see Springsteen and Aniello accompanied by Sessions Band members, choirs, strings and horns. Roy Bittan and Garry Tallent do not appear at all, and Steve Van Zandt only lends vocals to two tracks. At present it is unclear exactly how and when the album was recorded, hopefully this will become clearer in the future. Aniello has said that four songs were cut from the album. "American Man" is likely one of these, "American Skin (41 Shots)" may be another, so at least two titles remain unidentified.