So you've saved up your shekels. dicked around with New Jersey Transit for hours on end, frozen your butt off in the cheap seats at $75 a pop, given up on really considering sleep for that night by the time its all said and done and where you are. The World Series Of Rock And Roll. Bruce And the E Street Band at Ground Zero, four hours of high octane rock and roll. What could be any better right? How about a night not jam packed with "Shackled And Drawn", "We Take Care Of Our Own", "Easy Money", "Mansion On The Hill". Songs you wouldn't be caught dead in a ditch for taking up ten minutes a shot. 32 songs? 10 you don't know, 10 you don't like and 5 you hope to never hear again in this life time.
The Boss needs help.
He needs a hand.
He needs rock nyc to write up his set list for him…. and here it is the annotated Bruce Springsteen dream concert!
1. Born In The USA – No fucking around, straight in with the good stuff
2. Born To Run – Sure, you are sick of it AT THE END OF THE GIG, but at the start?
3. Badlands – By now, the entire stadium has lost its collective minds.
4. Rosalita – Yeah, why do I have to be dead on my feet to hear it. Play it early, fuck face.
5. Open All Night – My concept of a deep album track, it is so great you are wondering why you have never heard him play it before.
6. Human Touch – A show stopper when I saw him last week… today an early concert lull.
7. Johnny 99 – Bring out dem horns
8. The E Street Shuffle – And being em out again.
9. Sherry Darling – He can bring out somebody from the audience and sing to her.
10. Dancing In The Dark – And then pull somebody else out.
11. Glory Days – You know how you are waiting around for him to play your faves? Not tonight you ain't.
12. Crush On You – For the wife
13. Give The Girl A Great Big Kiss – "I feel LUUUUVE in Metlife Stadium tonight…"
14. Two Hearts – Just like 1999, start with this…
15. Out On The Street – Continue with this
16. 10th Avenue Freezeout – And complete with this intro to the band
17. No Surrender – Wanna relax? Fugheddabout it
18. Promised Land – Because it isn't all fun and games.
19. Blinded By The Light – Back to the beginning
20. For You – A little singalong a suicide
21. The Ghost Of Tom Joad – Bring out Tom Morello
22. From Small Things ( Big Things Come One Day Come) – Bring out Dave Edmunds
23. I Saw Her Standing There – McCartney won't keep to the encore
24. Twist And Shout – Because Lennon isn't in the house.
25. Viva Las Vegas – And neither is Elvis
26. Incident On 57th Street – And wrap it up in classic fashion.
Encore
27. Tunnel Of Love – Wooooah, sexy and cool in its uncoolness
28. Bishop Danced – Again, my idea of deep album cut.
29. Backstreets – No, we haven't run out of classics quite yet.
30. I'm On Fire – Sex!!!
31. Fire – Or FIIIIYAAAAAAH IF YOU PREFER
32. 4th Of July (Sandy) – Not done yet
33. Thunder Road – Getting There
34. Jersey Girl – That'll do it.
Four and a half hours later? His longest concert evaaaaaah!