Observations on having an Ipod for the first time in almost a year:

1. I had no idea this song was so amazingly cool.  It’s almost a shame Patti Scialfa has to put up with all that “Mrs. Springsteen” stuff; she does some really great music.
2. The last time I heard this song  was probably thirty years ago, on an AM radio in a car in North Dakota on KFYR, and remember it as a sappy teenypopper love song.  So I downloaded it a few weeks ago (I have no idea why).  And it’s…a sappy teenybopper love song with the most over-the-top production since Queen discovered the sixty-four-track tape recorder.  Hyperactive strings, a Hammond B3 poking its nose and occasionally soaring behind the mix, and enough big black background singers (borrowed from Andre Crouch) to take on the Mormon Tabernacle choir (and singing overlapping, interleaving parts with more layers than one of those Hardee’s triple-decker grease burgers), it’s not just glorious, not just sappy; it’s gloriously sappy.
3. Metallica is great workout music.

That’s a start.

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