{"id":580,"date":"2007-03-16T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/on-my-block-all-the-guys-called-her-flamingo\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T16:44:11","slug":"on-my-block-all-the-guys-called-her-flamingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"On My Block, All The Guys Called Her Flamingo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commenter Fresch Fisch left this in the comments section yesterday – one of the latest treasure trove of YouTube vids I’ve started obsessing over.\u00a0 Only this one – a “Darkness”-era version of “Backstreets”<\/a>, the best break-up song of all time – is astounding.<\/p>\n

I like just about everything Springsteen’s done, from the great stuff (Born to Run, Tunnel of Love<\/em>) to the not so great stuff (Tom Joad, Greetings from Asbury Park, Human Touch<\/em>).\u00a0 But as I’ve written before<\/a>, Darkness On The Edge Of Town <\/em>is still my favorite.<\/p>\n

And the concert vids from the era – much more raw than from the Born In The USA <\/em>tour, but just plain better and more polished than the Born To Run-<\/em>era shows – are just stunning.\u00a0 This version of “Backstreets” was from the era where Bruce would launch, more or less ad-lib (or so it seemed) into snippets of different songs during the bridges; “Backstreets” swerves through Manfred Mann’s “Pretty Flamingo”, an early version of “Drive All Night” (which’d come out two years\u00a0later on The River<\/em>), and something else that, in typical Springsteen form, has probably been part of a couple of different songs during his career.<\/p>\n

I may meander around this subject some more in the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commenter Fresch Fisch left this in the comments section yesterday – one of the latest treasure trove of YouTube vids I’ve started obsessing over.\u00a0 Only this one – a “Darkness”-era version of “Backstreets”, the best break-up song of all time – is astounding. I like just about everything Springsteen’s done, from the great stuff (Born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}