Reflecting Pool - Bruce Springsteen - Faithless
There once was a movie that never got made. I think it was going to be directed by Martin Scorcese. I can't remember and I am not reading my book again (right now that is).
They commissioned a soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen. He wrote one. For the movie that never got made.
This year, as Bruce crosses the mid-70s rubicon, he put out Faithless as one of the 7 unreleased records from the 90s.
It's dark.
It's ploddingly hopeless. But I don't mean that as a pejorative.
I find myself returning to this record more than any other in the Tracks II collection.
And I am an atheist.
It pines. It aches. I could have seen any of these songs ending up on a future Bruce record.
I don't think these songs were supposed to sit front and center. I think many of them would either play in the background, like "God Sent You" or as part of a montage, "Goin' to California", or over the credits, which could be the title track or the opener, "Where You Goin', Where You From".
And yet, they evoke. And I like every bit of this record more than I do Devils & Dust.
Grade B+
A Side: Where You Goin', Where You From, Faithless, God Sent You
BlindSide: Let Me Ride
DownSide:
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