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3) The Promise
If Bruce had never made it. A song that was never released in it's original version, it's one of his greatest ever; in another world Jon Landau writes "I have seen the future of rock and roll and it's dying down on the highway tonight". Mick Jagger became an acountant, Elvis Presley drives a truck, and Jim Morison sits behind a desk with kids at home and an ageing wife. They're all around you, so close they're see through, and "everyday it just gets harder to live the dream you're believeing in"; until you disapear completely to everyone but Bruce, who in a flash in the late 70's called "The Promise" saw them all for just a moment before they vanished once more in the night.
4) Incident On 57th Street
Bruce's first two albums don't really sound like him. He hadn't found a consistent voice yet and he wouldn't find one until his fourth album, "Darkness on the Edge of Town", in 1978. But that's not to say his first two aren't great, just because something doesn't last for long doesn't make it worse than the parts that do. His second album in particular is like no other album I've ever heard. Those beautiful opening piano notes set a scene one step from Born To Run, where you're still too young to question if you're not that young anymore or if there's magic in the night. A shot of the youth that ends too quickly, right before you go to fight and stand or fall defeated in the badlands where you'll spend the rest of your life.
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