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- Genre: Rock
- Release Date: September 25, 2007
- Label: Columbia Records
- Producer: Brendan O'Brien
- Peak Chart Position:
- Singles: "Radio Nowhere," "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
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Bruce Springsteen's Magic, his 15th studio album, was released to favorable reviews in late 2007. Following a few acoustic/folk albums since his last endeavor with the E Street Band, critics generally hailed his return to rock music.
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Track List
- "Radio Nowhere"
- "You'll Be Comin' Down"
- "Livin' in the Future"
- "Your Own Worst Enemy"
- "Gypsy Biker"
- "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"
- "I'll Work For Your Love"
- "Magic"
- "Last To Die"
- "Long Walk Home"
- "Devil's Arcade"
- "Terry's Song"
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Review Excerpts
- "...Springsteen has injected the taut 'Magic' with a fierce purpose you can almost taste." - Billboard
- "After wrapping himself in a thousand fiddles on 'The Seeger Sessions,' Springsteen has rediscovered the boardwalk-dance-party power of 'Born to Run'..." - Rolling Stone
- "You could bite these songs as though you were testing a coin - not one feels counterfeit." - Times Online
- "Like the music, the words just feel a shade too deliberate, rendering Magic just a bit too overthought -- hardly enough to make for a bad record, but one that isn't quite grabbing..." - Allmusic
- "Five years after their last studio recording, the E Street Band tackle a dozen new songs that range from the mundane to the almost exceptional..." - Guardian
- "'Magic' offers what Bruce Springsteen does best: a handful of honest, hard-working tracks about life and how we live it." - Paste Magazine
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Positive Magic Reviews
- Bilboard.com: You Can Look ... But You Can't Touch (September 30, 2007)
- "Fully resettled on E Street after two solo projects, Springsteen has injected the taut "Magic" with a fierce purpose you can almost taste."
- Guardian Unlimited: Bruce Springsteen, Magic (September 28, 2007)
- "Springsteen goes back to his day job. And back, too, to the edge of town, where the Jersey Devil and the weary remnants of his old gang light up the night with a biker's funeral pyre in the parking lot of an abandoned diner."
- Rolling Stone: Bruce Springsteen - Magic (2007)
- "...a wall of angry, droning treble that, for the three minutes of "Radio Nowhere," is blessedly louder than the oceanic static of bent truths, partisan reporting and general bullshit that passes for life-and-death debate in the new wired order."
- Entertainment Weekly: Music Review - Magic (2007)
- '"Magic marks only the second instance in more than two decades that Springsteen has made a studio CD with the E Street Band - and unlike the last reunion, he's not resisting their signature sound."
- BBC: Rock Review - Bruce Springsteen, Magic (October 1, 2007)
- "...it really is a crowning achievement to his career thus far. It is, in a word, magic."
- IGN: Bruce Springsteen - Magic Review (October 8, 2007)
- "Thankfully Magic doesn't sound like Springsteen and company are just coasting along. There's a freshness and lyrical earnestness lurking underneath many of the album's songs that prove The Boss and his band are still very passionate about rock 'n roll."
- Blog Critics: Music Review: Bruce Springsteen - Magic (October 2, 2007)
- "Magic on the other hand finds Springsteen and the E Street Band rocking harder than they have on any album since Born In The USA, at least on the surface."
- OC Register: Entertainment: 'Magic' a bold return to vintage Springsteen (October 2, 2007)
- "It's a remarkable return to the iconic rocker's most identifiable style, an instantly gratifying set of deceptively optimistic songs unlike anything he and the E Street Band (who deserve shamefully absent album-cover billing) have recorded since the last of Springsteen's truly unimpeachable masterpieces, 1984's "Born in the U.S.A."
Bruce Springsteen Magic Reviews Questions
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Is Bruce Springsteen a cheater? Will he get a divorce from Patti Scialfa? 1 AnswerThese are serious allegations. I don't think they would put this in divorce papers unless it were true. I sure don't see this woman Ann Kelly calling press conf... read more -
Does anyone have a photo of Ann Kelly, the woman Bruce Springsteen may have had an affair with? 2 Answershttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lZYYSIIJ3rk/Sd3suLIDpnI/AAAAAAAAA-4/EdUV5HbogvE/s400/ann-kelly.jpg read more
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VIDEO: What do you think about Bruce Springsteen's NEW song, "Wrecking Ball", performed at the final stand for the Meadowlands (9/30/09)? 1 AnswerI think the song is great, how does he keep performing at this level. I'm a long standing Bruce fan and long may he continue, i've added a couple of my favorite... read more -
Best Bruce Springsteen karaoke performance. Send in your best videos! 3 AnswersThis guy is really funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtT-4oHF... read more
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Negative Magic Reviews
- Village Voice: Reviews: Bruce Springsteen Coasts on Magic (October 3, 2007)
- "...a maddeningly uneven record that often sounds like legends coasting..."
- New York Magazine: Magic by Bruce Springsteen (October 8, 2007)
- "Though his voice is strong and sincere throughout the album, most of the material has a certain karaoke-like vibe."
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- Bilboard.com: You Can Look ... But You Can't Touch (September 30, 2007)
