The Boss
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Released His Double Album ‘THE RIVER’ 45 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from the past
17 October 2025
The now 76-year-old rock prodigy BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
released his 5th LP THE RIVER on 17 October 1980, today
45 years ago.
#1 in the US and Canada, #2 in the UK
Pitchfork wrote: “Bruce Springsteen’s fifth album gushes forth with the fury
of a burst dam, delivering torrents of despair, inspiration, heartbreak, and joy.
‘The River’ brought Bruce to those heights, giving him his first number one album
and Top 10 single.”
Bruce: “The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way
back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we’ve had everything in the
band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the
great rock guitarists in the world.”
SINGLE
ALBUM
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Back sleeve.
MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW – London’s Hit Team Let Us Hear Loud And Clear Who ‘THE BOSS’ Is
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
2 October 2024
Band: MAN/WOMAN/CHAINSAW
Who: Noisy, unadulterated post-pop-rock-punk
hit team from London, UK.
New single: THE BOSS
Third shared piece from their new, upcoming
EP Eazy Peazy, out November 8. More info here .
Artwork EP
M/W/C: “‘The Boss’ is the heaviest of the songs on the EP and definitely a live favorite of ours. We wanted to express our frustration with imbalanced power dynamics in our everyday lives with a big supermassive rant of a rock song. Working in the studio with Dan Fox of Gilla Band was fun and allowed us to experiment with getting the song to sound as spacey as we could get it – we particularly enjoyed recording the electric violin through guitar amps cranked to 10 while simultaneously manipulating a tape delay unit.”
TUTV: What a head-twisting roller coaster this is. Manicial drums and revved-up
near-rap-like vocals open the zigzagging debates, while sick guitars drop in for back
up firepower. Then after, what sounds like a nervous synth flare-up, it’s spit and sneer time again, even more furious, before that eerie synth noizz returns to put an abrupt
and shrieking end to this what-the-fuck-just-happened missile. Slam dunk!
Wake up people,
and meet your
new bosses.
All 3 shared tracks
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Tour dates
M/W/C: Linktree