I like Dream Baby Dream alot too. It's really talking to me as a song and I love that.
I got curious and searched for the original song a while back and wasn't entirely sure I had found the right one - Springsteens version sounds so different! And much better in that.
High Hopes is nice to listen to, I love the rythmic nature of it and the horns too. But I personally would like Springsteens songs to stop being so much along the lines of "keep on doing good work, hold your head high, the world is bad, never forget that & don't back down". I'd love to hear him go back to character studies. He can pick any way of that -Ghost of Tom Joad, Nebraska, Darkness, Born in The USA, something new - I don't care, but his post-2000 albums are so much centered on the society and I don't connect too well with that.
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