Bonus Song Thursday - Bruce Springsteen "Streets of Philadelphia"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian close out Massive Album November with Bruce Springsteen's Oscar winning ballad "Streets of Philadelphia" from the Tom and Hanks/Denzel Washington film Philadelphia soundtrack. We talk about how this helped close the second chapter of Bruce's career before reforming the E Street Band a few years later, revitalizing his tours and studio albums. We also read some more listener emails about great album opener/closer combos and Dark Side of the Moon and drugs. We discuss our own experiences with music and 'gummy bears' before giving a quick Tom Hanks career retrospective!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday.
0:37.2	Bonus. I. Bonus.
0:38.4	I'm Bill.
0:39.2	And I'm Brian.
0:40.1	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:41.9	That was Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen off the 1994 soundtrack from the film, Philadelphia.
0:51.5	What we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about
0:55.8	what makes it great.
0:57.2	And then we follow that up a few days later with a bonus episode.
1:01.7	Yeah.
1:02.2	You know, usually a song that is either by the same artist or something tangentially related.
1:08.0	In this case, it's the same artist.
1:10.5	Because earlier this week, we were talking about Bruce Springsteen as the last installment
1:16.2	of Massive Album November.
1:17.9	Yeah, so this is like the, you know, when you light a fire and then you get that little
1:24.2	orange glow at the end, with the little embers.
1:28.2	This is, this is it the dying embers of massive album November, the final bonus song
1:33.1	Thursday for this month.
1:34.4	And I think that that's actually a good metaphor as well because I feel like this song, now
1:40.0	correct me if I'm wrong, I feel like this song was kind of the end of chapter two of Bruce Springsteen's career.
1:48.8	Yeah, I can see that.
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