Ok, perhaps presumptuous that all love it, but still I think the album is fairly well regarded by most.
Over a year later, what do people think? Still in awe of an amazing piece of work or have you cooled on it? Alternatively, was it not your cup of tea initially but now you find the good in it?
Moonlight Motel and the title track still amaze and dazzle me. The movie has some amazing sequences, and now that it's hit Netflix here in Oz I can skip forward more easily as needed to that mesmerizing, amazingly filmed, thrilling Moonlight Motel clip.
Occasionally, completely out of nowhere, that beautiful string arrangement on Chasing Wild Horses will come into my head and I need to play the thing immediately.
Great album.
Reviving myself, because I'm still appreciating it.
Obviously at this stage, I'm not expecting a big nod to this album on the coming tour, but I do see a couple of opportunities to incorporate some of this material... and not just in a tokenistic way.
Sticking to tokenistic... chuck in Tucson Train or Sleepy Joe's Cafe with horns replacing strings as a party throwaway. I think it would work well enough.
More artistically... somewhere in a set, performing Darkness On The Edge Of Town followed by Western Stars. The defiant yell to never give up of the first song, followed by the actions of valiantly battling to not give up in the second. This is classic Bruce juxtaposition in setlist choices, it would be absolutely perfect.
If Patti is touring, we have the Patti slot standards.... Briliant / Tougher. At a stretch, Human Touch. Please add Stones to the rotation. It might not be the most comfortable entry in the Bruce / Patti duet category, but fuck comfort... tell the whole story.
Finally, if he is doing acoustic finales / sign offs this tour... well, back in 2014 it was two acoustic songs to end the night. If he did Thunder Road and then Moonlight Motel acoustically to close a show... wow, that would be one of the most amazing artistic pairings ever. I always heard Moonlight as the possible passing of TR's Mary. If I saw or heard this duo together like this live, I would absolutely emotionally lose it...