Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets

[ginamarie92383]

AWESOME, TOUCHING!

[gogogogogo311]

great!

[chuckelator]

Bruce is one of the reasons I bought a Telecaster. The other being Brian Fallon.

[pyonyarumaru]

俺日本人だけどこの曲大好きなんだ。聞くたびに泣きそうになる。­

[gajaga789]

His guitar solo and tone is particularly great on this version IMO

[2591loz]

This is Bruce's most amazing song. I get chills and my heart starts racing every time I hear it. This is an amazing rendition. Thank you!

[SuzzyStohelit]

That intro is one of the purest sounds to Backstreets I have .. ever heard. Thanks .

[thetherie]

TRY TO FOUND THESE VERSIONS TOO:

boston 03-25-1977

roxy theatre 07-07-1978

fox theatre 09-30-1978

winterland 12-15-1978

seattle 12-20-1978

these are the best ever!!!

[MsSpeedykat]

I would have to say JUNGLELAND is springsteen's best song - I call it an ANTHEM because it is that incredible. Do you think it is about a drug deal gone bad? I love any comments on the meaning of the song.

[SethDaActor]

@MsSpeedykat Maybe not a drug gone bad song. Possibly. But it is more about gang life. And what is going on that night. The rat meets a girl and they go out. And then he gets killed. Maybe for drugs i dont know. I believe he gets killed just for being in a gang. That always happens and I believe bruce wanted to capture that. And no one cares. Every one just forgets as the ambulance drives away. So its about gang life and how death occurs alot in gang life and no one cares.

[MsSpeedykat]

I would have to say JUNGLELAND is springsteen's best song - I call it an ANTHEM because it is that incredible. Do you think it is about a drug deal gone bad? I love any comments on the meaning of the song.

[dancedthatdiscoshit]

I'm only fifteen, but springsteen is one of the most amazing performers I've ever seen. I wish I could've seen him back then. :/

[1omertenne]

amazing!!! come to israel bruuuuuuuuuuuuce!!

[vividhkothari89]

Holy mother of God..I have goosebumps...now that's MUSIC!!!

[SolidSnake880]

My favorite Bruce song, this version is really really brilliant. That piano makes me sad all the time.

[MoexxMoe]

Hauntingly beautiful!

[ncyankee101]

One of my favorites, along with "Badlands" and "10th Ave Freezeout". Awesome performance, thanks for putting this on here.

[MsVal321]

simply beautiful. Nuff said. Clarence, we love you and will miss you greatly. Thanks for all the great work, no one can compare.

[seupoat]

Perhaps "one of" the best live performances Bruce has ever done. The whining is way cool and the lyrics intense!!!! Proud to be a Jersey Bruce fan, the connection makes all the difference, Jersey Rocks!!!

[mburokas87]

Speachless....

[DreemOnMe]

One of the best tours before the band split. I saw them a dozen times during it. This brought back great memories when Bruce rarely performed w/o that signature bandana. Imagine how much better this song would have sounded, had he let Clarence in on it w/his magical Sax. No band will ever match the caliber of Bruce w/the E-Street. Danny's loss was hard, but Clarence's loss is Immense. I don't doubt that they will rise up from these hard dealt ashes & play again. Never the same, but again.

[beth3112]

@nacnud1100 Hey now, you can't write off a whole generation just like that! I'm 19 years old and have loved The Boss from as far back as i can remember. My dad loves him, and passed it on to me. I've seen him four times, and would love to see him more. It's a shame your son doesn't understand how incredible Springsteen's music really is, but you can't paint my whole generation with the same brush!

[elliott4296]

@nacnud1100 have to diasagree im 15 and own every springsteen album!

[warflynn]

@elliott4296 Awesome!!

[warflynn]

@elliott4296 Awesome!! That's about the time i started listening to Bruce... 1978

[linko88]

miss you big man

[Zugoriack]

The Boss !

[Zugoriack]

The BOSS !

[kenvermont208]

The King!

[reinvest83]

THE INTRO

[gonavygirl99]

bruce = god

[phillsfan5]

sleepin in that old abadoned beach house, gettn wasted in the heat

[MuchoKiller]

If the Iliad had a theme song, it would probably be the piano riff of Backstreets.

[OakRidgePunk777]

Wow. I thought I heard Brian Fallon in the beginning. haha, i respect bruce and brian

[cheecho63]

this is what its all about. i hope this go's to X.M.-Radio. E Street channel is the ONLY reason i have satellite radio. Bruce, Bob D.,Bob S. and the Eagles ALL LEGENDS. oh i almost forgot glenn beck can sit on a cactus bare ass.

[Artathlon]

They haven't made a movie this good yet. No way!

[redhead5150]

From my favorite Springsteen album.

[twowaystreet101]

Stunning. This is Springsteen at his finest. It's like listening to a mini opera - form the opening wails to the repeated crescendo's and lulls, the emotions wash over the listener like the ocean's tide. A love song of epic proportion as only Springsteen could write, sing and play. Does music gets any better than this? I think not. Simply, stunning.

[Artathlon]

@twowaystreet101 Music doesn't get better -no art is getting better. They haven't made a movie this good yet. No way!

[IslandJan]

@twowaystreet101 You put this so well!

[wouryelcome]

Roy is God (of the 88's of course)!

[88623]

@wouryelcome you could not have said that any better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wouryelcome]

Ya ever notice that "classic rock radio" plays the Other BS--Bob Seger--100 times more often than The Boss? Why the hell is that when Springsteen is at least A Thousand Times more talented than Seger (or anyone else for that matter)!

[Bossladyone2]

If that song were for me, I don't know which would be there sooner , my heart or my feet. They would be racing each other. I know one thing is for sure. If I were fortunate

enough to have your love, I would never leave you for another.

[Hbmets69]

great song!! nothing better than the boss!!

[HenkeJ2]

Did a pianocover of this awsome song a long time ago now;) It's right here in "video response", would love to get some comments from real Springsteen fans to know what you think;)

[kayleighhhamandaaa]

who disliked this? seriously? how?

[kidrodeo]

i cant make a case out of that but its a sweet tune



[catia512]

Grandiose

[pelletizergroup]

awesome! and you can make the case that this is only the FOURTH best song on the album...

[macmaghnusa]

This is my favourite bruce song, no doubt about it. It always brings me to a blubbering state, every time. This is a great performance but I think he touched other skies with it during the 78 tour. Wonderful to watch all the same.

[HenkeJ2]

Did a piano cover of this and put it up as a video response here if anyone is interested in a new take of the song;) together with Thunder Road this must be the best song ever written.. The piano playing at least gives me chills;) Thanks for uploading!

[fastrelief]

Max Weinberg is so slow!!!!

[cabochard76]

...j'y revien Toujours..........;

[plofus]

One of rocks great guitar solo's,really puncuates the previous lines emotions.

[mizzhannah]

sexiest arms ever!.....and this song is amazing :)

[tommyestone]

Just a mind blowing performance!!!! No words for it.

[whitally]

love this 

[Steveoqotsa]

This is Roy's song.....amazing piano

[kc768]

Give Professor Roy props for his amazing piano work. Bruce is the Yin while Roy's the Yang.

[NolanBryanLynch]

Nice use of the Something in the Night opening with this.

[furgis06]

I GOT TO SEE HIME AT THE HARLEY DAVIDSONS 105 ANNIVERSARY IN MILWAUKEE, WI. GREAT SHOW. IN 2008

[lmorganmoore]

The most amazing use of piano EVER!!!!!

[2069drew]

Did you know that Chris Christy has see the BOSS 145 times. And met Bruce three times.??

He is a Republican/conservative and the Governor of New Jersey......

[Stevetheperformer]

can someone please post the studio version?

[Anna00555]

@Stevetheperformer It's 99 cents on iTunes - entire Born to Run album is $7.92. When released in 1975, it put him on the cover of Time and Newsweek, *the same week*, first time that had happened. Why? 4, maybe 5 of Rock's greatest songs: Thunder Road Backstreets Born to Run Jungleland She's the One And 3 that are merely Great, but help make the whole far more than the sum of the parts. Night 10th Ave Freeze-Out Meeting Across the River Pure *genius*. Bruce is the 20th Century Mozart.

[Stevetheperformer]

@Anna00555 And, I think the entire "Tunnel of Love" album never got enough credit.

[Thoroldhawk]

@Anna00555 I think that Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out deserves to be grouped with the previous four that you mentioned. His live performances make that song amazing, especially the Live in New York version.

[MMAKICKS]

to those 8 people who disliked this: you are insane.

[simonsimonsimonism]

blue coller hero

[static2138]

live in new york is better

[Mlajen]

@static2138 Live in New York is the best live rock performance of all times.

[jmayon]

Pure Magic.

Unfortunately the magic is gone from his current shows. Just watched Live from Hyde Park and even though it was a great show, it lacks the magic Bruce put into his earlier shows.

[buryyourashesuk]

@jmayon you can't expect him to have the same energy these days! he is getting on a bit.

i've not seen him live... i wasn't even born when he was in his prime... but i hope i get to see him before he joins the great gig in the sky...

[brucefan2007]

I was at this show in Toronto. Basically there were alot of new Springsteen converts due to the popularity of Born in the USA released one month earlier. It was a night to remember , a warm southern Ontario night on Lake Ontario at the CNE grandstand. I remember people walking out drained, sweating and in awe. I had seen him on the River tour in 80 4 years earlier on a cold December night in Buffalo. This tour obviously had a different tone to it, more celebratory and fun. Awesome night

[dogs1905]

@brucefan2007 Great memories, both 'the river' and the 'born in usa' tour mean so much. Those days when we had youth on our side

[NolanBryanLynch]

Isn't that the intro to Something In the Night tacked onto the front of this? I guess they are basically the same song in terms of story.

[march2fuzz]

@NolanBryanLynch thats what i thought! all the howling lol

[junracdan]

Amazing - this is one of my favorite Bruce songs. I was at this show and I was thrilled to see this - what memories!

[vividhkothari89]

@junracdan Wow!! How lucky you are!!!

[vividhkothari89]

This piano is magical...!

[moocow117]

Vintage 84. Head Band and Denim Vest excused. Listen to th riffs. Ignore the head band.

[amadeuswinston]

awesome --- any idea where this was shot?

[weirdcritter]

'CNE Grandstand' Toronto July 26th 1984

[jimmyp37]

100% irony free

[jimmyp37]

you ask what is passion? I answer watch this video...

[brucejuicebaseball]

Bruces solos are still great!

[AJD1985]

legendary

[DoctorChestRockwell]

Rock on BOSS!

[Shuley76]

I know, All people hear is "Born In The USA" and they think it's patriotic and it's not. Where I used to live in Fall River,MA every Augest they have a "Fall River celebrates America" parade. They were blasting Born In the USA..lol. They don't realize the song is about the Vietnam war and people dying in it and they think it's about being born in the usa.Sad.

[jimmyp37]

amen bro!!!!

[bingthewindbong]

bruce springsteen is the best musician in history

[brucejuicebaseball]

your right on!

[s5macky]

:-)

[wilsonjohnny2000]

my god the boss at his best, sheer brilliance. was too young back then to remember him - 1st show was 96 ghost of tom joad - been to 15 shows since - A TRUE LEGEND BOSSMAN.

[ro7477]

i am a gypsy soul. my grandma raised me. i left home when i was 18. i dont have any family, really so as to speak of. i am 34 now. sometime i feel lonely but in complete denial. and, on some saturdays i feel it. and then, i throw in boss. maybe - its like the tie that binds me to my past. thanks for all your lyrics and songs. it inspires me. to be the man i wanna be.

[DonnaRush]

Bruce's songs could make you feel like you were not alone..he is a real person, nothing fake...I love him.

I am 56 and I too feel lonely at times but like you said the music helps..

[Fayeheart]

i feel you are my writing about me. i'm alittle older

but he has always spoken to my heart. i hope you become the man you want to be,

[jimmyp37]

if I have any kind of relationship with my older brother it is somehow based on this man. We both silently connect through this man's lyrics and I would not have it any other way. I cried while I typed this

[1992guitars]

The greatest rock and roll band of the last thirty-five years.

[jimmyp37]

at least 35

[cgpalms]

a guy who broke my heart wrote the lyrics on a napkin. I still have it, but am not a great fan of HIS anymore.

Bruce is my unconditional hero. Is that stupid for a 59 yo woman? He's saved my life... "psychologically speaking".

[gaffage]

Cut Weinbergs hair

[scottyp42]

I saw Bruce perform this song in Cleveland (June 1984) roughly a month before this performance. Bruce knows how to make his songs resonate with his fans and we take them and make them our own....Thanks Bruce... for never giving up or burning out like so many before you!...may you live a happy and full 120 years!

[DoctorChestRockwell]

BEAUTIFUL - THANKS FOR POSTING!

[asburydeano]

many thanx for this.one of his best songs from his best album.hope to see ya soon bruce.

[ro7477]

reminds me of the time i fell in love with a woman. it was summer and i tried so hard....had it not been for BOSS, i am too much of a man to think about a broken heart. cheers

[nathanhack]

Somebody get Max Weinberg a friggin haircut....

[gaffage]

bruce springsteen could write a song about a paper plate andit would be more profound than then crap written today

[llmarzio]

awesome song

[raiderjorge]

Can't wait for Bruce and the boys to hit the road once again I've seen them about 15 times going back to the USA tour!!!

[1992guitars]

Thank you so much for this. Born to Run is just about my favorite album of all time and this must go down as one of the greatest songs of all time...the E Street Band is simply stunning. In an age of disposable pop music, songs and performances like these remind me why I love music. I was born too late to ever see Bruce in the clubs during the '70s or to catch anything on the BITUSA tour, so thanks again for the footage.

[downatthereservoir]

unreal. this is why Bruce WITH The E STREET BAND is unparallelled!!!!

[hrddrvn]

oh helll yes this is the goods right here man the kind nuggets of bruce live bruce springsteen lol keep them coming please do not let up keep them coming whomever you are that is posting all these boss vids you are the fucking shit lol laters

[nittyranks]

This is the first time I have seen how Roy Bittan plays the intro. This is a good video. I almost thought he was going into "Drive all Night" but then went into the normal vamp of "hiding on the backstreets".

[scottyp42]

I thought that Roy was going into "Something in the Night" from the Darkness album

[CentraCross]

@scottyp42 Yeah - there are many similar parts between BTR and Darkness - especially piano.

[scbyrne1usc]

long live the boss

[gmajorspresents]

This is a good video. It's nice not to have to see little

steven taking away all the attention from bruce with that

thing he wore on his head.

[zaqqq11]

HOLY KANOLY, this is awsome, I'm speachless!

[DeHenning01]

Quit bitching about who made it...he wrote it and performed it. I've seen him do it! AND a true Springsteen fan cannot possibly have a favorite song. How could you choose?

[tbemont]

That's ridiculous. Of course you can be a true Springsteen fan and have a favorite song. My favorite is Rosalita. And Badlands of course. And Born to Run. And there is Backstreets. And... Never mind. You're right, there are too many to choose from.

[glimmerman108]

@tbemont LOL. Hell yeah.

[Piccykun]

No words! It comes from inside!

[tomp8]

Will his songs ever get old? I mean, you can't here that this is a song from the seventees. That's why you never feel that it's old and worned out. How many other artists can do somthing like that. Not many.

[yanksb4life]

It's funny you say that, because while I agree, some of his stuff from the eighties, while mostly great, doesn't transcend decades as well as stuff off of Born To Run or Darkness on the Edge of Town.

[scottyp42]

I love Bruce's stuff today but I would agree with you that he was at his best from 1975-1981...the best show of the 15 or so that I've seen was "The River" tour on July 29, 1981 (Richfield Coliseum, Cleve. OH)

[urialumni]

I have seen bruce over 30 times starting from 1975. WOuld have disagreed until having had the chance to look at all of the vidios on youtube. Noquestion he was at his best in the early to mid 80's. Still the Boss though!

[meltonian]

Awsome.Best ever Bruce song

[jimmyp37]

look at his guns!! My fav boss tune of all time

[yanksb4life]

He really does a good job of annunciating in this performance. A lot of times it's hard to understand the lyrics in this song.

[rube1859]

For those who don't know, this is from the Born in the USA Tour in (84-85) all the shows were filmed professionally by NFL Films so the vaults are filled with stuff like this. There is so much more that has never come to light.

[drcock]

I never knew that...I wonder why he has never really gone back to show us why he is such a legend with these performances...thanks mate.

[JUSTIN3468]

NFL FILMS did not film this. They didnt start filming his shows till the european leg of his tour in stadiums in the summer of 1985. This concert was in Toronto in the summer of 1984. This video was stolen off the video line feed to the video screens in the Toronto arena. And yes there are miles and miles of concert footage that NFL Films has in the "vaults ".

[Powerhouse55]

Easily the best Springsteen video on YouTube.

[michaelgri]

what aboot Youngstown in Youngstown?

[joshuarowe]

This is Great