Bruce Springsteen-Glory Days b/w Stand On It (1985)


 

Artist: Bruce Springsteen


Label: Columbia

Format: 7"

Catalog Number: 38-04924

Year of Release: 1985

Country and Year of Edition: US 1985 with picture sleeve

Sell Price: $3.11

Sell Date: 3/8/24

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold  3/8/24 VG+/NM  $4.00

Low: $1.95

Median: $4.00

Average: $4.18

High: $8.12

Current low price: $1.00 VG+/Generic, $2.00 VG+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 76

Have/Want: 1377/114

Where Sold: South Windermere, FL

Time It Took To Sell:  9 years

Where and When Bought: Strawberries Worcester 1985 new when released

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Born In The U.S.A. is one of those albums I've never had an urge to hear beyond the year it was released.  It doesn't matter.  Almost every track has been in heavy rotation from Rock radio to mainstream bars across America since 1984.  The B-sides were a different matter.  They were always non-LP and I bought them as they came out for this mega-hit run.  I had been a Bruce fan since I got Darkness on the Edge Of Town for my Dad for his birthday when it was new and continued with The River and Nebraska and probably the back catalogue.  Born In The USA I got right when it came out.

Anyway this 5th single from the 7th Bruce album came about a year after the first one in May of 1985 with a "dramatic" video interspersed with joyous band playing in a bar (Maxwells!).  From a commercial perspective if not an artistic one these were indeed the bands Glory Days.  They still look youthful in middle age even the now departed Clarence Clemmons and Danny Federici.  It makes the song eerily cognizant even though time has treated the Boss well.  The song itself is my favorite on the album.  A celebration of the inevitability of loss blinded by time to go.

"Stand On It" is an excellent B-side with a Chuck Berry feel that wound up compiled on the Tracks box set with an extra verse.

Politics need not put a spin on this one.

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