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THE REVIEW
I'll start by saying that this is undoubtedly Bruce Springsteen's least successful album, but let's get into the details.
Released in 1992 along with Lucky Town, this album stands out significantly from the lucky town album due to a well-marked creative crisis, despite LT being produced in a hurry. But let's get to the specifics. In my opinion, the first three songs (Title-track, "Soul Driver," and "57 Channels") are excellent and suggest a great album even without the E-street Band, but this is where the work starts to falter and fails to show a homogeneous line. "Cross My Heart" and "Gloria's Eyes" are truly forgettable, while "With Every Wish" is instead splendid: this is the clear picture of the "Freehold" rocker’s confusion; at this point, an honest "Roll of The Dice" arrives, but nothing more, and a bad "Real World" (markedly better the one proposed in the last tour). "All or Nothin' at All" and "Man's Job" are two songs that pass by without particular excitement. Someone would say: where is Bruce? And I say here's another roar: "I Wish I Were Blind," splendid and touching. If the album ended here, you could save 60% of it, let's say, but unfortunately, there are two unsubstantial songs like "The Long Goodbye" and "Real Man" (with an "intrusive" synthesizer) and a lullaby like "Pony Boy."
In summary, 5 great songs, another 2 or 3 acceptable, and the others forgettable (the three stars are for the added value of some songs). Another artist in a period of creative crisis would have done worse, and surely from this point, Bruce's revival began with The Ghost Of Tom Joad and the subsequent albums.
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Human Touch is Bruce Springsteen’s least successful album, marked by a creative crisis at the time of its 1992 release. The first three tracks shine, while much of the album loses cohesion and impact. A handful of songs stand out as excellent or acceptable, but several are forgettable. Despite its flaws, this album hints at Bruce's eventual revival with later works.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949 in Freehold, New Jersey) is an American singer-songwriter and bandleader best known for his work with the E Street Band. His career spans from the 1960s/1970s to the present, with landmark albums such as Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A.90 Reviews
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By fyguns
The work alternates snappy tracks with slower ones, and in my opinion, it is with the latter that Bruce keeps the entire album afloat.
Human Touch -save 2 or 3 songs- is an album a bit deflated and in many parts quite unoriginal.
By KillerJoe
If you love him, however, you’ll wrinkle your nose.
The title track remains the most inspired track of the album, and the absence of the E Street Band is not necessarily felt.
