SONG
TITLE:
BLINDED
BY
THE
LIGHT
PERFORMER:
BRUCE
SPRINGSTEEN
SONGWRITER:
BRUCE
SPRINGSTEEN
YEAR
OF
RELEASE:
1973
COMMENTS:
Damn
it,
now
this
is
rock
and
roll.
The
drums
and
sax
keep
it
rhythmically
thrusting
properly
forward.
Then
Bruce
comes
rolling
across
the
top
bouncing
that
catchy
little
street
jive
melody.
Then
the
guitar
tops
it
off
with
some
actual
legitimately
funky
guitar
bombing
you
with
a
merciless
overload
on
the
pleasure
circuits.
Springsteen
is
among
other
things
one
of
Bob
Dylan's
best
students.
Springsteen's
idealized
"street
poetry"
actually
comes
more
from
the
college
coffehouses
that
Dylan
came
out
of
than
anything
remotely
working
class.
For
someone
who
speaks
the
language
of
the
people,
actually
you
would
listen
to
stuff
like
Bob
Seger,
Lynyrd
Skynyrd
or
James
Brown.
Which
is
all
well
and
good,
as
Springsteen
has
his
own
other
thing
going,
shucking
and
jiving
in
ways
that
don't
quite
sound
like
anything
else
before.
For
one
thing,
Springsteen
has
a
physical,
nay
a
sexual
presence
that
Dylan
or
the
Byrds
never
approached.
That
funky
guitar
and
wailing
sax
certainly
didn't
come
from
any
Dylan
record.
There
is
a
certain
air
of
palpable
earnest
ambitious
purpose
-
that
he
has
something
to
prove
and
is
absolutely
commited
to
success.
His
pure
charismatic
intensity
can
overpower
you.
PS
Their
was
a
big
hit
cover
version
of
this
song
by
Manfred
Mann.
It
was
a
very
different
arrangement,
overwhelmed
almost
by
the
way
overly
stagey
off
Broadway
dramatic
style
that
would
eventually
be
codified
by
Meatloaf.
Call
this
recording
prophetic.
Whatever
else,
it
showed
how
strong
this
melody
is
by
how
much
you
can
twist
it
without
losing
its
appeal.
"In
the
dumps
with
the
mumps
as
the
adolescent
pumps
his
way
into
his
hat."
Now
that's
the
kind
of
thing
that
might
instill
in
you
a
sense
of
purpose.
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