Remember when you first heard "Keep The Car Running" and thought, "That's the best Bruce Springsteen song not written by Bruce Springsteen"? Apparently so did the Boss!
Springsteen brought two members of Arcade Fire on stage in Ontario and performed their song together with the E-Street Band. As I heard it on the radio, "When Bruce Springsteen covers your song, you know it's good."
That's the song that did it for me with Neon Bible, and I wish they had led with that as a single rather than the more isolating "Black Mirror," because as I've suggested elsewhere, I'd like to see these guys take the mantle from performers like Springsteen and U2.
Download now: "Keep the Car Running" and "(Antichrist Television Blues)"
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There's such a class of contenders for their mantle. I would have added in The Killers into that category, but 'Sam's Town' is such a divergence from 'Hot Fuss' that I'm waiting on release 3 before I make a judgment call.
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