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词条 Magic (Bruce Springsteen album)
释义

  1. Background

  2. Themes

  3. Release and reception

  4. Track listing

  5. Personnel

  6. Charts and certifications

     Charts  Year-end  Certifications 

  7. References

{{Infobox album
| name = Magic
| type = studio
| artist = Bruce Springsteen
| cover = Bruce Springsteen - Magic.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 25, 2007
| recorded = March 12–May 2007
| venue =
| studio = Southern Tracks Recording Studio, Atlanta, Georgia
| genre = Rock
| length = 47:47
| label = Columbia
| producer = Brendan O'Brien
| prev_title = Live in Dublin
| prev_year = 2007
| next_title = Magic Tour Highlights
| next_year = 2008
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
| type = studio
| prev_title = Hammersmith Odeon London '75
| prev_year = 2006
| title = Magic
| year = 2007
| next_title = Magic Tour Highlights
| next_year = 2008
}}{{Singles
| name = Magic
| type = studio
| single1 = Radio Nowhere
| single1date = August 28, 2007
| single2 = Girls in Their Summer Clothes
| single2date = January 15, 2008
}}
}}Magic is the fifteenth studio album by Bruce Springsteen. The album was released on September 25, 2007, by Columbia Records. It was his first with the E Street Band since The Rising in 2002. The album ranked number two on Rolling Stones list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.[1]

Background

Magic was announced on August 16, 2007, following months of fevered recording speculation and weeks of equally fevered release speculation among the Springsteen faithful.[2]

Of the album's tracks, "Long Walk Home" had been previously heard once, late on the 2006 Sessions Band Tour; the rest were new. Most of those were written by the end of 2006;[3] Springsteen allowed producer Brendan O'Brien (returning for a role he had for The Rising and 2005's Devils & Dust) to pick the ones that worked the best.[4] Recording began at Southern Tracks Recording Studio in Atlanta[2] over a period of two months beginning March 2007.[3][4] It was complicated by the band members' schedules, and especially drummer Max Weinberg's weekday commitments to taping Late Night with Conan O'Brien.[4] The band did not record as a unit:[5] rather, during the week Springsteen worked on vocal tracks and production; on weekends the core band of Weinberg, bassist Garry Tallent, and pianist Roy Bittan flew down to record the basic tracks with Springsteen. Then periodically the other band members were called in as needed to overdub their parts under producer O'Brien's watch.[4] Only saxophonist and longtime foil Clarence Clemons was given different treatment, with O'Brien handing the studio over to Springsteen for recording of sax parts due to "a whole dynamic [between the two of them] that spans decades."[4]

Upon its announcement, Magic was characterized by Springsteen's manager Jon Landau as a "high energy rock" album,[2] with a "heavy E Street Band" sound.[13][13] The initial track, "Radio Nowhere", was slated as the album's first single,[6] for release to radio on September 4, 2007;[16] however, it leaked to the Internet on August 22, 2007.[16] The release of the CD form of the album on October 2, 2007 was preceded by a September 25, 2007 release on vinyl record, in order to qualify the album for the Grammy Awards of 2008 before the end-of-September cutoff.[7][8]

The album became available for pre-order on iTunes on August 28, 2007, with a promotion featuring the release of "Radio Nowhere" as a free downloadable single;[9] the first legs of the accompanying Magic Tour were announced as well.[9] The album was ranked number two on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007 and "Long Walk Home" was number eight on the magazine's list of 100 Best Songs of 2007[10] Magic was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album but lost to the Foo Fighters' Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace.[11]

Themes

Several songs in Magic express disillusionment with the state of American society in 2007 in particular; others, such as the title track (with its lyrics of "I got a shiny saw blade/All I need's a volunteer/I'll cut you in half/While you're smilin' ear to ear"), convey a more general sense of foreboding. "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" has been cited as a singularly "breezy" song on the album,[24] though A. O. Scott of The New York Times notes that not even this track is "untouched by melancholy. Its narrator, after all, stands and watches as the girls of the title 'pass me by.'"[12]

Several sources have postulated that the track "Last to Die", with its chorus of "Who'll be the last to die for a mistake/Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break", was inspired by Vietnam Veterans Against the War representative (and future senator and presidential candidate) John Kerry's 1971 testimony to the U.S. Senate, in which he asked "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?".[24][13]

"Gypsy Biker" concerns the homecoming of a US soldier killed in action in Iraq, and Springsteen has said that "Livin' in the Future" references extraordinary rendition and illegal wiretapping.[13] "Long Walk Home" is a metaphorical account of the narrator's sense that, in the artist's words, those people living at home "he thought he knew, whose ideals he had something in common with, are like strangers."[12]

Release and reception

{{Album ratings
| title = Professional ratings
| subtitle =
| MC = 73/100[14]
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[15]
|rev2 = Entertainment Weekly
|rev2score = A[16]
|rev3 = Paste
|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}[17]
|rev4 = Pitchfork
|rev4score = (6.8/10)[18]
|rev5 = PopMatters
|rev5score = {{Rating|8|10}}[19]
|rev6 = Robert Christgau
|rev6score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm2}}[20]
|rev7 = Rolling Stone
|rev7score = {{Rating|5|5}}[21]
|rev8 = Spin
|rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}[22]
|rev9 = Times Online
|rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}[23]
|rev10 = Uncut
|rev10score = {{Rating|4|5}}[24]
}}Magic received highly positive reviews and was Springsteen's seventh number one in the UK, with first week sales of 77,692, making it his fastest-starting release of the 21st century.[25] The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming Springsteen's eighth #1 album in the US and selling about 335,000 copies in its first week.[26] After falling to number two for one week, the album rose again to number one, selling about 77,000 copies that week.[27]

The sales Magic gained in the US were achieved despite its receiving very little radio airplay.[28] Fox News reported that media conglomerate Clear Channel had instructed its classic rock format stations not to play any tracks from Magic, even though they continued to play Springsteen songs from the 1970s and '80s.[28] Clear Channel responded by saying that "in the first days after the CD's release," its stations played the record more than other stations did.[29] By January 2009, Magic had sold one million copies in the US.[30]

Track listing

{{tracklist
| all_writing = Bruce Springsteen
| title1 = Radio Nowhere
| note1 =
| length1 = 3:19
| title2 = You'll Be Comin' Down
| note2 =
| length2 = 3:46
| title3 = Livin' in the Future
| note3 =
| length3 = 3:56
| title4 = Your Own Worst Enemy
| note4 =
| length4 = 3:19
| title5 = Gypsy Biker
| note5 =
| length5 = 4:32
| title6 = Girls in Their Summer Clothes
| note6 =
| length6 = 4:20
| title7 = I'll Work for Your Love
| note7 =
| length7 = 3:35
| title8 = Magic
| note8 =
| length8 = 2:46
| title9 = Last to Die
| note9 =
| length9 = 4:17
| title10 = Long Walk Home
| note10 =
| length10 = 4:35
| title11 = Devil's Arcade
| note11 =
| length11 = 5:08
| title12 = Terry's Song
| note12 = Hidden track
| length12 = 4:11
}}

Two weeks after the album's initial announcement, which included an eleven-song track listing, "Terry's Song" was added. It is a memorial song for Springsteen's long-time assistant Terry Magovern, who died on July 30, 2007.[31][32] Some pressings of the CD pre-ordered through Sony Music or other channels did not contain the extra track. The album as sold through iTunes does not contain this track either.

Personnel

The E Street Band
  • Bruce Springsteen – lead and backing vocals, guitars, pump organ, harmonica, synthesizer, glockenspiel, percussion
  • Roy Bittan – piano, organ
  • Clarence Clemons – saxophone, backing vocals
  • Danny Federici – organ, keyboards
  • Nils Lofgren – guitars, backing vocals
  • Patti Scialfa – backing vocals
  • Garry Tallent – bass guitar
  • Steven Van Zandt – guitars, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Max Weinberg – drums
Additional musicians
  • Soozie Tyrell – violin on "Livin' in the Future", "I'll Work for Your Love", "Magic" and "Last to Die"
  • Jeremy Chatzky – upright bass on "Magic"
  • Daniel Laufer – cello on "Devil's Arcade"
  • Patrick Warren – Chamberlin, tack piano on "Your Own Worst Enemy", "Girls in Their Summer Clothes", "Magic", "Long Walk Home", and "Devil's Arcade"
  • String section on "Your Own Worst Enemy" and "Girls in Their Summer Clothes":
    • Kenn Wagner, Jay Christy, Justin Bruns, William Pu, Cristopher Pulgram, John Meisner, Olga Shpitko, Sheela Lyengar – violins
    • Tania Maxwell Clements, Amy Chang, Lachlan McBane – viola
    • Karen Freer, Daniel Laufer, Charae Kruege – cello

Charts and certifications

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Charts

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Chart (2007)Peak
position

Year-end

Year-end Chart (2007)Position
Australian Albums Chart[33]75
Belgian (Flanders) Albums Chart[34]56
Dutch Albums Chart[35]34
German Albums Chart[36]57
Irish Albums Chart[37]18
Swiss Albums Chart[38]42
Billboard 200 Chart[39]72
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Certifications

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References

1. ^ROBERT CHRISTGAU, DAVID FRICKE, CHRISTIAN HOARD, ROB SHEFFIELD (December 17, 2007). [https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007/1 "The Top 50 Albums of 2007"] Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-20
2. ^1 2 "Bruce Springsteen's 'Magic' Set for October 2 Release on Columbia Records", Shore Fire Media press release, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 16, 2007.
3. ^1 Larry McShane, "Springsteen, E Street Band to reunite for a bit of 'Magic’", Associated Press, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 16, 2007.
4. ^1 2 3 4 Andy Greene, [https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/08/17/more-on-new-bruce-springsteen-album-producer-brendan-obrien-reveals-all/ "More On New Bruce Springsteen Album: Producer Brendan O’Brien Reveals All"], Rolling Stone, August 17, 2007. Accessed August 18, 2007.
5. ^"Dates are set; Bruce revs up E Street Machine for Fall", Backstreets.com, August 28, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2007.
6. ^1 2 Andy Greene, [https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/08/16/bruce-springsteens-magic-exclusive-details-on-the-boss-new-e-street-band-lp/ "Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Magic’: Exclusive Details on New E Street Band Album"], Rolling Stone, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 16, 2007.
7. ^1 2 Jonathan Cohen, "Billboard Bits: Bruce Springsteen", Billboard, August 23, 2007. Accessed August 23, 2007.
8. ^Phil Gallo, "Springsteen's 'Magic' Sitting Outside Grammy's Window: Might A Back Door Plot Be Devised?" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011191302/http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2007/08/springsteens-ma.html |date=2007-10-11 }}, Variety The Set List column, August 16, 2007. Accessed August 21, 2007.
9. ^1 "BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCE FIRST FULL SCALE TOUR OF US & EUROPE SINCE 2003" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100130091230/http://www.brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html |date=2010-01-30 }}, Brucespringsteen.com, August 28, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2007.
10. ^ROBERT CHRISTGAU, DAVID FRICKE, CHRISTIAN HOARD, ROB SHEFFIELD (December 17, 2007). [https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17601851/the_top_50_albums_of_2007/1 "The Top 50 Albums of 2007"] Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-20
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12. ^1 Scott, A. O. [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/arts/music/30scot.html In Love With Pop, Uneasy With the World], The New York Times, September 30, 2007. Accessed November 5, 2007.
13. ^1 Quillen, Shay. Springsteen's 'Magic' ends with a political wallop, The San Jose Mercury News, October 6, 2007. Accessed November 5, 2007.
14. ^{{cite web|title=Magic by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/magic/bruce-springsteen-the-e-street-band}}
15. ^{{cite web|author=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/magic-mw0000488481 |title=Magic - Bruce Springsteen | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |date=2007-10-02 |accessdate=2014-01-27}}
16. ^{{cite web|author=Chris Willman on Sep 28, 2007 |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20058821,00.html |title=Magic Review | Music Reviews and News |publisher=EW.com |date=2007-09-28 |accessdate=2014-01-27}}
17. ^Bruce Springsteen Magic {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225185958/http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5696/review/music/magic |date=2007-12-25 }}
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20. ^{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=13782 |title=Magic |publisher=Robert Christgau |date= |accessdate= }}
21. ^{{cite web|author=David Fricke |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/magic-20071018 |title=Magic | Album Reviews |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2007-10-18 |accessdate=2014-01-27}}
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25. ^{{cite web|last=Harris |first=Chris |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1572111/kid-overpowers-boss-magic.jhtml |title=Kid Rock's Jesus Overpowers Bruce Springsteen's Magic On Billboard Chart - Music, Celebrity, Artist News |publisher=MTV.com |date=2007-10-17 |accessdate=2014-01-27}}
26. ^Katie Hasty, "Springsteen Is Boss Of Album Chart With 'Magic'", Billboard.com, October 10, 2007.
27. ^Katie Hasty, "Springsteen Returns To No. 1 In Slow Sales Week", Billboard.com, October 24, 2007.
28. ^1 {{cite news | url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,306164,00.html | work=D-Day for Britney Spears: New CD 'Blackout' Drops | title=Bruce: Magic Refused Radio Play | author=Roger Friedman | publisher=Fox News | date=2007-10-30 | accessdate=2007-11-01}}
29. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressRelease.aspx?PressReleaseID=1167&p=hidden | title=Know the Facts | publisher=Clear Channel Communications | accessdate=2007-11-03}}
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31. ^1 2 Levine, Stuart. Springsteen’s ‘Magic’ is a rockin’ good time, MSNBC.com, Sept. 25, 2007. Accessed November 5, 2007.
32. ^"Terry Magovern, Rest in Peace", Backstreets.com, August 1, 2007. Accessed September 15, 2009.
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34. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/annual.asp?year=2007&cat=a |title=Ultratop Belgian Charts |work=Ultratop |publisher=Hung Medien |language=Dutch |accessdate=January 17, 2013}}
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41. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20071.pdf |title=Gold & Platinum 2007 |work=IFPI Sweden |language=Swedish |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521214431/http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20071.pdf |archivedate=May 21, 2012 |accessdate=January 14, 2013 |deadurl=yes |df= }}
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