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"Atlantic City" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska, considered to be one of Springsteen's most dour albums in tone. It has since often been heard in a full band arrangement in concert.
Springsteen writes in his Greatest Hits sleeve notes, he recorded the track in his bedroom, ".....for $1,050 ( the cost of the four-track Tascam recorder), mixed through an old Gibson guitar unit to a beat box...."
The song depicts a young couple's romantic escape to the New Jersey city Atlantic City, but it also wrestles with the inevitability of death, as the man in the relationship intends to take a job in organized crime upon arriving in the city. The opening lines of "Atlantic City" refer to mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: "Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too" (the "chicken man" was mafia boss Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his Philadelphia house in March 1981). The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: "Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
The song is included on his 1995 Greatest Hits album and on the 2003 compilation The Essential Bruce Springsteen.
This was one of nine songs that was featured in an episode of the television series Cold Case and played during its climactic murder scene.
Although the song came out around the same time as the film of the same name, the two works are unrelated.
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"Atlantic City" is a song written and recorded by rock musician Bruce Springsteen, which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska, considered to be one of Springsteen's most dour albums in tone. It has since often been heard in a full band arrangement in concert.
Springsteen writes in his Greatest Hits sleeve notes, he recorded the track in his bedroom, ".....for $1,050 ( the cost of the four-track Tascam recorder), mixed through an old Gibson guitar unit to a beat box...."
The song depicts a young couple's romantic escape to the New Jersey city Atlantic City, but it also wrestles with the inevitability of death, as the man in the relationship intends to take a job in organized crime upon arriving in the city. The opening lines of "Atlantic City" refer to mafia violence in nearby Philadelphia, with Springsteen singing: "Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night, now they blew up his house too" (the "chicken man" was mafia boss Philip Testa, who was killed by a bomb planted at his Philadelphia house in March 1981). The song evokes the widespread uncertainty regarding gambling during its early years in Atlantic City and its promises to resurrect the city, as well as the young man's uncertainty about taking the less-than-savory job: "Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
The song is included on his 1995 Greatest Hits album and on the 2003 compilation The Essential Bruce Springsteen.
This was one of nine songs that was featured in an episode of the television series Cold Case and played during its climactic murder scene.
Although the song came out around the same time as the film of the same name, the two works are unrelated.
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