In 1978 the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town was released. I lived in New Jersey with my two parents who were born in New Jersey.In 1978 the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town was released. I lived in New Jersey with my two parents who were born in New Jersey. After calibrating the song for speed, I created speed graphs as below in order that one could *see* speed at specific tempos moving through time in general.
Badlands as a radar graph, created by Hunter Newman for Meanspeed Music
In 1978 the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town was released. I lived in New Jersey with my two parents who were born in New Jersey.In 1978 the album Darkness On The Edge Of Town was released. I lived in New Jersey with my two parents who were born in New Jersey. After calibrating the song for speed, I created speed graphs as below in order that one could *see* speed at specific tempos moving through time in general. Badlands as a radar graph, created by Hunter Newman for Meanspeed Music Badlands from a linear perspective, Y-axis <30>280 bpm Badlands from a linear perspective, Y-axis <119>128 bpm Meanspeed Calibration Summary, supervised by James C.C. Manning mean speed=122.8 beats per minute average beat=0.4886 seconds mean slow phase=2.046 cycles per second corresponding pitch=523.9 hertz meanemotion according to meanspeed music theory=victory Having no idea what the song “means,” I went to the web for opinions. I found many. Here are some – Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page. The title came from a 1973 movie of the same name starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Springsteen got the idea from a poster in the theater lobby. Springsteen did not see the movie until after he wrote this. When he did see the film, he based the song “Nebraska” on it. This was more mature songwriting from Springsteen, as much of Darkness On The Edge Of Town reflects the characters of his previous album, Born To Run, getting older and more pessimistic. “Badlands” was considered for the name of the album. This is a concert favorite. It was featured on the 1999 reunion tour with The E Street Band. Badlands is a US national park in South Dakota. It is famous for striking scenery and expansive prairie land. The second single off Darkness On The Edge Of Town, the first album Springsteen released after a legal battle with his first manager, Mike Appel, kept him from recording for almost 3 years. The version on Live 1975-1985 was recorded in Arizona the night after Ronald Reagan was elected president. Bruce introduced the song by saying: “I don’t know what you guys thought of what happened last night, but I thought it was pretty terrifying.” Reagan would later misinterpret “Born In The U.S.A.” in a 1984 campaign speech. Bill Murray and Paul Shaffer chose to open the 25th Anniversary Show of Saturday Night Live with this song, as sung by Murray’s character of Nick the Lounge Singer.
/Ian Andrew Schneider/
January 19, 2009
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