Working on a Dream

Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

From its bright, brittle production to its tossed-off postage stamp cover art, Working on a Dream is in every respect a companion piece to Magic, an album that's merely a set of songs, both sprawling and deliberately small, songs that don't necessarily tackle any one major theme but all add up to a portrait of their time. Magic chronicled the dog days of Bush where Working on a Dream is designed as a keynote to the Obama age, released just a week after the inauguration of the U.S.'s 44th president and not coincidentally containing not a little optimism within its 13 tracks. This sense of hope is a tonic to the despair that crept into the margins of Magic but it's easy to posit Working …  » Read more

Tracks

				Title	Composer	Time
		1		Outlaw Pete	Springsteen	8:00
		2		My Lucky Day	Springsteen	4:00
		3		Working on a Dream	Springsteen	3:30
		4		Queen of the Supermarket	Springsteen	4:39
		5		What Love Can Do	Springsteen	2:56
		6		This Life	Springsteen	4:30
		7		Good Eye	Springsteen	3:00
		8		Tomorrow Never Knows	Springsteen	2:13
		9		Life Itself	Springsteen	4:00
		10		Kingdom of Days	Springsteen	4:02
		11		Surprise, Surprise	Springsteen	3:24
		12		The Last Carnival	Springsteen	3:29
		13		The Wrestler	Springsteen	3:50

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