Friday, March 20, 2009

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Roulette

The Three Mile Island incident happened about a week after I was born, and this was the Boss's response. The song is incredibly prescient given the subsequent events that would happen in Pripyat 7 years later, even being written from the point of view of a fireman (firemen bore the brunt of the direct impact from Chernobyl, and no one told them a fucking thing about what they were facing as they climbed among the ruined structure, while bits of the naked reactor poured thousands of röntgen per hour into their unprotected bodies.)

4 comments:

Eric said...

Gracias por la traducción.

Eric said...

(y feliz cumpleaños)

Craig said...

You're welcome, and thank you (the other video of this song was more no-frills, which I would have preferred, but it wasn't embeddable.)

(Dan) said...

This is from that transitional, end of Bruce's youth period, and was way better than I remembered his stuff from that time being.