wkdstepmother

I love Gaslight - all of their previous 3 albums are great - although the last 2 are a step up on the first one. Handwritten is, in my view, a step up again on anything they have done. i really hope they crack through into the big league with this album because they are the best rock band around at the moment. another great track off the album

I have avoided the leaks and even not watched Jimmy Fallon until I got my hands on the album. It arrived this morning (got to love Play.com) and it is fantastic - best thing he's done for 10 years

No I don'k think so. I've had it on repeat all day and I'm loving it. Of course it's not his best but when you best is Thunder Road you can fall a long long way and still kick the shit out of most of today's artists. It's already stirring up political controversy in the US and from what I hear the rest of the album is even more political / angry. Not a huge fan of WOAD but for me this looks like it's back to the sort of standard of Magic and The Rising - so I'm one very happy Bruce fan. Roll on March 5th and then June!!!

do you have a date for the springsteen album - i'd heard 5th march on twitter?

top 100 and 3 pages of comments and no-one has mentioned Nils Lofgren - how you can have a top 100 without even mentioning him I just don't get

I don't think there's any doubt he will make more albums - it's all he is interested in doing and he has a big enough following to allow that to happen. The only real question is whether he will stay with a major label or go independent. The signs are good that he'll be able to stay with Columbia but tbh there are advantages in taking another route so I'm not too concerned either way.

that's not bad at all - just needs to keep racking the sales up to xmas and over the tour and he'll do fine

will Young? thanks

My favourites are Letters and Pull Me Under - but pretty much love 'em all BUT it's a grower you have to listen to it a few times to all the songs to get under your skin. RFYL is definitely the worst song on the album and that seems to be pretty much universally accepted by fans

can any of you explain how sales are counted for chart purposes. Starlight isn't out until 5th December but obviously you can download it now from Letters if you want (and judging by the itunes popularity bars people are) Do these sales get lost or are they counted somehow in the single sales once it's eligible to chart - god this makes me feel old

personally think Starlight will give it a boost. The sales so far are pretty good on the back of what is frankly a poor opening single. Tour ticket sales seem to have gone well and if he can keep selling through xmas he must get close to platinum. Curious to see if sales were good following chattyman - performance of Letters was amazing

Live session for MTV if anyone is interested http://www.mtv.co.uk/music/live-sessions

does anyone have the mid week sales figures? - I have tried but I just don't understand this forum

really shows the fall off in album sales in recent years though - almost any of those completely blow out of the water everyone but Adele this year.

I'd be embarrassed to admit how often I've played it; but equally besotted. My top 5 are 1 Letters 2 Amazing 3 Faithless 4 Pull Me Under 5 Starlight ..............probably