Bruce on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, 12/17/15

Last night, Bruce Springsteen appeared on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, once again hyping The Ties That Bind collection and the subsequent tour.  It was a rather "tame" appearance, as Bruce didn't perform any music or partake in any skits.  However, fans got a chance to see some of the material that is included in the box set, to hear Bruce acknowledge the underlying homosexual themes in his music (I knew it!), and, most impressively, to hear the Roots do their rendition of the Ramones potential rendition of "Hungry Heart".  Catch up on all your Springsteen-ness below!

Hungry Heart - Pitch Re-Adjusted to the Key of C

Ah, good old "Hungry Heart".  A Springsteen staple that's universally accepted by his fans and casual music listeners as "pretty good".  I believe a key to the enduring power of the song is the plethora of trivia that is associate with it, such as being written for the Ramones, being Springsteen's first top 10 hit on the Billboard chart, and being sped up to the point that the song didn't sound anything like Springsteen.  Well, while we will never hear the Ramones cover the song, nor find out why "Born To Run" never cracked the top 10, we can now hear how a studio version of the song would sound with Bruce's normal voice.  While nothing can top the version with the crowd sing-a-long on Live 1975-85, the pitch-adjusted version still beats the recording released on The River.