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Track listing All songs written by Bruce Springsteen.

Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978. The album marked the end of a three-year gap between albums brought on by contractual obligations and legal battling with former manager Mike Appel. Although the album did not produce high-charting singles it remained on the charts for 97 weeks. A steady seller in Springsteen's catalog, it has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA.

Released June 2, 1978. Darkness on the Edge of Town Tracklist. How different was it on Darkness on the Edge of Town and The River? It was, I wrote a song last night. I’m Mr. Two-and-a-Half Minutes. Darkness didn’t produce many hits, with Prove It All Night being the only song to crack the top 40 at number 32. It did find critical acclaim, topping NME’s topping NME’s top albums of 1978. Darkness on the Edge of Town Q&A. Producers Bruce Springsteen,.

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Darkness on the Edge of Town. The pain of a protracted legal battle with his former manager and the release of being allowed to record again after a three-year layoff are equally apparent from the piercing hard rock and harsh lyrical content of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Betrayal and hard work that comes to naught are the primary subjects on his mind here, evidenced by songs such as "Adam Raised a Cain," "Factory," and "Streets of Fire.

Bruce Springsteen performs circa 1979. In the Bruce Springsteen songwriting universe, nothing good ever happens in the daytime. The hours between sunup and sundown are when you sweat it out on the streets, work on the highway, and drive your girlfriend’s yapping mother down to the unemployment agency. Nighttime is when the real battles are lost and won. It’s treacherous, mister, but at least you’ve got a shot  . The action in seven of the album’s 10 songs takes place at least partially at night.

Coming three years, and one extended court battle, after the commercial breakthrough of Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town was highly anticipated. Some attributed the album's embattled tone to Springsteen's legal troubles, but it carried on from Born to Run, in which Springsteen had first begun to view his colorful cast of characters as "losers. On Darkness, he began to see them as the working class. One song was called "Factory," and in another, "Badlands," "you" work "'neath the wheel, Till you get your facts learned.

Darkness was the first Springsteen album recorded live in the studio by the E Street Band – though that didn’t mean it happened quickly or efficiently. The period between Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town was one of Springsteen’s most prolific as a songwriter. He wrote so many songs for the album – estimates range from 52 to well over 70 – that several other artists wound up benefiting from his surplus; Southside Johnny, Robert Gordon, Greg Kihn and Gary . Bonds all recorded songs from this period that Springsteen felt didn’t jibe with the album’s bleak mood.