Crucial Track for November 12, 2025

"Blinded By the Light" by Bruce Springsteen

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What's a song that feels larger than life to you? Blinded By The Light by Bruce Springsteen because it's written in perfect iambic pentameter by a guy who barely graduated from high school who went on to be the perfect poet for an American generation. If you ever get a chance to hear The Boss tell the story of writing this song, listen closely while he laughs at himself for sitting at his kitchen table in Asbury Park with a rhyming dictionary. And see how he feels about Manfred Mann and the Earth Band's pronunciation of "deuce".