“Candy's Room” by Bruce Springsteen

"Candy's Room" is one of the tightest, most urgent cuts on Bruce Springsteen's 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town, a song that opens on a nervous, whispering pulse and then detonates. Max Weinberg's drums skitter and then pound, Roy Bittan's piano and Danny Federici's organ swirl up around Springsteen's breathless vocal, and when the guitars finally cut loose the whole thing feels like a door being kicked in.

Springsteen wrote it himself and produced it with Jon Landau, with Little Steven on guitar and assisting in the booth, Garry Tallent on bass and Clarence Clemons on sax and percussion. Jimmy Iovine recorded it and mixed it with Chuck Plotkin.

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