Blinded By The Light (5:02)

Cover of The Essential Bruce Springsteen

From The Essential Bruce Springsteen and 24 other releases

“Blinded by the Light” is a song written and originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen, although it is mostly known by its 1976 #1 hit version recorded by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. It was released in the United Kingdom in August 1976, where it reached No. 6 in the BMRB charts. “Blinded by the Light” was the first song on, and first single from, Bruce Springsteen’s 1973 debut album Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.

Although Springsteen’s single release proved unsuccessful at first and did not appear on the music charts, the album itself has since gone platinum as Springsteen’s career has gone on. The song is also a fan favorite.

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Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing, the calliope crashed to the ground

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  • christles

    VV THIS

    Yesterday 2:47pm Reply
  • angel_clipped

    Manfred Mann's version is just so polished. This one is raw and emotional. Just proves some songs shouldn't be covered. The true injustice is how many think Manfred's was the original.

    18 May 9:20pm Reply
  • HisDudeness_

    live in dublin version is so fuckin awesome! [2]

    24 Apr 5:06pm Reply
  • prominence_la

    Yeah, I'm totally digging the original over the cover.

    7 Mar 6:36pm Reply
  • hurricane_mario

    Sorry Bruce. You can't touch Mannfred. No hate for Bruce.

    24 Jan 1:34am Reply
  • JuniorMcCartney

    Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun Oh but mama that's where the fun is

    7 Dec 2012 Reply
  • CidaDuarteF

    So good

    15 Oct 2012 Reply
  • CaptnTightpants

    awesome

    28 Jul 2012 Reply
  • njokmo413

    Manfred Mann's version doesn't even come close to touching this. [2] MM still made a great cover, just a little too repetitive and boring compared to the master

    17 May 2012 Reply
  • enzo5

    How appropriate considering Bruce Springsteen is a blind, revved-up douche.

    2 Mar 2012 Reply
  • oldiesfanjohn

    BRUUUUUUUUUUUCE

    7 Dec 2011 Reply
  • annihiluzz

    live in dublin version is so fuckin awesome!

    29 Oct 2011 Reply
  • nick_honest

    a masterpiece

    28 Oct 2011 Reply
  • sjm26b

    my mom sings this, "wrapped up like a douche"........

    6 Jul 2011 Reply
  • charliekilo22

    The Manfred Mann version is not even remotely close to being as good as the original. It's so flat and boring and lifeless. Bruce's is infinitely superior in every way.

    25 May 2011 Reply
  • PeteTheRocker

    BRUCE IS THE MAN!!

    12 May 2011 Reply
  • Cassandra-Leo

    @drejr1977: Bob *does* agree with that. He's performed it in Hendrix's style ever since his death in tribute, and has explicitly acknowledged that Hendrix's cover is better than his original. Anyway, both the Manfred Mann and Springsteen versions of this are superb, but they're so different instrumentally as to almost be different songs. I do agree that it would've been nice if they'd kept the funk influence longer, although the direction they went in is certainly great enough in its own right; it's hard to quibble with albums as great as Born to Run and Nebraska.

    10 Apr 2011 Reply
  • wilddawg

    Manfred Mann's version doesn't even come close to touching this.

    30 Jan 2011 Reply
  • OdeTooJoy

    man, the e street band used to be so funky! wish they kept that going' a lil longer than the 2nd album lol.

    8 Jan 2011 Reply
  • luckylollyme

    The Boss's version!!!

    31 Dec 2010 Reply
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