VH1 Storytellers (Bruce Springsteen) VH1 Storytellers (Bruce Springsteen) VH1 Storytellers is a concert and discussion DVD by Bruce Springsteen, expanded from the airing of an episode of the VH1 television series "VH1 Storytellers" on April 23, 2005. Tied into promotion for his album "Devils & Dust" at the time, it was released in video form half a year later. The filming for the program and video was done on April 4, 2005 at the newly opened Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. He played guitar and piano and sang as he dissected his songs for meaning, sometimes line by line, frequently confessing
Badlands (Bruce Springsteen song) progressive rock and album-oriented rock radio airplay at the time, and classic rock airplay since. The song has appeared on eight Springsteen releases: "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Live/1975–85", the 1995 "Greatest Hits", "", "Live in Barcelona", "The Essential Bruce Springsteen", the Wal-Mart-only 2009 "Greatest Hits", and "Collection: 1973-2012". "Rolling Stone" editors rated "Badlands" to be Springsteen's second-greatest song all time, behind only "Born to Run," and consider it to fit the definition of a rock anthem derived by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend, in that it is "praying onstage." According to contemporary musician Jackson Browne, "Badlands" is "cool