You Love The Thunder
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7" Picture Sleeve
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| Single by Jackson Browne | ||||||||||
| from the album Running on Empty | ||||||||||
| B-side | "The Road" | |||||||||
| Released | Early 1978 | |||||||||
| Format | 7" | |||||||||
| Recorded | August 27, 1977 Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey |
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| Genre | Rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:57 | |||||||||
| Label | Asylum Records | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Jackson Browne | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Jackson Browne | |||||||||
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"You Love the Thunder" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne from his 1977 live album, Running on Empty, recorded at a concert at Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, on September 6, 1977. Released as the third single a full year after the album came out, it only reached #109 on Billboards Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, though it received increased Album-Oriented Rock airplay. The B-side of the U.S. single was "The Road"; however, the B-side for the British single was "Cocaine".
The lyrics seem to describe the relationship of a musician and a spouse or girlfriend who comes along on tour, keeping with the theme of the Running on Empty album, but they can be read more universally, as well:
In his 1978 review of the album, Paul Nelson wrote: "Browne forges a temporary relationship with a kindred spirit, only to realize 'You can dream/But you can never go back the way you came.'"
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