Rumble Doll

Patti Scialfa | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1993)
• Original Release Date: July 13, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026JN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (84 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,872 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Patti Scialfa-the best of the best, August 29, 2001

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Arthur G. Decker (Woodstock, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rumble Doll (Audio CD)

I first became aware of this album thru the links that Amazon provides when searching for some music titles. I was intrigued by some of the comments some folks had to say about this CD. I had been listening to the "Live in New York City " by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and was especially fascinated with the song " Mansion On The Hill "- in which both Patti and her husband Bruce sing. So after obtaining a used copy of the " Rumble Doll " CD locally, I have not been able to stop listening to it. In my opinion, it is a masterpiece-and probably one of the seminal CD's of the 1990's-and I know something about music-as I was in the record business for over 10 years. To anyone out their that likes female rock/pop music with fantastic lyrics, hooks, beat, rhythm, & guitar riffs-I do NOT see how this album can be topped. I think it is almost surreal-that this married couple of Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa could be so talented & so GOOD!!

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ronnie Spector meets Bruce Springsteen, April 4, 2000

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rumble Doll (Audio CD)

Damn if this isn't the modern Ronnie Spector album ("Ronnie Sings The Boss") I've always wanted to hear. Scialfa sounds a lot like Spector, especially in her sustained, hiccuping notes, and the songs sound like they came from the pen of Bruce Springsteen after he was locked in the Brill Building with Goffin & King for awhile. Not that it's all derivative nostalgia -- it's a modern album in its production and staging, but it's infiltrated through and through with its influences. Then again, maybe it's just a female-led version of Mink De Ville. It's got that same sort of New York 60's soul.

I'd heard just one track on the radio and couldn't stop humming it for days. I fought against buying this, having fallen off the Bruce bandwagon some albums ago, and wondering what "Mrs. Springsteen" had to offer me. But then I had the opportunity to get it as one of those Columbia CD Club "10,000 CD's for the price of 7" deals, and figured why not? Now I wonder why I let me preconceptions and prejudices get in the way of bee-lining to the record store after that first radio acquaintance. It took me about two listens to settle into the decidedly modern production ("those damned drums" I kept thinking), and actually *hear* the incredible 60s pop melodies and wonderful instrumental touches (the deep rolling drums of the title track, Mike Campbell's wonderful array of pop guitar sounds), vocals, and the arrangements (the coming and going of Scialfa's double-tracked vocals and harmonies).

All in all, a nice surprise.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent writing and beautiful vocals make a beautiful work, September 16, 1999

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This review is from: Rumble Doll (Audio CD)

Patti Scialfa, member of the famed E Street Band since 1985, goes off on her own here to create a beautiful solo album. "Rumble Doll" features Patti's stunning singing voice and touching almost-but-not-quite- autobiographical songs. My favorites are "As long as I can be with you," "Come tomorrow," "Loves Glory," and the title track, for their uplifting energy, and "Big Black Heaven," "Valerie," and "Spanish dancer" for their haunting soul. You will love this album, i guarentee it. Nothing is bad on it at all. I am waiting for another album, Patti! Note of interest: at Bruce's concerts this year, patti samples her song Rumble Doll in the now classic Tenth Avenue Freezeout Rendition. A bonus: Bruce fans are going to enjoy hearing the lyrics that trace their lives together.